Tennis News
At $50K Charlottesville Challenger, Virginia, USA

[SF] (3) Somdev Devvarman (IND,116) bt (5) (WC) Ryan Sweeting (USA,147) 64 46 62

[F] (3) Somdev Devvarman (IND,116) vs (2) Kevin Kim (USA,105)

Somi started well breaking Ryan serve in second game but Ryan broke back in 7th game ... But at 5-4 Somi broke Ryan's serve to won first set ... In second set Somi was struggling with his first serve and moreover his defensive approach like standing 10 feets behind baseline while returning the serve was hurting him ... Ryan broke Somi in 7th game and that was enough for him to won second set ... Somi continued to struggle with his first serve in this match ... In third set he broke Ryan serve in 2nd game ... Then again Somi broke him in 6th game to go up 5-1 ... But here instead of finishing the match he played crappy service game and lost game on love ... But Somi managed to win match in next game as Ryan committed 2 double faults and Somi converted 3rd match point ... In the final he is facing Kevin Kim.
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At $50K Aachen Challenger , Germany

[Q1] (6) Rohan BOPANNA (IND,414) bt Andrej MARTIN (SVK,457) 57 62 64
[Q2) (6) Rohan BOPANNA (IND,414) bt Thomas SCHOOREL (NED,459) 67(4) 62 76(9)

[Q3] (6) BOPANNA, Rohan (IND,414) v. (2) SORENSEN, Louk (IRL,337)

Bops win both matches after long dog fight ... In both matches he lost first set but in second match he was stretched to fullest ... Hopefully he has enough fuel in tank for final qualifying.
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Hockey News
At Asia Cup 2009, Thailand

Final
India l China 3-5

Goal Scored - Surinder Kaur (IND) 8', Mamta Kharab (IND) 43', Deepika (IND) 60' and Fu Bao Rang (CHN) 13', Ma Yi Bo (CHN) 16' PC, Zhao Yu Dia (CHN) 27', Ma Yi Bo (CHN) 44' PC, De Jiao Jiao (CHN) 55'

China wins the Asia Cup beating India 5-3 ...After 1-3 down in first half Indian women didn't lose hope and scored 2 goals in second half ... Other hand Chinese girls kept fighting with their counter attacking skill and they also scored 2 goals ... Though our women were controling most of second half but failing to score on penalty corners proved costly for them ... They wasted 3 penalty corners in second half.
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Football News
At AFC Under 19 Qualification 2009, Arbil

India u-19 l Saudi Arabia u-19 1-3

Goal Scored - Malsawmfela (IND) 28' and Deepak Devrani (IND) 57' OG, Abdullah Ali S Almohammed (KSA) 89', Muhannad Hamed J Alfarsi (KSA) 90+'

Saudi Arabian boys scored late goals that was undoing for Indian boys.