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

[SF] (7) Arvind Bhat (IND,42) bt (12) Björn Joppien (GER,57) 21-19 21-7
[SF] (4) Chetan Anand (IND,30) bt (15) Peter Mikkelsen (DEN,63) 21-14 16-21 21-13

[SF] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,51) bt (2) Juliane Schenk (GER,14) 21-14 21-16

[SF] Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt (6) Wijaya Rendra (INA)/ Meiliana Jauhari (INA) 18-21 21-13 26-24

[F] (4) Chetan Anand (IND,30) vs (7) Arvind Bhat (IND,42)
[F] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,51) vs Maria Febe Kusumastuti (INA,96)
[F] Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs (8) Joachim Fischer Nielsen (DEN)/ Christinna Pedersen (DEN)

Aditi scored her first win over top-15 player against local girl Juliane Schenk ... Aditi managed to win in straight game in 32 mins ... Chetan scored 3 games win over Mikkelsen Arvind joined Chetan for mens title ... He won his semis in 27 mins after closely fought first game ... Aditi is facing unseeded Indonesian Kusumastuti for womens title.

Superb fighting win by our mixed doubles pair ... They were down 17-19 in the third game and also saved 4 match-points before converting their 2nd match-point to win this semi-final ... This was their 3rd consecutive win over seeded pair ... Now they r facing another seeded Danish pair for the title match.

So we r having great chance to win 3 title.
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Football News
At I-League 2008/09 - 4th October

Sporting Clube de Goa bt Mohammedan Sporting Club 3-0

Goal Scored - Elijah Obagbemiro Junior (SCG) 63' & 77', Micky Fernandes (SCG) 76'
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Mahindra United l Chirag United SC 1-3

Goal Scored - Sushil Kumar Singh (MU) 12' and Subair Muritala Ali (CU) 46', Gouranga Datta (CU) 52', Hardip Singh Saini (CU) 87'

Mahindra lost second match to bottom of the league ... Other had Sporting leading the league after scoring win against Mohammedan.