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June 29, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Sharapova leads Russian charge 6-wicket win for England
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Badani slams century Foe’s death casts shadow on final FIFA rejects expansion 3-year-old dies as goalposts fall over
India rout Argentina India lose to Germany 3-2 3 more gold at Special Olympics Young lifter set to go places Isha, Vijayant lift titles PSEB to recruit sportspersons
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Sharapova
leads Russian charge
London, June 28 The 16-year-old darling of the photographers became one of five Russian girls to advance to the last 16 of the tournament with a 6-4, 6-4 dismissal of Jelena Dokic, the 11th seed and herself a former semi-finalist at the All-England club. After setting up a fourth round clash against France’s Mary Pierce, Sharapova gave the world’s media a glimpse of the competitive drive that has carried her so far, so young. “When I come into a tournament I am expecting to win, that is my philosophy,” she said. “I cannot go to a tournament thinking I am going to get my ass kicked today. “Yes I am surprised to be here but I always knew one day it would come and all the hard work would pay off. This is reality. “When I stepped out on court number one today, I was just like ‘I’m not going to give her a chance today.’ I want to be a winner.” Sharapova was joined in the fourth round by top seed Serena Williams, who eased past compatriot and 28th seed Laura Granville 6-3, 6-1 with what she said was her best performance so far. “Definitely, if I’d played like I did in the first two rounds it would have been a lot closer today,” the world number one said. Williams will now face Russian number one Elena Dementieva, who ended the challenge of Hungarian qualifier Aniko Kapros. The Russian contingent in the last 16 is made up by Svetlana Kuznetsova and Anastasia Myskina, both of whom went through today, and Vera Zvonareva, who will face Venus Williams. Kuznetsova, 18 and on her first visit to the Wimbledon grass courts, beat Emilie Loit of France 6-1, 6-2. Also through to the fourth round today was Anastasia Myskina, 21, who beat former champion Conchita Martinez of Spain 6-3, 6-3. Elena Dementieva, 21 and seeded 15, stormed past Hungarian qualifier Aniko Kapros 6-3, 6-1 to set up a fourth-round match with defending champion Serena Williams. Kournikova, a semi-finalist here in 1997, was forced to miss this year’s championships with a back injury. Sharapova, who left Russia at the age of nine to hone her skills in the USA, had no doubt about the reason why so many Russian girls have emerged in recent years. “They work that extra hour at the end of the day. If someone has a talent they know that they can achieve it by working hard.” In the men’s singles, Australia’s Mark Philippoussis lined up a potential fourth round clash with Andre Agassi after a 4-6, 7-6 (9/7), 6-4
,7-6 (8/6) win over the Czech Republic’s Radek Stepanek. Second seed and former champion Andre Agassi of the USA moved into the fourth round of the men’s singles with a 5-7, 6-4, 7-6, (7/4), 7-6 (7/4) win in 3hr 30min over Moroccan 27th seed Younes El Aynaoui. Germany’s Alexander Popp gave British tennis fans a glimmer of consolation for their players’ dismal Wimbledon showing when he eliminated 11th seed Jiri Novak. Tim Henman may be the only true Brit left in either the men’s or women’s singles but Popp at least has a British mother and admits his affinity with the country may have contributed to his success here. Roger Federer’s bid for a first grand slam title gained momentum at Wimbledon when he beat American Mardy Fish 6-3, 6-1, 4-6
,6-1 yesterday to reach the last 16 of the men’s singles. The 21-year-old Swiss, regarded by many as the natural successor to seven-times Wimbledon champion Pete Sampras, had Fish floundering on an overcast Centre Court as he rattled through the first two sets with near-perfect grasscourt tennis. Ivo Karlovic’s Wimbledon fairytale ended when he was downed by Max Mirnyi, known as “The Beast of Belarus”, 7-6,
3-6, 6-3, 7-6 in their third-round battle of the giants. Qualifier Karlovic, who at 6ft 10 inches (2.083 metres) was the tallest player ever to compete at the grasscourt grand slam, made tournament history when he knocked out defending champion Lleyton Hewitt in the first round on Monday. American Chanda Rubin became the highest seed to perish in the women’s draw when she was overpowered 7-6, 6-3 by Italy’s Silvia Farina Elia in the Wimbledon third round on Friday.
