tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63565382011-12-14T11:53:48.586+08:00Since all the Indian sporting activity is centered around Cricket(including me!!), a compilation of other sports stories and people.randomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07572551171743760888noreply@blogger.comBlogger991100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356538.post-1163132293542478032006-11-10T11:39:00.000+08:002006-11-10T12:18:13.623+08:00

I am not sure where the naming convention started, but now-days a lot of inter country series in many sports have been named as tests. India is playing a series of Tennis tests with Pakistan, with 2 tests completed. India won the first one at Islamabad and lost the second at Lahore. Third one is underway today at Chandigarh. The team members Mustafa Ghouse, Divij Sharan, Rohan Bopanna and Karan

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Usually hallmark of world class players is to be action on weekends. A couple of them are making waves in the weekdays, and all signs are pointing to a great weekend for Indian sports. We all know about Saina Nehwal (1, 2 , 3, 4, 5). She is still competing also in Junior events (she's 16) and has reached the semis of the World Junior Badminton. Hindu carries the news and some choice quotes from

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The media is abuzz with the new queen, Saina Nehwal and recent triumph at Phillipines Open, including CNN. Telegraph has original piece with choice quotes. Excrept"Currently ranked No. 86, the teenaged prodigy is targeting “breaking into the top 30 by this year-end,” but if she fails in achieving that, her world won’t break down."and of course mandatory quote on original queen Sania “Yes

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62 men make the cut, but who get talked about is Michelle Wie, with Indian newspapers leading the creativity charts with Economic Times saying "Wie-ing for the honors" and Mumbai Mirror "Where there’sa wie...there’sa way". What is not being covered at most places, in Indian papers, is Jeev Milkha Singh lies at 3rd position in the tournament, SK Telecom Open. Round 3 stands cancelled because of

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In other sad news, Keeper Shankar Laxman of '64 Olympic winning squad, passed away last week. Anank Philar has an excellent article on Sify on him and Hockey in general. Quote from the article"Unlike cricket, that is detailed to the socks that the players wore, Indian hockey suffers from a general apathy, and it does not seem to bother anyone, least of all our Federation officials, that there are

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Azlan Shan probables have been announced and Deepak Thakur, Prabhjot Singh and Viren Rasquinha are back, but according to coach Vasudevan Bhaskaran India is only targetting bronze. The teams are Argentina, New Zealand, Australisa, South Korea, Malaysia and India and the format is round-robin. If Indians cannot be confident of atleast silver in this line-up of teams, it is indeed quite a sad state

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Since last post about people in running for Indian Soccer coach, 3rd in a year, the names have been added and dropped from the list graciously. Hidalgo is gone, Kerr, with Ian Porterfield (Chelsea) and Clemence Westorhof (Ajax, PSV) . Though observations of Ruud Doevendans make Clemence highly unsuitable for any job. One of the more interesting names in the list is of Jorge Mario Olguin Argentine

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Ritwik Bhattacharya went through qualifiers to reach the main round of Liverpool Squash Open, but ran in first round itself against 2nd seed James Wilstrop, and went down fighting. But due to qualifier success he has risen to 49 in world rankings.The number of motorsports events seem to be rising and getting a higher profile as well. Last year A1 started with a unique concept, atleast in racing,

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As expected, in Badminton WC, Thomas Cup, India got ousted in quarters by the Danes. The semis line-up is China-Malaysia and Denmark-Indonesia with expected final between the Chinese and Danes. Chinese also play the Uber Cup final against the Dutch and are on course for their usual double.In the shooting world cup, all the results are available only in pdf format. In most of the events, Indians

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As mentioned earlier, India went past New Zealand in quick time, despite missing Chetan Anand and being have to play against 33 ranked Moody. The tournament now moves to Tokyo for second leg, quarters, semis and final. Indian tale can easily end at quarters in which they are up against mighty Danes. Indian opponents in singles players, with their world ranks in brackets, are Peter Gade(3), Niels

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India is targetting quarters and they are very likely to achieve their goal. The doubles part of the team has a makeshift look but the pair of Anwar and Diju came good, infact very good, to allow India surpass Germany 3-2. Before that they lost to the superpower China 5-0, which also blanked Germany by same margin.The official website has the details on each team and has a very clean interface.

