Tennis News

At $590K Shenzhen Open, China

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,141) l (2) Andy Murray (GBR,11) 36 36

Doubles
[QF] (3) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Santiago Giraldo (COL)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 46 67(4)

Buji fail to challenge Andy and lose in straight sets ... But shocking loss of Rohan-Aisam against Giraldo-Venus ... Really don't know what happening with our pair ... This season they r fail to put decent performance.
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At $10K Turkey F33 Futures , Antalya

[R2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) bt Katsuki Nagao (JPN,1014) 62 75

[QF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) vs Hiroyasu Ehara (JPN,736)

Another straight sets win for RamK ... Next he is facing another Japanese opponent, Hiroyasu Ehara.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea

Rowing

Men's Lightweight Single Sculls - Final
Gold - Hoi Kwan Lok (HKG)
Silver - Hakbeom Lee (KOR)
Bronze - Dushiant Dushyant (IND) 7:26.57s

Men's Volleyball - Group C
India bt Maldives (25–10, 25–19, 25–17)

Boxing

Men's 60kg
[R1] Akhil Kumar (IND) bt Purna Bahadur Lama (NEP) (30-24, 30-25) stopped in 3rd round, Technical Knockout

Men's 54kg
[R1] Shiva Thapa (IND) bt Leonel Helo Prada (Timor Leste) w/o

Badminton

[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND) bt Teng Lok U (MAC) 21-10 21- 8
[R1] P V Sindhu (IND) bt Kit Leng Wong(MAC) 21-7 21-13

[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Sikky Reddy (IND) bt Sichhya Shrestha (NEP)/Punam Gurung (NEP) 21-16 21-4
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/Pranaav Jerry Chopra(IND) l Cai Yun (CHN)/Fu Haifeng (CHN) 10-21 15-21
[R1] B.Sumeeth Reddy (IND)/Manu Attri (IND) bt Nasheeu Shahrafuddeen (MAL)/ Mohamed Sarim (MAL) 21-7 21-7

[PQF] Pradnya Gadre / Sikky Reddy (IND) l (3) Miyuki Maeda / Reika Kakiwa (JPN) 16-21 21-19 14-21

So our poor performance continues nater fourth day, we have one gold and ten bronze medals.

Dushyant missed chance of winning Gold ... He was leading till 1500 mtrs but failed to push in final 500 mtrs to end up on 3rd place.

In volleyball our men's score comfortable win and secure their place in quarter finals, in last match they r facing mighty Iranians ... Expected winning start in badminton ... In Archery our archers r in good position after qualifying ... Our comeback-man Akhil start with solid win and joins Thapa in next round ... In hockey our women lose close match against Chinese girls, 1-2.

Tennis News

At $1M Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) bt Marinko Matosevic (AUS)/ Bernard Tomic (AUS) 61 63

[QF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) vs Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Philipp Petzschner (GER)

Lee-Martin's new partnership start with comfortable win against tricky Aussie pair ... Next they r facing grand slam winner pair of Melzer-Petzschner.
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At $590K Shenzhen Open, China

[R1] (3) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Matthew Ebden (AUS)/ Andreas Seppi (ITA) 64 46 10-7

[QF] (3) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Santiago Giraldo (COL)/ Michael Venus (NZL)

Rohan-Aisam start with tight win in match tie-break ... Next they r facing Giraldo-Venus.
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At $10K Turkey F33 Futures , Antalya

[R1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) bt Scott Browne (AUS,2166) 61 62

[R2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) vs Katsuki Nagao (JPN,1014)

RamK start with comfortable win ... Next he is facing Japanese Nagao.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea

Shooting - Men's 10m Air Rifle
Gold - China 1889 pts
Silver - South Korea 1867.4 pts
Bronze - India (Abhinav Bindra, Sanjeev Rajput, Ravi Kumar) 1863.0 pts (45x)


Men's 10m Air Rifle - Final
Gold - Haoran Yang (CHN) 209.6 pts.
Silver - Yifei Cao (CHN) 208.9 pts.
Bronze - Abhinav Bindra (IND) 187.1 pts.


Squash
Gold Medal match
Saurav Ghosal (IND) l Abdullah Almezayen (KUW) 2-3 (12-10, 11-2, 12-14, 8-11, 9-11)


Squash - Women's Singles
Gold - Nicol Ann David (MAS)
Silver - Lee We Wern (MAS)
Bronze - Dipika Pallikal (IND) and Annie Au Wing Chi (HKG)

Wushu

Women's Sanda - 52kg
[SF] Yamnam Sanathoi Devi (IND) l Luan Zhang (CHN) 0-2

Men's Sanda - 60kg
[SF] Narender Grewal (IND) l Saclag Jean Claude (PHI) 0-2

Men's Hockey - Group B
India bt Oman 7-0
Goal Scored - Rupinderpal Singh (IND) 18' PC and 19' PC, Akshdeep Singh (IND) 33', VR Raghunath (IND) 39' PS and 60+' PC, Ramandeep Singh (IND) 54', Danish Mujtaba (IND) 60'

After third day India has one gold and five bronze medals.

Abhinav Bindra wins his first individual Asian games medal, when he win Bronze in 10m Air Pistol ... With his help Indian Men's 10m Air Rifle team also wins another Bronze medal for India ... Abhinav finished on 5th position with 625.4 pts and qualify for the final ... Ravi Kumar and Sanjeev Rajput finished on 20th and 21st position with 618.9 pts and 618.7 pts respectively ... In the final Chinese shooters were too good for all shooter still Abhinav managed to grab Bronze in his last professional tournament ... Yesterday he tweeted that, "Tomorrow will mark the end of my professional shooting life. I will however still shoot, compete as a hobby shooter, training twice a week."

Saurav misses big opportunity of becoming first Indian squash player for winning Gold medal at Asian games ... After winning first 2 games Saurav was moving towards straight games victory but Almezayen made dramatic comeback in the match for winning next three games ... Saurav missed Gold medal point at 12-11 in the third game.

In Wushu we win over first ever medals as our both players lose their semi-final matches for winning Bronze medal.

Very ordinary stuff in hockey by Indian players in their match against Oman ... VR Raghunath missed 8 penalty corners in this match tell us whole story of our performance ... The most worrying factor for India will be ace drag-flicker Rupinderpal's injury before the crucial game against arch-rivals Pakistan.

Tennis News

At $590K Shenzhen Open, China

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,141) bt (WC) Xin Gao (CHN,946) 63 46 64

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,141) vs (2) Andy Murray (GBR,11)

Usual roller coaster win for Buji against lowly ranked player ... After winning the first set comfortably he gave chance to Gao for fightback .. But luckily Buji recovered in the third for winning this match ... Next he is facing Andy Murray.
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At $1M Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[Q3] (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,315) l (5) Philipp PETZSCHNER (GER,519) 57 26
[Q3] (7) N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,829) l (1) James WARD (GBR,121) 26 16

Jeevan gives some fighting performance in the first set against former top-35 German player Philipp Petzschner ... Money and 7 ranking points wise still good week for Jeevan and Vijay Sundar.
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Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea


Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol
Gold - South Kora 1749 pts
Silver - China 1747 pts
Bronze - India (Rahi Sarnobat, Anisa Sayyed, Heena Sindhu) 1729 pts (45x)

Women's 25m Pistol - Individual Semi-final
7. Rahi Sarnobat (IND) 15 pts

Shooting - Women's 10m Air Rifle
7. Ayonika Paul (IND) 101.9 pts

Squash
[SF] Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt Ong Beng Hee (MAS) 3-0 (11-9, 11-4, 11-5)

[SF] Dipika Pallikal (IND) l Nicol Ann David (MAS) 0-3 (4-11, 4-11, 5-11)

Tennis - Men's Quarter Final
[R2] (6) India l (1) Kazakhstan 1-2

Sanam Singh l Aleksandr Nedovyesov 67(5) 67(3)
Yuki Bhambri l Mikhail Kakushkin 26 76(6) 16
Divij Sharan/ Saketh Myneni bt Aleksandr Nedovyesov/ Andrey Golubev 75 75

Tennis - Women's Quarter Final
[R2] India l (2) Kazakhstan 1-2

Prarthana thombare l Yuliya Putintseva 36 26
Ankita Raina l Yaroslava Shvedova 5-7 67(3)
Rushika Sunkara/ Natasha Palha bt Yuliya Putintseva/ Yaroslava Shvedova 3-2 retd.

