Badminton News
At $50K Bitburger Open Grand Prix 2008, Saarbrucken, Germany

[Q1] Sourabh Verma (IND,UNR) bt Mats Hukriede (GER,UNR) 21-14 21-12
[Q2] Sourabh Verma (IND,UNR) bt Thomas Legleitner (GER,UNR) 21-11 21-14

[R1] (Q) Sourabh Verma (IND,UNR) bt Marius Breuer (GER,517) 21-14 21-13
[R1] Abhimanyu Singh (IND,UNR) l Frederic Gaspard (GER,UNR) 20-22 21-15 15-21
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,100) l Hans Kristian Vittinghus (DEN,74) 12-21 11-21
[R1] (16) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,59) bt Philip Merz (GER,610) 21-16 21-9
[R1] (7) Arvind Bhat (IND,42) bt Hannes Käsbauer (GER,280) 21-14 21-13
[R1] (4) Chetan Anand (IND,33) bt Kieran Merrilees (SCO,363) 21-9 21-6

[R1] Gayatri Vartak (IND,124) l (1) Huaiwen Xu (GER,8) W/O
[R1] Shruti Kurian (IND,178) l Patty Stolzenbach (NED,93) 12-21 21-23
[R1] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,51) bt (Q) Mette Stahlberg (GER,338) 21-12 21-8

[R1] (2) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) Bye
[R2] (2) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) vs Johanna Goliszewski (GER)/ Gitte Köhler (GER)

[R2] (Q) Sourabh Verma (IND,UNR) vs (12) Björn Joppien (GER,55)
[R2] (16) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,59) vs Dieter Domke (GER,99)
[R2] (7) Arvind Bhat (IND,42) vs Martin Bille Larsen (DEN,84)
[R2] (4) Chetan Anand (IND,33) vs Sebastian Rduch (GER,341)

Indians having good chance to earn important ranking points in this high ranking tournament as field is very weak.

Nice to see unranked Sourabh Verma take advantage of weaker opponent to score first round victory ... But otherwise expected results from our shuttlers ... Though was hoping more fighting performance from Ajay Jayaram after his fruitful 2 weeks in New Zealand.
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Tennis News
At $175K AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships, Tokyo

[R1] Shikha Uberoi (IND)/ Mashona Washington (USA) bt Marta Domachowska (POl)/ Klara Zakopalova (CZE) 64 64

QF] Shikha Uberoi (IND)/ Mashona Washington (USA) vs (2) Vania King (USA)/ Tiantian Sun (CHN)

So atlast Shikha scored doubles victory on WTA tour after long break with Mashona ... They converted 3 break point from 9 chances and managed to save 4 break point on their serve of 5 chances ... Now they will face 2nd seed pair in the quarters.
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At $15K+H France F18 Futures, Nevers

[R1] (Q) SINGH Navdeep (IND,818) l (8) SABAU Razvan (ROU,408) 57 57

Navdeep produced fight but couldn't convert it in win.
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Football News
At I-League 2008/09 - 30th September

East Bengal l Mumbai FC 0-1

Goal Scored - Ahmed Felix Aboagye (MFC) 23'

Newly promoted Mumbai FC continued with their giant killing in Kolkata ... Yesterday they defeated East Bengal side after defeating Mohun Bagan in thir first league match ... Now Mumbai FC r early leader in I-League season 2 standing with 2 wins.