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August 31, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Philippoussis, Nalbandian advance Roddick’s antics kick up row Akhtar, Hafeez fashion Pak win |
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Pak recall Saqlain Mushtaq Test organising committee formed
Sanchez retains 400m hurdles title
Railways eves retain
hockey title 3 Indian pugilists
in finals Indian colts win
3 silvers in TT Two upsets in TT meet Sports training centre near Barog mooted Amanpreet
sets new record Punjab soccer league tie rescheduled
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Philippoussis, Nalbandian advance
New York, August 30 Philippoussis beat 64th-ranked Frenchman Anthony Dupuis 6-2 6-3 6-4 while 13th seed Nalbandian outlasted Finland’s Jarkko Nieminen 5-7 6-3 6-1 4-6 7-6 (7/3) yesterday. Nalbandian lost last year’s Wimbledon final to Aussie Lleyton Hewitt while Switzerland’s Roger Federer defeated big-serving Philippoussis in last month’s final on the All-England grass. But they cannot both lose tomorrow. “I pretty much know what I have to do,” Philippoussis said. “I’ll just run all day. I’ll go to the net, be aggressive and play my game. I’m not going to sit back and play his.” On a dark and breezy day that also saw women’s top seed Kim Clijsters advance, men completed second-round matches on the Flushing Meadows hardcourts while women opened third-round play at the year’s final Grand Slam event. Clijsters, the only top-ranked woman to never to win a Slam title, eliminated 29th-ranked Russian teen Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3 6-2. “The wind was pretty tough,” Clijsters said. “You have to look after your footwork and make sure you take small steps.” The 20-year-old Belgian will try to match her best US Open showing tomorrow by beating 17th-seeded American Meghann Shaughnessy to reach the quarter-finals. Philippoussis beat Nalbandian 0-6 6-3 6-4 in a hardcourt quarter-final six months ago at Scottsdale in their only prior match. “That was a tough match,” the Aussie said. “I’m used to what he does on the court. He’s moving well. He must be in shape. I just have to keep the pressure on, chip and charge, make him pass me.” “I can take some things from the match in Scottsdale but I can’t rely on it too much.” The two are fighting for the final berth in the season- ending ATP Masters Cup as well as a spot in the fourth round. “You have to be very attentive and very focused, being aware that in some games you are not even going to touch the ball,” Nalbandian said. Later matches here feature Federer against Frenchman Jean-Rene Lisnard and American fourth seed Andy Roddick against Croatia’s Ivan Ljubicic. If Federer and Philippoussis keep winning, they will meet in a Wimbledon final rematch in the fourth round here. Philippoussis, who lost the 1998 US Open final to countryman Pat Rafter, blasted 21 aces and 45 winners past Dupuis to advance. “I did everything a little better than my first match,” he said. “Everything can improve. Every match is a little better, more confidence. I returned a little better. I concentrated better.” The Aussie ball-basher has not been in prime form here since his run five years ago, having been in various stages of injury comebacks when arriving at Flushing Meadows. “It’s definitely the best I have felt since then,” Philippoussis said. Third seed Lindsay Davenport, the only former US Open women’s winner here, took only 42 minutes to oust Hungary’s Melinda Czink 6-0 6-2 while 19th-rated Nadia Petrova of Russia beat 14th seed Amanda Coetzer of South Africa 6-0, 6-1. Davenport, 27, and French Open semi-finalist Petrova, 21, will meet tomorrow for a quarter-final berth. “She’s a good player. She’s dangerous,” Davenport said. “She had a great run at the French Open. The beginning starts in the next round for me. I’ll be able to judge (my title chances) more starting Sunday.” Petrova smashed 24 winners past Coetzer, who managed only two, and kept the veteran off-balance with pinpoint accuracy. “She served incredible and didn’t make any errors,” Coetzer said. Fifth seed Amelie Mauresmo, of France, advanced by ousting the final qualifier in the field, Russia’s Maria Kirilenko, 6-4 6-2. She will next face either ninth seed Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia or Thailand’s Tamarine Tanasugarn. Mauresmo, who missed four months with injuries at the start of the season, won in 89 minutes, powering four aces and 25 winners past the 16-year-old Slam debutante. — AFP
