Tennis News -
At $50K San Francisco Challenger, CA, USA

[QF] (8) RAO Sunitha (IND,195) bt TEDJAKUSUMA Romana (INA,308) 64 26 64

[SF] (8) RAO Sunitha (IND,195) bt HAYNES Angela (USA,233) 63 46 61

[F] (8) RAO Sunitha (IND,195) vs (1) HARKLEROAD Ashley (USA,90)
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Badminton News -
At $5K Cyprus Badminton International, Nicosia

[F] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,39) bt Kevin Cordon (GUA,99) 21-8 26-24

[F] (1) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt Kati Tolmoff (EST)/ Ragna Ingolfsdottir (ISL) 21-12 21-13

[F] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Chetan Anand (IND) bt Maria Kaaberbol Thorberg (DEN)/ Christian John Skovgaard (DEN) 21-14 22-20

So three finals and three titles for Indians ... Good to see our players taken full advantage of weak field here to get good match practice before more higher level tournaments.
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Golf News -
At Frys.com Open - Third Round (PGA Tour)

T36 Daniel Chopra 66 70 73 - 6
T36 Arjun Atwal 68 69 72 - 6
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At $500K Hero Honda Indian Open - Final Standing

1 Jyoti RANDHAWA 70 69 67 69 -13 $79,250.00
3 Rahil GANGJEE 71 67 76 66 - 8 $30,500.00
T9 Ashok KUMAR 68 73 73 69 - 5 $9,958.00
T9 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA 68 71 74 70 - 5 $9,958.00
T9 Arjun SINGH 73 70 71 69 - 5 $9,958.00
T13 Uttam Singh MUNDY 70 76 68 71 - 3 $7,372.00
T13 Jeev Milkha SINGH 72 74 71 68 - 3 $7,372.00
T19 Vijay KUMAR 72 71 71 73 - 1 $5,866.00
T22 Jaiveer VIRK 73 69 73 73 PAR $5,100.00
T22 Gaurav GHEI 66 73 70 79 PAR $5,100.00
T22 Harinder GUPTA 71 74 73 70 PAR $5,100.00
T29 Digvijay SINGH 73 70 75 71 + 1 $4,092.00
T29 Mukesh KUMAR 73 69 77 70 + 1 $4,092.00
T38 Chiragh KUMAR 69 74 77 71 + 3 $3,250.00
T43 Harmeet KAHLON 71 75 72 74 + 4 $2,800.00
T43 Gaganjeet BHULLAR 71 73 74 74 + 4 $2,800.00
T43 Shamim KHAN 68 69 77 78 + 4 $2,800.00
T47 Gurbaaz MANN 66 76 74 77 + 5 $2,250.00
T54 Rashid KHAN [A] 74 71 74 75 + 6
T54 Rahul BAKSHI [A] 70 73 72 79 + 6
T57 Gagan VERMA [A] 72 74 78 71 + 7
T60 Mohd ISLAM 69 77 75 75 + 8 $1,725.00
T62 Firoz ALI 71 74 79 73 + 9 $1,600.00
67 Amardip MALIK 71 74 83 71 +11 $1,400.00
T68 Rahul GANAPATHY 69 76 76 79 +12 $1,325.00
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At Open de Madrid Valle Romano, Madrid, Spain - Final Standing (European Tour)

T18 KAPUR Shiv 72 70 69 71 - 6 € 10836.00

Tennis News -
At €642,750 BA-CA Tennis Trophy, Vienna, Austria

[QF] (2) Martin DAMM (CZE)/ Leander PAES (IND) l (4) Mariusz FYRSTENBERG (POL)/ Marcin MATKOWSKI (POL) 62 57 (10)12
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Badminton News -
At $5K Cyprus Badminton International, Nicosia

[R2] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,39) bt Ali Shahhosseini (IRI,205) 21-13 21-12

[QF] (1) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt Evgenia ANTIPOVA (RUS)/ Svetlana ZILBERMAN (ISR) 21-7 21-8

[QF] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Chetan Anand (IND) bt Irina Inozemtceva (RUS)/ Alexander Russkikh (RUS) 21-4 21-15

[QF] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,39) bt Edwin Ekiring (UGA,127) 21-10 21-14

[SF] (1) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt Maria Kaaberbol Thorberg (DEN)/ Maja Bech (DEN) 21-10 21-6

[SF] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Chetan Anand (IND) bt Karina Jorgensen (DEN)/ Peter Mork (DEN) 21-14 27-25

[SF] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,39) bt (3) Petr Koukal (CZE,42) 17-21 21-16 21-17

[F] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,39) vs Kevin Cordon (GUA,99)

[F] (1) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) vs Kati Tolmoff (EST)/ Ragna Ingolfsdottir (ISL)

[F] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Chetan Anand (IND) vs Maria Kaaberbol Thorberg (DEN)/ Christian John Skovgaard (DEN)
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Golf News -
At Frys.com Open - Second Round (PGA Tour)

T32 Daniel Chopra 66 70 - 7
T45 Arjun Atwal 68 69 - 6
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At Open de Madrid Valle Romano, Madrid, Spain - Third Round (European Tour)

T20 KAPUR Shiv 72 70 69 - 5
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At $500K Hero Honda Indian Open - Third Round (Asian Tour)

T1 Jyoti RANDHAWA 70 69 67 -10
4 Gaurav GHEI 66 73 70 - 7
T10 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA 68 71 74 - 3
T12 Uttam Singh MUNDY 70 76 68 - 2
T12 Ashok KUMAR 68 73 73 - 2
T12 Shamim KHAN 68 69 77 - 2
T12 Vijay KUMAR 72 71 71 - 2
T12 Rahil GANGJEE 71 67 76 - 2
T12 Arjun SINGH 73 70 71 - 2
T23 Jaiveer VIRK 73 69 73 - 1
T23 Rahul BAKSHI [A] 70 73 72 - 1
T32 Gurbaaz MANN 66 76 74 PAR
T38 Jeev Milkha SINGH 72 74 71 + 1
T40 Digvijay SINGH 73 70 75 + 2
T40 Harmeet KAHLON 71 75 72 + 2
T40 Gaganjeet BHULLAR 71 73 74 + 2
T40 Harinder GUPTA 71 74 73 + 2
T48 Rashid KHAN [A] 74 71 74 + 3
T48 Mukesh KUMAR 73 69 77 + 3
T54 Chiragh KUMAR 69 74 77 + 4
T58 Rahul GANAPATHY 69 76 76 + 5
T58 Mohd ISLAM 69 77 75 + 5
T64 Gagan VERMA [A] 72 74 78 + 8
T64 Firoz ALI 71 74 79 + 8
73 Amardip MALIK 71 74 83 +12

Tennis News -
At $800K Stockholm Open, Sweden

[SF] BOPANNA Rohan (IND)/ ROCHUS Olivier (BEL) l (2) Jonas BJORKMAN (SWE)/ Max MIRNYI (BLR) 36 57
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At $50K San Francisco Challenger, CA, USA

[R2] (8) RAO Sunitha (IND,195) bt ROESCH Angelika (GER,199) 67(3) 60 63

[QF] (8) RAO Sunitha (IND,195) vs TEDJAKUSUMA Romana (INA,308)
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Badminton News -
At $5K Cyprus Badminton International, Nicosia

[R1] Nikhil Kanetkar (IND,112) l (Q) Emil Vind (DEN,653) 19-21 19-21
[R1] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,39) bt Eli Mambwe (ZAM,129) 21-13 21-12

[R1] (1) Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) Bye

[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Chetan Anand (IND) bt Silene Zoia (ITA)/ Luigi Izzo (ITA) 21-12 21-9
[R2] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,39) vs Ali Shahhosseini (IRI,205)

[R2] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Chetan Anand (IND) vs Irina Inozemtceva (RUS)/ Alexander Russkikh (RUS)
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Golf News -
At Frys.com Open - First Round (PGA Tour)

T16 Daniel Chopra 66 - 5
T48 Arjun Atwal 68 - 3
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At Open de Madrid Valle Romano, Madrid, Spain - Second Round (European Tour)

T15 KAPUR Shiv 72 70 - 2
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At $500K Hero Honda Indian Open - Second Round (Asian Tour)

T4 Shamim KHAN 68 69 - 7
T6 Rahil GANGJEE 71 67 - 6
T8 Jyoti RANDHAWA 70 69 - 5
T8 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA 68 71 - 5
T8 Gaurav GHEI 66 73 - 5
T19 Ashok KUMAR 68 73 - 3
T24 Jaiveer VIRK 73 69 - 2
T24 Gurbaaz MANN 66 76 - 2
T24 Mukesh KUMAR 73 69 - 2
T28 Digvijay SINGH 73 70 - 1
T28 Chiragh KUMAR 69 74 - 1
T28 Vijay KUMAR 72 71 - 1
T28 Arjun SINGH 73 70 - 1
T22 Rahul BAKSHI [A] 70 73 - 1
T42 Gaganjeet BHULLAR 71 73 PAR
T47 Rashid KHAN [A] 74 71 + 1
T47 Amardip MALIK 71 74 + 1
T47 Harinder GUPTA 71 74 + 1
T47 Firoz ALI 71 74 + 1
T47 Rahul GANAPATHY 69 76 + 1
T63 Harmeet KAHLON 71 75 + 2
T63 Gagan VERMA [A] 72 74 + 2
T63 Jeev Milkha SINGH 72 74 + 2
T63 Uttam Singh MUNDY 70 76 + 2
T63 Mohd ISLAM 69 77 + 2
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T74 Jasjeet SINGH [A] 68 79 + 3
T74 Sujjan SINGH 74 73 + 3
T74 Gaurav DIWAN 75 72 + 3
T85 Karanjit SINGH 76 72 + 4
T89 Manav JAINI 74 75 + 5
T89 Vikram RANA [A] 74 75 + 5
T89 Ali SHER 74 75 + 5
T89 Ranjit SINGH GHOTRA 75 74 + 5
T89 Rafiq ALI 77 72 + 5
T102 Simarjeet SINGH [A] 71 79 + 6
T102 Sandeep SYAL 77 73 + 6
T102 Naman DAWAR 76 74 + 6
T102 Sanjay KUMAR 74 76 + 6
T102 Randhir GHOTRA 72 78 + 6
T102 Yusuf ALI 70 80 + 6
T102 Shankar DAS 75 75 + 6
T111 Vikrant CHOPRA 77 74 + 7
T120 Ranjit SINGH 76 77 + 9
T120 Anirban LAHIRI 76 77 + 9
T120 Amritinder SINGH 79 74 + 9
T125 Vivek BHANDARI 73 81 +10
T126 Shiv PRAKASH 76 79 +11
T126 Vinod KUMAR 80 75 +11
T129 Indrajit BHALOTIA 76 80 +12
T132 A.S. LEHAL 81 76 +13
T136 PAPPAN 82 77 +15
T138 Abhishek JHA [A] 77 83 +16
141 Amandeep JOHL 87 78 +21
142 Joseph CHAKOLA 94 84 +34
WD Saurabh BAHUGUNA [A] 80 WDRW

Tennis News -
At $1.34M Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia

[QF] MIRZA Sania (IND)/ SCHNYDER Patty (SUI) l (1) BLACK Cara (ZIM)/ HUBER Liezel (USA) 36 75 (7)10
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At $800K Stockholm Open, Sweden

