BADMINTON

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Bangalore, Round I, Men ? Ranveer Singh (Raj) bt Amarjoti Bose (Jar) 11-5, 15-11, 15-13 Joy Antony (Ker) bt Avnish Sharma (J&K) 15-5, 15-4 Aditya Chitre (Mah) bt Pranav Khot (Mah) 15-8, 15-7 Siddharath Jain (TN) bt Rohit Bhakar (Har) 15-5,15-6 Guru Prasad D. (Ktk) bt Sarabjeet Bhowmick (BSNL) 15-11, 15-5 Anish K. A. (Ker) bt Mohanty D. S. (Ori) 15-8, 15-10 Akshay Dewalkar (Mah) bt S. Mathew (PY) 15-6, 15-9 S. Dahiya (Har) bt Abhijit Datta (BSNL) 15-10, 15-7 Govind Navelkar (Goa) bt Ankur Baruah (Asm) 15-7, 15-2 Arup Baidya (Rly) bt Lalith Yadav (Utr) 15-0, 15-3 Bhanu Pratap Singh (Rly) bt Sudeep Bhattacharjee (BSNL) 14-17, 15-0, 15-12 Pallav Deka (Asm) bt Abhishek Agarwal (UP) 15-2, 15-11 Kaushik Pal (Ben) bt Pankaj Naik (Goa) 15-12, 15-8 P. Bahatare (Mah) bt Jena A. K. (Ori) 15-2, 15-0 R. Castelino (Ktk) bt Mandeep Singh (Chg) 15-3, 15-3 S. Kapoor (Har) bt Neeraj Kumar (Bhr) 15-2, 15-4 Sachin Ratti (Rly) bt Himanshu Parmar (HP) 15-1, 15-12 Women ? Ashwini Ponnappa (Ktk) bt Swati Sharma (Utr) 11-1, 11-1 Shruti M. (Ker) bt Sujata (Dli) 11-9, 11-9 Amrita Mukherjee (Rly) bt Ankita Shailesh (Bhr) 11-5, 11-0 Parul Rawat (Rly) bt Parssa Naqvi (UP) 13-10, 11-6 Vanshika Gupta (Dli) bt Umarani Palit (Jar) 11-1, 11-2 Debashree Dey (Ben) bt Kavitha S. (PY) 11-0, 11-1 Sampada Sahasrabudhe (Mah) bt Garima Yadav (UP) 11-1, 11-5 Akansha Nehra (Dli) bt Seema Bhandri (Raj) 11-3, 11-5 Nischitha G. M. (Ktk) bt Manali Sinha (Asm) 11-1, 11-7 Saumya Padhye (Ktk) bt Mohita Sahdev (Dli) 13-11, 11-0 Round II, Men ? Arind Bhat (PSPB) bt Pawan (Chg) 15-1, 15-3 Ranveer Singh (Raj) bt Rajiv Bajaj (Dli) 17-16, 5-15, 15-11 Hemant Duggal (Rly) bt Sameer Abbasi (Guj) 15-8, 15-0 Joy T. Antony (Ker) bt Aditya Chitre (Mah) 15-2, 15-12 Vidyadhar J. B. S. (AP) bt Jayendra Dhole (CG) 15-1, 15-6 Utsav Mishra (UP) bt Rajeeb Goswami (Asm) 15-3, 15-4 ll Himanshu Thakkar (Mah) bt Guruprasad D. (Ktk) 15-3, 15-8 Sagar Chopda (Mah) bt Vivek Sharma (Chg) 15-5, 15-3 Mayank Behal (Rly) bt Akshay Dewalkar (Mah) 4-15, 15-4, 15-4 Anand Pawar (AI) bt Rohan Kapoor (PNB) 15-1, 15-1 Ravinder Singh (UP) bt Conan Remlalliana (Miz) 15-5, 15-5 Krishna S. D. S (AP) bt Abhimanyu Singh (MP) 15-8, 15-2 Utsav Prakash (Ktk) bt Nimesh Goyel (MP) 15-1, 15-3 Jibi Verghese (Rly) bt Piyush Aggarwal (Har) 15-11, 15-9 Anup Sridhar (PSPB) bt Ajay Dayal (CG) 15-2, 15-2 Bhanu Pratap Singh (Rly) bt Pallav Deka (Asm) 15-8, 15-7 Women ? Tanmoyee Nandi (Ben) bt Renu Abraham (Guj) 11-0, 11-0 Gayatri Kochak (Mah) bt Anees Kowser (TN) 11-5, 11-2 Ashwini Ponnappa (Ktk) bt Saloni Jain (UP) 11-1, 11-0 Shruti M. (Ker) bt Prachi Dhavale (MP) 11-5, 11-5 Krishna Dekaraja (PSPB) bt Shruti Bansal (PNB) 11-2, 11-6 Anita Ohian (Rly) bt Amrita Mukherjee (Rly) 11-1, 13-11 Miral George (Ker) bt Sumitra Pujari (Asm) 11-1, 11-2 Monisha Vinayak (Utr) bt Parul Rawat (Rly) 6-11, 11-9, 11-9 Abantika Deka (Asm) bt Isha Sharma (Chg) 11-3, 11-5 Neha Pandit (Mah) bt Vanshika Gupta (Dli) 11-5, 11-4 Dhanya Nair (Rly) bt Malvika (HP) 11-2, 11-2 Ruth Misha V. (Ktk) bt Debashree Dey (Ben) 11-4, 11-5 Varsha Belawadi (Ktk) bt Kamini Shandil (HP) 11-6, 11-6 Shruthi Kurien bt Victoria Kujur (Jar) 11-0, 11-1 Sayali Gokhale (Mah) bt Bibari Basumatary (Asm) 11-6, 11-2 Merit George (Ker) bt Priya A. (TN) 11-3, 3-11, 11-0 Navita Thakur (PNB) bt Shampa Saha (Ben) w/ Aparna Popat (PSPB) bt Ashwini (PY) 11-0, 11-0 Aditi Mutatkar (Mah) bt Priyanka Saraf (CG) 11-1, 11-1 Jwala Gutta (PSPB) bt Gauri Choudhary (UP) 11-2, 11-3 Nischitha G. M. (Ktk) bt Sarada H. (Chg) 11-2, 11-6 Aparna Balan (Ker) bt Roma Nayyar (Ktk) 11-2, 11-0 Saumya Padhye (Ktk) bt Ashwini Choudary (AP) 11-8, 11-7 Neha Makwana (Rly) bt Vandana (J&K) 11-2, 11-2 Ridhi Pajwani (Mah) bt Mampriya Sangupta (Ben) 11-0, 11-2 Meenakshi B. R. (PSPB) Reshmi Khedekar (MP) 11-0, 11-1

