Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2018, London, Great Britain

[R1] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Mirza Basic (BIH)/ Dusan Lajovic (SRB) 26 46 76(5) 64 9-11

Purav-Fabrice lost in more than 3 and half hour match in the first round ... Purav-Fabrice started badly and lost first 2 sets easily to Lajovic-Basic ... They tried fightback after winning the third set in the tie-break and won the fourth with an early break ... In the decider, both players matched others game ... Lajovic-Basic broke Purav in the 20th game, Purav-Fabrice saved 3 match point but failed to save the 4th one.

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At $50K+H Recanati Challenger 2018, Italy

[R1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,124) l (PR) Daniel Brands (GER,316) 67(5) 67(8)

RamK had a tough match against Brands, but in that he really played well and fought hard ... It was a very close match as RamK lost due to some bad points on crucial stages ... In the first set, both players failed to break other's serve but Brands played better in the tie-break ... In the second set, both players had one break each and in the tie-break, RamK committed the double fault at 7-all but won next point ... Brands won next points for completing a win.

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At $60K+H ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Rome, Italy

[R1] (1) Rika Fujiwara (JPN)/ Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) l Deborah Chiesa (ITA)/ Alice Matteucci (ITA) 36 46

Prarthana failed to adjust on the clay court after her successful grass court season ... As she and her Japanese partner lost in the first round against local pair.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Naiman, China,

[R2] (3) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,225) bt Nika Kukharchuk (RUS,397) 62 64

[QF] (3) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,225) vs Meiling Wang (CHN,606)

Another dominating win by Karman against top-400 Russian player ... Next, she is facing 18 yrs Chinese girl, Meiling Wang.

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At $1.25M BLIBLI Indonesia Open 2018, Jakarta (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 1000)

[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,18) bt Rasmus Gemke (DEN,28) 21-9 12-21 22-20
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,20) l Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,15) 10-21 13-21
[R1] (8) Prannoy H. S. (IND,13) bt Lin Dan (CHN,8) 21-15 9-21 21-14
[R1] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) l Kento Momota (JPN,11) 21-12 14-21 15-21

[R1] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Pornpawee Chochuwong (THA,24) 21-15 19-21 21-13
[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Dinar Dyah Ayustine (INA,48) 21-12 21-12
[R1] Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka (IND,55) l Line Højmark Kjaersfeldt (DEN,25) 12-21 10-21

[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l (3) Cheng Liu (CHN)/ Nan Zhang (CHN) 21-15 15-21 17-21
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) l Hiroyuki Endo (JPN)/ Yuta Watananbe (JPN) 8-21 15-21
[R1] Jakkampudi Meghana (IND)/ Poorvisha S Ram (IND) l Agatha Imanuela (INA)/ Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti (INA) 11-21 18-21

[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (4) Siwei Zheng (CHN)/ Yaqiong Huang (CHN) 12-21 14-21

[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,18) vs (1) Viktor Axelsen (DEN,1)
[R2] (8) Prannoy H. S. (IND,13) vs Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,15)

[R2] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs Aya Ohori (JPN,16)
[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs (5) Yufei Chen (CHN,5)

Prannoy scored three games win over legendary Lin Dan ... After winning the first game Prannoy lost the second easily, but in the third Prannoy took early control and opened 12-7 lead ... He kept that advantage and won this game comfortably ... In the second round, he is facing Tzu Wei Wang, who defeated Sai comfortably.
Sameer also started with three games win over Gemke ... After winning the first game easily Sameer lost the second cheaply ... In the third, Sameer took a 6-1 lead and then he was leading 16-10 and 18-14 ... Gemke caught with him at 18-all, Gemke saved 2 match points from 20-18 but Sameer converted the 3rd match point for the win ... Next, he is facing WR #1 Danish player, Viktor Axelsen.
Saina started with a dominating win over a local lower ranked opponent ... Next, she is having Chinese challenge of WR#5 Yufei Chen, at the beginning of 2018 Saina had a win over her.
Surprisingly Sindhu needed three games to win over Thai girl Chochuwong ... Next, she is facing Japanese girl, Aya Ohori.

Sri had a tough match against Kento Momota, with whom he lost easily in last week's Malaysian open ... Here, he started well after winning the first game, but after that, he failed to keep momentum and Momota won next two games comfortably ... The top-25 Danish girl proved too strong to Vaishnavi.