[QF] BOPANNA Rohan (IND)/ ROCHUS Olivier (BEL) bt (4) COETZEE Jeff (RSA)/ WASSEN Rogier (NED) 62 63
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At €642,750 BA-CA Tennis Trophy, Vienna, Austria

[QF] (2) DAMM Martin (CZE)/ PAES Leander (IND) bt FISH Mardy (USA)/ GINEPRI Robby (USA) 64 63
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At $50K San Francisco Challenger, CA, USA

Doubles -
[R1] (1) DITTY Julie (USA)/ RAO Sunitha (IND) l DE BEER Surina (RSA)/ GRANT Kim (RSA) 57 26
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At $25K Rockhampton Challenger, Australia

[R2] (8) IYER Tara (IND,359) l (Q) STEPHENSON Robin (USA,582) 26 46
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Golf News -
At $500K Hero Honda Indian Open - First Round (Asian Tour)

T1 Gurbaaz MANN 66 - 6
T1 Gaurav GHEI 66 - 6
T7 Ashok KUMAR 68 - 4
T7 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA 68 - 4
T7 Jasjeet SINGH [A] 68 - 4
T7 Shamim KHAN 68 - 4
T14 Chiragh KUMAR 69 - 3
T14 Rahul GANAPATHY 69 - 3
T14 Mohd ISLAM 69 - 3
T22 Uttam Singh MUNDY 70 - 2
T22 Jyoti RANDHAWA 70 - 2
T22 Yusuf ALI 70 - 2
T22 Rahul BAKSHI [A] 70 - 2
T35 Simarjeet SINGH [A] 71 - 1
T35 Harmeet KAHLON 71 - 1
T35 Gaganjeet BHULLAR 71 - 1
T35 Amardip MALIK 71 - 1
T35 Harinder GUPTA 71 - 1
T35 Firoz ALI 71 - 1
T35 Rahil GANGJEE 71 - 1
T52 Gagan VERMA [A] 72 E
T52 Jeev Milkha SINGH 72 E
T52 Randhir GHOTRA 72 E
T52 Vijay KUMAR 72 E
T67 Jaiveer VIRK 73 + 1
T67 Digvijay SINGH 73 + 1
T67 Mukesh KUMAR 73 + 1
T67 Vivek BHANDARI 73 + 1
T67 Arjun SINGH 73 + 1
T78 Manav JAINI 74 + 2
T78 Sujjan SINGH 74 + 2
T78 Vikram RANA [A] 74 + 2
T78 Sanjay KUMAR 74 + 2
T78 Rashid KHAN [A] 74 + 2
T78 Ali SHER 74 + 2
T92 Gaurav DIWAN 75 + 3
T92 Ranjit SINGH GHOTRA 75 + 3
T92 Shankar DAS 75 + 3
T102 Karanjit SINGH 76 + 4
T102 Ranjit SINGH 76 + 4
T102 Shiv PRAKASH 76 + 4
T102 Naman DAWAR 76 + 4
T102 Anirban LAHIRI 76 + 4
T102 Indrajit BHALOTIA 76 + 4
T115 Vikrant CHOPRA 77 + 5
T115 Sandeep SYAL 77 + 5
T115 Abhishek JHA [A] 77 + 5
T115 Rafiq ALI 77 + 5
T132 Amritinder SINGH 79 + 7
T136 Saurabh BAHUGUNA [A] 80 + 8
T136 Vinod KUMAR 80 + 8
140 A.S. LEHAL 81 + 9
141 PAPPAN 82 +10
143 Amandeep JOHL 87 +15
144 Joseph CHAKOLA 94 +22
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At Open de Madrid Valle Romano, Madrid, Spain - First Round (European Tour)

T29 KAPUR Shiv 72 PAR

Tennis News -
At €642,750 BA-CA Tennis Trophy, Vienna, Austria

[R1] (2) DAMM Martin (CZE)/ PAES Leander (IND) bt CALLERI Agustin (ARG)/ SEPPI Andreas (ITA) 46 62 10(7)

[QF] (2) DAMM Martin (CZE)/ PAES Leander (IND) vs FISH Mardy (USA)/ GINEPRI Robby (USA)
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At $50K San Francisco Challenger, CA, USA

[R1] (8) RAO Sunitha (IND,195) bt VESELINOVIC Ana (SRB,330) 75 64

[R2] (8) RAO Sunitha (IND,195) vs ROESCH Angelika (GER,199)
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At $25K Rockhampton Challenger, Australia

[R1] (8) IYER Tara (IND,359) bt WONG Pauline (NED,360) 76(10) 62

[R2] (8) IYER Tara (IND,359) vs (Q) STEPHENSON Robin (USA,582)

Tennis News -
At $1.34M Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia

[R1] MIRZA Sania (IND,29) l DULKO Gisela (ARG,41) 36 46

Doubles -
[R1] MIRZA Sania (IND)/ SCHNYDER Patty (SUI) bt DUSHEVINA Vera (RUS)/ PEREBIYNIS Tatiana (UKR) 16 36

[QF] MIRZA Sania (IND)/ SCHNYDER Patty (SUI) vs (1) BLACK Cara (ZIM)/ HUBER Liezel (USA)

Football News -
At World Cup 2010 qualifiers, Saida, Lebanon

India l Lebanon 1-4

Goal Scored - Sunil Chhetri (IND) 30'
Lebanon - Roda Antar (35'), Mohamad Ghaddar (61', 75'), Mahmoud El Ali (62')

Despite an early goal from Sunil Chhetri in the first leg of the first round of qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup, India lost plot to a 4-1 defeat in Lebanon to leave a mountain to climb in second leg at Chennai on October 28.

Tennis News -
At $1.34M Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia

[R1] MIRZA Sania (IND,29) vs DULKO Gisela (ARG,41)

Doubles -
[R1] MIRZA Sania (IND)/ SCHNYDER Patty (SUI) vs DUSHEVINA Vera (RUS)/ PEREBIYNIS Tatiana (UKR)
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At $800K Stockholm Open, Sweden

[R1] (LL) BOPANNA Rohan (IND,252) l MONTANES Albert (ESP,48) 67(5) 16
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At €642,750 BA-CA Tennis Trophy, Vienna, Austria

[R1] (2) DAMM Martin (CZE)/ PAES Leander (IND) vs CALLERI Agustin (ARG)/ SEPPI Andreas (ITA)
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At $25K Rockhampton Challenger, Australia

[R1] (8) IYER Tara (IND,359) vs WONG Pauline (NED,360)
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Golf News -
At Valero Texas Open - Final Standing (PGA Tour)

T3 Daniel Chopra 65 69 64 66 -16 $ 261,000.00
T68 Arjun Atwal 67 71 72 70 Even $ 9,135.00

Tennis News -
At $800K Stockholm Open, Sweden

[Q2] (6) BOPANNA Rohan (IND,252) l (4) WESSELS Peter (NED,197) 57 26

[R1] (LL) BOPANNA Rohan (IND,252) vs MONTANES Albert (ESP,48)

Doubles -
[R1] BOPANNA Rohan (IND)/ ROCHUS Olivier (BEL) bt JOHANSSON Thomas (SWE)/ PERRY Tod (AUS) 62 67(4) 10(8)
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Golf News -
At Valero Texas Open - Third Round (PGA Tour)

T8 Daniel Chopra 65 69 64 -12
T68 Arjun Atwal 67 71 72 Even
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At Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Scotland - Final Standing (EPGA Tour)

T23 SINGH Jeev Milkha 67 68 72 72 - 9
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At The Korea Open, - Final Standing (Asian Tour)

1 Vijay SINGH (FIJ) 66 69 70 73 - 6 $320,855.00
T30 Rahil GANGJEE (IND) 70 75 73 74 + 8 $ 7,005.00

Tennis News -
At $800K Stockholm Open, Sweden

[Q1] (6) BOPANNA Rohan (IND,252) bt BASTL George (SUI,318) 60 64

[Q2] (6) BOPANNA Rohan (IND,252) vs (4) WESSELS Peter (NED,197)
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At $125K +H Mons Challenger, Belgium

[QF] GHOUSE Mustafa (IND)/ JONES Alun (AUS) bt (1) ALLEGRO Yves (SUI)/ VLIEGEN Kristof (BEL) 63 63

[SF] GHOUSE Mustafa (IND)/ JONES Alun (AUS) l BEDNAREK Tomasz (POL)/ POLASEK Filip (SVK) 76(7) 26 (6)10
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At $50K Troy Challanger, USA

[QF] (2) RAO Sunitha (IND)/ WHEELER Christina (AUS) l HAYNES Angela (USA)/ WASHINGTON Mashona (USA) 64 67(4) (8)10
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Badminton News -
At $70K Bitburger Open 2007, Luxembourg

[QF] (4) Shruti S Kurian (IND)/ Jwala P Gutta (IND) bt (6) Kathrin Piotrowski (GER)/ Michaela Peiffer (GER) 21-17 21-11

[SF] (4) Shruti S Kurian (IND)/ Jwala P Gutta (IND) l (1) Wei Yang (CHN)/ Jiewen Zhang (CHN) 12-21 4-21
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Golf News -
At Valero Texas Open - Second Round (PGA Tour)

T8 Daniel Chopra 65 69 - 6
T49 Arjun Atwal 67 71 - 2
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At Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Scotland - Second Round (EPGA Tour)

T9 SINGH Jeev Milkha 67 68 - 9
T18 RANDHAWA Jyoti 68 69 - 7
T142 KAPUR Shiv 74 73 + 3
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At Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Scotland - Third Round (EPGA Tour)

T17 SINGH Jeev Milkha 67 68 72 - 9
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T72 RANDHAWA Jyoti 68 69 76 - 3
T143 KAPUR Shiv 74 73 74 + 5
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At The Korea Open, - Third Round (Asian Tour)

1 Vijay SINGH (FIJ) 66 69 70 - 8
T28 Rahil GANGJEE (IND) 70 75 73 + 5

Badminton News -
At $120K MACAU Grand Prix Gold 2007,

[QF] Saina Nehwal (IND,29) l Jae Youn Jun (KOR,37) 18-21 9-21
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At $70K Bitburger Open 2007, Luxembourg

[R3] (8) Chetan Anand (IND,36) l Yanbo Qui (CHN,139) 21-14 13-21 17-21
[R3] (3) Anup Shridhar (IND,28) l (Q) Marc Zwiebler (GER,212) 12-21 19-21

[QF] Trupti Murgunde (IND,83) l (2) Yanjiao Jiang (CHN,18) 21-17 11-21 15-21

[QF] (4) Shruti S Kurian (IND)/ Jwala P Gutta (IND) vs (6) Kathrin Piotrowski (GER)/ Michaela Peiffer (GER)
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At $15K Bulgarian International Championships'07,

[R2] Arvind Bhat (IND,132) l (10) Stanislav Pukhov (RUS,61) 21-19 13-21 18-21
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Tennis News -
At $50K Troy Challanger, USA

[R2] (7) RAO Sunitha (IND,196) l GLATCH Alexa (USA,299) 67(4) 67(3)
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Golf News -
At Valero Texas Open - First Round (PGA Tour)

T2 Daniel Chopra 65 - 5
T23 Arjun Atwal 67 - 3
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At The Korea Open - Second Round (Asian Tour)