FOOTBALL

ENGLISH FA CUP

Round III ? Arsenal 2 Cardiff City (II) 1 Barnsley (III) 1 Walsall (III) 1 Blackburn Rovers 3 Queens Park Rangers (II) 0 Brighton & Hove Albion 0 Coventry City (II) 1 Chelsea 2 Huddersfield Town (III) 1 Cheltenham Town (IV) 2 Chester City (IV) 2 Crystal Palace (II) 4 Northampton Town (IV) 1 Derby County (II) 2 Burnley (II) 1 Hull City (II) 0 Aston Villa 1 Ipswich Town (II) 0 Portsmouth 1 Luton Town (II) 3 Liverpool 5 Manchester City 3 Scunthorpe United (III) 1 Millwall (II) 1 Everton 1 Newcastle United 1 Mansfield Town (IV) 0 Norwich City (II) 1 West Ham United 2 Nuneaton Borough 1 Middlesbrough 1 Preston North End (II) 2 Crewe Alexandra (II) 1 Sheffield United (II) 1 Colchester United (III) 2 Sheffield Wednesday (II) 2 Charlton Athletic 4 Southampton (II) 4 Milton Keynes Dons FC (III) 3 Stockport County (IV) 2 Brentford (III) 3 Stoke City (II) 0 Tamworth 0 Torquay United (IV) 0 Birmingham City 0 Watford (II) 0 Bolton Wanderers 3 West Bromwich Albion 1 Reading (II) 1 Wigan Athletic 1 Leeds United (II) 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 Plymouth Argyle (II) 0

SERIE A

Palermo 1 (Christian Terlizzi 12) Juventus 2 (Adrian Mutu 15,34) Reggina 1 (Alessandro Lucarelli 12) Fiorentina 1 (Martin Jorgensen 13)

PRIMERA LIGA

Espanyol 1 (Raul Tamudo 60) Barcelona 2 (Deco 44, Samuel Eto’ 47) Athletic Bilbao 1 (Ismael Urzaiz 57) Deportivo Coruna 2 (Jose Maria Lacruz 26 og, Arizmendi 63)