Men's Basketball - Group B
India bt Kazakhstan 80-61

Women's Hockey - Group A
India bt Thailand 3-0
Goal Scored - Poonam Rani (IND) 15', Vandana Kataria (IND) 39', Deepika (IND) 53'

Football - Men's Group G
India l Jordan 0-2

Women's Volleyball - Group A
India l Japan 0-3 (6-25, 11-25, 12-25)

Women's Handball - Group A
India l China 12-39

Men's Handball - Group D
India l Japan 12-47

Gymnastics

Artistic Women's Team Final

8. India 179.625 pts

Artistic Women's - Qualification

30. Pranati Nayak (IND) 44.675 pts (qualify)
31. Pranati Das (IND) 43.700 pts (failed to qualify)
34. B. Aruna Reddy (IND) 43.150 pts (failed to qualify)

Uneven Bars- Qualification
45. Payal Bhattacharjee (IND) 7.900 pts (failed to qualify)

Beams- Qualification
45. Rucha Divekar (IND) 10.150 pts (failed to qualify)

All Around - Qualification
23. Dipa Karmakar (IND) 47.850 pts (qualify)

Vault - Qualification
3. Dipa Karmakar (IND) 14.400 pts (qualify)

Rowing

Lightweight Women's Quadruple Sculls - Repechage
5 India (Dittymol/ Monalisha/ Chaoba/ Manjula) 7:05.65s (failed to qualify)

Judo
Women's 78+kg
[QF] Rajwinder Kaur (IND) l Odkhuu Javzmaa (MGL) 000-101

Women's 78+kg - Repechage A
[R1] Rajwinder Kaur (IND) l Nagira Sabashova (KGZ) 000-111

Wushu
Men's Nanquan - Final
13. Sajan Lama (IND) 7.95

Women's Sanda - 52kg
[QF] Yamnam Sanathoi Devi (IND) bt Sangidorj Amgalanjargal (MGL) 2-0

Men's Sanda - 60kg
[QF] Narender Grewal (IND) bt Abdullah (PAK) 2-0

Men's Sanda - 75kg
[QF] Rajani Deori (IND) l Van Sy Ngo (VIE) 0-2

Swimming
Men's 50m Backstroke - Heat 3
6 Madhu Prathapan Nair (IND) 26.85s

Cycling - Men's Sprint
Qualifying
13. Amrit Singh (IND) 64.917(qualify)
14. Amarjit Nagi (IND) 65.952s (qualify)

Round of 16
Amrit Singh (IND) l Saifei Bao (CHN) - Heat 5
Amarjit Nagi (IND) l Chao Xu (CHN) - Heat 6

After first day India has two medals from shooting; one gold and three bronze medals.

Rahi Sarnobat, Anisa Sayyed and Heena Sindhu win Bronze for India in Women's 25m Pistol team event ... Rahi qualified for the final on 8th place with 580 pts but in end finished on 7th ... In Women's 10m Air Rifle, Ayonika Paul finished 7th in the final after she qualified for the final on 3rd place with 417.7 pts.

In Squash we r making history as Saurav is in Gold medal match after comfortably winning his semi-final against 2006 Gold medalist Ong Beng Hee ... Dipiks lose one-sided in the semis against Nicole but she also guaranteed Bronze.

In Women's hockey we win against Thailand ... In Men's Basketball we beat Kazakh team comfortably but we lose in Volleyball and handball.

In Wushu our two players r in the semis; Narender Grewal and Yamnam Sanathoi Devi ... In tennis our both teams lose against top-seed Kazakh team.

Tennis News

At $1M Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[Q2] (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,315) bt Stefan MERUNKA (CRO,1536) 76(4) 46 61
[Q2] (7) N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,829) bt John PEERS (AUS,UNR) 60 60

[Q3] (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,315) vs (5) Philipp PETZSCHNER (GER,519)
[Q3] (7) N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,829) vs (1) James WARD (GBR,121)

Dominating win by Jeevan against lower ranked Croatian ... Vijay Sundar score hard fought win ... In the final round our both players facing tough challenge.
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At $10K Turkey F32 Futures , Antalya

Singles Final
(1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) bt (2) Remi Boutillier (FRA,447) 64 76(8)

RamK wins his fifth futures title and third this year by winning $10K futures in Turkey ... I m really feeling he should start playing more challengers ... Hopefully he will start playing in the future but congrats for another futures title.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea


Shooting - Men's 10m Pistol
Gold - South Korea 1744 pts
Silver - China 1743 pts (65x)
Bronze - India (Jitu Rai, Samaresh Jung, Prakash Nanjappa) 1743 pts (64x)

Men's 10m Pistol - Individual Final
5. Jitu Rai (IND) 138.3 pts

Shooting - Trap Men
11 Mansher Singh (IND) 117/75
14 Manavjit Singh Sandhu (IND) 116/125
36 Kynan Chenai (IND) 108/125

Badminton - Women's Semi-Final
India l South Korea 1-3

Saina Nehwal bt Sung Ji Hyun (KOR) 21-12 10-21 21-9
PV Sindhu l Bae Yeon Ju (KOR) 21-14 18-21 13-21
N Sikki Reddy/ Pradnya Gadre l Kim So-young/ Yena Chang 16-21 17-21
P.C. Thulasi l Kim Hyo Min 12-21 8-21

Squash
[QF] Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt Iqbal Nasir (PAK) 3-1 (11-6, 9-11, 11-2, 11-9)


[QF] Dipika Pallikal (IND) bt Joshna Chinappa (IND) 3-2 (7-11, 11-9, 11-8, 15-17, 11-9)

Tennis - Men
[R2] India bt Nepal 3-0

Sanam Singh bt Abhishek Bastola 60 61
Yuki Bhambri bt Jeetendra Pariyar 60 60
Sanam Singh/ Saketh Myneni bt Santosh Khatri/ Dawa Sonam Sherpa 60 60

Men's Hockey - Group B
India bt Sri Lanka 8-0
Goal Scored - Danish Mujtaba (IND) 6', Rupinderpal Singh (IND) 12' PS, 45' PC and 46' PC, Raghunath Ramachandra (IND) 13' PC, Kangujam Chinglensana Singh (IND) 21', Ramandeep Singh (IND) 28' and 59'

Football - Women's Group A
India l Thailand 0-10

Men's Basketball - Group B
India l Saudi Arabia 67-73

Men's Handball - Group D
India l South Korea 19-39

Women's Handball - Group A
India dw Thailand 26-26

Equestrian - Dressage Individual Intermediate I

13. Shruti Vora 68.474 (qualify)
19. Nadia Haridass 66.105 (qualify)
29. Shubhsri Rajendra 59.421 (failed to qualify)
30. Vanita Malhotra 56.211 (failed to qualify)

Gymnastics
All Around Men's Team Final

10. India 315.650

All Around Men's - Qualification

18. Ashish Kumar (IND) 80.250 (qualify)
22. Rakesh Patra (IND) 78.900 (qualify)
30. Aditya Singh Rana (IND) 75.675 (failed to qualify)

Floor Excersies - Qualification

35. Chandan Pathak (IND) 13.600 (failed to qualify)
56. Abhijit Shinde (IND) 12.400 (failed to qualify)

Pommel Horse

15. Dhan Bahadur (IND) 14.025 (failed to qualify)

Rowing
Open Men's Coxed Eights - Heat
2 India 5:53.58s (qualified)

Men's Singles Sculls - Heat 1
2 Sawarn Singh (IND) 7:10.65s (qualify for Repechage)

Open Men's Double Sculls - Heat
3 Om Prakash/ Bhokanal (IND) 6:41.67s (qualify for Repechage)

Lightweight Men's Quadruple Sculls - Heat
4 India (Rajesh/ Vikram/ Sonu/ Sokhendar) 6:20.09s (qualify for Repechage)

Open Women's Quadruple Sculls - Heat
5 India (Lakshmi/ Sanjukta/ Amanjot/ Navneet) 7:26.50s (qualify for Repechage)

Swimming
Men's 200m Freestyle - Heat 4
5 Saurabh Sangvekar (IND) 1:53.33s

Men's 200m Butterfly - Heat 1
4 Aaron Agnel D'Souza (IND) 2:04.74s

Men's 100m Backstroke - Heat 3
7 Madhu Prathapan Nair (IND) 57.81s

Cycling - Women's Keirin
Heats
5. Deborah (IND) +4.220 gap (heat 1) (failed to qualify)
5. Mahitha Mohan (IND) +1.231 gap (heat 2) (failed to qualify)

Final 7-12
9. Deborah (IND) +0.301 gap
11. Mahitha Mohan (IND) +0.768 gap

After second day India has three medals from shooting; one gold and two bronze.

In closely fought Men's 10m Pistol event India finish on third place to win Bronze ... Gold medal winner South Koreans had 1 more point from Indian team and Silver medalist Chinese team had sme points but had 1 extra shots on bulls eye ... Still creditable performance by Indian team consist of Jitu Rai, Samaresh Jung and Prakash Nanjappa for winning the Bronze ... Other hand Jitu missed chance of winning another individual medal as he finished on 5th position in the final after qualifying for the final on 2nd place with 585 pts.

In Trap Men our all three shooters showed disappointing performance as nobody managed to finish inside top-10 and In team event India finished on 6th position with 341/375 hits.

In badminton women's semi-final, Saina started with three games win over Korean Sung Ji Hyun but Sindhu lost after winning the first game against Bae Yeon Ju ... After that our young doubles pair failed to challenge Korean pair and Thulasi also lost her singles match without much fight ... Still with this we secure our first-ever team Bronze in Asian games.

In Squash Dipika score hard fought win over Joshana in five games thriller ... With this win Dipika secure her Bronze as semi-finalist ... Saurav also guaranteed her Bronze medal as he beats Pakistani Iqbal Nasir in four games.

Our Men's team start with dominating win against Nepal ... They lose only one game in three matches but next they r facing top-seed team.