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In the ITTF world cup going on at Bremen in Germany, Men were playing in Second Div and Women in First Div. First div was quite a bitter medicine as Women lost all their matches in their group and then further all matches in the play-offs to finish last in the div. Men won a few, but loosing to Singapore, which India seems to be meeting a lot in TT and Badminton lately, to finish 3rd in their

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IndianHockey.com and Talking Docus ran a competition to find out the top Sikh to ever play for India. It feels good for hockey and the players to be getting the recognition it deserves. The details of the event with the list and statistics of the players are available here. I would not put any spoilers here and you have to go to the site to find out who won.In other hockey news, in Bombay Gold

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Most of the news sites are carrying syndicated news about Sonia Rana and Samresh Jung winning medals. The name of Sonia is wrongly mentioned as Rai in most of the Indian sources. ISSF World Cup is still on and India has probably the biggest contingent(PDF) following huge success at CWG.

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Along with hosting Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010, India is also gunning for Asiad in 2014. Suresh Kalmadi seems like a very busy man nowdays. Following paragraph at the very end of the article points to how things are done in India."It was meant to be a gathering to announce the organisation of two significant events — the third leg of the Asian Grand Prix next month and the 2008

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All the news sites seem abuzz with Sania's interview, with most of the headlines using the same quote "Hanging on in the top-50 is tough enough". The good part is there is lot of original coverage of the event by most dailies, rather than running syndicated stories. The best headline is at Mumbai Mirror. This always gives a nice chance to compare the papers. DNA and Telegraph seem the better

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Sanave Thomas pulled out of Thomas Cup squad, resulting in Thomas Kurien being recalled from the reserves. The Indian teams is Chetan Anand, Anup Sridhar, Arvind Bhatt, Nikhil Kanetkar, Anand Pawar Rupesh Kumar, Thomas Kurien, V Diju Jaseel Ismail. Chetan, Anup and Nikhil would be expected to play the Singles and Doubles teams will be Kurien-Jaseel and Diju-Rupesh. India is in a tough group with

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Past couple of weeks have been good for Indian golf, but still on the world stage the highest ranked Indian golfer is Jyoti Randhawa at 115. There are only 2 Asians ahead of hiim, Choi Kyung-Ju, of Korea at 42 and Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand at 97. The list of top 5 Indians and their rankings is below.Jyoti Randhawa 115Arjun Atwal 140Shiv Kapur 143Jeev Milkha Singh 196Gaurav Ghei 364

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Well, how much ever you try to avoid, Indian sports cannot be talked about without Cricket. BCCI is going to spend a part of its massive earning, 40 crore, on other sports every year. I have not heard of concrete plans but keep watching the space. The reason for this post is the much talked about cricket revolution in smaller cities of India , linked through SightScreen. The interesting thing is

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With introduction of PHL, hockey now has a buzz to it. Well atleast for the first 2 months of the year. The other tournament organisers are also playing with formats to figure out a good value for the specatators and themselves. The Bombay Gold Cup currently going on, well at Mumbai, has a unque format in semis. The four team in semis play against each in round-robin format rather than

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The masseur has been found guilty and will be spending one month in jail. Just a curious point, the question in the case seemed to be my word against yours. I did not knew people can be convicted this way.On positive note, Shiv Kapur qualified for British Open. Staying on Golf Jeev Milkha Singh won the China Open and is on top of Asian Tour's UBS Order of Merit. But last week has not been very

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India has reaped a rich harvest at recently concluded CWG. Weightlifting was a bit of dampner, but Shooters were like modern incarnations of Arjuna. Most heartening was the performance of Paddlers and Shuttlers with gold in men's singles. Though admittedly the best teams in the world, Chinese, Indonesians, Denmark et al, were not present, these were still very commendable performances and bodes

