Badminton News
At the Sudirman Cup 2009, Guangzhou, China - 10th to 17th May 2009

Group 3 - B

India bt Ukraine 5-0

Sanave Thomas/ Rupesh Kumar bt Vitaly Konov/ Dmytro Zavadsky 21-14 21-6
Saina Nehwal bt Mariya Diptan 21-18 21-9
Arvind Bhat bt Valeriy Atrashchenkov 21-16 21-11
Shruti Kurien/ Aparna Balan bt Larisa Griga/ Elena Prus 21-7 21-14
V Diju/ Jwala Gutta bt Dmytro Zavadsky/ Mariya Diptan 21-15 22-20

Another easy victory by Indian team against Ukraine without dropping much sweat ... Tomorrow in last group match they will face Scotland team.
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Hockey News
At Asia Cup 2009, Kuantan, Malaysia

India dw China 2-2

Goal Scored - Sandeep Singh (IND) 31' PC & 34' PC and ? (CHN) 45' PC, Yu Yang (CHN) 59'

Indians again blown up 2-0 half-time lead to drew their match against China ... With that defending champion India r out of semifinals as we required win to qualify for Semis after losing first match against Pakistan ... Sandeep Singh 2 goals through penalty corners in last 5 minutes of first-half ... But in 2nd half we missed some scoring opportunities and faulty defense costed us match ... China scored their first goal through penalty corner with indirect variation ... Then due to Indian defensie lapse China scored 2nd goal through free-hit outside 'D' ... We earned penalty corner when 50 seconds were remaining but Sandeep Singh's flick was blocked by Chinese goalie and that ended our challenge from this edition of Asia Cup.