1 Vijay SINGH (FIJ) 66 69 - 7
T29 Rahil GANGJEE (IND) 70 75 + 3
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T93 Amandeep JOHL (IND) 69 82 + 9
T100 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA (IND) 75 78 +11

Badminton News -

At $120K MACAU Grand Prix Gold 2007,
[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,29) bt Rosaria Yusfin Pungkasari (INA,96) 21-10 21-12

[QF] Saina Nehwal (IND,29) vs Jae Youn Jun (KOR,37)
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At $70K Bitburger Open 2007, Luxembourg

[R2] (8) Chetan Anand (IND,36) bt Endra Kurniawan (INA,276) 21-18 21-10
[R2] (3) Anup Shridhar (IND,28) bt Dharma Gunawi (GER,266) 21-12 21-23 21-9
[R2] Kashyap P. (IND,101) l Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,52) 17-21 17-21
[R2] Anand Pawar (IND,99) l Luka Petric (SLO,95) 16-21 19-21

[R2] Aditi Mutakar (IND,117) l (4) Ella Diehl (RUS,17) 21-17 14-21 10-21
[R2] Trupti Murgunde (IND,83) bt Nanna Brosolat Jensen (DEN,78) 21-12 21-19

[R2] (4) Shruti S Kurian (IND)/ Jwala P Gutta (IND) bt Marie Roepke (DEN)/ Helle Nielsen (DEN) 21-16 21-17

[R3] (8) Chetan Anand (IND,36) vs Yanbo Qui (CHN,139)
[R3] (3) Anup Shridhar (IND,28) vs (Q) Marc Zwiebler (GER,212)

[QF] Trupti Murgunde (IND,83) vs (2) Yanjiao Jiang (CHN,18)

[QF] (4) Shruti S Kurian (IND)/ Jwala P Gutta (IND) vs (6) Kathrin Piotrowski (GER)/ Michaela Peiffer (GER)
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At $15K Bulgarian International Championships'07,

[R1] Arvind Bhat (IND,132) bt Philip Katsaros (AUT,491) 21-16 21-17

[R2] Arvind Bhat (IND,132) vs (10) Stanislav Pukhov (RUS,61)
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Golf News -
At Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Scotland - First Round (EPGA Tour)

T6 SINGH Jeev Milkha 67 - 5
T16 RANDHAWA Jyoti 68 - 4
T127 KAPUR Shiv 74 + 2
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At The Korea Open, - First Round (Asian Tour)

2 Vijay SINGH (FIJ) 66 -5
T7 Amandeep JOHL (IND) 69 -2
T11 Rahil GANGJEE (IND) 70 -1
T85 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA (IND) 75 +4

Tennis News -
At $175K Japan Open Tennis Championships,

[QF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND,29) l (8) Flavia Pennetta (ITA,53) 46 46

Doubles -
[QF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Christina Fusano (USA) l (2) Tiantian Sun (CHN)/ Zi Yan (CHN) W/O (due to Abdominal strain)
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At $50K Troy Challanger, USA

[R1] (7) RAO Sunitha (IND,196) bt KLASCHKA Carmen (GER,215) 60 76(1)

[R2] (7) RAO Sunitha (IND,196) vs GLATCH Alexa (USA,299)
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Badminton News -
At $5K Czech International 2007,

[Q1] Arvind Bhat (IND,174) bt Rafal Skrzek (POL,UNR) 21-8 21-7
[Q2] Arvind Bhat (IND,174) bt Erwin Fang (AUT,556) 21-4 21-15
[Q3] Arvind Bhat (IND,174) bt Vitaliy Konov (UKR,202) 21-14 21-17

[R1] (Q) Arvind Bhat (IND,174) bt Koen Ridder (NED,118) 21-13 22-20
[R1] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,36) bt (Q) Vladimir Malkov (RUS,162) 21-9 21-7

[R2] (Q) Arvind Bhat (IND,174) bt (6) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,52) 21-9 22-20
[R2] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,36) bt (Q) Rafal Hawel (POL,179) 21-16 21-18

[QF] (Q) Arvind Bhat (IND,174) bt (2) Chetan Anand (IND,36) 14-21 21-15 21-18
[SF] (Q) Arvind Bhat (IND,174) bt Nathan Rice (ENG,79) 22-20 21-9
[F] (Q) Arvind Bhat (IND,174) bt (7) Jurgen Koch (AUT,55) 11-21 24-22 21-19

So Arvind's dream comeback continues from long injury break ... In this futures event he also managed to beat Chetan Anand ... This title win help Arvind to bring back his ranking inside top 150, ie 132.
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At $170K Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold 2007, (18th Sept to 23rd Sept)

[R1] Kashyap P (INd,106) l Sheng Shiun Liao (TPE,146) 13-21 14-21
[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,29) l (2) Hongyan Pi (FRA,6) 14-21 11-21
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At $70K Bitburger Open 2007, Luxembourg

[Q1] Jwala P Gutta (IND) bt Dominique Schummer (LUX) 21-9 21-6
[Q1] Shruti S Kurian (IND) bt Thamar Peters (NED) 21-14 21-19

[Q2] Jwala P Gutta (IND) bt Eefje Muskens (NED) 21-13 21-16
[Q2] Shruti S Kurian (IND) l Monika Fischer (SUI) 14-21 RETD

[Q3] Jwala P Gutta (IND) l Patty Stolzenbach (NED) 23-21 19-21 14-21

Maindraw -
[R1] Nikhil Kanetkar (IND,102) l Rune Ulsing (DEN,90) 20-22 10-21
[R1] Kashyap P. (IND,101) bt (Q) Alexander Roovers (GER,611) 21-13 21-9
[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,99) bt Scott Evans (IRL,47) 21-10 21-18
[R1] (8) Chetan Anand (IND,36) Bye
[R1] (3) Anup Shridhar (IND,28) Bye

[R1] Aditi Mutakar (IND,117) bt Ana Moura (POR,68) 21-12 21-14
[R1] Trupti Murgunde (IND,83) bt Akvile Stapusaitryte (LTU,108) 21-17 21-12
[R1] (LL) Shruti S Kurian (IND,140) l (Q) Katja Michalowsky (GER,349) 14-21 19-21

[R1] (4) Shruti S Kurian (IND)/ Jwala P Gutta (IND) bt Eefje Muskens (NED)/ Iris Tabeling (NED) 21-17 21-11

[R2] (8) Chetan Anand (IND,36) vs Endra Kurniawan (INA,276)
[R2] (3) Anup Shridhar (IND,28) vs Dharma Gunawi (GER,266)
[R2] Kashyap P. (IND,101) vs Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,52)
[R2] Anand Pawar (IND,99) vs Luka Petric (SLO,95)

[R2] Aditi Mutakar (IND,117) vs (4) Ella Diehl (RUS,17)
[R2] Trupti Murgunde (IND,83) vs Nanna Brosolat Jensen (DEN,78)

[R2] (4) Shruti S Kurian (IND)/ Jwala P Gutta (IND) vs Marie Roepke (DEN)/ Helle Nielsen (DEN)
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At $120K MACAU Grand Prix Gold 2007, (2nd Oct to 10th Oct)

[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,29) bt Maria Febe Kusumastuti (INA,81) 21-11 21-11

[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,29) vs Rosaria Yusfin Pungkasari (INA,96)
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Squash News -
At Nordic Junior Open 2007, Malmö, Sweden

[R1] (4) Dipika Pallikal (IND) Bye
[R2] (4) Dipika Pallikal (IND) bt Eira Mooney (SWE) 3-0 (9-0 9-0 9-1)
[QF] (4) Dipika Pallikal (IND) bt (6) Carrie Ramsey (ENG) 3-0 (9-6 9-3 9-4)
[SF] (4) Dipika Pallikal (IND) bt (5) Sarah Barnes (FRA) 3-0 (9-2 9-5 9-4)

[F] (4) Dipika Pallikal (IND) bt (2) Robyn Hodgson (SCO) 3-0 (9-0 9-2 9-0)

Very dominating performance in her age group by Dipika ... She won her all matches quite one-sidedly.

Tennis News -
At $175K Japan Open Tennis Championships,

[R2] (2) Sania Mirza (IND,29) bt Casey Dellacqua (AUS,84) 64 36 64

[QF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND,29) vs (8) Flavia Pennetta (ITA,53)

Doubles -
[QF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Christina Fusano (USA) vs (2) Tiantian Sun (CHN)/ Zi Yan (CHN)
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At $125K +H Mons Challenger, Belgium

[R1] GHOUSE Mustafa (IND)/ JONES Alun (AUS) bt (WC) BEMELMANS Ruben (BEL)/ DESEIN Niels (BEL) 64 46 11(9)

[QF] GHOUSE Mustafa (IND)/ JONES Alun (AUS) vs (1) ALLEGRO Yves (SUI)/ VLIEGEN Kristof (BEL)
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At $50K Troy Challanger, USA

Doubles -
[R1] (2) RAO Sunitha (IND)/ WHEELER Christina (AUS) bt DEVIDZE Salome (GEO)/ MUELLER Alexandra (USA) 62 63
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Football News -
International Friendly, Dubai

India bt Al Nasr club 2-1

Goals - Mohammed Khamees (Al Nasr) 12"
NP Pradeep (IND) 38"
Manjit Singh (IND) 58"

Chess News -
October 2007 Top 10 FIDE Ranking List -

Rank Name Country Rating B-Year
1 Anand Viswanathan IND 2801 1969
2 Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2787 1969
3 Kramnik Vladimir RUS 2785 1975
4 Topalov Veselin BUL 2769 1975
5 Leko Peter HUN 2755 1979
6 Morozevich Alexander RUS 2755 1977
7 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 2752 1985
8 Radjabov Teimour AZE 2742 1987
9 Aronian Levon ARM 2741 1982
10 Shirov Alexei ESP 2739 1972
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Tennis News -
At $175K Japan Open Tennis Championships,

Doubles -
[R1] MIRZA Sania (IND)/ FUSANO Christina (USA) bt RADWANSKA Urszula (POL)/ SZATMARI Agnes (ROU) 62 63
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At $50K Troy Challanger, USA

[R1] (7) RAO Sunitha (IND,196) vs KLASCHKA Carmen (GER,215)

Doubles -
[R1] (2) RAO Sunitha (IND)/ WHEELER Christina (AUS) vs DEVIDZE Salome (GEO)/ MUELLER Alexandra (USA)

Tennis News -
At $175K Japan Open Tennis Championships,

[R1] (2) MIRZA Sania (IND,29) bt (WC) MORITA Ayumi (JPN,139) 60 64

[R2] (2) Sania Mirza (IND,29) vs Casey Dellacqua (AUS,84)

Doubles -
[R1] MIRZA Sania (IND)/ FUSANO Christina (USA) vs RADWANSKA Urszula (POL)/ SZATMARI Agnes (ROU)
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At $125K +H Mons Challenger, Belgium

[R1] GHOUSE Mustafa (IND)/ JONES Alun (AUS) vs (WC) BEMELMANS Ruben (BEL)/ DESEIN Niels (BEL)
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Golf News -
At Viking Classic - Final Standing (PGA Tour)

T39 Arjun Atwal 70 70 71 75 - 2 $ 14,350.00
T64 Daniel Chopra 71 72 74 74 + 3 $ 7,385.00
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Chess News -
At Asian Chess Championship 2007, Philippines

GM Abhijit Kunte won bronze medal with 7.5 pts and IM Gopal G.N. also surprised everyone with his performance, he finished on 9th place with 7 pts ... With this top 10 finish both r qualified for World Chess Cup 2007, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

In last round Abhijit (elo 2519) defeated top seed Chinese GM Ni Hua (elo 2681) playing with black to grab qualifier place ... In this tournament Abhijit didn't lose a single game and played above expectation against higher rating players, he managed to draw with Chinese Hao Wang (elo 2626), Zou Jianchao (elo 2572) and Jun Zao (elo 2558), Indonesian Utut Adiyanto (elo 2583) and Susanto Megaranto (elo ,2554) and Qatar's Mohamad Al-Modiahki (elo 2563).