In the doubles, Manu and Sumeeth gave a fighting performance against WR #2 Chinese pair ... They took the first game but Chinese pair fought back for winning next two ... Satwik and Chirag had a bad loss against lower ranked Japanese pair ... Meghana and Poorvisha also lost against lower ranked Indonesian opponents.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Naiman, China,

[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,421) bt Jessica Ho (USA,622) 63 62
[R1] (3) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,225) bt (Q) Ai Wen Zhu (CHN,UNR) 75 62
[R1] (Q) Snehal Mane (IND,1174) l Yanni Liu (CHN,738) 16 06

[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,421) vs (7) Yue Yuan (CHN,353)
[R2] (3) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,225) vs Nika Kukharchuk (RUS,397)

Rutuja and Karman started with straight sets win ... Next, Rutuja is facing top-350 Chinese girl and Karman is facing top-400 Russian girl.

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At Wimbledon 2018, London, Great Britain

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,85) l (Q) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA,121) 62 36 36 26

Yuki's search for his first win in the grand slam main-draw continues ... Yuki started confidently against Fabbiano breaking him in the 3rd game, 2-1 ... Yuki again broke Fabbiano in the 7th game for winning the set comfortably ... From the second set Yuki struggled with his service and unforced errors ... Yuki committed a lot of unforced errors, which cost him the match ... I m disappointed with this performance as Yuki had a chance in this match.

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At $50K+H Recanati Challenger 2018, Italy

[R1] Hiroki Moriya (JPN)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l Sergio Martos Gornes (ESP)/ Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP) 57 57

RamK and Moriya lost in straight sets against Spanish pair.

Hockey News

At Rabobank Hockey Men's Champions Trophy 2018, Breda, Netherlands

Final
India l Australia 1-1 (0-1) 1-3 Penalty Shoot-off
Goal Scorers - Vivek Prasad (IND) 42' PC and Blake Govers (AUS) 24' PC

Again we lost the Champions trophy final on penalty shoot-off against Australia ... In this match, we matched Aussie game plan and really played well ... Our attacks were lot more potent that Aussie but our forwarders failed to convert chances ... On this dry surface we struggled with penalty corners ... Aussie converted on the 1st penalty corner on Sreejesh's mistake ... Aussie defended well but Vivek Prasad scored a terrific goal in the late of the third quarter ... We again missed many opportunities in the fourth ... In penalty shoot-off, Aussie took early control with 0-2 lead ... Our pair struggled to pass Aussie keeper but Sreejesh failed to save Aussie shots.

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At $7.1M Quicken Loans National 2018, Potomac, Maryland, USA (PGA Tour)

T25 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 67 74 65 67 -7 $133,125.00

Anirban's roller-coaster performance continues as he scored one poor round which cost him top-10 finish ... After a poor second round, he scored 5 under in the third round .. He continued his good run and scored another 3 under in the final round ... This helped him to give top-15 finish on the tour.

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At $3.65M KPMG Women's PGA Championship 2018, Kildeer, Illinois, USA (LPGA Tour)

T63 Aditi Ashok (IND) 70 73 81 73 +9 $8,489.00

In the second Major of 2018, Aditi struggled to adjust the condition ... After disastrous the third round, in which she scored a 9 over, which consisted of 2 double bogeys, 6 bogeys and a birdie ... In the standings, she finished in the 60s.

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At $7M HNA Open De France 2018, Paris (EPGA Tour)

T27 Shubhankar Sharma (IND) 76 69 71 68 PAR € 56,582

After a poor first round, Shubhankar recovered in next three round for a decent finish on the European tour.

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At $300K Queen's Cup 2018, Pattaya, Thailand (APGA Tour)

2 Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND) 68 65 65 71 -15 $33,000
T13 Khalin Joshi (IND) 69 70 67 68 -10 $4520
T21 Chikkarangappa S. (IND) 70 68 70 68 -8 $3,090
T21 Rashid Khan (IND) 69 67 68 72 -8 $3,090
T30 Honey Baisoya (IND) 73 65 75 66 -7 $2,550
T46 Viraj Madappa (IND) 69 71 71 70 -3 $1,590
T60 Himmat Rai (IND) 70 69 74 72 +1 $1,005

Gagan had a decent outing and finished in the second position ... He was tied for the 1st position before the last round but managed only PAR final round ... Still good performance.