— AFP, Reuters
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Paes-Rikl duo in 3rd round New Delhi, June 28 Paes and Rikl, the fifth seeds, won 6-4 6-4 6-4 against the German duo of Nicolas Kiefer and David Prinosil in a second round match that was suspended yesterday due to poor light after the completion of the first two sets. Paes and Rikl will take on Giovanni Lapentti and Nicolas Lapentti of Ecuador in the next round. The Lapenttis beat Jordan Kerr of Australia and Sebastien Prieto of Argentina 2-6 7-6 (7/3) 7-6 (7/3) 6-3 to move into the third round, according to information received here. Sania Mirza advanced to the second round of the girls’ singles with an easy 6-1 6-1 victory against Alyona Tsutaskova of Ukraine. The 16th seed Mirza will take on Eden Marama of New Zealand in the second round.
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6-wicket win for England
London, June 28 The pair put on 200 - both men making hundreds - after Jacques Kallis’ 107 had propelled the Proteas to 264 for six from their 50 overs. Trescothick and Solanki’s partnership was all the more remarkable as in 23 previous one-day internationals against South Africa no England batsman had made a hundred. The result saw England, four-wicket losers against Zimbabwe in Thursday’s series opener at Trent Bridge, win with 25 balls to spare as South Africa too started the tournament with a defeat. England’s previous best opening stand in one-day international cricket was the 193 Graham Gooch and Bill Athey shared against New Zealand at Old Trafford in 1986. Andrew Flintoff, who earlier led the attack with three for 46, steadied England after they lost three wickets for three runs in 16 balls, the Lancashire all-rounder chipping in with a 21-ball 32. Solanki, 27, first to three figures, made 106 - his maiden one-day international hundred in his 13th game. Trescothick, also 27, captaining England after Michael Vaughan withdrew following a back spasm sustained in pre-match practice, led from the front with 114 not out. Jim Troughton was five not out. Kallis helped rebuild the innings during a 111-run partnership with Boucher (55 off 65 balls) after England’s front-line seamers had reduced them to 72 for three in the 19th over. Kallis, who passed 6,000 one-day runs during his innings, drove majestically throughout before all rounder Andrew Flintoff yorked him in the penultimate over. Scoreboard South Africa: Smith b Anderson 15 Gibbs b Anderson 5 Kallis b Flintoff 107 Rudolph run out 20 Boucher b Flintoof 55 Van Jaarsveld b Flintoff 13 Pollock not out 12 Hall not out 23 Extras
(lb-11, w-3) 14 Total (6 wkts, 50 overs) 264 Fall of wickets:
1-5, 2-33, 3-72, 4-183, 5-221, 6-240 Bowling: Anderson 10-1-54-2, Gough 10-1-61-0, Flintoff 10-1-46-3, Johnson 10-1-39-0, Giles 8-0-38-0, McGrath 2-0-15-0. England Trescothick not out 114 Solanki c Kallis b Ntini 106 Key c Boucher b Ntini 0 McGrath c Boucher b Kallis 0 Flintoff
b Hall 32 Troughton not out 5 Extras
(lb-3, w-4, nb-1) 8 Total (4 wkts, 45.5 overs): 265 Fall of wickets:
1-200, 2-202, 3-203, 4-247 Bowling: Pollock 8-0-41-0, Ntini 10-0-56-2, Kallis 9-0-54-1, Hall 8.5-0-49-1, Boje 5-0-31-0, Dawson 5-0-31-0.
