Hockey News
At 12th FIH World Cup 2010, New Delhi, India

Final
Australia bt Germany 2-1
Goal Scored - Edward Ockenden (AUS) 6', Luke Doerner (AUS) 59' PC and Moritz Furste I(NED) 47'

For 3rd Place
Netherlands bt England 4-3

Australia defeated Germany to lift their 2nd World Cup title and also ruined Germany's dream of scoring first hat-trick of world hockey titles in the history of the game.

In fast paced match Australians take early lead but Germany kept fighting and scored equaliser in second half but Doerner scored important goals and then Australians defended well to lift the title.

Netherlands won bronze medal in very exciting match ... At half-time they were down 1-3 but in second half they fought back very hard and scored 3 goals to won this match.

Australian drag-flicker Luke Doerner and Dutchman drag-flicker Taeke Taekema became the top-scorer of the tournament with 8 goals apiece.

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At 12th FIH World Cup 2010, New Delhi, India

For 5th Position
Spain bt Korea 2-0

For 7th Position
India l Argentina 2-4

Goal Scored - Tomas Innocente Argento (ARG) 28', Martin Lucas Villa 43' & 45', Facundo Callioni (ARG) 46' and Sandeep Singh (IND) 42' PS, Shivendra Singh (IND) 49'

For 9th Position
New Zealand bt South Africa 5-4 on Golden penalty stroke (4-4)

Indians started match aggressively but lacked finishing touches inside D and that costed them dearly ... Sandeep Singh wasted 2 penalty corners in first half ... Indians were 0-1 down after half-time ... In second half also Indians started aggressively and earned penalty stoke to make it 1-all ... But in next 4 minutes Argentine side scored 3 goals to end Indian challenge ... Indians made stupid defensive errors and mistakes in marking opponents ... Adrian's goalkeeping wasn't on mark ... Shivendra scored 2ng goal for Indians but after that Argentina side defended well to grab 7th position.

This 8th place finish can be seen as improvement for the Indians, who finished 11th in previous edition of the tournament in Monchengladbach, Germany ... But it cannot hide the fact that we scored only one victory against Pakistan in their first match and lost four and drew one out with South Africa of the six matches they played in the tournament.

New Zealand finished on 9th position beating South Africa on Golden penalty stroke ... After full-time both team locked on 4-all ... After penalty strokes again both team locked on 4-all, only one shot missed by both team ... But then Black-sticks goalkeeper Kyle Pontifex saved important shot and their Dean Couzins scored goal to gave New Zealand very hard fought victory.

Spain scored somewhat easy victory against Koreans to finished on 5th.

Hockey News
At 12th FIH World Cup 2010, New Delhi, India

Semi Finals
Germany bt England 4-1
Australia bt Netherlands 2-1

For 11th position
Canada bt Pakistan 3-2

All were expecting final between Australia and Germany from the start ... Both teams scored contrasting win to moved into summit clash ... Germany scored dominating win against Britishers but Australia scored hard fought win against experienced Netherlands team.

Canada scored their first victory of World cup to avoid last position ... Pakistan looks in poor state than us and finished last in the standing ... This is Pakistan's worst performance in World cup.

Happy New Year!!!

I m back with blogging for 2010 and hoping our Indian players give us more occasions to enjoy their triumph!

Hockey News

Hockey India on released the names of 38 probables for a training camp which started in Lucknow from December 29 for the preparations of next month's South Asian Games in Dhaka and they also released a list of 22 senior players who have started training in Pune from yesterday under chief coach Jose Brasa for the upcoming tournaments.

Surprisingly Prabodh Tirkey and Ignace Tirkey's names are missing from the list.

22 players for national camp under chief coach Jose Brasa

Goalkeepers - Adrian D'souza, PR Sreejesh

Defenders - Sandeep Singh, Diwakar Ram, Sardar Singh, Bharat Chikara

Midfielders - Gurbaj Singh, Vikram Pillay, Dhananjay Mahadhik, Vikas Sharma, Arjun Halappa, Tushar Khandker, Birinder Lakra (Sr), Danish Mujtaba

Forwards - Shivendra Singh, Rajpal Singh, Prabhjot Singh, Gurvinder Singh Chandi, SV Sunil, Deepak Thakur, Mandip Antil, Sarvanjit Singh

38 probables for South Asian Games under coaches Clarence Lobo and Gundeep Kumar

Goalkeepers - Harjeet Singh, Mrinal Chaubay, Jaswinder Singh, C Santosh Kumar

Defenders - V Raghunath, Innocent Kullu, Laxmi Karana, Manjit Kullu, Amit Rohidas, Irfan Ali.