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At $50K+H Recanati Challenger 2018, Italy

[R1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,124) vs (PR) Daniel Brands (GER,316)

RamK is top-seed in Recanati Challenger ... But having a tough match against former WR #51 Daniel Brands in the first round ... Daniel is in a comeback trail after long injury break and having some good wins in last few weeks ... In the last week, he had a win against WR #15 Jack Sock on the grass.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Guimaraes, Portugal

(4) Zeel Desai (IND,661) l (5) Maria Joao Koehler (POR,668) 16 63 16

Zeel lost in the final against former WR #102 ranked local girl, Maria Joao Koehler, after giving fighting performance ... After losing the first set Zeel tried fightback and won the second set ... But Maria proved too strong in the decider.

Hockey News

At Rabobank Hockey Men's Champions Trophy 2018, Breda, Netherlands

India dw Netherlands 1-1 (0-0)
Goal Scorers - Mandeep Singh (IND) 47' PC and Thierry Brinkman (NED) 55'

The title match of the Men’s Champions Trophy 2018 will be a replay of the 2016 final as India booked their place in Sunday’s gold medal match against Australia, after securing an all-important draw against host nation the Netherlands ... In this match, both sides showing full commitment in the race to secure a place in the final ... Th first 3 quarters remained goalless, though the Netherlands were better team in the third quarter ... Indian scored through Mandeep when he scored on rebound on the penalty corner attempt ... The Dutch side scored a deserving goal when 5 mins were remaining.

Badminton News

At $700K Malaysia Open 2018, Kuala Lumpur (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750)

[SF] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) l Kento Momota (JPN,11) 13-21 13-21

[SF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) l (1) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,1) 15-21 21-19 11-21

Our both players lost to in-form players in contrasting style ... After losing the first gamre Sindhu fought to win the second, but Tai was too good in the final game ... Momota scored very dominating win over Sri, in this match Sri failed to challenge Momota ... Interesting to note, Tzu Ying Tai having only one loss this season and Kento Momota having only two losses.

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At Wimbledon 2018, London, Great Britain

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,85) vs (Q) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA,121)

Doubles
[R1] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Marcus Daniell (NZL)/ Wesley Koolhof (NED)
[R1] (12) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Alex De Minaur (AUS)/ John Millman (AUS)
[R1] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Mirza Basic (BIH)/ Dusan Lajovic (SRB)
[R1] (Q) Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Sander Arends (NED)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak vs Radu Albot (MDA)/ Malek Jaziri (TUN)

The draw is out ... In the singles, Yuki is facing Italian qualifier Fabbiano ... This is a tough match for unfit Yuki as Fabbiano qualified with three good wins and Yuki has losing records against him ... Yuki has lost all three matches against Fabbiano including last year on grass at Nottingham.

In the doubles, our players having a decent draw as our players avoid seeded pair in the first round ... The first-timer Vishnu and Bala r facing experienced pairing of Daniell-Koolhof ... Jeevan-Austin r facing a Dutch pair ... Divij-Artem r facing Albot-Jaziri ... Purav-Fabrice r facing Lajovic-Basic ... Rohan is the 12th seeds with Roger-Vasselin and they r facing Aussie pair.

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At $15K Sri Lanka F3 Futures 2018, Colombo

[R1] (5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt Sharmal Dissanayake (SRI,1347) 60 retd.
[R2] (5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt Diego Matos (BRA,1980) 61 76(2)
[QF] (5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt (3) Michal Dembek (POL,667) 63 63
[SF] (5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND,1098) 36 64 64

Singles Final
(5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt (6) Vladyslav Orlov (UKR,863) 76(6) 06 61

Doubles Final
Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND)/ Manish Sureshkumar (IND) l Jirat Navasirisomboon (THA)/ Chanchai Sookton-Eng (THA) 26 46

18 yrs. old Manish Sureshkumar lifted his first futures title in Sri Lanka ... He defeated Ukrainian Orlov in three sets ... After winning the tight first set in the tie-break Manish lost his focus ... Orlov took advantage for winning the second set without losing a game ... But Manish recovered in the third and comfortably completed victory ... In this future, 19 yrs. old Nitin Kumar also performed well and lost the semis against Manish.
Manish failed to lift double crown ... He with Mohit Mayur lost in straight sets against Thai pair.

