Football News -
At 2008 AFC Challenge Cup Football Championship, Hyderabad, India
Group A - (3rd August)
India bt Turkmenistan 2-1

Goal Scored - Baichung Bhutia (IND) 54' & 80' and Yusup Orazmamedov (TRK) 84'
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Tajikistan bt Afghanitan 4-0

Goal Scored - Yusuf Rabiev (TJK) 14', 44' & 56', Davrondzhon Tukhtasunov (TJK) 39'

Whole match played in rain, but surprisingly our team showed their best performance of the tournament in this muddy condition ... First time I saw our team playing like whole unit, who were supporting each other ... Turkmenistan had their chances in the first half but condition were tough to score and Subarata Pal was as usual excellent.

I was very much impressed with our young defenders ... 22 yrs Gouramangi Singh played his best match ... Superb defending and supporting mid-fielders by him ... Anwar Ali also supported well ... Surkumar Singh was doing usual leg work with feeding forward passes.

B'day boy Sunil Chetri gave superb pass to Baichung in the first goal and in second Baichung scored on acute angle header on Surkumar Singh's corner kick.

With this win India topped the Group A with 7 pts and Tajikistan finished 2nd on 5 pts.
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Tennis News -
At $50K New Delhi Challenger III, India

Qualifying Final Round -
(1) IWAMI Tasuku (JPN) bt VARDHAN Vishnu (IND) 75 63
BHAMBRI Yuki (IND) bt NEDUNCHERHIYAN Jeevan (IND) 64 64
(3) KONDO Hiroki (JPN) bt (5) LEE Hsin-Han (TPE) 63 75
(4) YANG Tsung-Hua (TPE) bt RAJA Purav (IND) 63 62

So with another solid win Yuki qualified for maindraw ... But other couldn't repeat his performance.
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Motor Sports News -
At GP2 Series 2008, Hungary

Karun's race ended in first lap of Sunday's Sprint race ... Other hand Senna captured another poium and he is now only 7 pts behind championship leader Pantano.