Midfielders - Belsajar Horo, Vikas Pillay, Ajitesh Roy, Senthil Kumar, Birender Lakra (Jr), Amit Prabhakar, Sunil Ekka, Eliazer Lakra, Amardeep Ekka, Virenderjit Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Jasjeet Singh, Roshan Minz.

Forwards - Dharamvir Singh, Victo Singh, Pramod Kumar, Bikas Toppo, Adam Sinclair, Humza Mujtaba, Vinod Rayar, V Raja, Jai Karan, Lalit Upadhyay, Yuvraj Walmiki, Prabhdeep Singh, Satvir Singh, Mandeep Ghumman, Mohd Amir Khan.

Hockey News
At 2010 Hockey World Cup, New Delhi, India

India find themselves in tricky pool with Australia and Spain ... More pver arch-rival Pakistan and England also in their group.

Pool A: Germany, the Netherlands, Korea, New Zealand, Canada and Argentina
Pool B: Australia, Spain, England, Pakistan, India and South Africa

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At BDO Men’s Champions Challenge I , Salta, Argentina

For 3rd position
India bt Argentina 3-2

Goal Scored - Vokkaliga Raghunath (IND) 35' PC, Gurbaj Singh (IND) 54', Dhananjay Mahadik (IND) 69' PC and Facundo Callioni (ARG) 22' & 27'

Final
New Zealand bt Pakistan 4-2

After semi-final loss against Pakistan I was thinking mostly Argentina will crush us considering our previous record of these matches ... But while watching this match I had pleasant surprise ... In first half Argentina looks dominating and had good ball possession ... But our defenders and goal keeper Sreejesh were good to holding them ... But Argentina take control through Callioni's 2 field goals in few minutes ... Surprisingly from 0-2 down we started spirited comeback in last minutes of first half ... We received our first penalty corner on hooter of first half and Raghunath scored on that with powerful hit on left side of goal keeper ... In second half our team started positively but couldn't penetrate Argentina defense ... Good move from Tushar Khandekar created chance for Gurbaj and he scored on that ... After that our players kept attacking on Argentinian goal and got penalty corner in dying minutes ... This time Dhananjay Mahadik scored goal to give lead to India ... Argentina also got penalty corner in 70th minute but our players defended well to score good victory and top 3 finish.

New Zealand secured place in next year's Champions Trophy with victory over Pakistan, they were 2-all after first half.

Hockey News
At BDO Men’s Champions Challenge I , Salta, Argentina

Semi-Final - Saturday - 12 Dec 2009
New Zealand bt Argentina 3-2
India l Pakistan 3-6

Goal Scored - Dhananjay Mahadik (IND) 8' PC & 62' PC, Diwakar Ram (IND) 67' PC and Rehan Butt (PAK) 2' 29' & 64', Sohail Abbas (PAK) 32' PC & 70' PS, Haseem Khan (PAK) 58'

Disappointing result for us ... Again we failed to click against our arch-rival Pakistan, mainly due to our mental block ... Match was fast paced as expected but Pakistan got a start which they were hoping but we equalised through penalty corner ... After that we missed too many chances to score and other hand Pakistan converted most of chances they got ... At half time Pakistan was up 3-1 ... In second half also we missed penalty corners and field goal chances ... Pakistan increased lead through Haseem Khan ... Both teams were trying too hard and that brought 4 goals in last 8 minutes.

Hockey News
At BDO Men’s Champions Challenge I , Salta, Argentina

Group A - Thrusday - 10 Dec 2009
New Zealand dw China 2-2
India bt Belgium 4-2

Goal Scored - Dhananjay Mahadik (IND) 19' PC, Shivendra Singh (IND) 32', Tushar Khandker (IND) 48', Prabhjot Singh (IND) 70' and Jerome Dekeyser (BEL) PS, Renaud Pangrazio (BEL)

Congrats to Brasa and our team for reaching semis ... But still job is half done, we need to win next 2 matches to qualify for Champions trophy ... From report it looks we won very hard fought match which our team was dominated ... We were up 1-0 after 19th mins then Belgium fought back scoring 2 goals in a minute to take a lead but Indians kept pushing and scored equaliser through Shivendra Singh's deflection who was unmarked in Belgium circle ... In second half both teams started aggressively but Indians kept their upper hand with properly build attacks and they defended also very well ... So with this win they topped Group A as in other match

On Saturday we r facing Pakistan in semis ... Hopefully we keep our this spirited performance against them.