In first two weeks of Sri Lankan futures Manish performed above expectation ... In the first week, he reached in the final and lost against top-600 Russian Alexander Zhurbin ... In the second week, he reached into the semis and lost against top-400 Spaniard David Perez Sanz ... So when these all points will get added then Manish will be in top-600.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Guimaraes, Portugal

[R1] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,661) bt Valeria Bhunu (ZIM,847) 62 46 63
[R1] (Q) Mihika Yadav (IND,1057) bt (Q) Lauren Proctor (USA,UNR) 64 57 75

[R2] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,661) bt Linnea Malmqvist (SWE,851) 64 46 64
[R2] (Q) Mihika Yadav (IND,1057) l (Q) Yuriko Lily Miyazaki(JPN,UNR) 36 63 36

[QF] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,661) bt (Q) Alice Garcia (BRA,1064) 64 63

[SF] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,661) bt (2) Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (SWE,514) 26 75 63

[F] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,661) vs (5) Maria Joao Koehler (POR,668)

Doubles Final
(3) Zeel Desai (IND)/ Cristina Ene (ROU) l Karola Patricia Bejenaru (ROU)/ Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (SWE) 16 06

Zeel scored an excellent comeback win over Swedish girl, Jacqueline Cabaj Awad, after losing the first set ... She is having a tough final against former WR #102 ranked local girl, Maria Joao Koehler.
In the doubles final, Zeel and her Romanian partner Ene failed to challenge Cabaj Awad and Bejenaru.

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At $700K Malaysia Open 2018, Kuala Lumpur (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750)

[QF] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) bt Brice Leverdez (FRA,22) 21-18 21-14

[QF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt (6) Carolina Marin (ESP,6) 22-20 21-19

[SF] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) vs Kento Momota (JPN,11)

[SF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs (1) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,1)

Sindhu scored a tight straight games win over former WR #1 Carolina Marin ... In the first game, Sindhu saved two game points from 18-20 down to win it ... In the second game, Sindhi took a lead in the middle of the game and kept that till the end of the match ... Next, she is having a lot tougher match against WR #1 Tzu Ying Tai ... Sindhu having poor win-loss record, 3-8, and she has lost last four matches against Tai.

Sri scored a comfortable win over Frenchman Leverdez ... Next, he is facing Japanese challenge of Kento Momota ... Sri having 3-5 win-loss record against him, but those all losses were before 2017.

Hockey News

At Rabobank Hockey Men's Champions Trophy 2018, Breda, Netherlands

India dw Belgium 1-1 (1-0)
Goal Scorers - Harmanpreet Singh (IND) 10' PC and Loïck Luypaert (BEL) 59' PC

Not a perfect match for us as we struggled overall ... Harmanpreet scored in the first quarter but we failed to control it ... After half-time Belgium kept pressure on us and earned 9 penalty corners ... They converted when only 2 mins were remaining, well deserving equalizer for them.

Badminton News

At $700K Malaysia Open 2018, Kuala Lumpur (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750)

[R2] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) bt Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,15) 22-20 21-12

[R2] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Ying Ying Lee (MAS,39 21-8 21-14)
[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) l (2) Akane Yamaguchi (JPN,2) 15-21 13-21

[QF] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) vs Brice Leverdez (FRA,22)

[QF] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs (6) Carolina Marin (ESP,6)

Wang stretches Sri in the firs game but after winning that Sri controlled the match ... Next, he is facing Frenchman Brice Leverdez.
An expected comfortable win for Sindhu against Lee ... Next, she is facing Marin.

Saina failed to challenge Yamaguchi and lost in straight games.

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At Wimbledon 2018, London, Great Britain

[Q2] Ankita Raina (IND,205) l (21) Vitalia Diatchenko (RUS,134) 26 75 46

Doubles
[Q2] (6) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (1) Denys Molchanov (UKR)/ Igor Zelenay (SVK) 63 64
[Q2] (4) Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt (WC) Edward Corrie (GBR)/ Lloyd Glasspool (GBR) 76(5) 63

Ankita played a really good match against Diatchenko in her loss ... After losing the first set Ankita was a break down in the second ... She broke Diatchenko at 4-5 when Diatchenko was serving for the match ... She again broke her in the 12th game for taking match into the decider ... Ankita failed to keep this momentum in the third but lost after fighting performance.

Vishni-Bala r truly arrived on the doubles scene ... They qualified for the main draw of Wimbledon with a solid win over top-seeds Molchanov-Zelenay ... As thought, Jeevan-Austin join them in Wimbledon main draw ... The British wild-card pair stretched them to the tie-break in the first set, but after winning that they easily won the second.

