Saturday, May 10, 2008

Tennis News -
At $75K Zagreb Challenger, Croatia (clay)

[SF] (2) CZINK Melinda (HUN)/ RAO Sunitha (IND) bt (4) BREMOND Severine (FRA)/ JOHANSSON Mathilde (FRA) 63 75

[F] (2) CZINK Melinda (HUN)/ RAO Sunitha (IND) vs FORETZ Stephanie (FRA)/ KOSTANIC TOSIC Jelena (CRO)

Sunitha and Czink moved in to final scoring straight sets victory over French pair ... They will face top seed pair.
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At $50K New Delhi Challenger-I, India (Hard)

Qualifying First Round -
(1) Ilia Marchenko (UKR) bye
(WC) Prateek Bhambri (IND) bt (WC) Shrikant Rathi (IND) 62 62
Kamala Kannan (IND) bt Tushar Liberhan (IND) 57 76(7) 75
Ravjeet Singh (IND) bye
(2) Gouichi Motomura (JPN) bye
Rohan Gide (IND) bt Hemant Garg (IND) 60 62
Vinod Sridhar (IND) bt Prashant Sawant (IND) 62 60
(6) Peng Sun (CHN) bye
(3) Travis Rettenmaier (USA) bye
Yannick Nelord (IND) bt Rubal Shandilya (IND) 63 63
(WC) Vedant Kapoor (IND) bt Ankit Sachdeva (IND) 75 61
(7) Olivier Charroin (FRA) bt J. Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 46 63 76(5)
(4) Adam Chadaj (POL) bye
(WC) Rahil Makharia (IND) bt (WC) Gurmehar Singh (IND) 62 64
Mustafa Ghouse (IND) bt (WC) Vidhan Vyas (IND) 63 61
(5) Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND) bye

Qualifying Second Round -
(1) Ilia Marchenko (UKR) bt (WC) Prateek Bhambri (IND) 63 63
Kamala Kannan (IND) bt Ravjeet Singh (IND) 60 60
Rohan Gide (IND) bt (2) Gouichi Motomura (JPN) w/o
(6) Peng Sun (CHN) bt Vinod Sridhar (IND) 61 61
(3) Travis Rettenmaier (USA) bt Yannick Nelord (IND) 64 62
(7) Olivier Charroin (FRA) bt (WC) Vedant Kapoor (IND) 62 60
(WC) Rahil Makharia (IND) bt (4) Adam Chadaj (POL) w/o
Mustafa Ghouse (IND) bt (5) Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND) 76(6) 64

Shocking defeat of Sunil against Mustafa.
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Snooker News -
At 24th Asian Snooker Championship 2008, Dubai, UAE

Final -
Aditya Mehta (IND) l Jin Long (CHN) 3-7 (43-65 101-01 0-106 56-70 14-67 01-70 50-27 46-52 70-47 28-63)

For 3rd Place -
Pankaj Advani (IND) l Moh Keen Ho (MAS) 2-3

I hate to write Chinese defeated Aditya in the final and take revenge of group level loss on big stage ... Pankaj also lost his match for 3rd place ... So overall bad day for Indians.
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Athletic News -

Discus thrower Krishna Poonia became 5th Indian athlete to qualify for Beijing Olympics ... Her throw of 63.74m a new personal best in the USATF Discus Development Series 2008 at Hartnell Junior College ground in Salinas, USA helped her to achieve that.

Athletes who qualified for Beijing Olympics -
Men -
Renjith Maheshwary (Triple Jump)
Vikas Gowda (Discus Throw)


Women -
Anju Bobby George (Long Jump)
Susmita Singha Roy (Heptathlon)
Krishna Poonia (Discus Throw)

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

India l Argentina 1-5

Goal Scored - Sandeep Singh (IND) 25' PC and Facundo Callioni (ARG) 12', 43' & 51', Pedro Ibarra (ARG) 31' PC, Tomas Incento (ARG) 45'

I don't think anything to comment on such disgusting and disappointing performance.

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