In hockey Indian men start with comfortable win over Sri Lanka ... This match was played with new rule, i.e. the duration of the game has been reduced from 70 to 60 minutes, with four quarters of 15 minutes each.

Indian women fails to qualify for quarter-final after one-sided loss against Thai girls.

In Basket ball our men's lose close mach against Saudi Arabia.

In Handball our women draw with Thailand and our men's team lose against South Korean team.

In Dressage Individual Shruti Vora and Nadia Haridass qualify for next stage.

In Gymnastic Ashish Kumar and Rakesh Patra qualify for next stage in All Around event.

Overall good day in Rowing as our all rowers move to next stage.

Tennis News

At $1M Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan (WTA Premier)

Doubles Final
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt (4) Garbine Muguruza (ESP)/ Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) 62 75

Sania-Cara defend their title at Tokyo ... In the final they defeat 4th seed Spanish pair in straight sets ... Sania is joining Indian Asian games team at Incheon.
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At $1M Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[Q1] (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,315) bye
[Q1] (7) N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,829) bye
[Q1] Mithun MURALI (IND,1069) l Singekrawee WATTANAKUL (THA,1125) 46 63 26

[Q2] (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,315) vs Stefan MERUNKA (CRO,1536)
[Q2] (7) N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,829) vs John PEERS (AUS,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) vs Marinko Matosevic (AUS)/ Bernard Tomic (AUS)

Jeevan and Vijay r playing in qualifying ... Lee is playing with Marcin, his 98th partner on the tour.
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At Shenzhen Open, China

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) vs (WC) Xin Gao (CHN,946)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Matthew Ebden (AUS)/ Andreas Seppi (ITA)

Buji having easy first round and he can meet Andy Murray in the second round ... In the doubles Rohan-Aisam r 3rd seed and facing Australian-Italian pair.
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At $10K Turkey F32 Futures , Antalya

[SF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) bt (6) Matija Pecotic (CRO,663) 63 64

[F] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) vs (2) Remi Boutillier (FRA,447)

RamK score comfortable win over his Croatian opponent Pecotic ... In the final he is facing 2nd see Frenchman Remi Boutillier.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea


Shooting - Men's 50m Pistol
Gold - Jitu Rai (IND) 186.2 pts
Silver - Hoang Phuong Nguyen (VIE) 183.4 pts
Bronze - Wang Zhiwei (CHN) 165.6 pts


Shooting - Women's 10m Air Pistol
Gold - Zhang Mengyuan (CHN)
Silver - Jung Jeehae (KOR)
Bronze - Shweta Chaudhry (IND) 176.4 pts

Shooting - Trap Men
Manavjit Singh Sandhu (IND) 72/75 (day 1)
Mansher Singh (IND) 69/75 (day 1)
Kynan Chenai (IND) 65/75 (day 1)

Badminton - Women's R16
India bt Macau 3-0

Saina Nehwal bt Kit Ieng Wong 21-6 21-4
PV Sindhu bt Teng Iok U 21-8 21-9
N Sikki Reddy/ Pradnya Gadre bt Zhibo Zhang/ Rong Wang 21-16 21-17

Badminton - Men's R16
India l South Korea 0-3

K. Srikanth l Wanho Son 14-21 8-21
Manu Attri/ R. Sumeeth Reddy l Yeonseong Yoo/ Yongdae Lee 12-21 9-21
Parupalli Kashyap l Hyunil Lee 21-6 14-21 10-21

Men's Basketball - Group B
India bt Palestine 89-49

Men's Handball - Group D
India l Chinese Taipei 20-39

Women's Handball - Group A
India l South Korea 11-47

Judo
Men's 60kg

[R32] Navjot Chana (IND) bt Almaraghy Abdalla (KUW) 1-0 Ippon
[R16] Navjot Chana (IND) l Boldbaatar Ganbat (MGL) 0-1 Ippon, 1 Waza-ari

Women's 48kg

[R16] Sushila Devi Likmabam (IND) bt Kubeeva Mukaddas (UZB) 001-000
[QF] Sushila Devi Likmabam (IND) l Emi Yamagishi (JPN) 0-1 Ippon

Women's 48kg - Repechage B
[R1] Sushila Devi Likmabam (IND) l Shugen Wu (CHN) 0-1 Ippon

Women 52kg

[R16] Kalpana Devi Thoudam (IND) bt Devika Khadka (NEP) 1-0 Ippon
[QF] Kalpana Devi Thoudam (IND) l Yingnan Ma (CHN) 000-010

Women's 52kg - Repechage B
[R1] Kalpana Devi Thoudam (IND) bt Pei Ju Lien (TPE) 1-0 Ippon
[Bronze Medal match] Kalpana Devi Thoudam (IND) l Lenariya Mingazova (KAZ) 000-101

Rowing
Lightweight Men's Single Sculls - Heat 2
2 Dushyant 7:23.94s (qualified)

Lightweight Men's Doubles Sculls - Heat
5 Roopender/ Manjeet (IND) 6:44.51s (qualified)

Open Women's Coxless Pairs - Heat
6 Samjukta/ Tarunikha (IND) 8:24.48s (qualified)

Lightweight Women's Quadruple Sculls - Heat
4 Dittymol/ Monalisha/ Chaoba/ Manjula (IND) 7:10.24s (failed)

Squash
[R16] Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt Ahmed Al Saraj (JOR) 3-0 (11-2, 11-4, 11-3)
[R16] Harinder Pal Sandhu (IND) l Abdullah Al Muzayen (KUW) 0-3 (4-11, 6-11, 2-11)

[R1] Joshna Chinappa (IND) bt Song Sun-mi (KOR) 3-0 (11-9, 11-7, 11-7)
[R1] Dipika Pallikal (IND) bt Gu Jinyue (CHN) 3-1 (11-6, 10-12, 11-6, 11-4)

Tennis - Women
[R1] India bt Oman 3-0

Prarthana Thombare bt Sarah Abdulmajeed 60 61
Ankita Raina bt Fatma Talib Sulaiman 64 26 63
Rishika Sunkara/ Natasha Palha bt Sarah Abdulmajeed/ Fatma Talib Sulaiman w/o

Volleyball - Women's Group A
India l South Korea 0-3 (15-25, 12-25, 13-25)

Volleyball - Men's Group C
India bt Hong Kong 3-1 (23-25, 25-18, 25-16, 25-21)

Weightlifting - Men's 56 kg
6 Sukhen Dey (IND) 242kg

Weightlifting - Women's 48 kg (Group A)
9 Mirabai Chanu Saikhom (IND) 171kg
10 Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu (IND) 166kg

Cycling
Women's Team Sprint
India - Deborah/ Kezia 48.908s (failed to qualify)

Men's Team Sprint
India - Amrit/ Alan/ Amarjit 1:04.644s (failed to qualify)

Wushu
Men's Changquan
9th Anjul Namdeo (IND) 9.03

Men's Sanda - 60kg
[R16] Narender Grewal (IND) bt Tharu Mangal Pasad (NEP) 2-0

Men's Sanda - 60kg
[R16] Mayanglambam Bimoljit Singh (IND) l Salaheddin Bayramov (TKM) 0-1

Women's Sanda - 52kg
[R16] Yamnam Sanathoi Devi (IND) bt Mubarak Kamakova (UZB) 2-0

Men's Sanda - 56kg
[R16] Santosh Kumar (IND) l Railin Rizaidin (KAZ) 1-2

Women's Sanda - 60kg
[R16] Wangkhem Sandhyarani Devi (IND) l Thi Ly Tan (VIE) 0-2

Equestrian
Dressage Team Prix St-Georges
6 India 65.158

Dressage Individual Prix St-Georges
Nadia Haridass 67.395 (qualify)
Shruti Vora 66.184 (qualify)
Shubhsri Rajendra 61.895 (qualify)
Vanita Malhotra 58.947 (qualify)

Badminton - Women's Quarter-finals
India bt Thailand 3-2

Saina Nehwal bt Ratchanok Intanon 21-15 17-21 21-18
PV Sindhu bt Porntip Buranaprasertsuk 21-15 21-13
P.C. Thulasi l Busanan Ongbumrungpan 12-21 14-21
N Sikki Reddy/ Pradnya Gadre l Porntip Buranaprasertsuk/ Kunchala Voravichitchaikul 17-21 21-18 16-21
Ashwini Ponnappa/ PV Sindhu bt Sapsiree Taerattanachai/ Saralee Thoungthongkam 21-16 21-17

After first day India has two medals from shooting; one gold and one bronze.

Jitu Rai give India its first gold medal from the 17th Asian Games on first day ... In see-saw final round which having tough field, in that in beginning Jitu jumped to fourth and again dropped to sixth before making an amazing recovery to clinch the gold medal ... Jitu qualified for final on 7th position with 559 pts but Om Prakash and Omkar Singh failed to qualify for the final round finishing 10th (555 pts) and 16th (551 pts) respectively ... Three-time Olympic champion and local favorite Jin Jongoh qualified for the final on top position but in the final he eliminated 2nd to finish on 7th position ... The Indian team comprising of Jitu Rai, Om and Omkar finished fourth and missed the team bronze by five points.

