Tennis News
Davis Cup 2009,

For Group I Asia/Oceania 2009 third round tie from 08 May to 10 May 2009 AITA announced that Chennai will host this tie against Australia!!! This is happeneing due to Somdev's performance this year at the Chennai Open, the Nungambakkam courts will be hosting this tie ... First time in almost 30 years India will not play a David Cup home tie on grass.
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At $50K Bangkok Challenger, Thailand

[R1] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,317) bt Rajeev Ram (USA,206) 63 76(6)
[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,192) l Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA,164) 36 26
[R1] (8) Somdev Devvarman (IND,150) l Martin Slanar (AUT,275) 36 64 46

[R2] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,317) vs (Q) Noam Okun (ISR,393)

Rohan scored huge much needed upset win over Ram ... Rohan requires as much singles practice before our Davis Cup Australian tie and he is showing good form this week after qualifying for this challenger.

But disappointing performance by Som and Kash .. Kash had tough match but wasn't expecting such easy loss ... Som had good draw but he again failed to take advantage of it.
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At $35K+H Citta' Di Caltanissetta Challenger, Caltanissetta, Italy, (Clay)

[R1] (1) Brian Battistone (USA)/ Harsh Mankad (IND) l Matwe Middelkoop (NED)/ Antonio Veic (CRO) 46 60 (5)10

And this was 4th consecutive loss without win after starting playing together ... Another super tie-break loss ... Its really heart-breaking.
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At $25K Redding Tournament, CA, USA

[Q1] (11) UBEROI Shikha (IND,623) bt LIVADARU Anna (GER,UNR) 61 75
[Q2] (11) UBEROI Shikha (IND,623) bt (4) RODIONOVA Arina (RUS,308) 64 63

[R1] (Q) UBEROI Shikha (IND,623) vs (WC) CHRISTIAN Kaitlyn (USA,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] NGUYEN Kim-Anh (USA)/ UBEROI Shikha (IND) vs (4) BRENGLE Madison (USA)/ EL TABAKH Heidi (CAN)

After longtime Shikha won back to back matches to qualify for maindraw ... That;s also scoring win against higher seed ... C'mon Shikha.
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Football News
At the AFC Cup 2009,

Group D

Mohun Bagan l Al Weehdat, Jordan 1-2

Goal Scored - Rakesh Masih (MB) 13' and Mahmoud Shelbayah (AlW) 16', Hassan Abdel Fattah (AlW0 43'

So with 2 defeats in 2 matches is making tough task for Mohun Bagan to move into next round ... Mohun Bagan tried hard in second half to equaliser but they didn't manage in the end.