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Back after a lay-off. Me and also Aisam Qureshi (412), Pakistan ace which Leander Paes seemed very optimistic of overcoming. India play Pakistan in the Asia-Oceania Group I Davis Cup first round relegation play-off (Now, that is a moutful!) at the Brabourne stadium from April 7-9. Davis cup tie is being held at Mumbai after 30 years! Quite strange to believe, but regular followers will know Davis

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The games are over and India finished fourth with 22 gold and 50 medals. A bit less than last time but probably due to weightlifting medal reduction. The closing ceremony was full of bollywood style, with great visual show. Samresh Jung was adjudged best athlete overcoming Canadian teenager, Alexandra Orlando, who won 6 golds.Otherwise in events in last two days, Anju George finished 6th, well

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Following is some more information about people being linked to coach Indian soccer team.Michel Hidalgo France WikiBrian Kerr Ireland WikiAndre Gusset Switzerland has previously coached 5 clubs in Swiss and also Swiss U-21 team. Also vying for Ugandan coaching job.Acacio Alfredo Casimiro Portugal Very detailed ResumeJason Withe England Coached in

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Narain is doing testing for Williams at Valencia. First day Report.Sania looses in first round against Anna Tatishvili, a 16 year old qualifier ranked above 1000. If you see the stats for the match, it was lost by the number of unforced errors. There were lots and lots of breaks with both players finding difficult to hold. Sania lost the match by loosing two sets at tie-break, winning the set

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Following the doping scandal, a quite scary probability from BBC. Quote "India could now be banned from lifting events abroad for up to five years."Apart from the Fransa issue, some other important decisions were also taken recently by AIFF. After 2 drubbings in qualifiers, officially relieved national chief coach Syed Nayeemuddin. And there seems a impressive list of people interested in

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Boxing: Two of the boxers in semis lost, while 3 of them Akhil Kumar (Bantam 54 kg), Vijender (Welter 69 kg) and Harpreet Singh (Heavy 91 kg) are in final. Indian boxing team has a challenge only from the English squad for the top slot in the sport.Table-Tennis: India is out of women's doubles and men's doubles in quaterfinals, and Sharath Achanta is the sole representative left in Singles,

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Sania has won the "Stars For Stars," Newcomer of the year award for amazing last year she had. Picture 1. Picture 2. Picture 3. She looks quite stunning here.Regarding playing, this week is Nasdaq-100 open and upon winning the first round match, Sania will be meeting the opponent from the previous tournament, Elena Dementieva.

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After Air India'a (AI) appeal was upheld for the match Fransa had failed to show up, Fransa chairman Micky Pacheco has threatened to disband the club. Interesting part of the article is this one. "The appeal committee decision has come as a jolt for Fransa, especially after AIFF president Priya Ranjan Das Munshi awarded them a replay in writing on February 23 when the emergency committee

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The good news seems to continue with Shooters reaping huge rewards. (15, 6,3 with Husband-Wife pair of Samresh and Anuja Jung have won 6 Golds and 2 silvers till now. Wow! )(The website makes it pretty difficult to find these facts, but I think my calculation is correct :) . Weightlifters have done very well till news of doping hit. Pretty cynical headline.Following Murphy's law, Hockey Men's

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A brief updates on 2 superstars. Enough of Saina, according to latest WTA rankings, Sania has jumped 4 places to 41. She needs to make up rankings fast for good showing in Grand Slams.After surprise defeat in first round to Alexander Morozevich, Anand has defeated Svidler in the 2nd at Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament. He won all three parts of event last year.

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The North Indian faithful Tribune carried a CWG special issue. One of the articles listed the most likely source of medals. TT and Badminton teams are notable absentees in it and probably a big surprise this time. Athletics section is worth looking at. "Among the women, the medal hopes are pinned on Anju, throwers Seema Antil and Krishna Punia, heptathletes JJ Sobha, Soma Biswas and Sushmita

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Badminton: Shuttlers have started very well with all of them winning their first round matches highlight being following section of the report. "Meanwhile, national women champion Saina Nehwal demolished Karen Kune Foo of Mauritius in straight sets in a match that lasted barely 13 minutes. M Saina -- who had scalped world ranked players from Singapore, England and New Zealand in the team

