Tennis News -
At € 2.270M Monte Carlo Masters, Monaco

[SF] (4) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) bt COETZEE Jeff (RSA)/ MOODIE Wesley (RSA) 60 75

First Set
1-0 MB/ MK broke JC/ WM service on 30
2-0 MB/ MK holds service on 15
3-0 JC/ WM saved one break pt but MB/ MK broke their serve on duece
4-0 Another easy hold for MB/ MK on 15
5-0 JC/ WM had couple of game pts but MB/ MK won next 3 pts to win the game
6-0 JC/WM take 0-30 lead but then couldn't convert this advantage and lost next 4 pts to lost game and set

Hesh and Mark r crushing their opponents ... They won first set in 22 mins ... MB/MK won 24 pts of 36 ... Also converted 3 bp of 4.

Second Set
0-1 Atlast JC/ WM managed to hold their serve on 30 to put first game in the match in front of their names
1-1 MB/ MK easily holds service on 15
2-1 JC/ WM messed with couple of game pts to lose game, so MB/ MK got first break of second set
3-1 MB/ MK r getting better and better, this time they won luv game on their serve
3-2 Another service holds for JC/ WM on 15, which is rarity for them in the match
4-2 MB/ MK hold easily on 15

Sorry guys after that my connection lost so don't know what happened ... But from score it looks JC/ WM broke back but then MB/ MK broke JC/ WM serve in 11th game and then hold their serve to win the match.

In second set JC/ WM played better tennis they won 32 pts and MB/MK won 34 ... JC/ WM also converted 1 bp they got, other hand MB/ MK also converted all 2 bp ... Duration for second set was 45 mins.
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At €349K BMW open, Munich, Germany (Red Clay)

[Q1] (8) BOPANNA Rohan (IND,307) l (WC) KAS Christopher (GER,NR) 36 57

Kas and Bops having many similarities ... Both r 1980 born ... Kas and Bops both remained in singles 250-300 type players ... Their highest singles ranking is almost similar Kas, #224, and Bops, #213 ... These days Kas gave up his singles career to concentrate more on doubles and currently he is in his best doubles ranking at #30 and now Rohan is also trying to do that reducing his singles matches.

This match wasn't easy for Bops as clay is Kas's favorite surface ... And as expected Kas beat him in straight sets.
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Hockey News -
At Perth 4 Nations Tournament, Australia

India bt China 3-1

Goal Scored - Tushar Khandekar (IND) 15', S.V. Sunil (IND) 51', Gurwinder Singh Chandi (IND) 66' PC and Hu (CHN) 50' PC

We won but as per report we missed several chances to score ... We required much superior win to guaranteed our entry in to final, now despite win our poor loss against Korea cost us dearly ... Australia beat Korea 3-2 ... So that means we missed chance of playing in the final on goal difference ... Tomorrow we will again play China for 3rd position.
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At Womens Olympic Hockey qualifiers 2008, Kazan, Russia

India bt France 7-0

Goal Scored - Rani Devi (IND) 3 goals, Surinder Kaur (IND) 2 goals, Rajwinder Kaur (IND), Jasjeet Kaur Handa (IND)

Other Matches -
USA bt Netherlands Antilles 3-1

Uncounted win in the last league match.
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Golf News -
At BMW Asian Open, Shanghai, China - Third Round

T5 SINGH Digvijay 74 72 67 -3
T9 Jeev Milkha Singh 68 76 70 -2
T32 CHOWRASIA S S P 72 73 72 +1
T52 KAPUR Shiv 71 75 74 +4

Today Digvijay had unblemished round of 5 under ... He scored 2 birdies on front 9 and 3 birdies on back 9 ... This round helped him to move inside top 5 ... Jeev also had ublemished 2 under round, he scored birdies on first 2 holes but then only managed PAR on remaining 16 holes ... He also entered in to top 10.