— AFP, Reuters
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Lanka succumb to Edwards
Kingston (Jamaica), June 28 Young paceman Fidel Edwards took five wickets on his debut as the West Indies dismissed Sri Lanka for just 208 on the opening day of the second Test. Edwards made the crucial breakthrough of the innings after tea by angling the ball into Kumar Sangakkara’s pads for lbw to end a gritty top-scoring innings of 75 and a partnership of 52 put on with Chaminda Vaas. With the main plank of resistance removed, the Sri Lankan tail quickly succumbed to the 21-year-old Barbadian’s swing and pace. Plucked from relative obscurity, and with just one first class game under his belt, Edwards rewarded the selectors’ with an audacious performance and finished with figures of five for 36 off 15 overs. Scoreboard Sri Lanka (Ist innings): Atapattu c Gayle b Drakes 15 Jayasuriya c Jacobs Sangakkara lbw b Edwards 75 Jayawardene c Gayle Tillakaratne c Lara b Banks 13 Kaluwitharana c Samuels Dharmasena c Samuels Vaas not out 12 Thushara c Lara b Edwards 11 Muralitharan b Edwards 0 Nissanka b Edwards 0 Extras
(b-1, lb-17, w-2, nb-10) 30. Total (85.4 overs) 208. Fall of wickets:
1-38, 2-48, 3-77, 4-109, 5-129, 6-140, 7-192, 8-204, 9-208. Bowling:
Collymore 15-6-28-2; Taylor 11-1-40-0; Drakes 18-3-54-1; Edwards 15.4-1-36-5; Banks 22-6-31-2; Gayle 4-3-1-0. West Indies (1st innings): Gayle c Sangakkara Hinds c Kaluwitharana Sarwan not out 19 Lara lbw Muralitharan 10 Samuels not out 0 Extras
(lb-2 w-2 nb-4) 8 Total (for three wickets, Fall of wickets: 1-54 2-59 3-8 Bowling:
Vaas 10-3-23-0 (nb-1), Thusara 8-1-30-0 (nb-3, w-1), Nissanka 6-0-27-2 (w-1), Muralitharan 3-1-5-1. — Reuters
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Indian team on the right track : King
Chennai, June 28 “In any game, injuries will happen and they cannot be eradicated. But a trainer’s job is to minimise them as much as possible, which I am sure of doing,” King, who was appointed by the cricket board yesterday, told PTI here. King, who is here with coach John Wright to attend a three-day coaching seminar being conducted by MRF, said his main job was to carry forward the work of his predecessor, fellow South African Adrian Le Roux, from whom he had already gathered all relevant information about the requirement of Indian players. “I have had a long discussion with Roux who shared with me his experience with the Indian players. Wright has also briefed me on what needs to be done,” he said. “My discussion with Le Roux reveal that the Indian team is on the right track. Therefore, I have to keep it going and try to improve the fitness levels of the players.” King, whose appointment came in the wake of the sudden decision of Le Roux to resign and take up a similar position with the South African national team, said he was aware of the huge expectations from him and realised that the game was almost a religion in India. “The game is a religion in India and the players are a unbelievably talented bunch, next only to the Australian side. “I am happy with the assignment and I want to carry on from where Le Roux left,” he said. King said he was yet to formulate his own plan for the Indian cricketers and was currently in the process of gathering more information on the team. He will join team physiotherapist Andrew Leipus for a three-day conference for physical trainers and physiotherapists being conducted by the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore next month. “It is a bit too early to say what I plan to do. After all, I have been appointed only yesterday and would take up the assignment in August. “I have not started my own research on the Indian players. I will be spending about three days with Andrew in Bangalore at the National Cricket Academy. It is important to learn from people who are already handling the players,” he said. King, a post-graduate in Human Kinetics and Ergonomics, was a fitness trainer and sports scientist with the Border Cricket Board in South Africa since 1998. He has also worked as the fielding coach, fast bowler conditioning specialist and rehabilitation specialist. He played cricket for the South African Universities and the East London provincial team from 1996-98 before taking up the job of a full-time trainer. “There was no trainer in the team I was playing for. The coach of the team was looking for a trainer. I undertook a short course and then I stopped playing cricket and became a trainer for the team,” he said. “It is not essential for a trainer to have played cricket himself but it certainly helps. At the same time, it is not a very important thing,” he said. — PTI