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The badminton team has won the bronze, second team bronze after Women TT, defeating New Zealand 3-1. The commonwealth site is running front page article on the shooting squad. India leads the shooting tally with 9 Golds and 4 Silvers, Aussie team is 6,5,2. In Weightlifting also India leads the tally with 2,4,1 against Canada's 2,3,1. Both sports still have some days to go and I hope India

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According to CWG site Saina has turned 16 on 17th on this month itself only. You can see her player page on the site here. And I will continue my rant on the website below.At this moment, her match-up against Li Li is still listed as scheduled (Saina won that match). And her name for mixed team event and singles are different. Not like different spellings, but S. Nehwal and Saina Nehwal.

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India seems to be meeting Singapore a lot in team sports at CWG. Singapore's Table-Tennis and Badminton teams consist of some high profile imports, but India has done well against them. Women's TT team lost in Semis to them but came back to beat Canada 3-2 for bronze. Men's Team is in final against them after defeating Nigeria in semis. Badminton team belying their ranking defeated Singapore in

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Not everyone has the skill to do everything. Being technologically good does not mean anything, because even if feature complete a website is useless if it does not work the way the end-users want it to work. I have always found Tennis Grand Slam sites a treat to browse. There are times when I just browse through them following the links, like IMDB. Somehow, most other major sports websites have

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According to this report, Diwan Asgar Nabi, has pleaded not guilty and his next trial dates are fixed at April 4-5. He has been charged by Victoria police on one count of indecent assault and one count of unlawful assault, and carries at maximum of 2 years in prison. I have not yet seen any incrimating evidence against him and I am not sure how Aussie courts deal with my words

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Summarised here and here are woes of Indian Men and Women hockey squads and both of them are unlikely to make semis. Considering Men's international ranking and fact that Women team is defending champion, this is a hard pill to swallow.None of the swimmers could progress further than the heats though Hindu laments performance of same group notable a week earlier at Asian Swimming Championship.

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Courtsey Regan from BNB there is a Medal Tally table available now on the right-hand side of the page. Thanks buddy!As it shows now India is lying third, all the medals coming from 2 disciplines, Shooting and Weightlifting. Full medal tally for India is available anytime from this link.

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Courtsey shooters, India is currently lying second in the medals tally though with a significant lower number of medals than countries lying 3rd and 4th. The cloud behind silver lining :).Among all articles carrying syndicated news, a different piece on Rathore going to compete with his former coach Russell Mark in CWG. I hope it is a case of Guru gud he reh gaya, chela shakkar ho gaya( For

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Times of India that is. One side there is a rare article on Narain for all people who are wondering what is he doing now and other side a totally fluff piece on Sania. Good pics though!

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BBC is showing on their dedicated site (largely to England though), 2 gold and 2 silver medals. Kunjarani(Gold) and Vicky Batta(Silver) won 2 of those medals. I am not able to find source of other 2!Rediff as usual is doing excellent job at coverage and this is their roundup of Day 1. Their dedicated site for CWG is here. But that is still showing only the Gold and Silver mentioned above.In

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This is a good article on Indian team at CWG. The odd part is Indian newspapers and websites are carrying truncated news stories about the team's stint in Indonesia, while the Malaysian site has an original full length article about Indian team. Recently, Indian teams have done very well in premier Thomas and Uber cup tournaments and best of luck to them in this event. They stand a very good

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They have just begun and India is there in the medals tally! Kunjarani Devi, on of the usual culprits, has won Gold in Weightlifting. Standard PTI news report is available at all sites, sampling at NDTV.Finally some good news from these Games. Things have not been exactly pretty with the case of masseur really showing India in very bad light. I wonder if that particular guy is a bona-fide member

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Tennis is gathering a lot of news nowdays. Well mostly regarding Sania and her current ranking. Currently at Indianwells she did well to reach 3rd rounds of both Singles (One Bye, One Wildcard) and Doubles (with Ai Sugiyama, defeated Black/Stubbs ranked 2 in doubles in second round). Loosing to a top 10 seed, Dementieva ( Demientieva, the wrong spelling finds mention in quite a many publications

