Badminton News
At US$200K AVIVA Open Singapore Super Series 2009,

[QF] (6) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) l (3) Lin Wang (CHN,4) 21-19 19-21 14-21
[QF] (Q) Anup Sridhar (IND,39) l Boonsak Ponsana (THA,19) 11-21 8-21

In this quarter-final match Saina started positively and taking 4-1 early lead but then Lin Wang got even at 5-all ... But from 11-all Saina take couple of points lead to won first game ... Second game also started in close affair, but Lin Wang won consecutive 5 points from 6-all to take early lead 5-11 but Saina fought back and make it 12-all ... But again Lin Wang take 3 points cushion from 15-all and kept that lead to won second game ... In third game Lin Wang take early lead at 8-11, Saina cameback to make it 10-11 but again Lin Wang won next 3 points to take important lead ... And then Lin Wang take control of the match to won it in 58 minutes.

Boonsak Ponsana take control of the game from 5-all and won first game in mere 13 minutes ... Second game wasn't different and Anup struggled in this game also ... This game was going on 14 minutes but Anup didn't even score double digits points and lost poorly ... Anup wasn't looking any sort of rhythm in this match, it was shocking scoreline for player who defeated WR #2 a day before.
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Hockey News
At FIH Men's Junior World Cup 2009, Singapore & Malaysia

Pool D
12 June
Netherlands dw New Zealand 2-2

India bt Poland 4-2

Goal scored - Mohd Amir Khan (IND) 26', Pramod Kumar (IND) 30' PC, Diwakar RAM (IND) 50' PC, Victo Singh (IND) 70' and Wiwczorek (POL) 41', Koztowski (POL) 44' PC

Netherlands and New Zealand match ended in draw so with that India's chances of reaching into medal round was finished ... But still we performed poorly against this lowly ranking Polish side ... Again we wasted heap of penalty corners and easy chances infront of goal ... This was dismal performance by our Junior team.