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Badani slams century London, June 28 Middle order batsman Badani, 43 not out overnight, batted with a great deal of concentration to become the second century maker of the innings after skipper and former India opener Shiv Sunder Das had made 125 yesterday. Left-arm spinner Murali Karthik completed his half century as to pave the way for mammoth Indian total. Durham won the toss and asked India to bat. Das opened the innings with Wasim Jaffer and the two put on 122 runs for the first wicket before the latter was caught by J J B Lewis off the bowling of Ian Hunter. Jaffer scored 43 runs with the help of five boundaries and a six. Gautam Gambhir, centurion in the one-day game against a combined British Universities side on Wednesday, then joined his skipper in the middle and made a fluent start. India ‘A’ (1st innings): Das c Wells b Hunter 125 Jaffer c Lewis b Hunter 43 Gambhir c Mustard b Hatch 35 Badani st Mustard Patel c Pratt b Hatch 21 Rayudu c Wells b Phillips 25 Kartik c Hatch b Phillips 50 Mishra c Lewis b Phillips 10 Balaji st Mustard b Phillips 14 Bhandari not out 5 Pathan not out 0 Extras (b-8, lb-10, nb-3) 21 Total
(for 9 wkts decl,147 overs) 482 Fall of wickets: 1-122, 2-202, 3-212, 4-275, 5-346, 6-402, 7-455, 8-467, 9-477. Bowling:
Hatch 33-5-77-2, Hunter 18-2-55-2, Davies 31-6-104-0, Muchall 12-1-49-0, Wells 16-3-41-0, Phillips 34-4-126-0, Gough 3-1-12-1.
— PTI
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Foe’s death casts shadow on final
Paris, June 28 To acknowledge Thursday’s tragedy in Lyon, the match at the Stade de France here will be stripped of all the razzmatazz and spectacle that normally accompanies such an event, leaving just the football to act as a tribute to the 28-year-old Cameroon international. “Everything that’s not football, like the closing ceremony, has been cancelled,” said Chuck Blazer, president of FIFA’s competitions organising commission. FIFA said the best way to mark Foe’s death after his collapse in the 72nd minute of the semi against Colombia was to stage a final imbued with “great dignity”. French skipper Marcel Desailly was not alone among Les Bleus in questioning whether the match should go ahead at all but Roger Milla, Cameroon’s 1990 World Cup star, explained: “We had a meeting with the players and directors and decided to go ahead and play in his honour.” Quite how the Indomitable Lions and their Gallic counterparts will cope with the challenge facing them is impossible to say but a recent precedent, when Michael Schumacher won the San Marino Grand Prix only hours after the death of his mother, suggests that for 90 minutes at least they will place grief to one side and concentrate on the job in hand. France’s Manchester United defender Mikael Sylvestre suggested a fitting outcome would be to have “two winners”. “That’s a possibility that doesn’t displease me,” he said. “It’s a final where the match takes secondary importance,” he continued. “We’ll all need lots of courage, but the game will be for Foe.” The mourning Cameroon squad made the trip up from Lyon, where they beat Colombia 1-0 to their new HQ in the suburbs of Paris on Friday, electing to stay behind closed doors and forgo the chance to hold a public training session. The African and Olympic champions have asked and been granted special permission to carry the name of their dead team-mate on their shirts. Cameroon, who drew 1-1 in their only previous encounter with the hosts, would not have been on everyone’s shortlist to make the final after their first round exit from the World Cup last summer. Yet under German coach Winfried Schafer they stunned World Cup winners Brazil and third-placed Turkey and drew 0-0 with the USA before seeing off Colombia. Striker