Hockey News
At BDO Men’s Champions Challenge I , Salta, Argentina

Group A - Tuesday - 08 Dec 2009
New Zealand bt Belgium 4-1
India bt China 4-1

Goal Scored - Prabhjot Singh (IND) 7' PC, Rajpal Singh (IND) 35', Sarwanjit Singh (IND) 56' PC, Shivendra Singh (IND) 70' and Xishang Jiang (CHN) 41' PS

Good win over Chinese team, with whom we struggled in recent past ... From start we kept attacking on Chinese goal, Prabhjot scored on rebound to give early lead ... After that though we had control over the match still we gave them some chances due to erratic and physical play from our players but we were lucky ... In this match also we showed our age old problem of individual game and long passes ... Hopefully we will take care of that in next game.

Hockey News
At BDO Men’s Champions Challenge I , Salta, Argentina

Group A - New Zealand (8), Belgium (9), India (12), China (13)
Group B - Pakistan (7), Argentina (10), Canada (11), South Africa (15)

Group A - Sunday - 06 Dec 2009
Belgium bt China 4-3
India dw New Zealand 2-2

Goal Scored - Tushar Khandekar (IND) 30', Shivendra Singh (IND) 51' and Dean Couzins (NZL) 47' PS, Andrew Hayward (NZL) 58' PC

New Zealand hold India in very closely contested match ... Blacks sticks were attacking from the start but Indian defence defended well under Sardara Singh ... Indians managed to take lead before half time ... In second half also Black Stickskept attacking ... They managed to earn Penalty stroke which they converted to make it 1-all ... Again we take lead through field goal but again Black sticks converted penalty corner to make it 2-all ... In this match both teams performed well.
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Squash News
At $152K Punj Lloyd PSA Masters 2009, Mumbai, India

[R1] (WC) Ritwik Bhattacharya (IND,148) l (10) Alister Walker (ENG,13) 4-11 5-11 3-11 (29m)

Easy loss against British player.

Hockey News
At BDO Men’s Champions Challenge I , Salta, Argentina

Our team is declared for the 8 nation Champions challenge tournament to be played between 6-13 December in Salta, Argentina ... Overall good selection but surprisingly Prabodh Tirkey's name is missing from the squad ... Also interesting to note that Rajpal Singh replaces Sandeep Singh as Indian Captain for this important tournament, though on Canadian tour Basra used rotation policy for captaincy.

Our team will leave for Madrid on November 23 for a one-week training-cum-competition tour en-route to Salta.

Group A - India, China, New Zealand, Belgium
Group B - Pakistan, Argentina, South Africa, Canada

Match Schedule
Sunday - 06 Dec 2009
India vs New Zealand (16.05 hrs local time)

Tuesday - 08 Dec 2009
India vs China (12.05 hrs local time)

Thursday - 10 Dec 2009
India vs Belgium (16.05 hrs local time)

Saturday - 12 Dec 2009
Semi-finals

Sunday - 13 Dec 2009
Final

Indian Team -
Goalkeepers - Adrian D'Souza, PR Sreejesh
Defenders - Sardar Singh, Sandeep Singh, Gurbaj Singh, Bharat Ajitesh Roy, Dhananjay Mahadik, V Raghunath
Midfielders - Tushar Khandker, Arjun Halappa, Vikram Pillay, Roshan Minz, Danish Mujtaba, Vikas Sharma
Forwards - Rajpal Singh (Capt), Gurvinder Singh Chandi, Shivendra Singh, Deepak Thakur, Sarwanjit Singh, Mandeep Antil, Prabhjot Singh
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Squash News
At $41K Santiago Open 2009, Spain

[R1] Saurav Ghosal (IND,33) bt (6) Miguel Angel Rodriguez (COL,27) 11-5 11-8 11-6 (33m)

[QF] Saurav Ghosal (IND,33) l (2) Adrian Grant (ENG,11) 6-11 11-2 11-5 12-14 5-11 (59m)

Recently Saurav is giving consistent performance and I feel he is on verge of big break through ... This week also in ongoing Santiago Open he performed well ... In first round he defeated top-30 Colombian in straight game and then stretched WR #11 British player to 5th game, where Saurav was in chance of finishing match in 4th game.

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.

Hockey News
At Asia Cup 2009, Thailand

Semi Final
India bt South Korea 3-2

Goal Scored - Jasjeet Kaur (IND) 8' PC & 39', Rani Ramphal (IND) 55' and

Indian women defeated South Koreans to reach final at Asia Cup but importantly reaching final guaranteed their direct entry in 2010 World Cup.