Before Jitu's Gold medal Shweta Chaudhry gives India its first medal from 17th Asian Games ... She won bronze in the Women 10m Air Pistol Finals and before that she qualified for the final with 383 pts ... Other hand Indians favorites Heena Sidhu and Malaika Goel failed to make it to the finals ... Heena finished on 13th with 378 pts and Malaika finished on 24th with 373 pts ... In team event our team ended on 5th position.

In badminton women's round of 16, India convincingly defeats Macau-China for entering into the quarters ... In the quarters our girls are facing Thailand ... But our men's team lose their match in R16 against host South Korea.

Comfortable winning start for Indian men's in basketball but their real test will be started from next matches.

In handball our both teams lose their respective group matches.

In Judo, Kalpana Devi Thoudam lose Bronze medal match against Kazak's Judoka Lenariya Mingazova.

In rowing our only Lightweight Women's Quadruple Sculls team fail to qualify for next round.

In Squash singles, Saurav start with comfortable win but Harinder Pal lose his match easily against Kuwaiti ... In women's singles Dipika and Joshna r stretched by unknown players.

Expected winning start for Indian women tennis team against Oman.

Our volleyball men's team struggle in their win over Hong Kong and host South Korean women team prove too strong for our women.

Disappointing first day at Weightlifting for our three lifters.

Narender Grewal and Yamnam Sanathoi Devi are in the quarters of their respective Wushu weight categories.

In Equestrian Dressage team event India finishes on 6th position but our all four riders qualify for Individual event.

In the evening Indian women play quarter final against 4th seed Thailand and score upset win in tight match ... Saina and PV Sindhu scored upset win over their higher ranked opponents Ratchanok and Porntip in contrasting style to give India 2-0 lead but Thai girls fought back for winning third single and first doubles rubber ... In the final rubber Ashwini paired with Sindhu and they scored upset win over Thai pair in straight games for upset win.

Tennis News

At $1M Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan (WTA Premier)

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Jelena Jankovic (SRB)/ Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP) 63 62

[F] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs (4) Garbine Muguruza (ESP)/ Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP)

Sania-Cara score comfortable win over Jankovic-Parra Santonia in the semis ... In the final they r facing 4th seed Spanish pair of Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro.
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At $10K Turkey F32 Futures , Antalya

[QF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) bt Duck Hee Lee (KOR,578) 62 64

[SF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) vs (6) Matija Pecotic (CRO,663)

Very dominating win by RamK against young talented Korean Duck Hee Lee ... Next he is facing Croatian Pecotic.
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At $15K Sweden F4 Futures, Danderyd

[R1] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE) bt Morgan JOHANSSON (SWE)/ Christian SAMUELSSON (SWE) 36 62 10-4
[QF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE) bt Philip ORNO (DEN)/ Mohamed SHABIB (DEN) 57 76(6) 10-4
[SF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE) bt (4) Jesper BRUNSTROM (SWE)/ Maxim DUBARENCO (MDA) 76(2) 64

Doubles Final
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE) bt Jacob ADAKTUSSON (SWE)/ Tobias BLOMGREN (SWE) 64 64

After losing in the first round of singles Bala partnered Patrik Rosenholm for lifting doubles title ... Hopefully this performance help him to perform better in next week's singles.

Tennis News

At $1M Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan (WTA Premier)

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Lisa Raymond (USA) 63 36 10-8
[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Belinda Bencic (SUI)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) 64 62

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Jelena Jankovic (SRB)/ Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP)

After winning close first round Sania-Cara score more comfortable win over Swiss pair including Martina Hingis in the quarters ... In the semis they r facing unseeded pair of Jankovic-Parra Santonja.
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At $10K Turkey F32 Futures , Antalya

[R1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) bt Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (THA,781) 64 62
[R2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) bt Adrian Bodmer (SUI,991) 67(5) 75 75

[QF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) vs Duck Hee Lee (KOR,578)
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RamK stretch to fullest by Swiss player Bodmer in the second round ... In the quarters he is facing young talented Korean junior Duck Hee Lee.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea

Group A - Women
India l Korea 0-10 (0-5)
Goal Scored - Yoo Younga (KOR) - 4 goals, Jeon Gaeul (KOR) - 3 goals, Jung Seoblin (KOR) - 2 goals, Park Heeyoung (KOR)

Our women thrashed by Korean women in one-sided match ... Our players failed to took a single shot on Korean goal-post, that's told us story of the match ... Only 19% ball possession for Indian girls ... They need huge improvement for game against Thailand for qualifying to quarter-final.

Tennis News

At $1M Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan (WTA Premier)

[R1] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Lisa Raymond (USA)

Sania is defending champion here so huge points at stake.
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At $125K Izmir Challenger, Turkey

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Andreas Siljeström (SWE) l (4) Victor Baluda (RUS)/ Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS) 64 46 8-10

Another bad loss for Purav with his partner against similar ranked opponents.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea

Group A - Women
India bt Maldives 15-0
Goal Scored - Sasmita Malik (IND) 5', 16', 26', 80' and 87', Kamala Devi (IND) 12', 23', 30', 41' and 66', Bala Devi (IND) 13' and 37', Bembem Devi (IND) 57', Ashalata Devi (IND) 51', Prameshwori Devi (IND) 90+'

Our women score one-sided win over Maldives girls ... In crucial matches India next play hosts South Korea on September 17 before taking on Thailand on September 19 in their last group match ... Three teams from the four-team will qualify for the quarterfinals ... So with this win Indian women qualify for quarter-final.
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Group G - Men
India l UAE 0-5 (0-3)
Goal Scored - Saeed Alkatheeri (UAE) 13', 15' and 64', Al Ahbabi (UAE) 19' and Sandesh Jhingan (IND) OG 82'

Humiliating 0-5 thrashing at the hands of United Arab Emirates in its Asian Games for Indian men ... Indians failed in defending and attacking ... This loss meant that our players could fly back home early from the Games as they play another strong team in Jordan on September 22 in their second and final group match.

Tennis News

At Davis Cup - World Group play-off 2014, Bengaluru, India

India l Serbia 2-3

Day One
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) l Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61) 36 26 57
[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) l Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107) 16 64 36 26

Day Two
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Nenad Zomonjic (SRB)/ Ilija Bozolac (SRB) 16 67(4) 63 63 8-6

Day Three
[R4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) bt Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61) 16 64 46 63 62
[R5] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) l Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107) 36 46 46

Somdev completes superb fighting win in 3 hours and 37 minutes against WR #61 Dusan Lajivic in five sets thriller to took tie in fifth rubber ... In the first set Dusan broke Buji twice for taking it comfortably ... In the second set Buji raised his game and matches with Dusan ... Buji saved 8 break points and converted crucial in 10th game for winning this set ... In the third set Buji broke Dusam in 2nd game to lead 3-0 but from 4-1 suddenly dip in Buji's game ... Dusan take full advantage of it and he won next five games breaking Buji in 7th and 9th games for winning this set ... In the start of fourth set Buji was under pressure but after third game both players started to play attacking game ... From 2-1 in Buji's favors we experienced 5 break of service games in a row ... In that Buji broke Dusan in 4th, 6th and 8th games and other hand Dusan broke Buji in 5th and 7th games ... Buji hold crucial service games in 9th game for taking match into decider ... In final set Buji saved couple of break points from 15-40 in 2nd game for 1-all .. After that Buji dominated the set he broke Dusan in 3rd and 7th games and other hand holding his service game comfortably for winning the set and match for India.

In the final rubber Filip had a good start as he take advantage of Yuki's wayward game to broke him 2nd game to lead 3-0 ... Yuki broke Filip in 5ht game to 2-3 but again lost his service game in next game with unforced errors, 2-4 ... Filip kept that advantage for winning the set ... In the second set Yuki started well and broke Filip in 2nd game to lead 2-0 but afterwards usual Yuki's erratic game came back ... He lost next four games losing his service twice in 3rd and 5th games, 2-4 ... Yuki managed to recover and he broke Filip in 8th game for making 4-all ... After that match stopped due to rain break ... Match continued on Monday and Filip immediately broke Yuki in 9th game ... Then he hold his service game for winning the second set ... Filip take early break in the final set and kept that advantage through out the set despite facing couple of break points ... Filip won the set and match, so with that Serbia manage to keep their place in World Group but other hand India is back in Asia-Oceanic group ... In this match Yuki hit 34 winners and Filip hit 24 winners but Yuki made 66 unforced errors in comparison Filip made 38 unforced errors ... Yuki need to learn of playing percentage tennis whenever needs.

Badminton News

At $125K Yonex-Sunrise Indonesian Masters 2014 (GP Gold), Palembang

Men's Final
(5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) bt Firman Abdul Kholik (INA,UNR) 21-11 22-20

Prannoy lifts his first prestigious GP Gold title and that's also outside India when he beats young Indonesian qualifier Firman Abdul Kholik in two games ... After winning the first game comfortably Prannoy faced tough challenge by Firman in the second game ... Till 16-all they were neck to neck but at that time Prannoy won next 4 points for giving 4 match points ... Firman kept fighting and saved all 4 match points, 20-all but Prannoy earned another match point and converted this for winning this match in 42 minutes.

Shooting News

At 51st ISSF World Championship - All Events, Granada, Spain

Our shooters fail to hit targets and ended lowly in 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men ... Gurpreet Singh ended on 21st with 574 pts, Harpreet Singh ended on 27th with 572 pts and favorite Vijay Kumar ended on lowly 36th with only 569 pts.

