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Sania is still there in mixed doubles and has now gone thru to the QF with a walkover in second round.

1-1 draw against England today. Good results considering that we lost to them twice at Tokyo olympics including in bronze medal match.

So, all 4 teams in our teams tied at 1 point each after first round of matches. We play China on 5th July in an important match.

Sahaja continued her great progress this year following her earlier W15 title with a W25 title this week in Gurugram this week. These are her results this week- [R1] Sahaja Yamalapalli (IND.989) d. (8) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,494) 61 62 [R2] Sahaja Yamalapalli (IND.989) d. Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,56...

And Sahaja win her first W25 title with another upset win. :clap: [F] Sahaja Yamalapalli (IND,989) d. (3) Viktoria Morvayova (SVK,411) 63 76(5) After winning the first set with only 1 break, Sahaja was double break up 4-1 in second set but then Slovakian leveled it up for 4-4, Sahaja broke again twi...

Womens hockey world started couple of days back in Spain and Netherlands. We are in a tough group with 4th ranked England, 9th ranked New Zealand and 13th ranked China.

We play England today in our first match. NZ and China drew 2-2 yesterday.

Riya lost 26 26 against American Victoria Duval who is currently ranked 362 but has been in top 100 earlier.

Still a good week for Riya who has been trying to go and play lot of tournaments abroad with mixed success. Hope this pays off eventually for her.

Sahaja continues her excellent run with an upset over 4th seed in SF with a loss of just 1 game. Ankita lost though in the SF against third seed. [SF] Sahaja Yamalapalli (IND,989) d. (4) Ekaterina Yashina (RUS,488) 60 61 [SF] (2) Ankita Raina (IND,360) l. (3) Viktoria Morvayova (SVK,411) 36 46 Sajaj...

She lost in the SF.

At W15 Monastir, Tunisia

[SF] (7) Jenniffer Luikham (IND,921) l. (5) Manon Leonard (FRA,746) 16 36

Still she went 1 step higher than as expected by her seeding. So, posted these results.

They lost in the SF.

At Cali Challenger, Colombia (Clay)

[SF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) l. Keegan Smith (USA) / Evan Zhu (USA) 46 61 6-10

Both our pairs lost in the SF though. At Malaga Open Challenger 80, Spain (Hard) [SF] (1) Victor Vlad Cornea (ROU) / Arjun Kadhe (IND) l. Altug Celikbilek (TUR) / Dmitry Popko (KAZ) 76(2) 36 8-10 [SF] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Saketh Myneni (IND) l. Daniel Cukierman (ISR) / Emilio Gomez (ECU) 46 46 A...

Ankita and Sahaja make it to the singles SF. Sahaja Yamalapalli into her first W25 level SF. These are the results of the matches today involving Indians- [R2] Sahaja Yamalapalli (IND,989) d. Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,560) [R2] Vaidehi Chaudhari (IND,727) d. Mihika Yadav (IND,1232) So, 4 quartefinals ...

Bala and Jeevan are thru to the SF in Colombia. At Cali Challenger, Colombia (Clay) [R1] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) d. Pedja Kristin (SRB) / Milan Zekic (SRB) Walkover [QF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) d. Ignacio Carou (URU) / Facundo Mena (ARG...

Jeniffer Luikham reached semi final in Tunisia. At W15 Monastir, Tunisia [R1] (7) Jenniffer Luikham (IND,921) d. Astrid Cirotte (FRA,1078) 75 26 62 [R2] (7) Jenniffer Luikham (IND,921) d. Carola Cavelli (ITA,NR) 62 63 [QF] (7) Jenniffer Luikham (IND,921) d. Chiara Girelli (ITA,1369) 36 76(6) 60 Next...

Another new national record for Neeraj Chopra in Stockholm Diamond league with 89.94 mtr but he wins only a silver with this year's world leader Greneda's Anderson Peters throwing 90.31 mtrs. Neeraj still just short of 90M meter mark. I think next up for him is world championships.

So, it is confirmed that Chennai will host a WTA 250 tournament from September 26 to October 2- Chennai returns to international tennis map with 2022 WTA 250 tour From 2003 to 2007, a WTA tournament was held in Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Good to see the event returning to India after 15 years at anot...