Athletics News -

Preeja Sreedharan has achieved the 'B' qualifying norms for Beijing Olympics by clocking 32:04.41s in 10000m at the British Miles Club Elite Grand Prix in London ... She improved our national record and her personal best by more than 1 min & 15 secs.

Another notable achievement was Surendra Singh breaking oldest national record of 32 year old record of Hari Chand by clocking 28:22.79s but fell short of reaching the Olympic qualifying time ... 28:48.72s clocked by our great distance runner Hari Chand at 1976 Montreal Olympics in 10,000m ... He had great rivalry with Shivnath Singh, who decided to concentrate on Marathon after 1975 Seoul Asian Championships, where he came second place in both the 5,000m (behind Ito of Japan) and in the 10,000m (behind Hari Chand) ... Shivnath Singh produced our best Marathon finish in Olympics at 1976 Montreal Olympics, he finished on 11th position clocking 2:16:22.0.
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Tennis News -
At Gerry Weber Open, Halle, Germany

Final -
(4) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Mikhail Youzhny (RUS)/ Mischa Zverev (GER) 63 46 (3)10

After winning first set Lee and Lukas lost the final ... So they r still searching for their first title as a pair .. Hopefully that would be Wimbledon.
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At € 349K Ordina Open, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

[Q1] BOPANNA Rohan (IND,293) Bye
[Q2] BOPANNA Rohan (IND,293) bt RENARD Alexandre (FRA,638) 46 76(2) 75
[Q3] BOPANNA Rohan (IND,293) bt SCHOECK Thomas (GER,834) 63 64

Doubles -
[R1] (2) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ PAES Leander (IND) vs ALLEGRO Yves (SUI)/ PRIETO Sebastian (ARG)
[R1] (4) BOPANNA Rohan (IND)/ LINDSTEDT Robert (SWE) vs CANAS Guillermo (ARG)/ DEL POTRO Juan Martin (ARG)

Bops was 15 out of from Wimbledon qualifying list, so he decided to skip Wimbledon qualifying and playing at Ordina Open ... Good choice as he can test his knee before Wimbledon doubles ... Rohan and Robert r in same draw with Indian Express ... They can meet eachother in semis ... But I m interesting to see how Indian Express perform on tour after long break.

Rohan qualified for maindraw with entertaining tennis ... He already earned 5 ranking points, with favourable draw he can go deep in the draw with his serve and volley game.
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At $175 K Ordina Open, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,33) vs (5) Flavia Pennetta (ITA,22)

Skipping doubles look good decision as she is still recovering from writst injury ... But having tough first round against Pennetta.

Pennetta is having upperhand in their career meeting ... Pennetta is leading 2-1, after losing at Paris Open in 2006 Pennetta won next 2 matches against Sania at Japan Open in 2007 and Hobart Open in 2008.