As per information, Abhijit's performance was equivalent to elo 2656 pts, so from this tournament he will gain around 21 elo pts ... Other hand Gopal's performance was equivalent to elo 2617 pts.

Performance of Other Indians in this tournament -
13 G Rohit 7 pts
19 GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly 6.5 pts
21 GM Deepan Chakravarthy 6 pts
25 GM Sandipan Chanda 6 pts
33 GM Nilotpal Das 5.5 pts
37 IM Girinath P.D.S. 5.5 pts
41 GM Parimarjan Negi 5.5 pts
53 IM Arun Prasad 4.5 pts
63 IM Ravi Lanka 4.5 pts
66 Lalith Babu M. R. 4 pts

Chess News -
At World Chess Championship Mexico 2007,

Round 14 -
Peter Svidler 1 - 0 Alexander Grischuk
Viswanathan Anand ½ - ½ Peter Leko
Alexander Morozevich ½ - ½ Boris Gelfand
Vladimir Kramnik 1 - 0 Levon Aronian


Final Standing After 14th Round -
1 Anand Vishwanatan IND 9
T2 Gelfand Boris ISR 8
T2 Kramnik Vladimir RUS 8
4 Leko Peter HUN 7
5 Svidler Peter RUS 6½
T6 Aronian Levon ARM 6
T6 Morozevich Alexander RUS 6
8 Grischuk Alexander RUS 5½

The GM Viswanathan Anand is the new world Chess Champion 2007. Now according to the contract he signed with FIDE in the beginning of next year he will have to defend his title playing against the last champion Vladimir Kramnik.

Viswanathan Anand - "You can imagine how I feel. I won a big tournament last year and this is something very special for me. I want to thank all my friends that helped me a lot. I want to thank my wife that has done everything to keep me in a good shape for competing. I also want to thank my trainer. And most of all I want to thank Mexico for its hospitality, not in so many places you can find as many chess fans as here. I always feel great in Mexico. At this moment, I can recall Mr. Saggiante's words that this would be an unforgettable championship."
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Tennis News -
At $416K Mumbai ATP Open, India

[F] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam U Haq Qureshi (PAK) l (3) Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) 67(3) 67(5)

This was Indo-Pak pair's first ATP final as a pair, but with their performance we should be assured that many more finals with titles will follow.
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Golf News -
At Viking Classic - Third Round (PGA Tour)

T22 Arjun Atwal 70 70 71 - 5
T62 Daniel Chopra 71 72 74 + 1

Chess News -
At World Chess Championship Mexico 2007,

Round 13 -
Peter Svidler ½ - ½ Vladimir Kramnik
Levon Aronian ½ - ½ Alexander Morozevich
Boris Gelfand ½ - ½ Viswanathan Anand
Peter Leko 1 - 0 Alexander Grischuk


Standing After 13th Round -
1 Anand Vishwanatan IND 8½
2 Gelfand Boris ISR 7½
3 Kramnik Vladimir RUS 7
4 Leko Peter HUN 6½
5 Aronian Levon ARM 6
T6 Morozevich Alexander RUS 5½
T6 Svidler Peter RUS 5½
T6 Grischuk Alexander RUS 5½

So with this draw Viswanathan Anand ensured his World Championship title as Anand having better tie-break score than Gelfand.
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Tennis News -
At $416K Mumbai ATP Open, India

[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam U Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Lars Burgsmuller (GER)/ Oliver Rochus (BEL) 62 63
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Golf News -
At Viking Classic - Second Round (PGA Tour)

T20 Arjun Atwal 70 70 - 4
T48 Daniel Chopra 71 72 - 1

Chess News -
At World Chess Championship Mexico 2007,

Round 12 -
Peter Svidler ½ - ½ Viswanathan Anand
Alexander Morozevich 1 - 0 Alexander Grischuk
Vladimir Kramnik 1 - 0 Peter Leko
Levon Aronian 0 - 1 Boris Gelfand


Standing After 12th Round -
1 Anand Vishwanatan IND 8
2 Gelfand Boris ISR 7
3 Kramnik Vladimir RUS 6½
T4 Aronian Levon ARM 5½
T4 Leko Peter HUN 5½
T4 Morozevich Alexander RUS 5½
T7 Grischuk Alexander RUS 5
T7 Svidler Peter RUS 5
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Tennis News -
At $416K Mumbai ATP Open, India

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam U Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Ivan Navarro (ESP)/ Sergio Roitman (ARG) w/o (Roitman – elbow)
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At $10K F24 USA Futures, Irvine, CA

[SF] (2) Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya (IND)/ Daniel Yoo (KOR) l (3) Felipe Parada (CHI)/ Sebastian Rivera (ECU) 46 46

Tennis News -
At $416K Mumbai ATP Open, India

[R1] Ivan Navarro (ESP,104) bt (LL) Purav Raja (IND,907) 64 61

Doubles -
[R1] (WC) Mustafa Ghouse (IND)/ Karan Rastogi (IND) l James Auckland (GBR)/ R Hutchins (GBR) 26 63 (3)10
[R1] (ALT) Purav Raja (IND) / Vivek Shokeen (IND) l Boris Pashanski (SRB)/ Victor Troicki (SRB) 36 26

Raja/ Shokeen replaces Bhupathi/Santoro (Bhupathi - back)
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At $25k Nottingham Challanger, Great Britain

[R1] IYER Tara (IND,354) l (Q) SMITH Anna (GBR,487) 57 46

Doubles -
[R1] BURYACHOK Irina (UKR)/ IYER Tara (IND) l BALDUCCI Alice (ITA)/ SABINO Lisa (ITA) 46 76(2) (8)10
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At $10K F24 USA Futures, Irvine, CA

[R1] (6) Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya (IND,604) l (Q) Alessandro-Damiano Ventre (BRA,UNR) 36 57

Doubles -
[QF] (2) Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya (IND)/ Daniel Yoo (KOR) bt (WC) Boris Nicola Bakalov (BUL)/ David Goodman (USA) 75 61

[SF] (2) Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya (IND)/ Daniel Yoo (KOR) vs (3) Felipe Parada (CHI)/ Sebastian Rivera (ECU)
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At $10K Indonesia F6 futures, Bali

[R2] (5) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND,687) l SIE Elbert (INA,844) 36 26

Chess News -
At World Chess Championship Mexico 2007,

Round 11 -
Boris Gelfand ½ - ½ Peter Svidler
Peter Leko ½ - ½ Levon Aronian
Alexander Grischuk ½ - ½ Vladimir Kramnik
Viswanathan Anand 1 - 0 Alexander Morozevich


Standing After 11th Round -
1 Anand Vishwanatan IND 7½
2 Gelfand Boris ISR 6
T3 Kramnik Vladimir RUS 5½
T3 Aronian Levon ARM 5½
T3 Leko Peter HUN 5½
6 Grischuk Alexander RUS 5
T7 Morozevich Alexander RUS 4½
T7 Svidler Peter RUS 4½
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Tennis News -
At $416K Mumbai ATP Open, India

[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,1035) l Fabio Fognini (ITA,113) 36 67(8)
[R1] Ivan Navarro (ESP,104) vs (LL) Purav Raja (IND,907) 46

Doubles -
[R1] (WC) Mustafa Ghouse (IND)/ Karan Rastogi (IND) vs James Auckland (GBR)/ R Hutchins (GBR)
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At $25k Nottingham Challanger, Great Britain

[R1] IYER Tara (IND,354) vs (Q) SMITH Anna (GBR,487)

Doubles -
[R1] BURYACHOK Irina (UKR)/ IYER Tara (IND) vs BALDUCCI Alice (ITA)/ SABINO Lisa (ITA)
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At $10K F24 USA Futures, Irvine, CA

[R1] (2) Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya (IND)/ Daniel Yoo (KOR) bt Marcus Fugate (USA)/ Shan Sondhu (USA) 64 76(5)

[QF] (2) Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya (IND)/ Daniel Yoo (KOR) vs (WC) BAKALOV Boris Nicola (BUL)/ GOODMAN David (USA)
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At $10K Indonesia F6 futures, Bali

[R1] (5) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND,687) bt (Q) MOORE Ciaran (RSA,UNR) 36 62 62

[R2] (5) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND,687) vs SIE Elbert (INA,844)

Chess News -
At World Chess Championship Mexico 2007,

Round 10 -
Peter Svidler ½ - ½ Alexander Morozevich
Vladimir Kramnik ½ - ½ Viswanathan Anand
Levon Aronian 1 - 0 Alexander Grischuk
Boris Gelfand ½ - ½ Peter Leko


Standing After 10th Round -
1 Anand Vishwanatan IND 6½
2 Gelfand Boris ISR 5½
T3 Kramnik Vladimir RUS 5
T3 Aronian Levon ARM 5
T3 Leko Peter HUN 5
T6 Grischuk Alexander RUS 4½
T6 Morozevich Alexander RUS 4½
8 Svidler Peter RUS 4
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Tennis News -
At $416K Mumbai ATP Open, India

[R1] Aisam U Haq Qureshi (PAK,154) l Victor Troicki (SRB,134) 26 67(4)
[R1] (WC) Rohan Bopanna (IND,244) l Nicolas Devilder (FRA,124) 63 36 67(9)
[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,1035) vs Fabio Fognini (ITA,113) 36 3-0 match stopped due to rain
[R1] (Q) Navdeep Singh (IND,817) l (Q) Toshihide Matsui (JPN,536) 46 67 ()

Doubles -
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam U Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt (WC) Stephen Amritraj (IND)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) 63 62
[R1] Lars Burgsmuller (GER)/ Oliver Rochus (BEL) bt Adam Davidson (USA)/ Rohan Gajjar (IND) 61 63
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At $10K F24 USA Futures, Irvine, CA

[R1] (6) Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya (IND,604) vs (Q) Alessandro-Damiano Ventre (BRA,UNR)

Doubles -
[R1] (2) Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya (IND)/ Daniel Yoo (KOR) vs Marcus Fugate (USA)/ Shan Sondhu (USA)

Chess News -
At World Chess Championship Mexico 2007,

Round 9 -
Peter Leko ½ - ½ Peter Svidler
Alexander Grischuk 1 - 0 Boris Gelfand
Viswanathan Anand ½ - ½ Levon Aronian
Alexander Morozevich 1 - 0 Vladimir Kramnik


