Tennis News -
At $15K Ireland F2 Futures, Limerick

[R2] Harsh Mankad (IND,669) bt (1) Thomas Oger (FRA,287) 36 61 62
[R2] Purav Raja (IND,996) l (3) Frederik NIelesn (DEN,306) 16 16

[QF] Harsh Mankad (IND,669) vs (Q) Lazare Kukhalashvili (GEO,UNR)

Doubles -
[QF] (3) MANKAD Harsh (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) bt Raphael DUREK (AUS) /Sadik KADIR (AUS) 64 36 10(5)

[SF] (3) MANKAD Harsh (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) vs (1) KONING Michel (NED)/ NIELSEN Frederik (DEN)

This is a huge win by Harsh over top-300 Oger with whom Harsh lost at Delhi Challenger, 67(5) 46 ... Harsh is showing steady improvement in his game week after week ... C'mon Harsh, now want title from u.
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At $ 15 K Iran F2 futures , Tehran (clay)

[SF] (1) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Murad Inoyatov (UZB) bt (4) Harrison Keyser (AUS)/ Richard Ruckelshausen (AUT) 63 64

[F] (1) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Murad Inoyatov (UZB) vs (2) Alexey Kedryuk (KAZ)/ Mohammed Maamoun (EGY)

So Rohan in the final with UZbek partner in doubles.
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At $25k Qian Shan Challanger, China

[R1] (5) Isha LAKHANI (IND,305) l (Q) Si-Si QIU (CHN,953) 46 36

Isha lost her singles match against qualifier ... In round 2, 12 out of 16 girls r Chinese.
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Badminton News -
At 120K Thailand GP GOLD 2008,

[R1] VIDYADHAR J B S (IND,236) l Hsuan-Yi HSUEH (TPE,270) 15-21 17-21
[R1] Arvind BHAT (IND,41) l Kazuteru KOZAI (JPN,181) 14-21 17-21
[R1] Chetan ANAND (IND,39) l (5) Wei NG (HKG,21) 15-21 16-21
[R1] Anand PAWAR (IND,67) l Wei Feng CHONG (MAS,81) 20-22 19-21
[R1] (Q) GURUSAI DATT R.M.V (IND,UNR) l Alamsyah YUNUS (INA,104) 16-21 13-21
[R1] Ajay JAYARAM (IND,155) bt Hoang Nam NGUYEN (VIE,262) 21-10 21-17
[R1] KASHYAP P (IND,84) bt Allan TAI (MAS,179) 21-13 21-12
[R1] (13) Anup SRIDHAR (IND,28) bt Juergen KOCH (AUT,68) 18-21 21-8 21-16

[R1] Saina NEHWAL (IND,23) bt (8) Elizabeth CANN (ENG,24) 21-13 21-5
[R1] Aditi MUTATKAR (IND,52) l Salakjit PONSANA (THA,36) 17-21 1-21

[R1] (7) Jwala GUTTA (IND)/ Shruti KURIAN (IND) vs Shinta Mulia SARI (SIN)/ Lei YAO (SIN)

[R2] Ajay JAYARAM (IND,155) l (9) Marc ZWIEBLER (GER,30) 20-22 20-22
[R2] KASHYAP P (IND,84) bt (11) Yen Hui Kendrick LEE (SIN,32) W/O
[R2] (13) Anup SRIDHAR (IND,28) bt Daren LIEW (MAS,136) 21-12 21-18

[R2] Saina NEHWAL (IND,23) vs Nguyen Nhung LE NGOC (VIE,72)

[R3] KASHYAP P (IND,84) vs Tanongsak SAENSOMBOONSUK (THA,71)
[R3] (13) Anup SRIDHAR (IND,28) vs (2) Boonsak PONSANA (THA,14)

Disastrous performance by Indian contingent, who lost against lowly ranked opponents … Sad to see that our players missing important opportunity to grab ranking points to improve their ranking through this high quality tournament.

Saina is definetly moving towards top-20 (mostly she will enter into in next week's ranking update), today she scored very dominating victory over top-25 British player.

But I m still not confident about Anup's performance after change in coach ... Kashyap recieved walkover from Indonasian player, Anup won his match easily and Ajay Jayaram showed superb resistance against top-30 player in Round 2.