Tennis News -
At World Juniors’ U-14 Qualifying Tennis Tournament, Shenzen, China

Quarter-finals -
India bt Uzbekistan 2-1

Digvijay Singh Mehta (Ind) bt Temur Ismailov (Uzb) 62 61
Ronit Bisht (Ind) bt Abduvoris Sadmukhamedov (Uzb) 62 61
Digvijay Singh/ Ramanathan Ramkumar (Ind) l Sadmukhamedov/ Ismailov (Uzb) 67(5) 26

The Indian Boys u-14 team today qualified for the World Finals of World Junior Tennis Competition ... By reaching the semifinals, India booked a berth for the World Finals to be held at Czech Republic during August 2008 ... Along with India, Australia, China & Korea were the other teams that made it to the World Finals by winning their respective ties today ... In semis Indian boys will play against host China.
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At US$25K BallenIsles Womens Challenger, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA

[R1] (1) Sunitha Rao (IND,164) bt (Q) Veronica Spiegel (ARG,391) 64 63
[R1] Neha Uberoi (USA,348) bt (Q) Nicole Riner (SUI,433) 62 64
[R1] (Q) Shikha Uberoi (IND,953) l (Q) Gabriela Paz (VEN,575) 63 06 67(4)

[R2] (1) Sunitha Rao (IND,164) vs Neha Uberoi (USA,348)

Doubles -
[R1] (1) Sunitha Rao (IND)/ Raquel Kops-Jones (USA) bt (WC) Sesil Karatantcheva (BUL)/ Shareen-Rena Lai (MAS) 61 62

[QF] (1) Sunitha Rao (IND)/ Raquel Kops-Jones (USA) vs Asia Muhammed (USA)/ Ashley Weinhold (USA)

Good start for Sunitha and Neha in singles but now they face eachother in second round ... Shikha couldn't managed to convert good start in to win and lost opportunity to earn important ranking points.
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At $35K+H Casablanca San Angel Challenger, Mexico City, Mexico

[R1] (5) Prakash Amritraj (IND,254) bt Victor Estrella (DOM,305) 75 62

[R2] (5) Prakash Amritraj (IND,254) vs Joshua Goodall (GBR,303)

Doubles -
[QF] Stephen Amritraj (IND)/ Mustafa Ghouse (IND) l (2) Carsten Ball (AUS)/ Robert Smeets (AUS) 36 36

Kash had good positive start in this Mexican challenger.
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At $15K China F3 Futures, Taizhou

[R2] (4) RASTOGI Karan (IND,480) bt (Q) CHEN Sa (CHN,1405) 64 63

[QF] (4) RASTOGI Karan (IND,480) vs XU Jun-Chao (CHN,656)

Doubles -
[SF] (2) RASTOGI Karan (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) bt WANG Yu Jr. (CHN)/ XU Jun-Chao (CHN) 61 63

[F] (2) RASTOGI Karan (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) vs (1) EBDEN Matthew (AUS)/ KLEIN Brydan (AUS)

Karan having good outing in singles and doubles at China ... Now he is highest seeded remaining in the draw.
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Football News -
At AFC Cup 2008
Group A - Matchday 4

Al Muharraq (BAH) l Dempo SC (IND) 1-2

Goal Scored - Ranty Martins Soleye (DSC) 11' & 62' and Leandson Dias da Silva (AlM) 77' (P)

Dempo scored crucial away win over Group A leader Al Muharraq ... So they r now only 1 pt away from group leaders Al Muharraq and Al Ansar ... There r still 2 games remaining to finish group fixtures.
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Badminton News -
At $125K Yonex-Sunrise Badminton Asia Championships 2008, Malaysia

[R1] Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l (4) Alvent Yulianto Chandra (INA)/ Luluk Hadiyanto (INA) 7-21 21-23
[R1] Akshay Devalkar (IND)/ Diju V. (IND) bt Noubani Ehad Nidal (JOR)/ Mohd Naser Mansour Nayef (JOR) 21-6 21-4

[R1] Jwala P Gutta (IND)/ Shruti S Kurian (IND) bt Fan Frances Liu (SIN)/ Yu Yan Vanessa Neo (SIN) 21-15 24-22

[R2] (Q) Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala P Gutta (IND) l Anggun Nugroho (INA)/ Endang Nursugianti (INA) 19-21 15-21

[R2] Jwala P Gutta (IND)/ Shruti S Kurian (IND) l (1) Wei Yang (CHN)/ Jiewen Zhang (CHN) 10-21 7-21
[R2] Akshay Devalkar (IND)/ Diju V. (IND) l (8) Keita Masuda (JPN)/ Tadashi Ohtsuka (JPN) 16-21 20-22

Very poor outing for Indian contingent in ongoing Asia Championships ... Nobody, repeating again nobody able to cross second round.