In Double Trap Men also our player fail to qualify for the final ... Mohammad Asab finished on 11th with 140 hits, Ankur Mittal finished on 16th with 138 hits and Sangram Dahiya finished on 31st with 131 pts..

Tenis News

At Davis Cup - World Group play-off 2014, Bengaluru, India

India vs Serbia 1-2

Day One
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) l Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61) 36 26 57
[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) l Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107) 16 64 36 26

Day Two
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Nenad Zomonjic (SRB)/ Ilija Bozolac (SRB) 16 67(4) 63 63 8-6

Lee scripted another terrific comeback win with Rohan in crucial match against Serbia ... Our pair lost the first set in 18 minutes without much fight ... In the second set Lee-Rohan showed improvement but lost in tie-break against big serving Serbian pair ... At that time Indian pair was only one set away from losing the match and Davis cup tie ... Rohan-Lee showed tremendous fighting spirit from here and won next two sets with identical 6-3 score ... Both pairs played cautiously in the decider but Indian pair take crucial break in 14th game for winning this match after 3 hours match ... This is important win for India as our pair takes tie for another day and giving some fighting chance for Somiand Buji.

Shooting News

At 51st ISSF World Championship - All Events, Granada, Spain

Disappointing day in 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men event as Sanjeev Rajput finished on 28th position with 1167 pts and Gagan Narang finished on 32nd position with 1166 pts ... Chain Singh was finished on 42nd position with 1162 pts.

Wrestling News

At 2014 World Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Greco-Roman - 59kg
[R1] Ravinder SINGH (IND) l Kazuma KURAMOTO (JPN) 1-4

Greco-Roman - 71kg
[R1] K.K. YADAV (IND) bt Vojtech JAKUS (SVK) 5-3

[R2] K.K. YADAV (IND) l Demeu ZHADRAYEV (KAZ) 0-8

Greco-Roman - 80kg
[R1] Harpreet SINGH (IND) l Evgeny SALEEV (RUS) 0-8

Repechage - GR - 80 kg
[R1] Harpreet SINGH (IND) bt Jonas BOSSERT (SUI) 6-1

[R2] Harpreet SINGH (IND) l Bozo STARCEVIC (CRO) 0-5

Greco-Roman - 98kg
[R1] Hardeep SINGH (IND) bt Akira OSAKA (JPN) 4-1

[R2] Hardeep SINGH (IND) l Ardo ARUSAAR (EST) 1-4

Overall decent performance by our second string Greco-Roman wrestlers.

Badminton News

At $50K Yonex-Sunrise Indonesian Masters 2014, Palembang

[R1] (6) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,61) bt Siswanto (INA,215) 21-10 21-9
[R1] (5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) bt Akbar Panji (INA,490) 21-14 21-14
[R1] (14) Ajay Jayaram (IND,69) bt Kaesar Akbar (INA,384) 21-5 21-4
[R1] (4) Anand Pawar (IND,46) bt Nizar Muhammad (INA,827) 21-6 21-7

[R1] Sanjeeth S. (IND)/ Jagadish Yadav (IND) l (7) Ronald Alexander (INA)/ Edi Subaktiar (INA) 21-18 9-21 13-21

[R2] (6) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,61) bt Kian Meng Tan (MAS,217) 21-19 18-21 21-17
[R2] (5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) bt Muhammad Bayu Pangisthu (INA,439) 21-17 25-27 21-18
[R2] (14) Ajay Jayaram (IND,69) bt Alamsyah Yunus (INA,168) 13-21 21-19 21-16
[R2] (4) Anand Pawar (IND,46) bt Joo Ven Soong (MAS,216) 21-19 21-15

[R3] (6) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,61) bt (14) Ajay Jayaram (IND,69) 21-16 14-21 23-21
[R3] (5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) bt (16) Sukamta Evert (INA,125) 21-18 13-21 21-15
[R3] (4) Anand Pawar (IND,46) l Mahbub Thomi Azizan (INA,196) 20-22 19-21

[QF] (6) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,61) l (9) Daren Liew (MAS,67) 15-21 16-21
[QF] (5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) bt (15) Riyanto Subagja (INA,116) 21-13 21-19

[SF] (5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) bt (9) Daren Liew (MAS,67) 21-14 14-21 21-14

[F] (5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) vs Firman Abdul Kholik (INA,UNR)

Another week another final for Prannoy ... Prannoy having terrific chance of winning the title as he is facing Indonesian junior #1 Firman Abdul Kholik in the final ... Sai Praneeth also reached in the quarters.

Tennis News

At Davis Cup - World Group play-off 2014, Bengaluru, India

India vs Serbia 0-2

Day One
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) l Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61) 36 26 57
[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) l Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107) 16 64 36 26

India is in deep shit after first day in their Davis cup tie against Serbia after losing both the singles ... In the first match Yuki failed to raise the game as he made 59 unforced errors in this match and managed to convert only 2 break points from 9 chances ... In the third set he had respectable score against Lajivic ... In the second match I had lot more hope but Buji was flat in the first set to lose it easily ... In the second set he raised to win it but after that Buji's game went down ... Krajinovic take full advantage to win next two sets comfortably ... So after day one Serbia in driving seat and we need miracle of tremendous improvement in performance by Indians ... I doubt but at least hoping some face saving win by Lee-Rohan in tomorrow's doubles.
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At $75K Istanbul Challenger, Turkey

[SF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) l (1) Colin Fleming (GBR)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR) 26 36

Divij-Marcus fail to raise game against top-seed British pair for one-sided loss.

Shooting News

At 51st ISSF World Championship - All Events, Granada, Spain

Today our shooters were off-colors in all three events ... Favorites in 10m Air Pistol Women event, Heena Sidhu and Rahi Sarnobat finishes disappointingly on 16th and 72nd positions ... Heena scored 581 pts and Rahi scored 372 pts, Shweta Chaudhry squeezed in between on 68th position with 373 pts ... In 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women also, Lajja Gauswami ended on #16 with 583 pts ... Anjali Bhagwat finished on #47 with 575 pts ... In Trap Women event our single player fail to finish in top-30 ... Our all three shooters scored identical 67 hits for finishing on #35 Seema Tomar, #36 Shreyasi Singh and #39 Shagun Chowdhary.

Wrestling News

At 2014 World Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Greco-Roman - 66kg
[R1] Sandeep Tulsi YADAV (IND) bt Matous MORBITZER (CZE) 5-2

[R2] Sandeep Tulsi YADAV (IND) l Hasan ALIYEV (AZE) 5-6

Greco-Roman - 75kg
[R1] Gurpreet Singh (IND) bt Amanaly ATAYEV (TKM) 8-6
[R2] Gurpreet Singh (IND) bt Ricardo GIL (ESP) 12-4
[R3] Gurpreet Singh (IND) bt Petr NOVAK (CZE) 9-2

[QF] Gurpreet Singh (IND) l Zurabi DATUNASHVILI (GEO) 5-7

Greco-Roman - 85kg
[R1] Manoj KUMAR (IND) l Laimutis ADOMAITIS (LTU) 0-8

Greco-Roman - 130kg
[R1] Dharmender DALAL (IND) l Nurmakhan TINALIYEV (KAZ) 0-6

First encouraging performance by Indian wrestler ... Gurpreet Singh misses a medal match by one bout in 75kg Greco-Roman ... Gurpreet won three bouts including close win against Atayev ... In the quarters he lose very close match against Datunashvili ... In 66kg category Sandeep Yadav loses close second round bout against Aliyev.

Tennis News

At Davis Cup - World Group play-off 2014, Bengaluru, India

India vs Serbia

Day One
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) vs Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61)
[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) vs Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107)

Day Two
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Nenad Zomonjic (SRB)/ Ilija Bozolac (SRB)

Day Three
[R4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) vs Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61)
[R5] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) vs Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107)

India is having chance in this tie after Novak Djokovic withdrawal from this tie ... But still our players need to perform above their ranking ... Buji is coming out of bad form and other hand Yuki is recovering from carer threatening injury ... Still hoping for upset.
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At $75K Istanbul Challenger, Turkey

[QF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) bt Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Jimmy Wang (TPE) 63 64

[SF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) vs (1) Colin Fleming (GBR)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR)

Comfortable straight sets win for Divij-Daniell against singles specialists Jaziri and Wang ... In the semis they r facing tough challenge of top British pair.

Shooting News

At 51st ISSF World Championship - All Events, Granada, Spain

50m Rifle Prone Men
6. Gagan Narang (IND) 124.2

Gagan Narang misses Olympics quota place by 0.6 points when he finishes sixth in 50m Rifle Prone Men event ... I was thinking top-6 shooters out of the 8 finalists were awarded an Olympic Quota place but in this event they awarded to top 5.

Before that Gagan finished 7th in qualifying 625.5 pts to qualify for the final ... Hariom Singh finished on #45 with 620.9 pts ... In the final Gagan became third shooter to get eliminated when his score was 0.6 pt less than 5th number shooter.

