Football News -
At 2008 AFC Challenge Cup Football Championship, Hyderabad, India

Semifinals - (7th August 2008)

India bt Myanmar 1-0
Goal Scored - Sunil Chetri (IND) 82'

Tajikistan bt North Korea 1-0
Goal Scored - Dzhomikhon Muhidinov 39'

As per report, due to heavy rain again we played in heavy and soggy condition ... But after reading IndianFootball.com report, it was heartening to see we created multiple chances and raiding Mynmar goal continuously ... We again struggled due to our usual finishing problem ... Before Sunil's goal Myanmar player's header kissed Indian goalpost, so we were sort of lucky ... Anyway important thing is we r in the finals against Tajikistan.

Sunil Chetri comments - I was disappointed for that miss in the first half, but coach and captain said it is okay. Bob told us to go out and don't ever give up. Playing ball in their half for full time was our strategy. (about goal he scored) It was difficult to control the ball and thankfully I scored. We don't care who we will face in the final.
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Squash News -
At Junior Men's Squash World Championships 2008, Zurich, Switzerland (Team Event)

For 3rd Place -
(5) India l (3) Great Britain 1-2

Vikram Malhotra bt Joe Lee 9-6 9-0 0-9 9-3 (37m)
Ravi Dixit l Alex Ingham 9-4 3-9 2-9 6-9 (70m)
Aditya Jagtap l Adrian Waller 0-9 4-9 4-9 (20m)

Vikram Malhotra gave positive start with winning against England No. 1 player ... Then Ravi started well winning first game but then England players didn't gave chance and won 3rd position in this Junior Men's Squash World Championship.
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Tennis News -
At the 18th World Junior Tennis Finals, TK Prostejov, Czech Republic (Red Clay)

Semi-Final -
India l (1) USA 0-3

Digvijaysingh Mehta (IND) l Alexis Halebian (USA) 26 36
Ronit Bisht (IND) l Christian Harrison (USA) 46 36
Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Ronit Bisht (IND) l Tyler Gardiner (USA)/ Christian Harrison (USA) 06 36

US boys look talented as they r performing as per their ranking ... We r facing Cananda for 3rd position match and try to end this World Junior Tennis Finals on winning note.
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At $10K USA F21 Futures, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

[Q1] Abhaya PRAKASH (IND,UNR) bt Kosuke NISHIMORI (JPN,UNR) 61 61
[Q2] Abhaya PRAKASH (IND,UNR) bt Jose MONCADA (HON,UNR) 63 46 62
[Q3] Abhaya PRAKASH (IND,UNR) bt Connor ROTH (USA,UNR) 75 64
[Q4] Abhaya PRAKASH (IND,UNR) bt (10) Jonathan DAVID (CAN,1722) 64 16 63

[R1] Abhaya PRAKASH (IND,UNR) bt (WC) Jim SLONAC (USA,UNR) 63 63
[R2] Abhaya PRAKASH (IND,NR) vs Daniel YOO (KOR,1361)

Remarkable performance by Abhaya to grab his first ATP point after winning 5 matches in tough US futures.