Swimming News
At 13th FINA World Championship, Rome, Italy

Day5
Men's 200m Breaststroke
32 Sandeep Sejwal IND 2:13.22 mins +04.67 secs (new National record)
59 Agnishwar Jayaprakash IND 2:24.49 mins +15.94 secs

Men's 200m Backstroke
50 Rehan Poncha IND 2:06.92 mins +11.72 secs (new National record)
71 Praveen Tokas IND 2:16.90 mins +21.70 secs

Women's 200m Breaststroke
59 Murugaperumal Mercy Venpa IND 3:00.51 mins +38.83 secs

Women's 100m Freestyle
95 Chittaranjan Shubha IND 1:00.47 mins +07.27 secs
100 Talasha Prabhu IND 1:00.73 mins +07.53 secs

Women's 4x 200m Freestyle
22 India 9:21.70 mins +1:56.56 mins
Pooja Raghava Alva 2:24.10 mins
Chittaranjan Shubha 2:18.52 mins
Vandita Dhariyal 2:19.37 mins
Talasha Prabhu 2:19.71 mins

Sandeep Sejwal is on roll at Rome, today he bettered his own another national record in 200m Breaststroke ... He bettered National record by huge margin of 2.02 secs to finished in top 35.

Rehan Poncha is also matching Sandeep, he created national record in 200m Backstroke ... He also bettered his own national record by 1.23 secs.
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Badminton News
At $50K New Zealand Open Grand Prix 2009, North Shore, Auckland

[QF] (7) Anand Pawar (IND,46) l Kazushi Yamada (JPN,57) 17-21 21-11 12-21

[R2] (1) Rupesh K. T. Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bt Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) 21-5 21-8
[R2] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Jishnu Sanyal (IND) bt Kerrin Harrison (NZL)/ Leck S Tham (NZL) 21-12 21-15

[R2] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt Leanne Choo (AUS)/ Karyn Velez (PHI) 21-7 21-13
[R2] Anjali Kalita (IND)/ Jyotshna Polavarapu (IND) bt Amanda Brown (NZL)/ Suzannah Leydon-Davis (NZL) 21-12 21-9
[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Nitya Sosale (IND) l (2) Anneke Feinya Agustine (INA)/ Anisa Wahyuni (INA) 10-21 18-21

[R2] (5) Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) bt James Eunson (NZL)/ Stephanie Cheng (NZL) 21-10 23-21
[R2] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) l Yogendran Krishnan (MAS)/ Anita Raj Kaur (MAS) 13-21 17-21
[R2] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) l (3) Muhammad Rijal (INA)/ Debby Susanto (INA) 8-21 15-21

[QF] (1) Rupesh K. T. Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bt Wifqi Windarto (INA)/ Afiat Yuris Wirawan (INA) 21-16 20-22 21-17
[QF] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Jishnu Sanyal (IND) l (4) Hirokatsu Hashimoto (JPN)/ Noriyasu Hirata (JPN) 8-21 19-21

[QF] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt Michelle K Y Chan (NZL)/ Rachel Hindley (NZL) 21-7 21-14
[QF] Anjali Kalita (IND)/ Jyotshna Polavarapu (IND) l Nguyen Nhung Le Ngoc (VIE)/ Kristina Ludikova (CZE) 14-21 18-21

[QF] (5) Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) l (4) Tontowi Ahmad (INA)/ Richi Puspita Dilli (INA) 14-21 11-21

[SF] (1) Rupesh K. T. Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs(3) [MAS] [MAS] Teik Chai Gan (MAS)/ Bin Shen Tan (MAS)
[SF] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) vs (1) Tsz Ka Chan (HKG)/ Ying Suet Tse (HKG)

So again only our doubles teams reached in semis but both facing tough pairs in semis ... Anand lost in quarters against Japanese player in singles.