Badminton News
At $50K Bulgarian Grand Prix 2008

[SF] (5) Aditi Mutatkar (IND,45) l (2) Petya Nedelcheva (BUL,19) 21-12 19-21 10-21

[SF] (8) Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l (2) Fran Kurniawan (INA)/ Wijaya Rendra (INA) 17-21 20-22
[SF] (3) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt (1) Valeri Sorokina (RUS)/ Nina Vislova (RUS) 15-21 22-20 21-15
[SF] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Diju V. (IND) bt (6) Meiliana Jauhari (INA)/ Wijaya Rendra (INA) 21-14 17-21 21-17

[F] (3) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) vs (2) Shendy Puspa Irawati (INA)/ Meiliana Jauhari (INA)
[F] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Diju V. (IND) vs (5) Shendy Puspa Irawati (INA)/ Fran Kurniawan (INA)

Aditi had opportunity of scoring another top-20 upset win after winning first game easily .. But she couldn't maintained momentum from second game ... Still creditable performance from her.

Jwala Gutta and Shruti Kurian scored superb comeback win against top-seed Russian pair ... Heartening to see good performance from them after disappointing last week's performance.

Jwala and Diju's remarkable run continued ... Today they scored another upset win over seeded Indonesian pair to reach another final.
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Tennis News
At € 674K Vienna ATP Open, Austria

[SF] (2) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) l (4) Max Miryni (BLR)/ Andy Ram (ISR) 62 36 (8)10

Hesh and Mark started well breaking opponent's serve twice to win the first set ... In second set our pair managed to break Miryni and Ram's serve once but lost their service twice to lose second set.

In super tie-break Hesh and Mark were up with mini-break ... Leading 2-0 but then Miryni and Ram take initiative to break back and lead with mini-break at 3-2 ... Then they hold serve to lead 5-2, Hesh and Mark managed to hold serve to reduce it at 5-4 ... Miryni and Ram hold to kept lead at 7-4 ... Miryni and Ram managed another couple of mini-breaks to lead 9-4 ... Hesh and Mark won couple of points on opponent's serve to make it 9-6 ... And then hold their couple of service to make it 9-8 ... But Miryni and Ram converted 5th match-point to seal this match.