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Though most of the news items are saying Ronaldo and Figo are coming for the launch of A1 Series in India, IE is putting it as "likely to skip".At World Cup Shooting, Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore finished sixth in men’s double trap. Earlier in the men's trap event, Zorawar Singh Sandhu settled for the fifth place. Both of them had there worst rounds in their last attempts

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Something to do with letters, A A I N S. If you have not figured out, these are the letters in Sania ( as in Mirza). But what is she doing in Badminton. Well, it is not about here but Saina Nehwal, whose name contains the exact same letters and is doing exceptionally well in the national badminton circuits. According to Thomas John, coach at Gopi Chand's academy "Watch her, she'll win all the

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Arjun Atwal has managed to keep his PGA card for next year. From TOI report.He could very well have realised an even bigger goal, that of winning a PGA tournament if his putter, which has worked so well this year — he is No.2 (yes, No.2) in putting average in the PGA — had not let him down.The number of Indian professional sports people seems to be on a rise, probably somehow linked with the

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Was all the hype only until the Cricket season starts? I was going through online papers there was no news of Sania scoring upset win over 7th seed at Cincinnati. Next opponent is ranked 2 places higher than her and after that is the inevitable, a match with a Russian, Vera Zvonareva. Uberoi sisters were also trying to qualify for this tournamenet. Nehu defeated Shikha in second qualifying and

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University of Porto (Porto FC is the current Champions League holder) are at Goa to train under-12 coaches. Among the visitors is President of Portugese Olympic Association. What I cannot understand in the article though, is ample references to Portugese ruling Goa for a long time. They fell short by some space is it?

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Everyone has been talking about Sania, in Dubai currently Paes and Bhupathi have been participating in doubles competition. But it was a mixed day though. Paes with his parner Zimonjic lost in the first round, Bhupathi who I think has a better partner in Woodbridge, one of the pair of unbeatable Woodies, has progressed to the next round.

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Never mind the sports people, in administration Indian politicians keep on fighting with each other. Atleast this time it is at least on paper for players' sake. Senior VP of IOA VK Malhotra finds it "distressing to find that every work of routine nature is being attributed to the preparation of the Commonwealth Games." and says "Many decisions taken during the preparation of Indian contingent

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There seemed to be upsets based upon two stories posted yesterday. Firstly, in Asian Billiards both Geet Sethi and Devendra Joshi lost leaving Pankaj Advani as lone India. In second upset, East Bengal finally have lost their first match to second placed Dempo keeping the pressure on the runaway leaders till now.

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The other sport making some money in India now is Soccer. Most of the teams have now played around 10 matches except Sporting Club because of unfortunate accident and postponement of their matches. East Bengal are runaway leaders but oveall the statistics are pretty interesting. East Bengal is only unbeaten team at the moment. Demp and Mahindra are next having lost only once. Tollygunge have

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Rediff seems to be quite a bit into Hockey. There was earlier a chat with Viren. Now they have a very good piece on Dilip Tirkey. It is a pretty informative piece about various aspects in India hockey including coaches, recently concluded PHL, and general state of Hockey in India. An excerpt from the article:"The team tends to play in patches. We need to keep the intensity throughout the game.

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Anand will be competing against Kasparov along with 5 others in Linares Super Grandmaster tournament.Found a new site called Khalsa News, with cheesy line "see the truth". They have a story about an exhibition in Delhi title "Indian Sports through the Ages" which will be open till 23rd March.

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Narain talks about how the business of F1 works. Good details in the article. Quote "F1 is more business than sport." True, very true my friend.And Sania's wildcard to the Dubai Open arrives. The cut-off ranking in the tournament is 36 and Sania's rank now is 98 not 99 as mentioned in the article.

