Tennis News -
At $1.401M Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE

[R1] (4) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) bt (ALT) KERR Jordan (AUS)/ WASSEN Rogier (NED) 64 63

[QF] (4) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) vs LOPEZ Feliciano (ESP)/ NADAL Rafael (ESP)

Hesh and Mark played against alternate pair of Kerr and Wassen ... In first set Hesh and Mark was down 2-4 but from their they showed dominance to win this match easily ... In quarters they r facing tricky pair of Rafa and Lopez.
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Hockey News -
At 2008 Olympic Qualifier, Santiago, Chile

India bt Mexico 18-1 (8-0)

Goal Scored -
India - Prabhjot Singh 9', 50', 60' & 61', Rajpal Singh 11', 21', 30', 39' & 69', Shivendra Singh 16' & 24', Tushar Khandekar 19', V.R. Raghunath (PC) 29', (PC) 37', 54', (PC) 57' & (PC) 62', Sardar Singh 65'
Mexico - Pol Moreno Quiroz 70'

Other Matches -
Austria bt Russia 5-4
Great Britain bt Chile 4-1

After complaining after first 2 matches about performance of our team atlast they give me chance to write some positive about them ... :) Yesterday India performed to their true potential (that’s attacking) to hammered Mexico ... We were playing full attacking game and grabbed rich dividends ... This performance will hugely benefited in round robin and final matches against Great Britain.
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Badminton News -
At $200K All England Super Series 2008, Birmingham

[Q1] Arvind BHAT (IND,43) l Weijie GONG (CHN,80) 21-18 19-21 19-21
[Q1] Chetan ANAND (IND,53) l Seung Mo SHON (KOR,54) 17-21 19-21

Maindraw -
[R1] Anup SRIDHAR (IND,26) l (1) Dan LIN (CHN,1) 21-16 8-21 11-21

[R1] Saina NEHWAL (IND,28) l Yu HIRAYAMA (JPN,22) 18-21 21-18 18-21

[R1] Jwala GUTTA (IND)/ Shruti KURIAN (IND) l (1) Yili WEI (CHN)/ Yawen ZHANG (CHN) 3-21 9-21

So our men’s challenge got over in first round as Arvind and Chetan already lost in qualifying ... Anup started well winning first game against WR No. 1 Dan Lin, but again Dan showed his class in next two games.
After losing first game Saina showed heart to fight back in second game but in end Hirayama's experiance proved strong to win this closely fought match.
And No. 1 Chinese pair literally crushed pair of Jwala and Shruti in first round.

So with that very early end of Indian challenge in All England Super Series ... Arvind, Chetan and Saina had realistic chances ... But Arvind and Saina lost in closely fought matches.

Anup again managed to extend Dan Lin to 3 games, but still this tournament shows our players need to make lot more improvement to challenge the best.