Tennis News -
At Asia/Oceania Zone Group I 2008 (1st Round), Delhi, India

India vs Uzbekistan 2-1

Saturday, 9th February 2008
Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Denis Istomin (UZB)/ Farrukh Dustov (UZB) 63 63 64

Today Lee decided to opt for our top pair od Mahesh and Rohan ... And as expected they gelled well and showed solid but entertaining performance ... Uzbe also fought well from second set but our team was too good ... I think we only faced break point when Rohan was serving for the match ... From that we can guess how much powerful service game our pair played ... Rohan was showering aces, 12 in the match and Maheash was matching him with strong & powerful first serves ... On court ouer team was looking as happy joint family ... Thats really good sign for Indian tennis.

In third set, when Mahesh hit winner to break Dustov's serve he tried chest bump with Rohan ... But Rohan wasn't ready for that so it was funny looking attempt ... That was one of light moment which brought smile on Lee and Mahesh's faces
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Golf News -
At $2.5M Emaar-MGF Indian Masters, Delhi, India - Third Round

T5 ATWAL Arjun 70 70 72 -4
T5 CHOWRASIA S.S.P 70 71 71 -4
T10 GHEI Gaurav 75 69 70 -2
T10 SINGH Digvijay 70 70 74 -2
T23 GHOTRA Randhir Singh 74 73 70 +1
T23 RANDHAWA Jyoti 65 77 75 +1
T42 JOHL Amandeep 73 71 76 +4
T42 KUMAR Ashok 72 73 75 +4
T55 KAPUR Shiv 68 78 76 +6
T58 KHAN Shamim 73 74 76 +7
T58 MUNIYAPPA C 69 77 77 +7
T63 GANAPATHY Rahul 76 71 78 +9
T63 SHER Ali 77 70 78 +9
69 KAHLON Harmeet 70 75 83 +12

Though Arjun and SSP lost chance of being top of the leaderboard but still they r in striking distance ... Currently they r 2 strokes behind the leader, who is -6.

Ernie also climbed inside top 10 and currently 4 strokes behind the leader ... Gaurav and Ghotra scored 2 under, the best round from Indians which helped them to climb inside top 10 and top 25 respectively.
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Football News -
At I-League 2007-2008, India

Mahindra United bt Sporting Clube de Goa 3-0

Goal Scored - Yusuf Yakubu (MU) 32' & 51', Andrews Mensah Pomeyie (MU) 75'

MoM - Yusuf Yakubu (MU)
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Salgaocar SC bt Viva Kerala 1-0

Goal Scored - Beevan D’Mello (Sal) 66'

MoM - Beevan D’Mello (sal)
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Mohun Bagan dw Dempo SC

MoM - Beto (DSC)
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Squash News -
At $30K Kolkata International, India

Final -
(5) Mansoor Zaman (PAK,35) bt (2) Ong Beng Hee (MAS,18) 11-8 11-7 4-11 11-8 (54m)

Mansoor continued his giant killing in the final to win over Beng Hee ... this was the first PSA Tour final in which these 2 have met ... Before that they have contested one Asian Junior Championship final (in 1999, won by Zaman), one Asian Games final (in 2002, won by Beng Hee), and three Asian Championships' finals (in 2000, 2002 and 2004, all won by the Malaysian).