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Following up the Chess Federation 'splitting', Rajasthan has passed a legislation to regulate sports bodies in the state and Congress and BJP are playing politics around it. Hopefully, they will build something along the lines of SAAP and we will get to hear about them more. Other issue continuing is the Tricolor ban for cricketers. It is not strictly a cricket issue, and it stems from the rules

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On Monday, it was article on Turkish site, today a host of Australian sites are carrying the same story about Sania Mirza. The list includes Queensland Sunday Mail, Australian, Brisbane Courier, Advertiser Adelaide and Fox Australia. In other news, brand endorsement deal race has narrowed down to 3 unnamed companies, putting her valuation behing only the trinity of Indian Cricket, Sachin, Saurav

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Yesterday's post was about Asian Order of Merit, today it is Indian Order of Merit. Mukesh Kumar who won the Airtel Open last week leads the pack at the half way stage of the Indian tour, followed by Ashok Kumar and Shiv Kapur.Golf also seems to have defeated Cricket by holding a 2 day Indo-Pak tournament in Gurgaon.K.Sasikiran suffered a lose in Aeroflot Open in the penultimate round, leaving

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Narain comments on the tough world and dealing with it through the gruelling season. I think the season this year is 19 races and number of races is going up, not down. Last year, Bahrain and China were the newly added circuits and there might be more coming in Asia including India in coming future.Notice along with the article in IE, on the right hand side top column, there is a list of article

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After finishing runners-up in the Carlsberg Open, Jyoti Randhawa has moved upto third in the Order of Merit. Next Indian in the list is Amandeep Johl at 34.

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Leander Paes is going to lead the Indian team consisting of him, Mahesh Bhupathi, Prakash Amritraj and Harsh Mankad in Davis Cup Asia/Oceania first round tie against China on Mar. 4-6 at New Delhi. Players of both teams are not highly ranked and might be a close tie. All depends largely on Paes of course. Double should not be a worry. If he wins both Singles also, then the tie is already won. I

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I have added links to my other blog, which is just about anything that comes to my mind and to the Atom Feed for this blog. Enjoy.

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This is a bit of old news. Rediff had online chat with Viren Rasquinha, which said "His consistent performances and boyish charm has won hearts of hockey lovers all round the country."An excerpt from a reader's question.Viren Rasquinha: Our basics are definitely a bit weak as compared to the top hockey playing nations. That's probably down to the fact that we do not have too many turf grounds in

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in WTA rankings. Just checked here, she has made another minor jump. She was not playing this week, so most likely, someone dropped some points and moved out of the top 100. Her points are actually 370 and make a guess how much points does the top seed Lindsay Davenport has? And how much the 25th ranked player has which she wants to break into this year? Take a wild guess and then click the link.

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According to NDTV, Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh(SAAP) has come forward to offer him 5 lakh to keep playing in coming tourneys. This is the second time in some time I have heard about SAAP in recent times. Remember, Sania Mirza thanking SAAP after winning the Hyderabad tourney? Are their any other SA's? If yes, what are they doing? I had recently linked to a story in TOI on Harikrishna.

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The series of good stuff from TOI continues. They have an excellent interview with the Indian coach, and it ranges from the progress of Indian soccer scene, his personal thoughts, the usual lacklustre attitude of Indian officials among others. Good read.

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Sania Mirza keeps making headlines with a lot of them focussing on Dubai Open and her aim of reaching top 25. Her fame seems to have reached all over Asia. Just read this article from Turkish Daily News.

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TOI usually has very sensational-ized stories. Recently, they have two good pieces on Dempo skipper Sameer Naik and another on Chess star P. Harikrishna. Though, both have the TOI touch but still good stories with lots of information about people you rarely hear about.

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I had written about the issues betwen the Indian Chess body, AICF and players association CPAI. They seems to have done a reconcillation with 10 percent deducation rule removed. But AICF seem to have landed themselves in trouble with fighting between office-bearers and appointments of officials. More details here.

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Golf is another sports with growing number of players and accolades. Personally I find the game very boring, watching I mean. But as someone quoted, "Golf is like love. It is not fun if you do not take it seriously, but if you take it seriously, it really hurts."Among Indian golfers, Arjun Atwal has played in the US PGA tour and Jyoti Randhawa is going great guns to earn back his European card.