Standing After 9th Round -
1 Anand Vishwanatan IND 6
2 Gelfand Boris ISR 5
T3 Kramnik Vladimir RUS 4½
T3 Grischuk Alexander RUS 4½
T5 Morozevich Alexander RUS 4
T5 Aronian Levon ARM 4
T5 Leko Peter HUN 4
8 Svidler Peter RUS 3½
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Tennis News -
At $416K Mumbai ATP Open, India

[Q3] Rohan Gajjar (IND) l (1) Davide Sanguinetti (ITA) 06 06
[Q3] Navdeep Singh (IND) bt (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND) 63 16 76(4)
[Q3] (3) Ti Chen (TPE) bt Leos Friedl (CZE) 57 61 62
[Q3] Purav Raja (IND) l (6) Toshihide Matsui (JPN) 76(4) 46 36
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At $10K Indonesia F6 futures, Bali

[R1] (5) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND,687) vs (Q) MOORE Ciaran (RSA,UNR)

Tennis News -
At WTA Sunfeast Open 2007, Kolkata, India

[SF] Monique Adamczak (AUS)/ Sunitha Rao (IND) l Brianti (ITA)/ Mariya Koryttseva (UKR) 46 75 (5)10
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At $416K Mumbai ATP Open, India

[Q1] Akash Wagh (IND) bt Vinod Sridhar (IND) 57 62 64
[Q1] Rohan Gajjar (IND) bt (WC) Neshit Vakil (IND) 60 60
[Q1] Navdeep Singh (IND) bt Chistopher Marquis (IND) 75 64
[Q1] Tushar Liberhan (IND) bt Gregory Howe (GBR) 62 57 61
[Q1] Leos Friedl (CZE) bt PC. Vigesh (IND) 60 60
[Q1] Purav Raja (IND) bt Akash Gujarati (IND) 62 62
[Q1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt Stephen Amritraj (IND) 64 26 62

[Q2] Rohan Gajjar (IND) bt (7) Vijay Kannan (IND) 61 61
[Q2] Akash Wagh (IND) l (1) Davide Sanguinetti (ITA) 64 46 26
[Q2] Navdeep Singh (IND) bt (2) Lars Burgsmuller (GER) 64 64
[Q2] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt (5) Frantisek Cermak (CZE) 26 63 75
[Q2] Tushar Liberhan (IND) l (3) Ti Chen (TPE) 26 26
[Q2] (8) Vivek Shokeen (IND) l Leos Friedl (CZE) 46 46
[Q2] Purav Raja (IND) bt (4) Karan Rastogi (IND) 46 75 3-1 (Retirement due to cramps)
[Q2] (6) Toshihide Matsui (JPN) bt (WC) Sudanwa Sitaram (IND) 62 61
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Golf News -
At The Quinn Direct British Masters, Wishaw, England - Third Round

T30 RANDHAWA Jyoti 70 72 73 - 1
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At The Quinn Direct British Masters, Wishaw, England - Final Standing

T21 RANDHAWA Jyoti 70 72 73 70 - 3 € 29083.24
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AT Mercuries Taiwan Masters - Final Standing

T38 Gaurav GHEI (IND) 72 78 75 77 +14 $3,475.00
T43 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA (IND) 72 78 74 80 +16 $3,275.00
T45 Rahil GANGJEE (IND) 78 72 79 76 +17 $3,150.00

Chess News -
At World Chess Championship Mexico 2007,

Round 8 -
Peter Svidler ½ - ½ Vladimir Kramnik
Levon Aronian ½ - ½ Alexander Morozevich
Boris Gelfand ½ - ½ Viswanathan Anand
Peter Leko 1 - 0 Alexander Grischuk

Standing After 8th Round -
1 Anand Vishwanatan IND 5½
2 Gelfand Boris ISR 5
3 Kramnik Vladimir RUS 4½
4 Leko Peter HUN 4
T5 Grischuk Alexander RUS 3½
T5 Aronian Levon ARM 3½
T7 Morozevich Alexander RUS 3
T7 Svidler Peter RUS 3
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Tennis News -
At WTA Sunfeast Open 2007, Kolkata, India

[QF] Monique Adamczak (AUS)/ Sunitha Rao (IND) bt (4) Sara Errani (ITA)/ Flavia Pennetta (ITA) W/O (Low back pain to Errani)

[SF] Monique Adamczak (AUS)/ Sunitha Rao (IND) vs Brianti (ITA)/ Mariya Koryttseva (UKR)
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At $10K Indonesia F5 futures, Jakarta

[F] (1) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) l RATURANDANG Andrian (INA)/ RUNGKAT Christopher (INA) 36 62 (5)10
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Golf News -
At The Quinn Direct British Masters, Wishaw, England

T18 RANDHAWA Jyoti 70 72 - 2
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AT Mercuries Taiwan Masters - Third Round

T38 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA (IND) 72 78 74 + 8
T41 Gaurav GHEI (IND) 72 78 75 + 9
52 Rahil GANGJEE (IND) 78 72 79 +13

Chess News -
At World Chess Championship Mexico 2007,

Round 7 -
Peter Svidler ½ - ½ Levon Aronian
Vladimir Kramnik ½ - ½ Boris Gelfand
Alexander Morozevich ½ - ½ Peter Leko
Viswanathan Anand 1 - 0 Alexander Grischuk


Standing After Seventh Round - (Completion of First half)
1 Anand Vishwanatan IND 5
2 Gelfand Boris ISR 4½
3 Kramnik Vladimir RUS 4
4 Grischuk Alexander RUS 3½
T5 Aronian Levon ARM 3
T5 Leko Peter HUN 3
T7 Morozevich Alexander RUS 2½
T7 Svidler Peter RUS 2½

Hockey News -

Groups r finalised our men's team playing at Chile and our women's playing at Russia.

Men's Olympic qualifiers -

North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand – 02/10 February 2008
Argentina, Cuba, France, Ireland, New Zealand and Trinidad & Tobago

Santiago, Chile – 01/09 March 2008
Austria, Bangladesh, Chile, Egypt, Great Britain and India

Kakamigahara, Japan – 05/13 April 2008
Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Poland, Switzerland

Women's Olympic Qualifier -

Baku, Azerbaijan – 12/20 April 2008
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Chile, Kenya, Spain and Ukraine

Kazan, Russia – 19/27 April 2008
Belgium, Chinese Taipei, India, Netherlands Antilles, Russia and USA

Victoria, Canada – 26 April/04 May 2008
Canada, Cuba, Ireland, Italy, Korea and Malaysia

Chess News -
At World Chess Championship Mexico 2007,

Round 6 -
Alexander Grischuk ½ - ½ Peter Svidler
Peter Leko ½ - ½ Viswanathan Anand
Boris Gelfand 1 - 0 Alexander Morozevich
Levon Aronian ½ - ½ Vladimir Kramnik

Standing After Sixth Round -
T1 Anand Vishwanatan IND 4
T1 Gelfand Boris ISR 4
T3 Kramnik Vladimir RUS 3½
T3 Grischuk Alexander RUS 3½
T5 Aronian Levon ARM 2½
T5 Leko Peter HUN 2½
T7 Morozevich Alexander RUS 2
T7 Svidler Peter RUS 2
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Squash News -
At ($77.5K Mens and $43.5K Womens) British Open Squash Championships, Manchester

[Q1] (5/8) Saurav Ghosal (Ind) bt Alan Clyne (Sco) 11-7 11-7 11-6 (33m)
[Q1] Ritwik Bhattacharya (Ind) bt Tom Hoevenaars (Ned) 11-9 15-13 11-6 (42m)

[Q1] (8) Joshna Chinappa (Ind) bt Fiona Moverley (Eng) 9-7 9-4 9-1 (24m)

[Q2] (5/8) Saurav Ghosal (Ind) bt Aaron Frankcomb (Aus) 11-7 11-8 12-10 (55min)
[Q2] Ritwik Bhattacharya (Ind) l (3/4) Davide Bianchetti (Ita) 7-11 4-11 3-11

[Q2] (8) Joshna Chinappa (Ind) l Laura Mylotte (Irl) 10-8 5-9 10-9 6-9 1-9

[R1] (Q) Saurav Ghosal (Ind) l (8) Stewart Boswell (Aus) 8-11 3-11 9-11

Saurav first time qualified for the British Open.
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Tennis News -
At WTA Sunfeast Open 2007, Kolkata, India

[R2] (WC) Sunitha Rao (IND,211) l Anne Keothavong (GBR,144) 36 26

Doubles -
[QF] Tara Iyer (IND)/ Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) l (1) Vania King (USA)/ Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 16 75 (4)10
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At $10K Indonesia F5 futures, Jakarta

[SF] (1) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) bt BEZERUK Yuri (AUS)/ MATOSEVIC Marinko (AUS) 67(2) 76(1) 10(7)

[F] (1) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) vs RATURANDANG Andrian (INA)/ RUNGKAT Christopher (INA)
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At $10K USA F23, Costa Mesa, CA

[R1] (5) SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND,606) l (Q) JOHNSON Steve (USA,UNR) 67(6) 36

Chess News -
At World Chess Championship Mexico 2007,

Round 5 -
Viswanathan Anand 1 - 0 Peter Svidler
Alexander Grischuk 1 - 0 Alexander Morozevich
Peter Leko ½ - ½ Vladimir Kramnik
Boris Gelfand 1 - 0 Levon Aronian

Standing After Fifth Round -
1 Anand Vishwanatan IND 3½
T2 Kramnik Vladimir RUS 3
T2 Grischuk Alexander RUS 3
T2 Gelfand Boris ISR 3
T5 Aronian Levon ARM 2
T5 Morozevich Alexander RUS 2
T5 Leko Peter HUN 2
8 Svidler Peter RUS 1½
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Tennis News -
At WTA Sunfeast Open 2007, Kolkata, India

[R1] Tara Iyer (IND,354) l (7) Flavia Pennetta (ITA,69) 36 16

Doubles -
[R1] Ankita Bhambri (IND)/ Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) l (1) Vania King (USA)/ Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 16 16
[R1] (WC) Ashvarya Shrivastava (IND)/ Kyra Shroff (IND) l Alberta Brianti (ITA)/ Mariya Koryttseva (UKR) 16 16
[R1] Monique Adamczak (AUS)/ Sunitha Rao (IND) bt Marta Domachowska (POL)/ Neha Uberoi (USA) 61 64
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At $15K Great Britain F17 Futures, Nottingham

[R1] SINGH Navdeep (IND,820) l (1) FISCHER Martin (AUT,312) 16 26

Doubles -
[R1] (4) JUNAID Rameez (AUS)/ SINGH Navdeep (IND) l BLANDIN Jeremy (FRA)/ CHARROIN Olivier (FRA) 36 67(3)
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At $10K Indonesia F5 futures, Jakarta

[R2] (8) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND,687) l SIE Elbert (INA,844) 26 16
[R2] (6) SHARAN Divij (IND,634) l (Q) GONG Mao-Xin (CHN,1116) 0-5 Retired

Doubles -
[QF] (1) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) bt EATON Chris (GBR)/ WARD James (GBR) 46 62 10(6)

[SF] (1) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) vs BEZERUK Yuri (AUS)/ MATOSEVIC Marinko (AUS)

Tennis News -
At WTA Sunfeast Open 2007, Kolkata, India

[R1] (WC) Sunitha Rao (IND,211) bt (LL) Sandy Gumulya (INA,316) 26 64 62

Doubles -
[R1] Tara Iyer (IND)/ Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) bt Julia Efremova (RUS)/ Ekaterina Ivanova (RUS) 64 75