In 10m Air Pistol Men event, Prakash Nanjappa misses Olympics quota place by 1 point as all finalists receive Olympic quota as two are already secured quota in 50m Air Pistol ... Prakash and Jitu Rai were unlucky as they missed the final by a single point as both ended on 9th and 10th places respectively with 581 pts ... Om Prakash finished on #56th with 572 pts.

Wrestling News

At 2014 World Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Freestyle Women - 53kg
[R1] Nirmala DEVI (IND) l Sumiya ERDENECHIMEG (MGL) 0-4

Freestyle Women - 58kg
[R1] SARITA (IND) l Lisset ANTES (ECU) 2-6

Freestyle Women - 63kg
[R1] Navjot KAUR (IND) l Danielle Suzanne LAPPAGE (CAN) by TF, 0-10

Freestyle Women - 75kg
[R1] Anshu TOMAR (IND) l Stanka ZLATEVA (BUL) 0-2 by VT - 01:39

Not total one-sided losses for Indian girls.

Tennis News

At $75K Istanbul Challenger, Turkey

[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) bt (WC) Baris Erguden (TUR)/ Anil Yuksel (TUR) 46 63 10-5

[QF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) vs Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Jimmy Wang (TPE)

Divij-Marcus need comeback after losing the first set ... After losing the first set they dominated second and match tie-breaks against local pair.
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At $15K Canada F10 Futures, Toronto

[QF] Sumit NAGAL (IND)/ Harry BOURCHIER (AUS) l (4) Farris Fathi GOSEA (GBR)/ Eric QUIGLEY (USA) 26 46

Comfortable win for 4th seeds against this young pair ... Next week also Sumit is playing in Canadian futures.

Shooting News

At 2014 World Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

In Trap men event yesterday after four rounds Manavjit Singh Sandhu was tied for top position with perfect 100 score ... But today in the final round he managed 23 hits from 25 so he tied for 5th position scoring 123 hits with 7 other players ... In the qualifying for final 2 places for the final he got eliminated second ... Our other 2 players Kynan Chenai and Prithviraj Tondaiman scored 119 hits to finished on 46th and 48th respectively.

In 25m Pistol Women event our players has disappointing outing ... Anisa Sayyed finished on 14th place with 581 pts ... Rahi Sarnobat finished on 21st position with 579 pts and Pushpanjali Rana ended on 53rd position with 568 pts.

Wrestling News

At 2014 World Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Freestyle Women - 48kg
[R1] Priyanka SINGH (IND) l Emilia Alina VUC (ROU) by TF, 0-10

Freestyle Women - 55kg
[R1] Pooja DHANDA (IND) l Battsetseg ALTANSETSEG (MGL) by TF, 0-10

Freestyle Women - 60kg
[R1] Sakshi MALIK (IND) bt Anta SAMBOU (SEN) 15-2
[R2] Sakshi MALIK (IND) l Petra Maarit OLLI (FIN) 3-5

Freestyle Women - 69kg
[R1] Suman KUNDU (IND) l Natalia VOROBEVA (RUS) by TF, 0-10

In women's section also we r having forgettable performance ... Only Sakshi Malik managed to win a match.

Tennis News

At $15K Canada F10 Futures, Toronto

[R1] (Q) Sumit NAGAL (IND,1742) l (2) Dimitar Kutrovsky (BUL,368) 67(2) 26

Doubles
[R1] Sumit NAGAL (IND)/ Harry BOURCHIER (AUS) bt (WC) Egor KOLEGANOV (RUS)/ David VOLFSON (CAN) 64 75

Overall fighting performance by young Sumit in his loss against top-400 player ... In the first set at one time Sumit was 3-1 up but he failed to keep that advantage before losing the set in tie-break ... In the doubles Sumit is having winning start with his Australian partner.

Shooting News

At 51st ISSF World Championship - All Events, Granada, Spain


50m Pistol Men
Gold - Jongoh Jin (KOR) 192.3 pts
Silver - Jitu Rai (IND) 191.1 pts
Bronze - Wei Pang (CHN) 172.6 pts

10m Air Rifle Women
8 Ayonika Paul (IND) 80.9

Jitu Rai become the first Indian shooter to capture Olympics quota place for the 2016 Rio Olympics when he wins the silver at World championships ... Jitu continues with his recent golden run to win Silver in World championships ... In the qualifying Jitu Rai finished on 3rd position with 565 pts but his other 2 partners ended below in standing, #33 Gurpal Singh 550 pts and #38 Om Prakash 548 pts.

Ayonika Paul qualified for the final topping qualifying round scoring 420.8 pts, but unfortunately she was become first player to eliminate in the final. So she misses Olympics quota place .. Our other two shooters were way behind, #44 Kiranjit Kaur 412.5 pts and #67 Raj Chaudhary 410.3 pts.

Wrestling News

At 2014 World Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Freestyle - 61kg
[R1] Rahul MANN (IND) bt Ivan GUIDEA (ROU) 8-5
[R2] Rahul MANN (IND) l Yowlys BONNE (CUB) by TF, 0-10

Freestyle - 65kg
[R1] Amit DHANKHAR (IND) l Azamat NURYKAU (BLR) 4-7

Freestyle - 74kg
[R1] BALRAJ (IND) l Alexandru BURCA (MDA) by TF, 0-10

Freestyle - 97kg
[R1] SUMIT (IND) l Reza Mohammad Ali YAZDANI (IRI) by TF, 0-10

Another forgettable day for 2nd string Indians players ... Only Rahul Mann managed to win a match.

Tennis News

At $75K Istanbul Challenger, Turkey

[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Andreas Siljeström (SWE) l Tatsuma Ito (JPN)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 57 26
[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) vs (WC) Baris Erguden (TUR)/ Anil Yuksel (TUR)

Good to see Divij and Purav r playing in Turkey though with different partners ... But 3rd seed Purav-Andreas lose their first round match against Japanese pair in straight sets.
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At $15K Canada F10 Futures, Toronto

[Q1] (6) Sumit NAGAL (IND) bye
[Q2] (6) Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt Xiuneng WANG (CAN) 60 61
[Q3] (6) Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt Egor KOLEGANOV (RUS) 63 16 62

[R1] (Q) Sumit NAGAL (IND,1742) vs (2) Dimitar Kutrovsky (BUL,368)

Doubles
[R1] Sumit NAGAL (IND)/ Harry BOURCHIER (AUS) vs (WC) Egor KOLEGANOV (RUS)/ David VOLFSON (CAN)

Sumit Nagal qualify for main-draw but having very tough first round against top-400 Belarus player.

Shooting News

At 51st ISSF World Championship - All Events, Granada, Spain

10m Air Rifle Men
15 Abhinav Bindra (IND) (103.5 104.1 104.9 103.9 104.0 104.4) 624.8
20 Sanjeev Rajput (IND) (102.5 103.6 104.7 104.3 104.4 104.7) 624.2
78 Ravi Kumar (IND) (103.0 104.0 102.7 102.1 100.9 103.5) 616.2

Disappointing day for our shooters as they fail to qualify for the final on day one .. Abhinav Bindra missed the final by 1.5 points.

Wrestling News

At 2014 World Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Freestyle - 57kg
[R1] Rahul Balasaheb AWARE (IND) bt Ahmet PEKER (TUR) by TF, 10-0
[R2] Rahul Balasaheb AWARE (IND) l Bekhbayar ERDENEBAT (MGL) 8-9

Freestyle - 70kg
[R1] ARUN (IND) l Cleopas NCUBE (CAN) by TF, 0-11

Freestyle - 86kg
[R1] Naresh KUMAR (IND) bt Quintino INTIPE (GBS) by FALL, 2-1
[R2] Naresh KUMAR (IND) l Reineris SALAS (CUB) 3-10

Repechage
[R1] Naresh KUMAR (IND) bt Armando Ruan HIETBRINK (RSA) by TF
[R2] Naresh KUMAR (IND) l Atsushi MATSUMOTO (JPN) 0-5

Freestyle - 125kg
[R1] Rajeev TOMAR (IND) l Ryong SUNG (KOR) 2-2

Bad day for Indians on day one (8th Sept) ... Only young Rahul Aware gave fighting performance in his loss against Mongolian wrestler ... Naresh Kumar lost his match in Repechage quarter-final ... Other hand Rajeev Tomar and Arun lost in the first round.

Golf News

At €2.3M Omega European Masters, Crans Montana, Switzerland

T13 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 70 67 68 64 -11 €31,912
T21 Jyoti Randhawa (IND) 72 65 65 68 -10 €25,645
T76 Rahil Gangjee (IND) 72 67 71 73 +3 €3,430

Anirban scored excellent six under final round for finishing in top-15 in this co-sanctioned tournament ... In the final round Jyoti manages only 2 under but still that was enough for finishing in top-25.

Badminton News

At $50K Vitenam Grand Prix 2014, Ho Chi Minh City

[F] (5) Prannoy H. S.(IND,50) l (1) Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka (INA,25) 21-18 15-21 18-21

Prannoy gives fighting performance against top-25 Indonesian Rumbaka but fail to convert into the win ... Prannoy started well and won the close firs game but he failed to keep momentum ... Rumbaka won the second game comfortably and then in the third he withhold Prannoy's comeback for winning the title.

