Badminton News
At $50K Bulgarian Grand Prix 2008

[R1] (12) Ajay Jayaram (IND,101) bt Vasil Paskov (BUL,476) 21-8
[R1] (7) Kashyap P. (IND,61) bt (Q) Gordey Kosenko (RUS,563) 21-19 21-15
[R1] (Q)Abhimanyu Singh (IND,UNR) bt Krasimir Yankov (BUL,263) 21-19 21-16
[R1] (Q) Sourabh Verma (IND,UNR) l (4) Yu Hsin Hsieh (TPE,35) 14-21 15-21

[R1] Shruti Kurian (IND,180) bt (Q) Gabriela Stefanikova (SLO,UNR) 21-10 21-17
[R1] (5) Aditi Mutatkar (IND,51) bt Dimitria Popstoykova (BUL,250) 21-14 21-6

[R1] (8) Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bt Andrey Ivanov (RUS)/ Sergey Shumilkin (RUS) 21-11 21-15
[R1] (3) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt Bistra Maneva (BUL)/ Victoria Zheleva (BUL) 21-10 21-7
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Diju V. (IND) bt Alesia Zaitsava (BLR)/ Aleksei Konakh (BLR) 21-16 21-15

[R2] (12) Ajay Jayaram (IND,101) vs Misha Zilberman (ISR,204)
[R2] (Q)Abhimanyu Singh (IND,UNR) vs Sune Gavnholt (DEN,128)
[R2] (7) Kashyap P. (IND,61) vs Tomas Kopriva (CZE,398)

[R2] Shruti Kurian (IND,180) vs Anastasia Prokopenko (RUS,92)
[R2] (5) Aditi Mutatkar (IND,51) vs Olga Golovanova (RUS,150)

Change in the draw and Sourabh needed to play against 4th seed Yu Hsin Hsieh ... Tough luck ... Aditi also faced local player due to change in the draw ... So other than Sourabh had winning start in the Bulgarian Grand Prix.