[R1] Sanaa Bhambri (IND)/ Isha Lakhani (IND) l (4) Sara Errani (ITA)/ Flavia Pennetta (ITA) 26 06
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At $10K USA F23, Costa Mesa, CA

[R1] (5) SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND,606) vs (Q) JOHNSON Steve (USA,UNR)
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At $15K Great Britain F17 Futures, Nottingham

[R1] SINGH Navdeep (IND,820) vs (1) FISCHER Martin (AUT,312)

Doubles -
[R1] (4) JUNAID Rameez (AUS)/ SINGH Navdeep (IND) vs BLANDIN Jeremy (FRA)/ CHARROIN Olivier (FRA)
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At $10K Indonesia F5 futures, Jakarta

[R1] SHOKEEN Vivek (IND,770) l KLAASEN Raven (RSA,746) 64 26 76(5)
[R1] (8) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND,687) bt VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,908) 64 61
[R1] (6) SHARAN Divij (IND,634) bt (Q) HUME Damian (RSA,1334) 46 75 64
[R1] LIBERHAN Tushar (IND,880) l (Q) GONG Mao-Xin (CHN,1116) 63 57 46
[R1] (7) SINGH Ashutosh (IND,673) l TAKEUCHI Kento (JPN,866) 67(6) 16
[R1] RAJA Purav (IND,968) l (Q) BAI Yan (CHN,1178) 16 63

[R2] (8) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND,687) vs SIE Elbert (INA,844)
[R2] (6) SHARAN Divij (IND,634) vs (Q) GONG Mao-Xin (CHN,1116)

Doubles -
[R1] (1) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) bt SHOKEEN Vivek (IND)/ VARDHAN Vishnu (IND) 62 61
[R1] KIM Hyun-Joon (KOR)/ NANDKUMAR Kiran (IND) vs (2) GONG Mao-Xin (CHN)/ XU Jun-Chao (CHN) 26 64 (4)10

[QF] (1) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) vs EATON Chris (GBR)/ WARD James (GBR)

Tennis News -
At WTA Sunfeast Open 2007, Kolkata, India

[R1] Neha Uberoi (USA,267) l (4) Maria Kirilenko (RUS,35) 26 26
[R1] (WC) Kyra Shroff (IND,UNR) l (8) Yung Jan Chan (TPE,81) 06 06
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At $10K Indonesia F5 futures, Jakarta

[R1] SHOKEEN Vivek (IND,770) vs KLAASEN Raven (RSA,746)
[R1] (8) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND,687) vs VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,908)
[R1] (6) SHARAN Divij (IND,634) vs (Q) HUME Damian (RSA,1334)
[R1] LIBERHAN Tushar (IND,880) vs (Q) GONG Mao-Xin (CHN,1116)
[R1] (7) SINGH Ashutosh (IND,673) vs TAKEUCHI Kento (JPN,866)
[R1] RAJA Purav (IND,968) vs (Q) BAI Yan (CHN,1178)

Doubles -
[R1] (1) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND} vs SHOKEEN Vivek (IND)/ VARDHAN Vishnu (IND)
[R1] KIM Hyun-Joon (KOR)/ NANDKUMAR Kiran (IND) vs (2) GONG Mao-Xin (CHN)/ XU Jun-Chao (CHN)
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Chess News -
At 2007 World Chess Championship, Mexico

Round 4 -
Peter Svidler ½ - ½ Boris Gelfand
Levon Aronian 1 - 0 Peter Leko
Vladimir Kramnik ½ - ½ Alexander Grischuk
Alexander Morozevich ½ - ½ Viswanathan Anand

Standing After Third Round -
T1 Anand Vishwanatan IND 2½
T1 Kramnik Vladimir RUS 2½
T3 Aronian Levon ARM 2
T3 Morozevich Alexander RUS 2
T3 Grischuk Alexander RUS 2
T3 Gelfand Boris ISR 2
T7 Svidler Peter RUS 1½
T7 Leko Peter HUN 1½

Motor Sports - GP2 series
At Spa Francorchamps circuit, Belgium

Karun Chandhok won his first victory in the GP2 series in race two, setting up the win by blasting past Andy Soucek, who held off Lucas di Grassi in the closing stages of the race.

Here is interview from GP2 Series site -
GP2 Series: Karun, congratulations, you must be delighted.

Karun Chandhok - I’m really very, very happy. The car worked really well all through the race. The big key to the race was the first three or four laps at the start. Ho-Pin locked his brakes so late, I think he saw me and pushed me wide, and that’s how Andy got ahead. Then I really had to look after the tyres because Andy started killing them. After lap five I could see his tyres were finished, and...

Dave Price: Well done mate

Karun - Thanks very much.

Dave: Bastard! [Laughs]

Karun - [Laughs] Are you going to put that in? So anyway, he started killing the tyres and I knew that as long as I looked after them, with the new tyres on the Sunday race you have to nurse them a little bit in the early stages. I did that and the car came into its own and I could push and pressurise and then I tried to set the move up for a few laps. I watched, had a look to see what I had to do.

Enrique Scalabroni: Congratulations.

Karun - Thank you.

I knew the top of the hill was my best chance because I was quicker than him through Eau Rouge. So the lap that I decided to do it I went through absolutely flat, didn’t think twice, and got the tow and went round the outside. It was perfect in the end, and worked out really well.

GP2 Series: The move was incredible. Talk us through it.

Karun - Yeah. I think any move around the outside is a bit of a risk but no risk, no gain. I had to do Eau Rouge flat behind him. Doing it in free air is no problem, but doing it flat behind somebody when you lose the aero is very difficult. I had a go and that’s it, went around the outside, braked really late, the rear end started to come around and I just hopped off the brake, just got on the curb and got away with it. We didn’t touch and it was clean so fair do’s to Andy. He realised I was going to have a go and he was very clean and I have to thank him for that.

Chris Murphy (Giorgio Pantano’s engineer): Bloody brilliant, well done!

Karun - Thanks!

GP2 Series: How much does this mean to you and to the team? Both you and them seemed very emotional afterwards.

Karun - Very emotional, for sure. They’re Italians, and for me it’s ideal. For this year the deal happened literally one week before the Ricard test so I went through three months of the winter with no sleep, not knowing what I’m going to do this season. To come away with a win and points every weekend since Budapest shows we are coming on strong. It builds up to a good winter. This weekend there’s been a lot of speculation about next year, for India as well, it’s the first time I’ve heard the national anthem at a Formula One Grand Prix, so that’s a special feeling as well. It’s been live on TV in India so everyone’s going crazy back at home. My phone has loads of missed calls already!
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Chess News -
At 2007 World Chess Championship, Mexico

Round 1 -
Vladimir Kramnik ½ - ½ Peter Svidler
Alexander Morozevich ½ - ½ Levon Aronian
Viswanathan Anand ½ - ½ Boris Gelfand
Alexander Grischuk ½ - ½ Peter Leko

Round 2 -
Peter Svidler ½ - ½ Peter Leko
Boris Gelfand ½ - ½ Alexander Grischuk
Levon Aronian 0-1 Viswanathan Anand
Vladimir Kramnik 1-0 Alexander Morozevich

Round 3 -
Alexander Morozevich 1 - 0 Peter Svidler
Viswanathan Anand ½ - ½ Vladimir Kramnik
Alexander Grischuk ½ - ½ Levon Aronian
Peter Leko ½ - ½ Boris Gelfand

Standing After Third Round -
T1 Anand Vishwanatan IND 2
T1 Kramnik Vladimir RUS 2
T3 Morozevich Alexander RUS 1½
T3 Grischuk Alexander RUS 1½
T5 Leko Peter HUN 1
T5 Gelfand Boris ISR 1
T5 Aronian Levon ARM 1
T5 Svidler Peter RUS 1

Tennis News -
At WTA Sunfeast Open 2007, Kolkata, India

Final Qualifying Round -
(7) Neha Uberoi bt (9) Rushmi Chakravarthi 62 64
(2) Ekaterina Ivanova bt (6) Sandy Gumulya d. Julia Efremova 60 46 62
(5) Naomi Cavaday bt (3) Monique Adamczak 67(4) 75 64
(4) Marta Domachowska bt (8) Sarah Borwell 62 63
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Golf News -
At Midea China Classic - Final Standing

T14 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA 65 67 68 73 -11 $5,760.00
T21 Rahil GANGJEE 66 68 72 70 - 8 $4,440.00
T61 Gurbaaz MANN 73 65 76 71 + 1 $1,180.00
WD Arjun SINGH 69 71 75 + 2
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At Mercedes-Benz Championship, Gut Lärchenhof, Cologne, Germany - Final Standing

T16 SINGH Jeev Milkha 72 70 72 67 - 7 € 25960.00
T57 RANDHAWA Jyoti 74 71 74 72 + 3 € 5900.00

Tennis News -
At WTA Sunfeast Open 2007-Kolkata, India

Qualifying First Round -
Rushmi Chakravarthi bt Ankita Bhambri 64 57 62
Neha Uberoi bt Katherine Ruckert 62 75
Ekaterina Ivanova bt Isha Lakhani 62 64
Sandy Gumulya bt Julia Efremova 61 62
Monique Adamczak bt Ipek Senoglu 36 63 75
Naomi Cavaday bt Sanaa Bhambri 62 75
Marta Domachowska bt Shivika Burman 63 61
Sarah Borwell bt Ashvarya Shrivastava 60 64
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Golf News -
At Midea China Classic - Third Round (Asian Tour)

T5 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA 65 67 68 -13
T20 Rahil GANGJEE 66 68 72 - 8
T71 Gurbaaz MANN 73 65 76 + 1
T73 Arjun SINGH 69 71 75 + 2
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At Mercedes-Benz Championship, Gut Lärchenhof, Cologne, Germany - Third Round (European Tour)

T38 SINGH Jeev Milkha 72 70 72 - 2
T61 RANDHAWA Jyoti 74 71 74 + 3

At 2007 IBSF World Billiards Championship, Singapore (Timed Format)

Final -
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Dhruv Sitwala (IND) 1963 pts - 1489 pts

So with that Pankaj Advani retain his timed format IBSF World Billiards Championship ... This is the first time ever Pankaj managed to defend his world title.