Tennis News

At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

Singles Final
(2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) l Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN,245) 46 76(5) 67(3)

Doubles Final
(3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) 76(2) 67(4) 10-8

Buji fail to convert many chances to lose against 18 yrs old left-hander Nishioka ... In the singles final Buji played scratchy game and other hand young Nishioka was going for shots ... In the first set Buji broke Nishioka in 1st game but then failed to hold his serve in next game, 1-all ... At 4-5 Buji was leading 40-0 on his serve but lost this service game from here to lose the set ... In the second set Buji missed early break points and then failed to hold his serve in 6th game to down 2-4 ... In next game Nishioka made double faults which helped Buji for taking breat back, 3-4 ... After that set went to tie-break and due to early mini-break Buji was down 1-4 ... Buji dig deep and won six points from next seven points to take match into the decider ... In the final set Buji broke Nishioka in 4th game to lead 4-1 but at 5-3 when Buji was serving for the match he failed to hols his serve, 5-4 ... In 12th game Buji had a match point on Nishioka's serve but he missed it ... This time Nishioka played superb tie-break for winning his first challenger title.

In very entertaining doubles final Divij-Yuki lifts another doubles title beating their compatriots Sanam-Buji in match tie-break ... Buji played three hours long singles final before this match but still he was there to play such long match ... So in end this turn to be disappointing day for Somdev as he lose both finals.

Badminton News

At $50K Yonex Sunrise Vietnam GP Open 2014, Ho Chi Minh City

[R1] (5) Prannoy H. S.(IND,50) bt Ivanudin Rifan Fauzin (INA,196) 19-21 21-16 21-12
[R1] (15) Ajay Jayaram (IND,75) bt Joo Ven Soong (MAS,206) 22-20 21-14

[R2] (5) Prannoy H. S.(IND,50) bt Soon Huat Goh (MAS,113) 25-23 21-15
[R2] (15) Ajay Jayaram (IND,75) bt Hsuan Yi Hsueh (TPE,161) 21-15 21-18

[R3] (5) Prannoy H. S.(IND,50) bt (16) Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin (MAS,98) 21-15 21-11
[R3] (15) Ajay Jayaram (IND,75) l (8) Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif (MAS,61) 20-22 16-21

[QF] (5) Prannoy H. S.(IND,50) bt (9) Andre Kurniawan Tedjono (INA,63) 21-13 21-19

[SF] (5) Prannoy H. S.(IND,50) bt (10) Chun Seang Tan (MAS,65) 21-16 14-21 24-22

[F] (5) Prannoy H. S.(IND,50) vs (1) Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka (INA,25)

Prannoy is in the final of Vietnam GP taking full advantage of weaker draw.

Tennis News

At $250K Tashkent Open - WTA International, Uzbekistan

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,292) l (8) Rika Ozaki (JPN,210) 26 64 16

Good to see Ankita trying higher level tournament with tougher opponents ... In this WTA tournament qualifying though she lose in the first round still she give fighting performance against top-210 Japanese opponent.
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At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

[SF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) bt (5) Luca Vanni (ITA,170) 16 64 64

[F] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) vs Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN,245)

Doubles
[SF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt (2) Ti Chen (TPE)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE) 76(2) 76(6)

[F] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND)

What a comeback win by Buji against big serving Italian Vanni, in this match Vanni his 8 aces and his 1st serve percentage was 72% ... In the first set Buji was hitting all over the park and Vanni's big serving wasn't helping Buji ... After losing the first set it was looking like Buji losing this match easily ... But he kept fighting and returning Vanni's big serves ... He managed to break Vanni for winning the second set ... In the final set also Buji was putting pressure on Vanni's serve with his smart returning but other hand he needed to save few break points on his serve also ... Buji take crucial break on 7th game to lead 4-3 and kept that advantage for really good win ... Such type of result will give huge boost to Somi ... In the final he is facing talented 18 yrs old Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka.

Divij-Yuki beat 2nd seed Taipei pair in two tie-breaks for booking all Indians doubles final.

Tennis News

At US Open 2014, New York, USA


Mixed Doubles Final
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) bt Abigail Spears (USA)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) 61 26 11-9

Sania wins her third mixed doubles grand slam title with Brazilian Bruno Soares and she is now only Wimbledon mixed doubles title away from completing her career grand slam ... But funnily this whole match was very error-prone ... In the first set error-prone game from Spears-Gonzalez ... Only Sania was hitting winners from forehands and backhands ... From 1-all Sania-Soares next 5 games breaking Spears-Gonzalez twice to win it comfortably ... Fortune reversed in the second set as Soares-Sania made numerous unforced errors ... In that Gonzalez-Spears broke Sania in 4th and 8th games, in that Sania saved couple of set points, to win it comfortably ... In championship tie-break Sania-Bruno take mini-break on 4th point on Spears serve to lead 3-1 ... Spears again double faulted on 12th point to gave double mini-break for Sania-Bruno, 8-4 ... And on 13th point on Spears serve Gonzalez hit in the net Sania's backhand return to gave then 5 championship points, 9-4 ... Next Sania had 2 services and she failed to win those and then Gonzalez hit two big services to save 4 championship points, 9-8 ... Soares mis-judged Gonzalez's return and it was suddenly 9-all ... Soares won point on his next serve to gave them 6th match point ... Next on Spears's serve Soares put pressure and she hit out to gave them championship.
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At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

[QF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,156) l (5) Luca Vanni (ITA,170) 57 76(3) 26
[QF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) bt (7) Di Wu (CHN,210) 62 64

[SF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) vs (5) Luca Vanni (ITA,170)

Doubles
[SF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt James Cluskey (IRL)/ Kyle Edmund (GBR) 76(2) 63

Buji gives dominating performance in his win against local player Di Wu ... In the first set Buji take early two breaks to lead 4-1 to win the set easily ... In the second set Buji take early break to lead 1-0 but Di Wu broke back on 4th game to make it 2-all ... But Buji immediately broke him in 5th game to lead 3-2 and kept that advantage for winning this match ... In the semis he is facing Italian Luca Vanni, who beats Yuki in three sets.

After playing tight two sets Yuki fail to raise his game in the final set for losing it ... Vanni broke Yuki in 1st game but Yuki immediately broke back for 1-all ... After that both players hold their respective service games till 5-all ... Yuki had poor service game in 11th game and Vanni take full advantage for winning it ... After that he hold his service game for winning the first set ... In the second set Yuki take early break to lead 3-1 but Vanni immediately broke back 3-2 ... Yuki again broke Vanni in 6th game to lead 5-2 ... Vanni broke Yuki when he was serving for the set in 8th game, 4-5 ... In tie-break Yuki played well to win it comfortably ... In the final set Vanni dominated with huge service and broke Yuki twice for winning it comfortably ... Vanni served 19 aces in this match.

Buji continues with his good form in doubles also ... He and Sanam beat Cluskey-Edmund in straight sets for entering into final ... Tomorrow Yuki and Divij will play their doubles semi-final.

Squash News

At $50K Women's China Open 2014, Shanghai

[R1] (5) Dipika Pallikal (IND,12) bt Line Hansen (DEN,25) 3-2 (9-11, 11-4, 12-10, 5-11, 11-6) (56m)

[QF] (5) Dipika Pallikal (IND,12) l Salma Hany Ibrahim (EGY,40) 0-3

Dipika struggled in the first round match against Line Hansen ... After losing first game Dipika fought back to win next two ... Line take 4th game before Dipika take hold of fifth ... But Dipika's poor form reflected in her next match ... Dipika disappointingly lose her match against Egyptian qualifier in straight games.
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At $88K Men's China Open 2014, Shanghai

[Q1] Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,56) bt Wong Wai Chung (HKG,UNR) 3-0 (12-10, 11-3, 11-7) (26m)

[Q2] Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,56) l Joe Lee (ENG,32) 1-3 (6-11, 9-11, 11-9, 4-11) (60m)

Another encouraging performance by Mahesh in his loss against top-35 player ... And really happy to see Mahesh inside top-60.

Tennis News

At US Open 2014, New York, USA

Doubles
[SF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) l Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Flavia Pennetta (ITA) 26 46

Sania-Cara fail to raise their game against Hingis-Pennetta and lost their match convincingly ... So another miss opportunity for Sania-Cara as they came near but failed to convert.
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At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

[R2] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,396) l (5) Luca Vanni (ITA,170) 46 63 36
[R2] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,156) bt Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE,247) 63 67(4) 63
[R2] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) bt Takuto Niki (JPN,383) 67(4) 62 63

[QF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,156) vs (5) Luca Vanni (ITA,170)
[QF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) vs (7) Di Wu (CHN,210)

Doubles
[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 63 75
[QF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt Thomas Fabbiano (ITA)/ Luca Vanni (ITA) 64 76(4)

[SF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs James Cluskey (IRL)/ Kyle Edmund (GBR)
[SF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) vs (2) Ti Chen (TPE)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE)

Yuki manage to hold challenge of Tsung-Hua Yang in three sets ... Yuki take a break to lead 4-2 to win the first set with a single break advantage ... In the second set both players hold their respective service games to took set in tie-break ... In tie-break Yuki was two mini-break down 0-3 and then never recovered for losing this set ... In the decider Yuki lost his service game in 1st game to 0-2 but h fought back and broke Yang in 4th game for leading 3-2 ... Then Yuki take another break of serve of Yang for winning this match ... In the quarters he is facing Vanni.

