Tennis News -
Davis Cup World-group Playoff - September 19-21, 2008

Draw is out and India is having away tie against Romania ... We need to handle players like #68 Victor Hanescu and #93 Andrei Pavel ... Its lot better than playing away tie against Croatia and Slovak Republic.

Somdev can be better bet on clay ... Also Prakash and Rohan needs to play clay court events to getting hang up of those courts.
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At US$25K BallenIsles Womens Challenger, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA

[Q3] Shikha Uberoi (IND,953) bt (15) Svetlana Krivencheva (BUL,603) 64 63

Maindraw -
[R1] (1) Sunitha Rao (IND,164) vs (Q) Veronica Spiegel (ARG,391)
[R1] Neha Uberoi (USA,348) vs (Q) Nicole Riner (SUI,433)
[R1] (Q) Shikha Uberoi (IND,953) vs (Q) Gabriela Paz (VEN,575)

[R1] Neha Uberoi (USA)/ Shikha Uberoi (IND) l Asia Muhammed (USA)/ Ashley Weinhold (USA) 76(6) 46 (5)10

Superb performance from Shikha to qualify for challenger maindraw, that's also second week in a row ... Our all players having winnable matches.
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At $35K+H Casablanca San Angel, Mexico City, Mexico

[R1] Stephen Amritraj (IND)/ Mustafa Ghouse (IND) bt (ALT) Roman Borvanov (USA)/ Norikazu Sugiyama (JPN) 63 76(3)

[QF] Stephen Amritraj (IND)/ Mustafa Ghouse (IND) vs (2) Carsten Ball (AUS)/ Robert Smeets (AUS)

Good start for pair of Mustafa and Stephen.
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At World Juniors’ U-14 Qualifying Tennis Tournament, Shenzen, China

India bt Tajikistan 3-0

Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt Abdurasal NAZIROV (TJK) 60 60
Ronit BISHT (IND) bt Bakhodur FARIDUN (TJK) 60 60
Ronit BISHT (IND)/ Digvijay Singh Mehta (IND) bt Abdurasal NAZIROV (TJK)/ Bakhodur FARIDUN (TJK) 60 60

Quarter final line up -
(1) India vs (7) Uzbekistan
(3) China vs Chinese Taipei
(4) Korea vs Malyasia
(2) Australia vs (5) Hong kong

India crushed Tajikistan, but now serious matches begin with quarter-finals.
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Badminton News -
At $125K Yonex-Sunrise Badminton Asia Championships 2008, Malaysia

[R1] Chetan Anand (IND,47) l Hiroyuki Endo (JPN,104) 19-21 24-26
[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,68) l (10) Simon Santoso (INA,15) 16-21 9-21
[R1] Anup Sridhar (IND,24) l (7) Sung Hwan Park (KOR,12) 9-21 13-21
[R1] P Kashyap (IND,95) bt Yi Lu (CHN,27) 11-21 21-17 21-10

[R1] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,27) l Julia Pei Xian Wong (MAS,29) 15-21 21-16 17-21
[R1] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,73) l (3) Pui Yin Yip (HKG,12) 21-14 12-21 20-22
[R1] Trupti Murgunde (IND,50) l Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (THA,88) 11-21 14-21

[R1] (Q) Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala P Gutta (IND) bt (7) Sang Hoon Han (KOR)/ Yu Mi Hwang (KOR) 21-17 23-21

[R2] P Kashyap (IND,95) l (3) Chunlai Bao (CHN,3) 16-21 13-21

[R2] (Q) Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala P Gutta (IND) vs Anggun Nugroho (INA)/ Endang Nursugianti (INA)

Only P.Kashyap produced decent performance in singles ... He defeated top-30 Chinese player (YES CHINESE PLAYER) in the first round and showed decent performance against WR #3 Chinese player ... Aditi also gave fighting performance against WR #12, otherwise very disappointing performance by Indian players.

In MXD Diju and Jwala produced huge upset beating 7th rank Korean pair.
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Football News -
At AFC Cup 2008
Group B - Matchday 4

East Bengal (IND) l Al Wihdat (JOR) 2-4

Goal Scored - Syed Rahim Nabi (EB) 12', Edmilson Marques Pardal (EB) 28' and Rafat Ali Ahmad Jaber (AlW) 6' & 24', Hasan Abdel-Fattah Hasan Mahmoud (AlW) 31' & 34'

And now this loss against Jordan team dented East Bengal's chances to reach in to knockout stage.