Badminton News -
At $200K Wilson Swiss Super Series, Basel

[R2] Anup SRIDHAR (IND,30) l (7) Taufik HIDAYAT (INA,7) 9-11 Retd.
[R2] Saina NEHWAL (IND,29) l (1) Xingfang XIE (CHN,1) 13-21 10-21

Anup retired from the match ... Lets hope its not serious injury ... Otherwise that will be big setback for his Olympics preparation.

Saina gave decent performance to win 10 or more points in both games against Chinese WR #1.
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At $5K 43rd Yonex Portuguese International Championships,

[Q1] Sagar Chopda (IND,UNR) bt Maxime Renault (FRA,469) 21-19 21-16
[Q1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,244) bt Miguel Jardim (POR,UNR) 21-12 21-7

[Q2] Sagar Chopda (IND,UNR) Bye
[Q2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,244) Bye

[Q3] Sagar Chopda (IND,UNR) bt Jeppe Lund (DEN,280) 16-21 21-17 25-23
[Q3] Ajay Jayaram (IND,244) bt Fernando Silva (POR,UNR) 21-9 21-12

Maindraw -
[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,101) vs Andres Corpancho (PER,106)
[R1] P. Kashyap (IND,98) vs (Q) Lester Oey (NED,212)
[R1] (Q) Ajay Jayaram (IND,244) vs (3) Simon Maunoury (FRA,62)
[R1] (Q) Sagar Chopda (IND,UNR) vs Rune Massing (NED,129)

[R1] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,78) vs (8) Kristina Ludikova (CZE,66)
[R1] (7) Trupti Murgunde (IND,59) vs Nguyen Nhung Le Ngoc (VIE,79)

[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Diju V. (IND) vs Miguel Jardim (POR)/ José P Sousa (POR)
[R1] (2) Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) Bye

Good decent couple of wins for young Sagar Chopda.
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Tennis News -
At $50K Delhi Challenger, India

Singles Semi-Finals -
(4) Yanina Wickmayer (BEL,152) bt (8) Naomi Cavaday (GBR,191) 61 63
Ekateryna Dzehalevich (BLR,208) bt (5) Margit Rüütel (EST,180) 64 06 75

Doubles Final -
(1) Chun-Mei JI (CHN)/ Sheng-Nan SUN (CHN) bt (2) Sunitha RAO (IND)/ Aurelie VEDY (FRA) 26 62 10(4)

Sunitha and her partner managed to win first set against top seed Chinese but they couldn't converted that in to win.