Tennis News
At Tennis Masters Cup 2008 (Doubles), Shanghai, China

GOLD GROUP

On 12th November, 2008

Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 67(2) 36
Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) bt Jonas Bjorkman (SWE)/ Kevin Ullyett (ZIM) 61 64

With this loss Lee and Lukas become first pair to eliminate from this season ending event.
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At $50K Champaign Challenger, Illinois, USA

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,214) vs (Q) Izak Van der Merwe (RSA,280)

Doubles -
[Q2] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Izak Van der Merwe (RSA) bt (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) vs 63 62

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Amer Delic (USA) vs (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Izak Van der Merwe (RSA)

Carsten Ball opened draw for Kash beating top-seed Vince Spadea ... So Kash is facing South African Izak Van der Merwe in Singles and Doubles first round.

But surprising easy loss for Harsh and Ashutosh.
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At $25K NECC- ITF Women's Tennis Championships, Pune, India

Second Round -
(1) Melanie SOUTH (GBR) bt (WC) Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) 62 75
(Q) Shalini SAHOO (IND) bt (WC) Alexandra KOLESNICHENKO (UZB) 63 62
(4) Ksenia PALKINA (KGZ) bt Leonie MEKEL (NED) 61 36 61
(6) Kai-Chen CHANG (TPE) bt Korina PERKOVIC (GER) 62 63
I-Hsuan HWANG (TPE) bt (Q) Natasha KHAN (GBR) 62 63
(Q) Bojana JOVANOVSKI (SRB) bt (Q) Patrycja SANDUSKA (POL) 64 61
(8) Jing-Jing LU (CHN) bt Isha LAKHANI (IND) 63 75
(2) Ye-Ra LEE (KOR) bt Suchanun VIRATPRASERT (THA) 75 64

Shalini Sahoo's terrific run continued with win over Uzbek wild-card player ... But Ankita and Isha lost their matches against top=seed and 8th seed respectively ... Now in quarters Shalini having big task of facing British top-seed.
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Football News
At I-League 2008/09 - 11th November

Mumbai FC dw Dempo SC 0-0

Yesterday Dempo only managed draw against Mumbai FC ... Dempo is struggling in new season, in last 3 matches they only garnered 2 points.