After drawing in last pool match against Malaysia Indians women had tough task of facing South Korea ... And Indian team take that challenge, they dominated the match from start ... Our team was comfortably ahead leading 3-0 but South Koreans fought hard in last 15 mins ... Managed to scored 2 goals but in end Indians defended well to save penalty corners ... In the final they r facing China.

Tennis News
At $ 1,080,500 Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia

[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) l Frantisek Cermak (CZE)/ Michal Mertinak (SVK) 76(5) 67(5) (6)10

This match was as much close as one can guessed ... Bops and Tipsarevic saved 11 break points but in super tie-break top-seed pair was too strong to won it in 1 hour 49 minutes.
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Hockey News
At the India-Canada 7-test Super Series , Canada

India bt Canada 3-2

Goal Scored - Prabhjot Singh (IND) 21', Gurwinder Chandi (IND) 31', Tushar Khandker (IND) 49' and Wayne Fernandes (CAN) 26' & 46'

India was leading 2-1 at half time and in end managed to win this match ... With this Indians won series 6-0 ... I think Indians didn't show any great improvement but atleast we can say we r starting towards right direction.

Badminton News
At $200K Denmark Open Super Series 2009, Odense

[QF] (Q) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,67) l (5) Simon Santoso (INA,14) 17-21 15-21
[QF] (6) Chetan Anand (IND,18) l (2) Sony Dwi Kuncoro (INA,9) 17-21 14-21
[QF] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,9) l Eriko Hirose (JPN,41) 11-21 13-21

After yesterday's good performance today we started on bad note ... Saina had one-sided loss in 30 minutes against her Japanese opponent and then Chetan also lost against top-10 Indonasian.

Other hand 19 yrs old qualifier Guru produced crditable fighting performance against Indonasian Santoso.
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Hockey News
At the India-Canada 7-test Super Series , Canada

India bt Canada 3-1

Goal Scored - Shivendra Singh (IND) 20' & 65', Sarwanjit Singh (IND) 54' and Gabbar Singh (CAN) 48' PS

India continued with their winning run ... In first half Canada controlling in mid-field but Indians take early lead ... In second half Canada drew with penalty stroke ... But we again scored 2 goals to won match ... In this match India didn't concede single penalty corner but they also didn't score a single goal from 6 penalty corners they got.

Tennis News
At $ 1,080,500 Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia

[Q3] Rohan Bopanna (IND,416) l (5) Illya Marchenko (UKR,190) 16 06

Today Bops was total off color ... Frankly he didn't manage anything in this 44 minutes match ... Illya broke Bops serve 6 times in the match and saved 1 break point he faced.
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At $10K Thailand F6 Futures, Nonthaburi

[R1] (PR) Karan RASTOGI (IND,UNR) bt (WC) Grittaboon PRAHMANEE (THA,UNR) 63 62
[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,1169) vs (7) Roman JEBAVY (CZE,639)
[R1] (Q) Shivang MISHRA (IND,UNR) vs Yaoki ISHII (JPN,890)
[R1] Yannick NELORD (IND,968) vs Peerakit SIRIBUTWONG (THA,867)

Good winning start for Karan.
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Hockey News
At the India-Canada 7-test Super Series , Canada

India bt Canada 3-1

Goal Scored - Gurwinder Chandi (IND) 29', Sandeep Singh (IND) 35' & 67' and David Jameson (CAN) 41'

India won this match to take winning lead in the series ... In this match Indian forwardline struggled but Sandeep Singh was on mark from dragflick to helped our side to won match.
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Motorsport News
At 2009 Formula 1 Brazilian Race,

But Sutil got hit by Trulli, and exited the race in accident ... Liuzzi finished on 12th position.

Tennis News
At $220K Japan HP Open International 2009, Osaka


[SF] Sania Mirza (IND,61) l (4) Francesca Schiavone (ITA,26) 26 16

Schiavone didn't give any chance to Sania in this match ... She won inside an hour breaking Sania's serve 4 times and didn't face a single break point on her serve.

