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

[QF] (7) Arvind Bhat (IND,42) bt (16) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,59) 21-15 17-21 21-15
[QF] (4) Chetan Anand (IND,30) bt (10) Kestutis Navickas (LTU,44) 21-10 21-17

[QF] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,51) bt Carola Bott (GER,160) 21-13 21-10

[SF] (7) Arvind Bhat (IND,42) vs (12) Björn Joppien (GER,57)
[SF] (4) Chetan Anand (IND,30) vs (15) Peter Mikkelsen (DEN,63)

[SF] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,51) vs (2) Juliane Schenk (GER,14)

Arvind defeated his compatriot P. Kashyap in evenly fought match in 53 mins to move into mens semis ... Arvind won first game easily and was leading 17-15 in second game but then P.Kashyap showed his fighting capabilities winning next 6 pts to grabbed second game ... But in third Arvind kept pressure on him from the start and maintained lead through out the game ... P.Kashyap tried fightback after finding himself 12-20 down ... he saved 3 match-points but until then it was late to produced comeback in this match.

As expected Chetan and Aditi scored easy victories against their respective opponents ... In mens section Indians r higher ranked players in the draw ... Go guys fight for the title ... Aditi having tough match against top-15 local palyer.

Saina climbed one more position to #11 after good run in China Open ... She is 5000+ pts behind 10th rank player ... After winning Czech Open Chetan re-entered into top-30.
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Football News
At I-League 2008/09 - 3rd October

Mohun Bagan dw Air-India 1-1

Goal Scored - 71 Branco Vincent Cardozo (MB) 71' and Soccor Velho (AI) 45+'