Samuel Eto’o, lining up for his club Real Mallorca in the Spanish Cup final on Saturday, could well make a quick reappearance 24 hours later for his country at the Stade de France. FIFA reported that there was nothing in the rules to stop Eto’o, scorer of the decisive goal against Brazil, from taking part in two games so close together. France have led a charmed life since the start of this competition, being awarded a dubious penalty in their opener against Colombia, and then being let off the hook when Yokan Yilmaz squandered a spot kick in the final minutes of Thursday’s semi-final win against Turkey. In winning that 3-2 the European champions produced some fine football, with the goals coming from Arsenal trio Thierry Henry, Robert Pires and Sylvain Wiltord. And all this without the talismanic Zinedine Zidane. “The puzzle is to build ourselves without `Zizou’, it’s important for the confidence,” noted coach Jacques Santini, terribly moved by the passing of the player he had managed at Lyon. This will be the last Confederations Cup final, for the next edition in 2005 has been renamed the Marc Vivien Foe Trophy. — AFP
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FIFA rejects expansion Paris, June 28 The South American confederation CONMEBOL had proposed the increase from the current 32 teams after their allocation was reduced by “half a slot” — a place in a playoff — which was removed last year to give Oceania an automatic finals place. South America lost a further qualifying place for the 2006 tournament after FIFA ruled that the defending champions, Brazil, would not get automatic qualification. —
Reuters
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3-year-old dies as goalposts fall over Sydney, June 28 |
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India rout Argentina
New Delhi, June 28 Skipper Dhanraj Pillay had missed a good chance just minutes before, but the team, fresh from a successful tour of Australia, forced the pace of the match to claim the penalty corner. Bouyed by the goal, India continued to subject the Argentine defence to some excellent passing and stickwork that earned them a second penalty corner in the 12th minute. Tirkey’s dragflick, however, missed the goalpost by inches. Then in the 26th minute, Jugraj Singh scored from another penalty corner to make it 2-0. After the lemon break, India mounted the pressure again with Olympian and former skipper Baljit Singh Dhillon making it 3-0 in the 42nd minute from another penalty corner. Argentina tried hard to make a comeback into the match and finally succeeded in the 52nd minute through a penalty corner when Carlos Retegui’s shot beat Indian goalkepper Devesh Chauhan, who had earlier saved two attempts. But it was India’s day and the team rounded off their first win with the only field goal of the match by Gagan Ajit Singh in the 60th minute to make it 4-1. — UNI
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India lose to Germany 3-2
New Delhi, June 28 India thrashed Argentina 4-1 in their opening tie last evening. India led 2-0 at half time.
According to information received here today, India shot into the lead in the sixth minute when Dilip Tirkey converted a penalty corner. Skipper Dhanraj Pillay had missed a good chance just minutes before, but the team, fresh from a successful tour of Australia, forced the pace of the match to claim the penalty corner.
Bouyed by the goal, India continued to subject the Argentine defence to some excellent passing and stickwork that earned them a second penalty corner in the 12th minute. Then in the 26th minute, Jugraj Singh scored from another penalty corner to make it 2-0. After the lemon break, India mounted the pressure again with Olympian and former skipper Baljit Singh Dhillon making it 3-0 in the 42nd minute from another penalty corner. Argentina tried hard to make a comeback into the match and finally succeded in the 52nd minute through a penalty corner when Carlos Retegui’s shot beat Indian goalkepper Devesh Chauhan, who had earlier saved two attempts. But it was India’s day and the team rounded off their first win with the only field goal of the match by Gagan Ajit Singh in the 60th minute to make it 4-1.
