Hockey News -
At 2008 Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament, Ipoh, Malaysia

India bt Canada 3-1

Goal Scored - Diwakar Ram (IND) 45' PS & 51' PC, Shivendra Singh (IND) 53' and Wayne Fernandez (CAN) 9' PC

Today India managed to score comeback victory over Canada, who were leading by 1 goal after half-time ... Sandeep Singh was out due to right knee injury in first-half ... His injury looks serious.

In second-half Diwakar Ram scored 2 goals, one through penalty stroke and second through penalty corner ... Shivendra Singh scored third goal.

Overall disappointing performance as we managed to control the game but usual unnecessarily losing possessions, mis-hits and faulty trapping were continue.

Canada had 2 penalty corners and they converted 1, other hand we had 9 but we also managed to convert only 1.

We r having youngest team in the tournament with average age of 20.5 yrs.
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Tennis News -
At $50K New Delhi Challenger-I, India (Hard)

Qualifying Third Round -
(1) Ilia Marchenko (UKR) bt Kamala Kannan (IND) 61 64
(6) Peng Sun (CHN) bt Rohan Gide (IND) 63 60
(3) Travis Rettenmaier (USA) bt (7) Olivier Charroin (FRA) 64 62
Mustafa Ghouse (IND) bt (WC) Rahil Makharia (IND) 61 61

Singles First Round -
(1) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,90) vs (Q) Mustafa Ghouse (IND,UNR)
Thomas Oger (FRA,276) vs (WC) Harsh Mankad (IND,667)
Colin Ebelthite (AUS,234) vs Jae-Sung An (KOR,340)
(8) Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS,210) vs (WC) Ashutosh Singh (IND,602)

(4) Go Soeda (JPN,132) vs Rohan Bopanna (IND,303)
Gouichi Motomura (JPN,369) vs Guillermo Alcaide (ESP,435)
Andrew Coelho (AUS,294) vs (WC) Mohammed Al Ghareeb (KUW,413)
(6) Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK,149) vs Rajeev Ram (USA,268)

(5) Alun Jones (AUS,139) vs Nick Lindahl (AUS,261)
Alex Bogdanovic (GBR,255) vs (Q) Peng Sun (CHN,448)
Ricardo Mello (BRA,213) vs (Q) Ilia Marchenko (UKR,350)
(3) Kristian Pless (DEN,129) vs Alex Satschko (GER,297)

(7) Brendan Evans (USA,198) vs Prakash Amritraj (IND,246)
Adam Feeney (AUS,274) vs (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,1199)
Takao Suzuki (JPN,299) vs Samuel Groth (AUS,342)
(2) Gilles Muller (LUX,121) vs (Q) Travis Rettenmaier (USA,380)

Doubles First Round -
(1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Prakash Amritraj (IND)
Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) vs Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS)/ Gouichi Motomura (JPN)

(4) Olivier Charroin (FRA)/ Thomas Oger (FRA) vs Colin Ebelthite (AUS)/ Samuel Groth (AUS)
Ricardo Mello (BRA)/ Gilles Muller (LUX) vs (WC) Travis Rettenmaier (USA)/ Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND)

(WC) Tushar Liberhan (IND)/ Navdeep Singh (IND) vs (WC) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND)
(3) Brendan Evans (USA)/ Mustafa Ghouse (IND) vs Go Soeda (JPN)/ Takao Suzuki (JPN)

Alun Jones (AUS)/ Kristian Pless (DEN) vs Guillermo Alcaide (ESP)/ Alex Satschko (GER)
(2) Andrew Coelho (AUS)/ Adam Feeney (AUS) vs Mohammed Al Ghareeb (KUW)/ Ilia Marchenko (UKR)

As expected Mustafa qualified for maindraw with win over Makharia ... But Mustafa facing top seed Yen-Hsun Lu in first round.

In doubles lots of Indians r playing ... Rajeev and Kash having tough match against top seed Bops and Aisam ... Harsh is partnering Ashutosh ... Sunil is playing with Rettenmaier ... And Mustafa is 3rd seed with Brendan Evans ... Also our 2 pairs received wildcards.