Billiard News -
At 2007 IBSF World Billiards Championship, Singapore (Timed Format)

Semi Finals -
Dhruv Sitwala (IND) bt Geet Sethi (IND) 1053 pts - 932 pts
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Peter Gilchrist (SIN) 1697 pts 793 pts

Final -
Pankaj Advani (IND) vs Dhruv Sitwala (IND)

Huge win for Dhruv Sitwala upsetting Geet, who was last time runner-up in this event and was also runner-up at Professional World Billiard Championship in July 2007 ... Other hand Pankaj scored dominating victory over 2 time World Champion Peter Gilchrist and he is in position of retaining his 'Timed Format' World title..
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Tennis News -
At $15K Spain F34 Futures, Mostoles

[R2] (1) RASTOGI Karan (IND,344) l (Q) RASCON-LOPE Juan-Luis (ESP,986) 46 46
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At $10K F22 USA, Claremont, CA

[R2] AMRITRAJ Stephen (IND,989) l (2) BALL Carsten (AUS,586) 64 16 26
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At $10K Indonesia F4, Manado

[SF] (1) LIBERHAN Tushar (IND)/ RAJA Purav (IND) l JOBE Ikaika (USA)/ LUM-TUCKER Brad (USA) 46 64 (9)11
[SF] (2) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) l (4) CHANG Huai-En (TPE)/ PENG Hsien-Yin (TPE) 26 63 (11)13
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Golf News -
At Midea China Classic - Second Round (Asian Tour)

T4 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA 65 67 -10
T13 Rahil GANGJEE 66 68 - 8
T33 Gurbaaz MANN 73 65 - 4
T53 Arjun SINGH 69 71 - 2
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T96 Harmeet KAHLON 72 72 + 2
T110 Digvijay SINGH 70 75 + 3
T110 Gaurav GHEI 70 75 + 3
T118 Rahul GANAPATHY 76 70 + 4
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At Mercedes-Benz Championship, Gut Lärchenhof, Cologne, Germany - Second Round (European Tour)

T36 SINGH Jeev Milkha 72 70 -2
T59 RANDHAWA Jyoti 74 71 + 1
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At Oregon Classic - Second Round (Nationwide Tour)

----------- Cut @ - 2 ------------
T92 Arjun Atwal 75 69 Par

Billiard News -
At 2007 IBSF World Billiards Championship, Singapore (Timed Format)

Quarter Finals -
Geet Sethi (IND) bt Matthew Bolton (AUS) 1431 pts - 1013 pts
Dhruv Sitwala (IND) bt Ashok Shandilya (IND) 1125 pts - 886 pts
Peter Gilchrist (SIN) bt Rupesh Shah (IND) 1148 pts - 819 pts
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Alok Kumar (IND) 1636 pts - 910 pts

Semi Finals -
Geet Sethi (IND) vs Dhruv Sitwala (IND)
Pankaj Advani (IND) vs Peter Gilchrist (SIN)
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Tennis News -
At $500K China Open, Beijing

[R1] (1) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ BOPANNA Rohan (IND) l HAGGARD Chris (RSA)/ LU Yen-Hsun (TPE) 36 06
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At the $225K Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic, Bali, Indonesia (WTA Tier-III)

[QF] Akgul AMANMURADOVA (UZB)/ Sunitha RAO (IND) l (3) JI Chunmei (CHN)/ SUN Shengnan (CHN) 36 61 5(10)
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At $10K Indonesia F4, Manado

[QF] RAJA Purav (IND,962) l (Q) HUME Damian (RSA,1329) 57 62 62

Doubles -
[QF] (1) LIBERHAN Tushar (IND)/ RAJA Purav (IND) bt RUNGKAT Christopher (INA)/ WIBOWO Ayrton (INA) 63 64
[QF] (2) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) vs DOAKMAIKLEE Weerapat (THA)/ SIRIBUTWONG Kirati (THA) 67(5) 76(4) 10(6)

[SF] (1) LIBERHAN Tushar (IND)/ RAJA Purav (IND) vs JOBE Ikaika (USA)/ LUM-TUCKER Brad (USA)
[SF] (2) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) vs (4) CHANG Huai-En (TPE)/ PENG Hsien-Yin (TPE)
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At $10K F22 USA, Claremont, CA

[R1] SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND,616) l (Q) MOGGRE Paul (NED,1506) 26 0-1 Retd.
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Golf News -
At Midea China Classic - First Round (Asian Tour)

T2 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA 65 - 6
T6 Rahil GANGJEE 66 - 5
T37 Arjun SINGH 69 - 2
T53 Digvijay SINGH 70 - 1
T53 Gaurav GHEI 70 - 1
T92 Harmeet KAHLON 72 + 1
T113 Gurbaaz MANN 73 + 2
T143 Rahul GANAPATHY 76 + 5
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At Mercedes-Benz Championship, Gut Lärchenhof, Cologne, Germany - First Round (European Tour)

T49 SINGH Jeev Milkha 72 Par
T65 RANDHAWA Jyoti 74 + 2
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At Oregon Classic - First Round (Nationwide Tour)

T130 Arjun Atwal 75 + 3

Billiard News -
At 2007 IBSF World Billiards Championship, Singapore (Timed Format)

Knockout Stage - Round 16
Geet Sethi (IND) bt Gary Oliver (NZL) 2818 pts - 407 pts
Ashok Shandilya (IND) bt Devendra Joshi (IND) 1307 pts - 1139 pts
Dhruv Sitwala (IND) bt Matthew Sutton (ENG) 862 pts - 657 pts
Rupesh Shah (IND) bt Frank Humphreys (AUS) 1040 pts bt 668 pts
Alok Kumar (IND) bt Praprut Chaithanasakun (THA) 1188 pts - 1112 pts
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Phil Martin (IRL) 1691 pts - 728 pts

Quarter Finals -
Geet Sethi (IND) vs Matthew Bolton (AUS)
Ashok Shandilya (IND) vs Dhruv Sitwala (IND)
Rupesh Shah (IND) vs Peter Gilchrist (SIN)
Pankaj Advani (IND) vs Alok Kumar (IND)
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Tennis News -
At $10K Indonesia F4, Manado

[R2] (3) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND,683) l JOBE Ikaika (USA,893) 57 26
[R2] RAJA Purav (IND,962) bt LIBERHAN Tushar (IND,876) 63 62
[R2] (4) SINGH Ashutosh (IND,673) l (Q) HUME Damian (RSA,1329) 64 26 16

[QF] RAJA Purav (IND,962) vs (Q) HUME Damian (RSA,1329)

Doubles -
[R1] (1) LIBERHAN Tushar (IND)/ RAJA Purav (IND) bt MATOSEVIC Marinko (AUS)/ ROBERTS Andrew (AUS) 60 63
[R1] (2) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) bt (WC) JIM Sydney (USA)/ RAJU Kaushik (IND) W/O

[QF] (1) LIBERHAN Tushar (IND)/ RAJA Purav (IND) vs RUNGKAT Christopher (INA)/ WIBOWO Ayrton (INA)
[QF] (2) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) vs DOAKMAIKLEE Weerapat (THA)/ SIRIBUTWONG Kirati (THA)

Tennis News -
At $100K +H Open d'Orléans, France

[R1] (1) BRIAUD Patrick (USA)/ GHOUSE Mustafa (IND) l BEDNAREK Tomasz (POL)/ PRZYSIEZNY Michal (POL) 75 67(2) 4(10)
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At $10K Indonesia F4, Manado

[R1] (3) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND,683) bt (WC) RUNGKAT Christopher (INA,1329) 26 75 60
[R1] NANDKUMAR Kiran (IND,1497) l JOBE Ikaika (USA,893) 64 46 26
[R1] RAJA Purav (IND,962) bt (8) KLAASEN Raven (RSA,740) 46 63 64
[R1] LIBERHAN Tushar (IND,876) bt (WC) DA COSTA Sebastian (INA,NR) 60 63
[R1] (Q) PC Vignesh (IND,1381) l (Q) HUME Damian (RSA,1329) 64 36 46
[R1] (4) SINGH Ashutosh (IND,673) bt LE Minh (USA,1042) 63 64
[R1] VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,904) l (6) WARD James (GBR,616) 36 46

[R2] (3) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND,683) vs JOBE Ikaika (USA,893)
[R2] LIBERHAN Tushar (IND,876) vs RAJA Purav (IND,962)
[R2] (4) SINGH Ashutosh (IND,673) vs (Q) HUME Damian (RSA,1329)

Doubles -
[R1] NANDKUMAR Kiran (IND)/ PC Vignesh (IND) l EATON Chris (GBR)/ WARD James (GBR) W/O
[R1] MAKHARIA Rahil (IND)/ SUKUL Saurav (IND) l (4) CHANG Huai-En (TPE)/ PENG Hsien-Yin (TPE) 64 67(4) (7)10
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At $15K Spain F34 Futures, Mostoles

[R1] (1) RASTOGI Karan (IND,344) bt AUDOUY Xavier (FRA,610) 63 64

[R2] (1) RASTOGI Karan (IND,344) vs (Q) RASCON-LOPE Juan-Luis (ESP,986)
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At $10K F22 USA, Claremont, CA

[R1] AMRITRAJ Stephen (IND,989) bt (WC) BAKALOV Boris Nicola (BUL,UNR) 62 36 76(5)

Doubles -
[R1] AMRITRAJ Stephen (IND)/ SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND) l KIELBOWICZ Joel (USA)/ PARLADE Roby (USA) 63 67(1) (8)10
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Tennis News -
At $500K China Open, Beijing

[R1] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,252) l (7) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA,60) 36 0-1 (15-30) Retd
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At $10K F22 USA, Claremont, CA

[R1] SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND,616) vs (Q) MOGGRE Paul (NED,1506)
[R1] AMRITRAJ Stephen (IND,989) vs (WC) BAKALOV Boris Nicola (BUL,UNR)

Doubles -
[R1] AMRITRAJ Stephen (IND)/ SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND) vs KIELBOWICZ Joel (USA)/ PARLADE Roby (USA)

Billiard News -
At 2007 IBSF World Billiards Championship, Singapore (Timed Format)

Group A -
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Paul Wereta (NZL) 1270 pts - 327 pts
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Alan Puan Teik Chong (SIN) 1557 pts - 453 pts
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Thawat Sujaritthurakam (THA) 1162 pts - 784 pts

Group C -
Ashok Shandilya (IND) bt Frank Humphreys (AUS) 732 pts - 703 pts
Ashok Shandilya (IND) bt Hasan Manfaluti (INA) 1345 pts - 645 pts
Ashok Shandilya (IND) bt Glenn Yeo Teck Shin (SIN) 1108 pts - 589 pts

Group D -
Geet Sethi (IND) bt Hekta (INA) 2000 pts - 346 pts
Geet Sethi (IND) bt Phil Martin (IRL) 2090 pts - 275 pts (highest break of 766 pts)
Geet Sethi (IND) bt Norman Whaley (IRL) 1316 pts - 333 pts

Group E -
Alok Kumar (IND) l Matthew Bolton (AUS) 615 pts - 1102 pts
Alok Kumar (IND) bt Billy Bousfield (ENG) 1125 pts - 717 pts
Alok Kumar (IND) bt Thanh Long Nguyen (VIE) 1181 pts - 679 pts

Group F -
Devendra Joshi (IND) bt Praprut Chaithanasakun (THA) 853 pts - 765 pts
Devendra Joshi (IND) l Philip John Mumford (ENG) 593 pts - 1098 pts
Devendra Joshi (IND) bt John Mclntyre (IRL) 1752 pts - 320 pts (break of 673 pts)

Group G -
Rupesh Shah (IND) bt Muslim (INA) W/O
Rupesh Shah (IND) bt Larry Drennan (IRL) 1245 pts - 400 pts
Rupesh Shah (IND) bt Gary Oliver (NZL) 948 pts - 518 pts

Group H -
Dhruv Sitwala (IND) bt Martin W.G. Goodwill (ENG) 908 pts - 667 pts
Dhruv Sitwala (IND) bt Joe Minici (AUS) 846 pts - 521 pts
Dhruv Sitwala (IND) bt Adian Murray (IRL) 1128 pts - 378 pts

Our all 7 players r in knockout stage of Round 16.

