Tennis News
At $50K ITF Lexington Women's Tournament, KY, USA

[QF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND,83) bt Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA,193) 5-2 Retd

[SF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND,83) vs Meng Yuan (CHN,195)

Sania had easy passage to semis as Lee-Waters retired from quarter-final match in the first set ... In semis Sania is facing Chinese opponent Meng Yuan with whom she doesn't have good record ... Sania defeated her in 2003 $10K Jakarta futures, 76(9) 62 but lost next 2 meetings in WTA tournaments ... In 2005 Bangkok tournament Sania retired after losing first set 57 and last year at Los Angeles WTA tournament Sania lost 46 36 ... Hopefully this time Sania change result.
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Badminton News
At $50K Australian Open Grand Prix, Victoria, Melbourne

[SF] (1) Rupesh K. T. Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bt (4) Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) 21-14 21-13
[SF] (3) Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Jishnu Sanyal (IND) l (2) Teik Chai Gan (MAS)/ Bin Shen Tan (MAS) 19-21 10-21

[SF] (3) Aparna Balan (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt (1) Danielle Barry (NZL)/ Donna Haliday (NZL) 21-15 21-12
[SF] Anjali Kalita (IND)/ Jyotshna Polavarapu (IND) l Chia Chi Huang (AUS)/ He Tian Tang (AUS) 18-21 21-23

Rupesh and Sanave played like top-seed pair to beat fellow Indian pair easily ... In second mens semi-final Akshay and Jishnu fought well against 2nd seed Malayasian pair but in second game Malayasian pair didn't give any chance to them.

In womens doubles our 3rd seed pair Aparna and Shruti scored very easy upset victory over top-seed All Blacks pair to moved into final but our other Indian pair couldn't manage to repeat their senior pair's performance.