Badminton News
At $200K Yonex All England Open Super Series 2009, Birmingham

[Q1] Anand Pawar (IND,46) vs (1) Carl Baxter (ENG,35)
[Q1] (3) Anup Sridhar (IND,50) vs Beng Hong Kuan (MAS,48)

[Q1] Chetan Anand (IND)/ Diju Valiyaveetil (IND) vs Marcus Ellis (ENG)/ Robin Middleton (ENG)

[R1] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,13) vs Andrew Smith (ENG,21)
[R1] Arvind Bhat (IND,27) vs Qualifier

[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs (4) Hongyan Pi (FRA,4)

[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) vs Chiou Hwee Haw (MAS)/ Pek Siah Lim (MAS)

[R1] Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Qualifier

Saina Nehwal is playing her first tournament after 4 weeks shoulder injury break and again she is having cruel draw facing WR #4 Hongyan Pi in the first round ... difficult first match after 4 weeks injury break.

Chetan and Arvind also qualified for maindraw ... Anup and Anand r playing in qualifying ... Also Chetan playing with Diju in doubles qualifying.

Also Jwala and Shruti qualified for womens doubles ... And expectedly Diju-Jwala playing MXD maindraw.
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Tennis News
At $125K+H Bergamo Challenger, Italy

[R1] AMRITRAJ Prakash (IND,193) l DORSCH Benedikt (GER,156) 67(5) 36

Very close match with only one break of serve in the complete match ... In the first set Kash had 3 set points at 6-5 but failed to convert ... Tough loss where Kash had decent chance of winning this.
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At $15K USA F6,

[R1] (JE) BHAMBRI Yuki (IND,1150) vs (4) COOK Lester (USA,367)

Doubles
[R1] BHAMBRI Yuki (IND)/ WANG Yu Jr. (CHN) vs (2) COOK Lester (USA)/ LA PORTE Shane (USA)

Yuki using junior exemption for this US futures .. Good decision by him as next week he is playing Miami Masters qualifying so playing this tough futures help him to judge his performance.