Saturday, February 07, 2009

Tennis News
At $50K Dallas Challenger, Texas, USA

[SF] (7) Rajeev Ram (USA,220) l (8) Ryan Sweeting (USA,202) 46 46
[SF] Prakah Amritraj (IND,204) vs (5) Brendan Evans (USA,160) 06 57

Doubles
[SF] (1) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) bt (4) Hiroki Kondo (JPN)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) 75 46 10(7)

[F] (1) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) vs (WC) Patrick Briaud (USA)/ Jason Marshall (USA)

Tough singles loss after good run until singles semis ... But let's hope Kash build momentum in next tournaments with this performance ... They r facing wild-card pair in doubles final.
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At Group I Asia/Oceania Zone, Perth, Australia

India l Chinese Taipei 0-3

Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) l I-Husan Hwang (TPE) 26 57
Ankita Bhambri (IND) l Chin-Wei Chan (TPE) 57 16
Ankita Bhambri (IND) /Sanaa Bhambri (IND) l Chin-Wei Chan (TPE)/ Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE) 46 26

Frankly expected 0-3 loss ... In this complete tournament we only managed to win single set ... So for next year we r officially relegated to the Asia-Oceania Group-II.
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At $10K Ivory Coast F1 futures, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire

[SF] BONDARENKO Vladislav (UKR)/ SHARAN Divij (IND) l BEGEMANN Andre (GER)/ TAVARES Leonardo (POR) 67(2) 36
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Hockey News
At the four-nation Punjab Gold Cup Hockey Tournament, India 

India l Germany 2-4

Goal Scored - Tushar Khandekar (IND) 12', Sandeep Singh (IND) 64' PC and Jan Philipp Rabente (GER) 14', Lim Kevin (GER) 21', Mortiz Furste (GER) 34' PC, Tobias (GER) 38'

Result against Germany was real one considering their game ... In previous match they were unlucky after controlling the match but yesterday was different story.

Now India need atleast draw against New Zealand.

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