I think Sania would be still happy after this one sided loss, she managed couple of good wins which cn give her confidence for next season.
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Hockey News
At the India-Canada 7-test Super Series , Canada

India bt Canada 2-0

Goal Scored - Vikram Pillay (IND) 22' Ps, Rajpal Singh (IND) 38'

India scored comfortable win to secured 3-0 lead in ongoing test series against Canada ... Indians scored a goal in each half and their defence was very good.
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Badminton News
At $50K Yonex Dutch Open GP 2009, Netherlands

[QF] (1) Rupesh Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l (6) Kristoff Hopp (GER)/ Johannes Schoettler (GER) 9-21 21-23

[QF] (4) Arvind Bhat (IND,26) l (6) Eric Pang (NED,24) 10-21 19-21
[QF] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,18) bt (8) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,29) 23-21 21-14

[SF] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,18) vs (3) Dicky Palyama (NED,19)

Only Chetan managed to win his match but others lost against lower ranked opponents.

Hockey News
At the India-Canada 7-test Super Series , Canada

India dw Canada 4-4

Goal Scored - Sandeep Singh (IND) 9' PC, 18' PC, 31' PC & 45' PC and Rob Short (CAN) 2' PC & 66' PC, Mark Pearson 68' & 70'

Due to defensive lapse our boys lost control over the match where they conceded three goals in last 3 minutes ... At half-time India were leading 3-1 on Sandeep Singh's hat-trick ... In second half India increased lead to 3 goals from another dragflick from Sandeep Singh ... But then they played disoriented and Canadian team take full advantage to draw this test ... Still India leads 2-0 in test series.
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Badminton News
At $50K Yonex Dutch Open 2009, Netherlands

[R1] (1) Rupesh Kumar (IND) / Sanave Thomas (IND) bt Remco Muyris (NED)/ Jurgen Wouters (NED) 21-14 21-17
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Jishnu Sanyal (IND) bt Alexander Roovers (GER)/ Gregory Schneider (GER) 21-12 21-9

[R2] (1) Rupesh Kumar (IND) / Sanave Thomas (IND) vs Chris Langridge (ENG)/ Robin Middleton (ENG)
[R2] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Jishnu Sanyal (IND) vs (4) Michael Fuchs (GER)/ Ingo Kindervater (GER)

Winning start for our both pairs.

Tennis News
At $220K Japan HP Open International 2009, Osaka

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,61) bt (5) Shahar Peer (ISR,38) 36 63 64

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND,61) vs Viktoriya Kutuzova (UKR,89)

Sania scored good comeback victory over her friend Shahar Peer ... This win is suppsed to her best win in recent days ... After long time we r seeing Sania scoring upset win over top-40 player .. Next round she is facing Ukrainian qualifier.
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At $125K+H Tashkent Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] (WC) Rohan Bopanna (IND,358) l (1) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,70) 46 26
[R1] (7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,131) bt Guillermo Olaso (ESP,281) 63 62
[R1] (6) Rajeev Ram (USA,100) l Tatsuma Ito (JPN,233) 5-6 Retd (due to lower back injury)

Very clinical display by both seeded players ... Somi won it without losing much sweat ... Lu also scored easy victory breaking Bops once in first set and twice in second.
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Hockey News
At the India-Canada 7-test Super Series , Canada

India bt Canada 4-3

Goal Scored - Mohd Amir Khan (IND) 4', Shivendra Singh (IND) 21', Dhananjay Mahadik (IND) 32' & 66' and Wayne Fernandes (CAN) 20' & 35', Rob Short (CAN) 23'

India take 2-0 lead in test series after this close victory ... Dhananjay Mahadik scored winner when 5 minutes were remaining before that both teams were locked 3-all at half time.

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At the India-Canada 7-test Super Series , Canada

India bt Canada 2-0

Goal Scored - Tuhar Khandker (IND) 27', Sandeep Singh (IND) 66' PC

Indians take time to adjust to Canadian cold weather but they managed to convert couple of chances to win first set.
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Tennis News
At $10K India ITF Tournament, Noida

Final
(1) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND) bt Moe KAWATOKO (JPN) 64 60

Poojashree lifted another ITF $10K title in India with very convincing win over her unseeded Japanese opponent.
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At $15K India F11 Futures, Pune

Final
(1) Daniel KING-TURNER (NZL) bt (2) Alexander SATSCHKO (GER) 67(3) 64 62

Dan scored comeback victory to win his first title in India.
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Football News
At 2009 AFC Under-16 Championship Qualifiers, Abu Dhabi, UAE

India l Oman 0-2
Goal scored - Khalid Khalifa Salim Al Hajri (OMA) 55' & 59'

With this loss India's hope of qualifying for u-16 World Cup r over ... As per report our boys wasted too many chances in early of the match ... Match was evenly contested but in second half Oman converted their chances to scored crucial win.