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With Cricket season in a state of rest, Indian sports seems to have found new heroes in every sports. Beginning of last month was the start of both PHL and NFL which got a lot of publicity. PHL has made what can be said mini-heroes of the Hockey Stars with Jagbir Singh and Dilip Tirkey becoming more famous stars. India Today has a decent article on the effects of PHL and the some good markers on

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TOI takes a look back at the Ten years of the Chennai Open. And the papers are still talking about Lee-Hesh battles, current one being at Sydney. In the MSLTA-ITF futures, a strong Indian contigent has moved to quarters defeating seeded opponents.

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PHL begins today with match between Hyderabad Veerans and Sher-e-Jallandhar, with Star Sports telecasting it. Without a single game Shers of Jalandhar have been crowned as favorite. Everyone will be waiting how stars combine together as a team. Remember always a team wins matches not individuals. Tales of Real Madrid and its galactios are part of urban legend now. Their are multiple news stories

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Sujit Bhar in The Telegraph has written a report full of complaints regarding the whole game. Complaints included among others setting up the hype, "directionless and classless" display, and choice of the Man of the Match. Saumyajit Basu in TOI has given a similar review of the game lamenting it as derby drudgery. Give the players a break. It is the first match of the new season. Players are

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NFL kicks off today with highly charged encounter between the two Calcutta giants, Mohun Bagan and East Bengal and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is going to be in there to inaugurate it. India's lone superstar Bhaichung Bhutia is all set to play in it. Mohun Bagan face injury problems with Renedy Singh, Sunil Chettri, Tomba Singh and Palash Karmakar unfit to play. The championship starts at 3:30

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Along with the comments on Pillay and Gagan, KPS Gill made a very controversial statement, mentioned at the bottom of the page, saying""I don't consider the comment of those who played in the Olympics after 1966 as valid. They are not Olympians, they are losers. They got a gold in the (boycott-marred) 1980 Olympics against very weak opposition. I don't consider them as Olympians, they have

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Coach Clarence Lobo is worried about lack of drag-flickers in his Maratha Warriors team. Their are initial hiccups with Hyderabad Sultans having the most problems. This article give some ideas regarding initial problems to avoid learning from the birht of National Footbal League which is doing very well now. IHF lambasts Gagan Ajit Singh and Dhanraj Pillay but they are playing in the PHL.

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Chennai will be hosting Asian Squash Juniors from Jan 20th to the 28th. The likely number of participants is going to be around 16. Indian contigent is expecting to be in top 4 in both men and women categories. With players like Joshna it should not be a tough ask.

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India is going to host 2 matches for Tsunami victims at Salt Lake, Calcutta and Nehru Stadium, Delhi. They are expecting to get some current or retired English Premier League or Spainish La Liga stars. If it happens as planned, would be a nice opporunity to see all those International stars and a good experience for the current Indian players. The previous year has not been rated very good by

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Sasikaran is first and Kunte second in the Parsvnath International Open in New Delhi. Just see the nice looking trophies here. On the bad side, like some other sports, in Chess their is a tussle going on between the association, AICF, and the Players body, CPAI. The dispute is regarding AICF deducting 10 percent of the winning in every tournament in the second half of last year. The dispute

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There is no official world junior ranking but winner of British Under-19 is considered world junior champion. And Joshna has done exactly that. She is the first Indian to reach world senior quarters in 2003. (How the Juniors and Seniors go hand-in-hand I do not go. Should not the people be participating in only one of those?). She has a trophy cabinet full of trophies and with Asian and World

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There was a certain Internation flavour to this tourney with participants from Malaysia, Great Britain though majority were Indian. Their were 2 pools of four players each with top 2 playing the semis which were played between world No 19 Mohammed Azlan Iskandar, India No.2 and World No 79 Ritwik Bhattachary, World No 75 Peter Denver of GB and World No 106 Timothy Arnold of Malaysia with Ritwik

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Overall, Carlos Moya won the singles final against Paradorn Srichapan and Rainer Schuettler and Yeh-Hsun Lu defeated Mahesh Bhupathi/Jonas Bjorkman for the doubles. What about all the Indians I talked about previously? Well, nothing new. Leander Paes, Harsh Mankad, Karan Rastogi and Prakash Amritraj all bowed out in the first rounds of the singles tournament. Ghouse/Uppal and Prakash/Stephen lost

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Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) has confirmed 13 foreign players for inagural PHL, 10 from Pakistan, 2 for Malaysia and 1 from Spain. I hope they are able to convince players from more countries, which would help raise the status of the tournament. PHL should be looked to as a global championship between clubs, rather than Indian competition. True inagural year things will be probably difficult.

