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

Group 3 - For First Position

India bt Bulgaria 3-0

Sanave Thomas/ Rupesh Kumar bt Vladimir Metodiev/ Yulian Hristov 21-13 21-11
Saina Nehwal bt Linda Zetchiri 21-14 21-17
Arvind Bhat bt Krasimir Yankov 16-21 21-16 21-19

So first-time Indian team qualified for Group 2 of the Sudirman Cup ... Our mens doubles team and Saina started with straight games victory .. Arvind's win was expected against #238 ranked Bulgarian but he surprised Arvind winning first game ... Arvind needed to play very consistent game in next 2 games to pulled match ... In final game he kept 2 points lead from mid-game to won this match in 58 minutes ... Congrats to Indian team for their promotion to Group 2.
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Tennis News
At $75K+H Izmir Cup, Turkey

[R2] (8) Prakash Amritraj (IND,163) l Pavel Snobel(CZE,174) 36 46

Was hoping good outing at this Challenger as 6 seeded players were already lost .. But Snobel kept that trend continue beating seeded Kash in straight sets.