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At $25K+H Spain F16 Futures 2018, Cardoba

[Q1] (1) Adil Kalyanpur (IND) bye
[Q2] (1) Adil Kalyanpur (IND) bt Benjamin Winter Lopez (ESP) 26 63 64

[R1] (Q) Adil Kalyanpur (IND,1125) bt (WC) Sergi Perez Contri (ESP,1014) 75 64

[R2] (Q) Adil Kalyanpur (IND,1125) l (6) Denis Yevseyev (KAZ,361) 57 57

Adil qualified for the main draw and scored a good win against local player in the first round ... He lost in the second round after giving decent fight to top-400 Kazakh player.

Hockey News

At Rabobank Hockey Men's Champions Trophy 2018, Breda, Netherlands

India l Australia 2-3 (1-2)
Goal Scorers - Varun Kumar (IND) 10', Harmanpreet Singh (IND) 58' PC and Lachlan Sharp (AUS) 6', Tom Craig (AUS) 15' PC, Trent Mitton (AUS) 33'

Australia have moved to the top of the standings at the Men’s Rabobank Hockey Champions Trophy 2018 after a narrow 3-2 victory against India ... In this match, we gave a fighting performance ... We had ample opportunities to score but failed to convert it ... In the dying moments, we had a last minute penalty corner, with Harmanpreet seeing his powerful flick brilliantly charged down by Jeremy Hayward to seal victory for Australia.

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At $700K Malaysia Open 2018, Kuala Lumpur (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750)

[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,21) l Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,15) 12-21 7-21
[R1] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) bt Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,54) 21-18 21-9

[R1] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Aya Ohori (JPN,14) 26-24 21-15

[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) l (7) Takuto Inoue (JPN)/ Yuki Kaneko (JPN) 16-21 15-21

[R2] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) vs Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,15)

[R2] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs Ying Ying Lee (MAS,39)

Sri scored a comfortable win over Jan O Jorgensen ... Next, he is facing Tzu Wei Wang, who defeated Sai ... That was a bad one-sided loss for Sai.
Sindhu stretched to extra points in the first game by Ohori but she won the second game easily ... Next, she is facing Malaysian Lee.

Satwik-Chirag failed to challenge their Japanese opponents.

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At Wimbledon 2018, London, Great Britain

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,205) bt (WC) Maia Lumsden (GBR,422) 62 61

[Q2] Ankita Raina (IND,205) vs (21) Vitalia Diatchenko (RUS,134)

Ankita scored her maiden win on grand slam qualifying ... She defeated British wild-card player in dominating fashion, losing only 3 games ... In the first set, Ankita broke Maia three times and got broken one time ... In the second set, from 0-1 Ankita won next six games breaking Maia in the 3rd, the 5th and the 7th games ... Next, she is facing top-150 Russian girl, Vitalia Diatchenko.

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At $700K Malaysia Open 2018, Kuala Lumpur (HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750)

[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,19) l Tommy Sugiarto (INA,24) 13-21 5-21
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,21) vs Wang Tzu Wei (TPE,15)
[R1] (4) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,7) vs Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,54)

[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Yip Pui Yin (HKG,33) 21-12 21-16
[R1] (3) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs Aya Ohori (JPN,14)

[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) vs (7) Takuto Inoue (JPN)/ Yuki Kaneko (JPN)
[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ N. Sikki Reddy (IND) l (4) Zheng Siwei (CHN)/ Huang Yaqiong (CHN) 16-21 12-21
[R1] Rohan Kapoor (IND)/ Kuhoo Garg (IND) l (8) He Jiting (CHN)/ Du Yue (CHN) 9-21 10-21

[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs (2) Akane Yamaguchi (JPN,)

Saina started with a win over Yip Pui Yin ... Next, she is facing WR #2 Yamaguchi ... But surprise one-sided loss for Sameer against Indonesian Sugiarto.

Sai having a tough match against Wang Tzu Wei, Srikanth also having tricky match against Jorgensen ... Sindhu is facing Aya Ohori.

Our both MXD pairs lost against seeded Chinese pairs ... In men's doubles, Satwik-Chirag r facing 7th seed Japanese pair.

