Tennis News -
At € 349K Ordina Open, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Doubles -
[QF] (2) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt David Ferrer (ESP)/ Marcel Granollers (ESP) 62 61

Very clinical performance by Indian Express ... Today they showed their class what they can do when they played as a team ... Flawless tennis of 48 mins.

[R2] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,292) l (7) Guillermo Canas (ARG,46) 26 46

Clinical performance from Canas to win match in 1hr 2mins ... Canas won first set in 26 mins breaking Bops serve twice ... Bops first serves wasn't working as only 1 ace for him in this set ... In second set Bops hit 5 aces but his first serve percentage dropped to 50% from 59% in first set ... So with this loss Bops will move for Wimbledon doubles with Aisam.
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At $175K Ordina Open, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND,33) l Michaella Krajicek (NED,51) 26 26

Match was over in 59 mins ... Total one-sided affair ... Sania had 48% first serve % in first set ... In second set her first serve % improved to 55% ... In match 8 aces for Michaella Krajicek and didn't face single break point on her serve whereas sania had 1 ace and got broken 4 times ... Sania had lot many UFEs from backhand and forehand ... Nothing was going right for Sania ... May be bad day or may be struggling after wrist operation .. Need lot of hard work before Wimbledon.
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At The Championships, Wimbledon 2008,

[Q2] Sunitha Rao (IND,149) l (15) Olga Puchkova (RUS,130) 46 26

This match was much closer than score suggest ... First set they traded breaks one after another ... But in second set Olga played much better game ... With Sunitha's last week performance I was expecting better performance from her.
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At $15K Iran F1 futures, Tehran (clay)

[R2] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,830) l (Q) (4) KEDRYUK Alexey (KAZ,495) 67(6) 26

Doubles -
[QF] ALAYLY Karim (LIB)/ GAJJAR Rohan (IND) l FILENKOV Alexei (RUS)/ STANCIK Jan (SVK) 75 36 (5)10

Now I m really tired writing more about our singles losses ... :-(
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Badminton News -
At $250K Indonesia Super Series 2008, Jakarta

[Q1] Anand PAWAR (IND,67) bye
[Q2] Anand PAWAR (IND,67) l Hans-Kristian VITTINGHUS (DEN,63) 17-21 18-21

Maindraw -
[R1] Saina NEHWAL (IND,30) bt (Q) Rosaria Yusfin PUNGKASARI (INA,137) 21-12 21-14
[R1] Anup SRIDHAR (IND,32) l Joachim PERSSON (DEN,16) 23-21 9-21 14-21
[R1] Arvind BHAT (IND,44) l (Q) Alamsyah YUNUS (INA,103) 21-23 22-20 12-21

[R1] Saina NEHWAL (IND)/ Anna RICE (CAN) l Ekaterina ANANINA (RUS)/ Anastasia RUSSKIKH (RUS) 11-21 17-21

[R2] Saina NEHWAL (IND,30) vs (3) Hongyan PI (FRA,5)

Saina scored easy victory against qualifier in just 25 mins but now facing WR # 5 in second round ... After winning first game Anup didn't manage to sustain same level performance in remaining 2 games against WR #16 Persson in 44 mins.

Arvind lost 1 hr 2 mins battle against Indonasian qualifier ... But sad part is his challenge was blown off in third game.