Buji need to dig deep for his comeback win over Takuto Niki in three sets ... In the first set both players hold their respective serves for taking it in tie-break ... In the tie-break Buji was down 0-2 and he take mini-break back to lead 3-2 but afterwards he managed to win only single point and lose five points for losing the set ... In the second set Buji broke Niki in 1st and 3rd game but failed to hold his serve in 2nd game to lead 2-1 and then he take another break in 7th game for comfortably winning this set ... Buji kept momentum in decider and then take early break to lead 4-2 ... Buji again broke Niki in 9th game when he was trying to remain in the match ... In the quarters he is having tricky match against local player Di Wu.

Sanam gives fighting performance against Vanni ... In the first set Vanni take early break to lead 3-2 and kept that advantage for winning it ... In the second set Sanam take early break to lead 4-1 and kept that advantage for winning it ... In the third set Sanam lost his serve in 4th game and with that one service break advantage Vanni won the set and match.

Sanam scripted terrific win with Buji against top-seed and experienced pairing of Ratiwatana twins ... They defeated Thai pair in straight sets ... In the semis they r facing another unseeded pair of James Cluskey and Kyle Edmund ... Divij and Sanam also joins them after scoring straight sets win over Italian pair ... In the semis they r facing 2nd seed Taipei pair.
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At $10K Iran F10 Futures, Tehran

[QF] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,884) l (2) Alexis MUSIALEK (FRA,451) 06 62 26

After losing one-sided first set Vijay Sundar fightback to win the second but fail to keep momentum in the final set.

Tennis News

At US Open 2014, New York, USA

Mixed Doubles
[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) bt Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Ross Hutchins (GBR) 75 46 10-7

[F] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) vs Abigail Spears (USA)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)

Sania-Bruno score hard fought win over Chan-Hutchins in match tie-break ... This was topsy-turvy match, in the first set Sania-Bruno were 0-5 down before making amazing comeback in the match ... They won next seven games for winning the first set ... In the second set also they were 1-4 down before making 4-all but this time Chan-Hutchins broke them in 10th game for winning this set ... In match tie-break Sania-Bruno were 5-0 up before Chan-Hutchins fightback ... At 6-5 both pairs were on the serve but from here Sania-Bruno raised their game and completed victory losing two more points ... In the final they r facing another unseeded pair of Abigail Spears and Santiago Gonzalez, who defeated Lee-Cara in the quarters.
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At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

[R1] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,396) bt Yuva Kibi (JPN,382) 61 62
[R1] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,156) bt Ti Chen (TPE,252) 75 62
[R1] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) bt (Q) Yuichi Ito (JPN,502) 76(4) 63

[R2] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,396) vs (5) Luca Vanni (ITA,170)
[R2] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,156) vs Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE,247)
[R2] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) vs Takuto Niki (JPN,383)

All Indians start with straight sets win ... But in tht most impressive and dominating win was by Sanam losing only 3 games ... Other hand Buji struggle against 500 ranked Ito ... Yuki scored good win over experienced Ti Chen in two sets ... Next Sanam is facing top-175 ranked Italian Vanni ... Yuki is facing another Taipei player Yang ... And Buji is facing another Japanese opponent Takuto Niki.
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At $10K Iran F10 Futures, Tehran

[R2] (8) Akash WAGH (IND,1047) l Shotaro GOTO (JPN,1303) 16 36
[R2] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,884) bt Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1083) 63 62
[R2] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1268) l (2) Alexis MUSIALEK (FRA,451) 06 06

[QF] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,884) vs (2) Alexis MUSIALEK (FRA,451) 06 06

Disappointing performance by Indians ... Only Vijay Sundar wins his match against fellow Indian Kaza.

Tennis News

At US Open 2014, New York, USA

Doubles
[QF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Zarina Diyas (KAZ)/ Yi-Fan Xu (CHN) 61 1-0 retd.

[SF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Flavia Pennetta (ITA)

Junior
[R2] Sumit Nagal (IND,56) l (7) Duck Hee Lee (KOR,10) 26 26

Duck Hee Lee is one year younger than Sumit but he is showing tremendous improvement in his game than last year and it is showing in result ... He comfortably defeated Sumit in the second round ... Sumit is out of US open after withdrawal of his doubles partner Daniel Appelgren due to injury.

Sania-Cara dominated the first set before their opponents retired after first game of the second set ... In the semis they r facing Hingis-Pennetta pairing.
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At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

Doubles
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Elias Ymer (SWE) w/o
[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt (WC) Yan Bai (CHN)/ Chuhan Wang (CHN) 64 64

[QF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) vs Thomas Fabbiano (ITA)/ Luca Vanni (ITA)

Divij-Yuki start with straight sets win over local wild-card pair ... Next they r facing Italian pair of Fabbiano-Vanni ... Buji and Sanam receive walkover as their one of opponent Elias Ymer retired due to body cramps.
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At $10K Iran F10 Futures, Tehran

[R1] (8) Akash WAGH (IND,1047) bt (WC) Mohammad KAREGARAN (IRI,UNR) 61 61
[R1] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,884) bt Mark VERVOORT (NED,1740) 63 60
[R1] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1083) bt Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND,UNR) 64 26 63
[R1] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1268) bt (Q) Oleksandr GOROVYTS (UKR,UNR) 57 63 63

[R2] (8) Akash WAGH (IND,1047) vs Shotaro GOTO (JPN,1303)
[R2] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,884) vs Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1083)
[R2] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1268) vs (2) Alexis MUSIALEK (FRA,451)

Expected first round wins for Indian players though Vinayak and Sidharth stretched to three sets.

Tennis News

Tennis News
At US Open 2014, New York, USA

Doubles
[R3] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Jelena Jankovic (SRB)/ Klara Koukalova (CZE) 63 62
[R3] (6) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) l (11) Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Marc Lopez (ESP) 26 64 16

[QF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Zarina Diyas (KAZ)/ Yi-Fan Xu (CHN)

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) bt (6) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) 75 26 10-5
[QF] (3) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Abigail Spears (USA)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) 46 64 8-10

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) vs Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Ross Hutchins (GBR)

Junior
[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,56) bt (Q) Viktor Durasovic (NOR,60) 63 64

[R2] Sumit Nagal (IND,56) vs (7) Duck Hee Lee (KOR,10)

Junior Doubles
[R1] Daniel Appelgren (SWE)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) vs John McNally (USA)/ Gianni Ross (USA)

Sumit start with comfortable straight sets win over his similar ranked Norwegian opponent Durasovic ... Next he is facing top-10 Korean player Duck Hee Lee .. Sumit is partnering Swedish Appelgren and they r facing local pair in the first round.

Sania-Cara score comfortable win over Jelena-Klara without much problem ... In the quarters they r facing unseeded pairing of Zarina Diyas and Yi-Fan Xu ... In mixed doubles also Sania win her match with her partner Bruno Soares in match tie-break ... Sania-Bruno won the tight first set but after that Rohan-Kararina fought back to win the second set convincingly ... But Sania-Bruno recovered to win match tie-break comfortably ... In the semis of MXD they r facing unseeded pair, Yung-Jan Chan and Ross Hutchins.

Other hand Lee has terrible day as he loses his both matches ... In men's doubles defending champions Lee-Radek fail to overcome challenge of Spanish pair ... After losing first set lopsidedly Lee-Radek tried fightback and won the second set ... But Spanish pair again dominated the final set without giving much chance to Lee-Radek ... In mixed doubles also Lee-Cara lose their match in match tie-break ... Lee-Cara won the second set after losing the first set against Spears-Gonzalez ... But Lee-Cara failed to keep momentum in match tie-break and lose closely fought MTB.
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At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

[Q2] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,1125) l (4) Keto Takeuchi (JPN,432) 57 67(3)
[Q2] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,396) bt Congsup Concar (THA,2067) 64 61

[Q3] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,396) bt (6) Christopher Rungkat (INA,683) 63 61

[R1] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,396) vs Yuva Kibi (JPN,382)
[R1] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) vs (Q) Yuichi Ito (JPN,502)

Doubles
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Elias Ymer (SWE)
[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) vs (WC) Yan Bai (CHN)/ Chuhan Wang (CHN)

Sanam qualify for main-draw with comfortable wins in the final two matches ... In that solid win against Rungkat ... Favorable draw for Sanam as he is playing one of the lowest ranked direct entry ... Buji is also facing Japanese qualifier in the first round.

After losing the first set Sasi fought back well and was leading 4-1 ... He also had set point at 5-2 but failed to convert and then lost this set in tie-break ... Big learning experience for Sasi from this match.

In the doubles Divij and Yuki r 3rd seed and facing local wild-card pair ... Buji and Sanam r pairing together and facing Swedish-Taipei pair.
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At $10K Iran F10 Futures, Tehran

[R1] (8) Akash WAGH (IND,1047) vs (WC) Mohammad KAREGARAN (IRI,UNR)
[R1] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,884) vs Mark VERVOORT (NED,1740)
[R1] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1083) vs Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND,UNR)
[R1] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1268) vs (Q) Oleksandr GOROVYTS (UKR,UNR)

Winnable matches for our ranked players.