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At Wimbledon 2018, London, Great Britain

[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,237) l Kamil Majchrzak (POL,189) 26 06
[Q1] (15) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,125) l Simone Bolelli (ITA,151) 36 46
[Q1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,152) l Tobias Kamke (GER,219) 16 46

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,205) vs (WC) Maia Lumsden (GBR,422)

Doubles
[Q1] (4) Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt Aidan McHugh (GBR)/ Marcus Willis (GBR) 76(3) 63
[Q1] (6) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Sergio Galdos (PER)/ Gerald Melzer (AUT) 63 64

Disappointing start for Indians in Wimbledon qualifying as our all three players lost on the first hurdle ... Sumit lost last 10 games in a row to lose against clay-court specialist ... Prajnesh failed to challenge Kamke in the first set ... He tried in the second set and was a break up at 3-1, but lost his serve in the 5th game 3-2 ... Kamke again broke him in the 9th game and then held his serve for completing the win ... RamK also struggled against experienced Bolelli ... Bolelli held his 1st serve after multiple deuce but he broke RamK in the 2nd to lead 0-3 ... Bolelli won the first set with a break advantage ... Bolelli again took a break advantage in the second and kept that advantage for winning the match.

In the doubles, an expected winning start for our pairs; Bala-Vishnu and Jeevan-Austin.

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At €721K Eastbourne International 2018, Great Britain

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak l (1) Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/ Robert Farah (COL) 46 46

Divij-Artem lost in straight sets against top-seeds Colombians.

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At €486K Antalya Open 2018,Turkey

[R1] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) 36 26

A one-sided loss for Purav and Fabrice against Demoliner and Gonzalez.

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At Archery World Cup Stage 3 - 2018, Salt Lake City, USA

P.C. to Deepika Kumari FB page

Recurve Women’s Gold medal match
(4) Deepika Kumari (IND) bt (19) Michelle Kroppen (GER) 7-3 (29-29, 30-27, 30-27, 28-29, 30-28)

[SF] (4) Deepika Kumari (IND) bt (8) Gabriela Bayardo (NED) 6-4 (27-28, 28-22, 23-26, 28-24, 27-23)
[QF] (4) Deepika Kumari (IND) bt Ana Maria Rendon (COL) 6-0 (28-26, 29-28, 28-27)
[R3] (4) Deepika Kumari (IND) bt Ren Hayakawa (JPN) 6-2 (27-28, 27-25, 28-26, 29-28)
[R2] (4) Deepika Kumari (IND) bt Erin Mickelberry (USA) 6-2 (25-25, 26-25, 26-26, 28-22)
[R1] (4) Deepika Kumari (IND) bye

Compound Men’s Gold medal match
(4) Abhishek Verma l (3) Stephan Hansen (DEN) 123-140

[SF] (4) Abhishek Verma (IND) bt (8) Anton Bulaev (RUS) 150-146
[QF] (4) Abhishek Verma (IND) bt (12) Pierre-Julien Deloche (FRA) 149-149 (SO 10*-10)
[R3] (4) Abhishek Verma (IND) bt Austin Taylor (CAN) 147-144
[R2] (4) Abhishek Verma (IND) bt Akbarali Karabayev (KAZ) 148-147
[R1] (4) Abhishek Verma (IND) bye

Compound Mixed Team Bronze medal match
(8) Abhishek Verma (IND)/ Jyothi Surekha Vennam (IND) bt (3) Jamie Van Natta (USA)/ Kris Schaff (USA) 140-147

[SF] (8) Abhishek Verma (IND)/ Jyothi Surekha Vennam (IND) l (4) Anton Bulaev (RUS)/ Natalia Avdeeva (RUS) 149-152
[QF] (8) Abhishek Verma (IND)/ Jyothi Surekha Vennam (IND) bt (1) Daniel Munoz (COL)/ Sara Lopez (COL) 155-151
[R1] (8) Abhishek Verma (IND)/ Jyothi Surekha Vennam (IND) bt Marcus Laube (GER)/ Janine Meissner (GER) 154-145

Four-time Archery World Cup Final silver medalist Deepika Kumari beat Michelle Kroppen of Germany, 7-3, to take recurve women’s gold at the Salt Lake City stage of the 2018 Hyundai Archery World Cup and book a ticket to the circuit Final in Samsun ... Her last victory at a World Cup came six years ago, in Antalya back in 2012 ... With the gold in Salt Lake City, Deepika automatically qualifies for the 2018 Hyundai Archery World Cup Final in Samsun, Turkey, which will be her seventh appearance at the season-ending event.

Abhishek Verma won the Silver in compound men's event ... He failed to adjust windy condition in the final and lost easily against Danish opponent.

Abhishek lifted Bronze medal also in the mixed team partnering Jyothi Vennam ... After beating top-seeds Colombian in the quarters our pair lost against Russians ... Buth they fought back for winning Bronze beating American pair.