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ONGC has been roped in this year to sponsor the Natinal League and will be spending to the tune of whooping 7 crore. Plus DD will be telecasting host of matches of the League paying from 4 lakh down to 10 lakh depending upon the status of the matches. This is still not lot of money compared to Cricket or other countries, but things seems to be improving for professional footballs. But grounds

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..if you count the Uberoi sisters as Indian. Sania Mirza has been doing very well and will be given a direct entry to The Australian Open being highest seeded player from Asia without direct entry to the tournament, which means she has been doing very well in the circuit. Sanaa Bhamabari is another I keep hearing about every now and then, though not recently. The ones making the waves though are

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Current Chennai Open is doing good for India with Paes, Bhupathi playing and Mankad making to the main draw through qualifiers. But overall as I blogged an year ago future looks very very dim. In face since the beginning of Tennis it is all downhill for India. The heights achieved by Amritraj's and Krishnan Sr were not reached by Krishnan Jr. And Paes and Bhupathi also in Singles did not even

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Being the first tournament of the year and closeness to Australian Open makes Chennai Open a very good tennis event. This year the lowest non-wildcard, non-qualifier rank has fallen from 121 to 119 in Singles. Not too much but an improvement nonetheless. Top players in the singles include Carlos Moya, Paradron Srichapan, Jonas Bjorkman, Rainer Schuettler and Indian hopes Leander Paes and Prakash

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The outpouring of help from all over the world for Tsunami victims has been enormous. From Cricket Aussie team donated their prize money from victory against Pakistan. England team has give 15K $ (or is it pounds), BCCI has put 1 crore rupees, and to top it all EPL donating 1 million pound. Few of the lesser known donations have come from sources like Maria Sharapova, ATP and Hongkong Jockey Club

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Stalwarts Sohail Abbas and and Waseem Ahmed along with another 8 players from Pakistan have been confirmed by IHF president KPS Gill to participate in the Indian Hockey League. I read in another report the captain of the French team, which humilated India in their recent tour was also offered a contract.

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Hockey for a change seemed to making moves in the correct direction with starting of the league and tie-up with sports channels for telecast. But what about the actual performace of the team? French team is touring India nowdays. And in the first test they have stunned India with 3-1 scoreline. Though India was fielding sort of second string team, the bench strength looks very weak if they start

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Anju George seems to have carved a name for herself internationally. Paris's mayor is trying to enlist her help for its candidacy for the 2012 Olympics. Paris is actually in the forefront of the race and most likely to win it ahead of NY, Moscow, Madrid and London. The cities are from the top of my head. Not sure all correct. I know this might just a PR ploy to enlist help of developing world

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India has been doing reasonably well in the Davis Cup courtesy Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi and Ramesh Krishnan before in recent times. But looking at the current crop, the good years seem to be ending fast. India play Japan in Asia-Ocerania Group 1 fixture from April 9 to 11 in Osaka. The Team consists of Prakash Amritraj, Harsh Mankad and Rohan Boppana with Leander Pase leading them. I

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India was always expected to go through to the Olympics. What was unexpected was the two matches with arch-rivals Pakistan and losses in both of them. Both team as a matter of fact tend to share the spoils in case of two matches in a tournament(Dhanraj Pillay effect?). Looking into the details of the performance, the most striking statistics is the number of goals lets in by Indians. Indians

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Football First Post!!! Kidding apart nothing particularly I am aware of happening today, so I will rehash some older stuff. I am following with some interest the National Football League in India and what is surprising is the comparative decline of the Bengal, and Kerala and rise of Goa. Overall there are five Goan teams, four from Bengal and three from rest of India, with one being JCT from my

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