— PTI, UNI
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3 more gold at Special Olympics
New Delhi, June 28 India now boast of a total of 47 medals, including 12 gold, after today’s results. Vijay Rao of Gujarat was in limelight after snatching his second gold in the table tennis (singles) event while Sarfaraj Timiriz, also from Gujarat, clocked in at 16.17 sec to win a yellow metal in 100 mt roller skating. Goa’s Ketan Bhobe won the gold in badminton (singles). In other events, India secured three silver medals through Shanta Swarup Jena of Orissa (15.52 sec) and Sriram Kavassary of Tamil Nadu (16.56 sec) in 100 mt run, and Maharastra’s Vimal overtook his three participants to get a silver, behind the USA, in the 25 M freestyle swimming. India also won seven bronze medals — with Babur Arafat in 100 mt walk, Nitin Babu and V Nishathi in 100 mt roller skating, M Abirami in 25m freestyle swimming, Pooja Tulshankar and Hasit Zatia in table tennis (mixed doubles), and the 11-player handball team taking the honours. India’s medal treads 12-15-20 at the end of eighth day of the nine-day event to be concluded tomorrow. — PTI
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Young lifter set to go places Patiala, June 28 Neha made a successful debut in the competitive circuit when she returned home after winning a silver medal in the junior Punjab Weightlifting Championship held at Patiala in December last year. Once she tasted success, there was no looking back for her. She went to bag the second spot in the Punjab State Rural Games (u-16) held at Sangrur early this year. In the All-India Rural Games held at Anandpur Sahib, Neha again went on to win the silver medal in 48-kg category. With mornings devoted to rigorous physical exercises, the evenings are reserved for training stints at the local Polo Ground Centre of the Punjab Sports Department. A visit to Neha’s training centre is an experience in itself. Here the word feminity is the first casualty. The hair is pulled back and knees strapped. As her coach puts her through the grind, every muscle screams, knees are sore and the back aches. She is put through such a strenuous schedule that the body is always complaining even as one can see a colleague of Neha rubbing balm into her lower back and wrists. Here scissors are not used to cut nails but to snip off blisters of dead skin that pockmark her rough palms. Jaspal is optimistic of Neha’s rise in the domestic circuit. The young lifter has already made a fairy tale beginning but she knows there are a lot of roadblocks in her endeavour to be a successful lifter. Says her coach, “ Neha is disciplined and is one of the finest talents to have emerged in recent years.” Softball
teams Kalka Boys team included: Mohit Kumar,
Pritpal, Kanwarjit, Gaurav Kaushal, Amit Rawat, Shashank, Jaivir Rana, Rohit Sharma, Lincon
Chaudhary, Shantanu, Gaurav Baghal, Nikhil Jaggi, Nikhil Sethi,
Himanshu, Keshav and Sahil Bajaj. Girls team included: Juhi Sharma,
Payal, Deepika, Kirti Chaudhary, Swati Mittal, Heena Chaudhary, Neha
Kaushal, Neha Bansal, Shewata Tur, Parul Gangta, Jyoti Katoch Tamana Bajaj, Akshita
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Isha, Vijayant lift titles Chandigarh, June 28 The girls under 14 title went in favour of Navjot Saini hailing from Patiala while boys under 18 title was captured by Jitin Bishnoi of Haryana. Earlier in the girls under 18 final, Isha Toor, the winner of various AITA tournaments, proved too good for Alipt Sandhu, also of Chandigarh in all the departments of the game. Isha, sixth seed, was given a tough fight by Alipt, a student of Bhavan Vidyalya, Sector 27. Finally, Isha won 6-4. Second set saw Isha taking total command of the game which she
ultimately won 6-2. Top seed Vijayant Malik, another local lad overwhelmed seventh seed Deepinder Singh also from Chandigarh with ease at 6-2, 6-2. Navjot Saini of Punjab trounced local girl Ramneek Rihal of Chandigarh in two straight sets 6-1,6-1. In the under 18 boys section finals, Jitin Bishnoi of Panchkula and top seed in this tournament demolished Nitish Raj of UP 6-0, 6-2.
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PSEB to recruit sportspersons Patiala, June 26 According to the new policy, a state level player will be paid Rs 5000 per month while a national level sportsman will get Rs 7,500 per month. An international level sportsperson will be paid Rs 10,000 per month. The disciplines identified for offering contracts are football, volleyball, wrestling, badminton, cricket, tennis, athletics, basketball and hockey. |
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London, June 28
