Squash News -
At $8K Womens Chennai Open 2008, India

Semi-finals -
(5) Dipika Pallikal (IND,64) bt (3) Orla Noom (NED,38) 10-8 7-9 9-5 9-1 (49m)
(4) Annie Au (HKG,50) bt (2) Joshna Chinappa (IND,37) 10-9 9-1 5-9 10-9 (67m)

Dipika scored another win against higer rank opponent and showed her last round win against top-seed wasn't fluke ... But Joshna lost her semis and so no all Indian final in womens final.
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At $10K Mens Chennai Open 2008, India

Semi-finals -
(1) Saurav Ghosal (IND,55) bt (3) Ryan Cuskelly (AUS,61) 10-12 5-11 11-5 11-9 11-7 (84m)
(2) Ritwik Bhattacharya (IND,57) bt (4) Ali Anwar Reda (EGY,58) 10-12 7-11 12-10 11-7 11-8 (73m)

Our both top-seed players showed heart to produce comeback win against their opponents ... Good to see all Indian final.
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Tennis News -
At $385K Campbell's HoF championship, Newport, USA

[Q1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND,238) bt Justin O'Neal (USA,751) 76(4) 67(5) 62
[Q2] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND,238) vs (6) Artem Sitak (RUS,324)

[R1] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND, 350) vs Joseph Sirianni (AUS, 154)
[R1] Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK,158) vs Benjamin Becker (GER,116)

Doubles -
[R1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Tripp Phillios (USA)/ Jim Thomas (USA)
[R1] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Gilles Muller (LUX) vs (2) Scott Lipsky (USA)/ David Martin (USA)

Happy with Bops win though he struggled ... Hoping solid performance in the final qualifying round to reach main-draw.

Kash having evenly match first round match against Sirianni ... But I m hoping for his win so want to see how he perform against big server John Isner in second round.

Aisam having tricky first round match against Benjamin Becker and if he wins first round then his second round opponent will be Fabrice Santoro.

Ind-Pak Samjhota Express r 4th seed ... Kash is playing as wild card player in doubles also with Gilles Muller, they r having tough first round match against 2nd seed pair of Scott Lipsky and David Martin.
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At $10K USA F16 Futures, Pittsburgh, PA

[SF] (7) Somdev Dev Varman (IND,793) bt (1) Luis-Manuel Flores (MEX,509) 64 60
[F] (7) Somdev Dev Varman (IND,793) vs Travis Helgeson (USA,1010)

Doubles -
[SF] Somdev Dev Varman (IND)/ Treat Huey (USA) bt Robbye Poole (USA)/ Rylan Rizza (USA) 64 67(5) 10(6)
[F] Somdev Dev Varman (IND)/ Treat Huey (USA) vs EL MIHDAWY Adam (USA)/ WILLIAMS Rhyne (USA)

Somi is humuliating his opponents without giving any respect to their higher ranking or seeding ... So another chance of doubel title ... Go Somi.