At 2007 IBSF World Billiards Championship, Singapore (150 up FORMAT)

Group A -
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Aung San Oo (MYN) 3-1
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Alan Puan Teik Chong (SIN) 3-0
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Larry Drennan (IRL) 3-0
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Paul Wereta (NZL) 3-0

Pankaj topped Group A.

Group B -
Dhruv Sitwala (IND) l Peter Gilchrist (SIN) 1-3
Dhruv Sitwala (IND) bt Matthew Sutton (ENG) 3-1
Dhruv Sitwala (IND) bt Udon Khaimuk (THA) 3-0
Dhruv Sitwala (IND) l Nay Thay Oo (MYN) 0-3

Dhruv ended 3rd in the Group B.

Group C -
Ashok Shandilya (IND) bt Frank Humphreys (AUS) 3-2
Ashok Shandilya (IND) bt Hasan Manfaluti (INA) 3-1
Ashok Shandilya (IND) bt Glenn Yeo Teck Shin (SIN) 3-1
Ashok Shandilya (IND) bt Thanh Binh Nguyen (VIE) 3-2

Ashok topped Group C.

Group D -
Geet Sethi (IND) bt Hekta (INA) 3-0
Geet Sethi (IND) bt Phil Martin (IRL) 3-0
Geet Sethi (IND) bt Kyaw Oo (MYN) 3-0
Geet Sethi (IND) bt Imran Shehzad (PAK) 3-0

Geet topped Group D.

Group G -
Rupesh Shah (IND) bt Muslim (INA) 3-2
Rupesh Shah (IND) l Moh Loon Hong (MAS) 2-3
Rupesh Shah (IND) bt Gary Oliver (NZL) 3-0

Rupesh ended 2nd in Group G.

Round of 16 -
Geet Sethi (IND) bt Phil Mumford (ENG) 4-0
Ashok Shandilya (IND) bt Aung Sang (MYN) 4-1
Pankaj Advani (IND) l Kyaw Oo (MYN) 2-4
Rupesh Shah (IND) bt Frank Humphries (AUS) 4-0

Quarter Finals -
Ashok Shandilya (IND) bt Geet Sethi (IND) 4-1
Rupesh Shah (IND) bt Praput Chaithanasakun (THA) 4-2

Semi Finals -
Ashok Shandilya (IND) bt Matthew Bolton (AUS) 5-1
Rupesh Shah (IND) bt Kyaw Oo (MYN) 5-0

Final -
Rupesh Shah (IND) bt Ashok Shandilya (IND) 6-4

Currently IBSF World Billiards Championship going on Singapore, its in 2 formats - 150 pts format and Timed format ... In 2005 Pankaj Advani won both formats, but in 2006 due to lack of sponsors this tournament wasn't organize.

Pankaj Advani began as a favorite ... But in 150 pts format he lost in first knockout round after topping the group and we were in position of losing this world title ... But Rupesh Shah raised to occasion to capture World Championship beating seasoned Ashok Shandilya in the final.

And new IBSF 150 pts format World Billiards Champion is Rupesh Shah of India.

Tennis News -
At $500K China Open, Beijing

[Q3] (2) BOPANNA Rohan (IND,261) bt KING Phillip(USA,403) 76(5) 67(5) 61

Maindraw -
[R1] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,252) vs (7) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA,60)

So with that Rohan qualified for China Open in 2 hrs 10 mins final qualifying match ... Rohan was again struggling with his serve, though he served 9 aces still first serve % was only 51 % (importantly he won 88 % points on his first serve) and he was also broken 3 times in the match ... But I also like other stat where he broken King's serve 5 times and managed to create 14 breakpoint opportunities ... Total points won RB - 124 pts to PK - 102 pts.
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At the $225K Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic, Bali, Indonesia (WTA Tier-III)

[R1] Akgul AMANMURADOVA (UZB)/ Sunitha RAO (IND) bt Andreja KLEPAC (SLO)/ Caroline WOZNIACKI (DEN) 06 63 10(8)
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At $100K +H Open d'Orléans, France

[R1] (1) BRIAUD Patrick (USA)/ GHOUSE Mustafa (IND) vs BEDNAREK Tomasz (POL)/ PRZYSIEZNY Michal (POL)
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At $10K Indonesia F4,

[Q1] SUKUL Saurav (IND) bt FLINT Patrick (CAN) 36 63 62
[Q1] RAJU Kaushik (IND) l SHIEH Yu-Da (TPE) 36 46
[Q1] (4) P. Vignesh (IND) bye
[Q1] MAKHARIA Rahil (IND) bt CHOUDHARY Rohit (IND) 61 64

[Q2] SUKUL Saurav (IND) l (2) SIRIBUTWONG Kirati (THA) 26 26
[Q2] (4) P. Vignesh (IND) bt COUTTS Nick (CAN) 63 36 75
[Q2] MAKHARIA Rahil (IND) l (5) PENG Hsien-Yin (TPE) 26 16

[R1] (3) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND,683) vs (WC) RUNGKAT Christopher (INA,1329)
[R1] NANDKUMAR Kiran (IND,1497) vs JOBE Ikaika (USA,893)
[R1] RAJA Purav (IND,962) vs (8) KLAASEN Raven (RSA,740)
[R1] LIBERHAN,Tushar (IND,876) vs (WC) DA COSTA Sebastian (INA,NR)
[R1] (Q) P. Vignesh (IND,1381) vs (Q) HUME Damian (RSA,1329)
[R1] (4) SINGH Ashutosh (IND,673) vs LE Minh (USA,1042)
[R1] VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,904) vs (6) WARD James (GBR,616)
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At $15K Spain F34 Futures, Mostoles

[R1] (1) RASTOGI Karan (IND,344) vs AUDOUY Xavier (FRA,610)

Tennis News -
At $475K China Open, Beijing

[Q1] (2) BOPANNA Rohan (IND,261) bt MARTIN David (USA,683) 67(5) 63 64
[Q2] (2) BOPANNA Rohan (IND,261) bt RATIWATANA Sonchat (THA,NR) 64 63

[Q3] (2) BOPANNA Rohan (IND,261) vs KING Phillip(USA,403)

Doubles -
[R1] (1) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ BOPANNA Rohan (IND) vs HAGGARD Chris (RSA)/ LU Yen-Hsun (TPE)
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At the $225K Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic WTA, Bali, Indonesia (Tier-III)

[Q1] Sunitha Rao (IND,220) l (3) Sorana Cirstea (ROU,138) 26 46
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Golf News -
At Omega European Masters, Crans Montana, Switzerland - Third Round

T47 SINGH Jeev Milkha 74 68 72 +1
72 KAPUR Shiv 72 72 76 +7
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At Omega European Masters, Crans Montana, Switzerland - Final Standing

T31 SINGH Jeev Milkha 74 68 72 68 -2 € 15800.00
T66 KAPUR Shiv 72 72 76 70 +6 € 4400.00
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Hockey News -
At the 6th Asia Cup Women's Hockey Championship, Hong Kong

Final -
Japan bt Korea 7-6 (in Sudden death)

Bronze Medal Match -
India l China 2-4

Goal Scorers - Ma Yi Bo 2, Song Qing Ling, Li Hong Xia (China), Suman Bala, Jasjeet Kaur (India)
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At 2007 Asia Cup Mens Hockey, Chennai, India

Final -
India bt Korea 7-2

3rd Place match -
Malaysia bt Japan 5-3

5th Place match -
China bt Pakistan 3-2

I was avoiding writing anything about India's mens hockey because of poor state of it and horrible administration last few years ... But today's final match changed my mind and make sure I write something positive about it.

Agree it’s too early to predict anything from this team against top European and Australian teams, BUT TODAY WE OUTPLAYED KOREA, who were here with their full strength team, THATS REALITY.

Frankly I don't remember when last time I saw such fluent performance by our team ... We were superb in passing, interception, releasing ball early, speed, follow up to support other players, also defense was good ... I was awe seeing our team's this performance ... Our forwardline was looking opportunistic, goals from Sunil Kumar and Rajpal were some of examples .. Also co-ordination between players were superb, one should watch goal from Prabodh Tirkey to see co-ordination between him and Prabhojot ... Our forwardline played unselfish game and passing balls to our partner who was in better position to score.

Yeah our coach need to work on some issues like PC conversion, defense, tackling, temper on the field, players get relaxed in end of every half ... But today our team and coach, Joaquim Carvalho, deserve all the praises they r receiving ... I m also saluting to our team.

Tennis News -
At 2007 Asian Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

[SF] (6) Tara Iyer (IND,393) bt (5) Xinyun Han (CHN,392) 26 76(3) 64

[F] (6) Tara Iyer (IND,393) l Iroda Tulyaganova (UZB,156) 26 26

Doubles -
[F] (2) Vivek Shokeen (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) l (1) Murad Inoyatov (UZB)/ Alexey Kedriouk (KAZ) 26 67(4)

So with that Tara's superb run ended in the final ... Also her 19th matches winning sterak broken ... But still creditable performance by Tara, who equaled Sanis's feat of being runnerup at Asian Championship.
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Golf News -
At Omega European Masters, Crans Montana, Switzerland - Second Round

T31 SINGH Jeev Milkha 74 68 Even
T54 KAPUR Shiv 72 72 + 2
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T133 RANDHAWA Jyoti 75 77 + 10
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Hockey News -
At the 6th Asia Cup Women's Hockey Championship, Hong Kong

Semi-Finals -

Japan bt China 2-1
India l Korea 2-5

Tennis News -
At 2007 Asian Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

[QF] (6) Tara Iyer (IND,393) bt Ling Zhang (HKG,584) 64 62

[SF] (6) Tara Iyer (IND,393) vs (5) Xinyun Han ( CHN,392)

Doubles -
[SF] (2) Vivek Shokeen (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt Hsin-Han Lee (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 76(1) 63

[SF] Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND)/ Tara Iyer (IND) l (1) Chin-Wei Chan (TPE)/ I-Hsuan Hwang (TPE) 26 63 10(6)

Tennis News -
At 2007 US Open,

Mixed Doubles Final -

Meghann Shaughnessy (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Victoria Azarenka (BLR)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) 46 67(6)
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At 2007 Asian Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

[R2] (3) Karan Rastogi (IND,344) l Tatsuma Ito (JPN,636) 63 46 67(5)
[R2] (8) Aditya Madkekar (IND,567) l Vaja Uzakov ( UZB,904) 63 36 57

[R2] (4) Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND,378) l Albina Khabibulina (UZB,1171) 26 57
[R2] (6) Tara Iyer (IND,393) bt Nigora Sirojiddinova (UZB,NR) 62 61

[QF] (6) Tara Iyer (IND,393) vs Ling Zhang (HKG,584)

Doubles -
[QF] (2) Vivek Shokeen (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt Aqeel Khan (PAK) / Aditya Madkekar (IND) 36 63 (12)10

[QF] Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND)/ Tara Iyer (IND) bt Sariya Khyrova (UZB)/ Nigora Sirojiddinova (UZB) 61 61
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Hockey News -
At the 6th Asia Cup Women's Hockey Championship, Hong Kong

India l China 2-4

Goal Scorers - Jasjeet Kaur, Saba Anjum (INDIA) and Tang Chung Ling 2, Li Hong Xia, Zhou Wan Feng (CHINA)

Semi-Finals -

China vs Japan
India vs Korea