GOLF

ROYAL TROPHY

Final day ? Asia 5 Europe 3. Yasuharo Imano (Jpn) bt David Howell (GBR) 2-up Zhang Lian-Wei (Prc) lost to Paul Mcginley (Ire) 2 and 1 Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) lost to Graeme McDowell (Nir) 3 and 2 Arjun Atwal (Ind ) bt Nick Faldo (GBR) 3 and 2 Thaworn Wiratchant (Tha) bt Ian Woosnam (Wal) 2 and 1 S. K. Ho (Kor) bt Kenneth Ferrie (GBR) 2 and 1 Keiichiro Fukabori (Jpn) bt Thomas Bjorn (Den) 4 and 3 Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) lost to Henrik Stenson (Swe) 5 and 4

US PGA TOUR HAWAII MEET

Round III ? 213 Stuart Appleby (Aus) 71 72 70 215 Michael Campbell (Nzl) 72 72 71 216 Jim Furyk (US) 72 72 72 217 Lucas Glover (US) 74 73 70 218 Vijai Singh (Fij) 70 74 74, Sergio Garcia (Esp) 71 74 73

HOCKEY

PREMIER LEAGUE

Tier I ? Maratha Warriors 2 (Adnan Zakir 22, Shivendra) Sher-e-Jalandhar 0 Tier II ? Delhi Dazzlers 5 Imphal Rangers 1

TENNIS

ATP CHENNAI OPEN

Semi-finals ? Ivan Ljubicic (1, Cro) bt Kristof Vliegen (Belgium) 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 Carlos Moya (3, Esp) bt Radek Stepanek (2, Cze) 6-4, 6-7, 7-6

ATP DOHA OPEN

Final ? Roger Federer (1, Sui) bt Gael Monfils 6-3, 7-6 (7, Fra)

WTA SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL

Round I ? Maria Kirilenko (Rus) bt Gisela Dulko (Arg) 6-4, 3-0 (w/) Svetlana Kuznetsova (6, Rus) bt Shinobu Asagoe (Jap) 6-1, 5-7, 7-5 Ana Ivanovic (SCG) bt Shuai Peng (Chn) 6-2, 6-4

WTA CANBERRA INTERNATIONAL

Round I ? Roberta Vinci (5, Ita) bt Maria Vento-Kabchi (Ven) 6-4, 6-4 Shahar Peer (4, Isr) bt Karolina Sprem (Cro) 7-5, 6-3 Ekaterina Bychkova (Rus) bt Zuzana Ondraskova (Cze) 6-1, 6-4 Tathiana Garbin (Ita) bt Anda Perianu (Rom) 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) Julia Schruff (Ger) bt Tatiana Panova (Rus) 7-5, 6-3 Yoon Jeong Cho (Kor) bt Sofia Arvidsson (Swe) 6-4, 6-4 Melinda Czink (Hun) bt Antonella Serra Zanetti (Ita) 6-2, 6-2

WTA HOBART INTERNATIONAL

Round I ? Jill Craybas (8, US) bt Nicole Pratt (Aus) 7-5, 7-5 Amy Frazier (4, US) bt Lourdes Dominguez (Esp) 6-7 (2-7), 6-3, 6-0 Nuria Llagostera (7, Esp) bt Elena Vesnina (Rus) 6-3, 6-0 Jamea Jackson (US) bt Laura Pous (Esp) 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 Iveta Benesova (5, Cze) bt Maria Sanchez Lorenzo (Esp) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 Stephanie Foretz (Fra) bt Mariana Diaz Oliva (6, Arg) 6-1, 1-6, 7-5

ADELAIDE INTERNATIONAL

Semi-finals ? Xavier Malisse (Bel) bt Tomas Berdych (6, Cze) 6-4, 6-0 Florent Serra (Fra) bt Dominik Hrbaty (2, Svk) 6-3, 6-3

WTA MONDIAL HARDCOURTS

Final ? Lucie Safarova (Cze) bt Flavia Pennetta (4, Ita) 6-3, 6-4

WTA AUCKLAND OPEN

Final ? Marion Bartoli (6, Fra) bt Vera Zvonareva (8, Rus) 6-2, 6-2

For the book

Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, CRPF and Punjab registered convincing victories in the preliminary round matches of the 6th All India Police Lawn Tennis tournament in Pondicherry on Sunday. Punjab trounced Delhi 2-0, Karnataka defeated hosts Pondicherry 2-0, Andhra beat Himachal Pradesh 2-0 .