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Shikha l. De Los Rios, 26 16 ... Sunitha l. Haynes, don't know the exact score .. Talked to Mahesh Uberoi who said Shikha basically did not have enough spring in her legs today, after two marathon 3.5 matches the last two days. De Los Rios is a very experienced 30+ yr old player who knew she would b...

The Hindu says, ..All India Nutrine-Naturo sub-junior tennis tournament for boys and girls at Fateh Maidan SAAP Tennis Complex here. According to the organisers of the event, tennis prodigy Sania Mirza will conduct a special, one-hour coaching camp for boys and girls (under-12 years) at the venue fr...

Thanks for all the details, Tintin (Billions and Billions of Blasted Blue Blistering Barbecued Barnacles ) ..

LP has 175 points to defend. Need to get this title ..

Jay

[QF] (2) H.Mankad/ A.Qureshi d. (WC) Andrew Banks (GBR)/ Alex Bogdanovich (GBR), 63 64

The semifinal on Saturday will be
[SF] (2) H.Mankad/ A.Qureshi vs (LL) Stephane Bohli (SUI)/ Jean-Claude Scherrer (SUI)

Go India-Pakistan !!

Jay

GK Shwetha and Poojashree are two names I was waiting for the last year or so. Neither has emerged yet and perhaps we will only know where things stand on the girls' side by early next year when the subcontinental circuit starts (there are grade-4s later this year in India but the competition won't ...

I have been concerned about the girls side for almost 18 months now. Since Sanaa and Tara emerged 2 years back, we have really not seen anybody make much noise. We may have to look into the u14 range for the next group. That means at least 2-3 years break between the Sania-Isha-Megha-Ankita-Sanaa-Ta...

PKB -- I don't think speaking to them will help in anyway. There is nothing to tell them that they don't know already. Worse still, I don't even want to really keep belaboring the point and make them both start being really worried about themselves. That also would not help at Athens. Whatever prepa...

Dhruv -- Well, there WILL BE a second Indian satellites. It hit the ITF calendar today. It's one month later though, and avoids the clash with the Sri Lankan Satellites So it will be, 9 Aug - 5 Sep: Pakistan $25K satellites 30 Aug - 5 Sep: Sri Lanka $10K futures 6 Sep - 12 Sep: Hyderabad $10K Future...

golfan: What is so is wrong with the playing conditions in Europe? What don't they enjoy?

Jay

sh sh ... quiet .. let us not jinx the girl ... I was reluctant to talk about her for a few weeks and then decided what the heck. She is unbeaten this week at Hyderabad and has not dropped a set in the first two rounds of u12 and u14 ..

Jay

AITA Nutrine Naturo Tour Leg-1 (Chennai, June 7) Results: Boys u14 Boys under-14: (first round) 1 Sri Ram Balaji (TN) d. Gautam Raj (TN) 62 61 Q Gitesh Avasti (GUJ) d. Q Rishabh Parikh (GUJ) 46 62 64 W R. Rishabh Dev (TN) d. Nihal Kapoor (TN) 46 64 64 6 Priyank Gangadaran (TN) d. Q Mohit Mayur (TN) ...

The AITA Nutrine Naturo Tour consists of six AITA championship series junior events, u12 and u14, one every month, leading to a Nutrine Masters by year-end (The Nutrine and Nike tour structure has changed a bit this year. No regional closed events. All are open for everybody) Chennai – 07 Jun Hydera...

Here are the results from the Grade 4 ITF Leeuwenbergh, NED: [R1] (1) Madura Ranganathan (IND,104) l. Nocollette van Uitert (NED,NR), 46 46 [R1] (2) Vandana Murali (IND,231) l. Francesca Kinsella (GBR,351), 36 16 [R1] Gayatri Krishnan (IND,599) l. Cluadia Smolders (BEL,286), 16 16 [R1] (4) Sandhya n...

10K Flexistowe grass ITF (UK):

[R1] S.Dhawan/ Dubravka Cupac (AUS) d. Katharine Baker (GBR)/ Melissa Gibb (GBR), 62 61
[QF] S.Dhawan/ Dubravka Cupac (AUS) vs (1) Helen Crook (GBR)/ Karen Paterson (GBR), 1-5 first set

The QF is incomplete and postponed to Friday from yesterday...

Jay

OK, here is the score for Shjikha's upset yesterday. [R2] Shikha Uberoi (USA,332) d. (7) Kelly Liggan (IRL,233), 46 64 63 Also, [R1] (WC) T.Iyer/ Megan Moulton-Levy (JAM) l. (4) Maureen Drake (CAN)/ Ilke Gers (NZL), 46 26 Today's matches: [QF] Shikha Uberoi (USA,332) vs (3) Rasanna Neffa De Los Rios...