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Roddick’s antics kick up row
New York, August 30 The fourth-seeded American reversed his fortunes in a fourth-set tie-breaker early this morning during the first minutes of his 21st birthday to defeat 43rd-ranked Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia 6-3 6-7 (4/7) 6-3 7-6 (10/8). Roddick won eight of the last 11 points, including a controversial call on Ljubicic’s third match point, to reach the third round, only to be blasted by his rival as an unsportsmanlike jerk that other ATP players despise. “I’m just telling you the feeling of the guys in the locker room,” Ljubicic said. “Every single player said to me, ‘Good luck. Kick his ass.” “I don’t like him. Nobody in the locker room likes his acting on the court. He’s a good player. He’s going to win a lot of matches. But not because he’s like that. It’s just we don’t like it. Because nobody acts that way. He’s the only one.” Ljubicic said Roddick lacks respect for fellow players and has been given a boost beyond his talents because he is able to intimidate linsemen and umpires in US venues, where he plays a large number of his ATP events. “He doesn’t respect the others,” Ljubicic said. “In your face or not in your face, doesn’t matter. What he’s doing is just pumping up the crowd. In the USA he can do it. But everywhere else if he does it, people smile. “Fortunately for him, there’s like 70 per cent of the big tournaments played in the USA. He’s number four in the world for that.” Roddick’s ranking and his lead in the ATP champions race comes from a 22-1 record on hardcourts since Wimbledon with titles at Indianapolis, Montreal and Cincinnati. With emotional gestures and encouragement, Roddick took full advantage of vocal home-nation support during the match and later shrugged off Ljubicic’s rebuke, saying no rival has ever come to him with complaints about behaviour. “I don’t really care,” Roddick said. “I try to treat everybody with a lot of respect. I’m not mean to people. I’m very courteous to people. I’m not worried. I would be worried if I was doing things I thought were causing that.” “If they are talking about me, they’re not talking to me about it, which would be the mature thing to do. I’m not concerned with it. I treat people as good as I can. There’s nothing really I can do about it.”
— AFP
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Bhupathi-Paola duo wins New York, August 30 The top-seeded Indo-Argentine pair was stretched by Petra Mandula of Hungary and Graydon Oliver of the USA before winning 6-7 (7-9) 6-4 7-6 (10-8). The match, which witnessed a see-saw battle throughout, provided much excitement to the spectators as Petra and Graydon took the first set in tie-breaker. Bhupathi has also moved into the second round of the men’s doubles events in the championship. Partnering Belarus’ Max Mirnyi, Bhupathi defeated Slovakian Dominik Hrbaty and Andre Sa of Brazil 6-3 7-6 (7/3) in the first round on Wednesday.
— PTI
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Sania-Anna duo
loses in final New Delhi, August 30 Sania and Anna went down 1-6 6-2 3-6 to Ana Ivanovic of Yugoslavia and Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia in the final yesterday. Earlier, Divij Sharan won the boys doubles title with G D Jones of New Zealand after their third seeded opponents Andrew Murray of Germany and Daniel Vallverdu of Venezuela gave a walk over in the final. In the men’s $15,000 Futures event in Tunisia, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya and Ajay Ramaswami won the doubles title defeating Bart de Gier of the Netherlands and Thomas Oger of France 6-1 6-1 in the final.— PTI
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Akhtar, Hafeez fashion Pak win
Peshawar, August 30 Akhtar, nicknamed the “Rawalpindi Express,” added another four wickets to his first innings tally of six scalps, which inspired Pakistan to skittle out Bangladesh for only 96 runs in the second innings. It left Pakistan with a modest target of 163 runs to win, which they achieved for the loss of only opener Taufeeq Umer (43). Hafeez dominated the opening stand of 140 runs before Khaled Mahmud got the consolation wicket of Taufeeq. Hafeez raised his half century with a six over mid-wicket and guided to third man fence for his 11th boundary to complete his century off 142 balls as Pakistan won the match midway through the last session. The victory gave Pakistan a 2-0 lead in the three-match series. It is Pakistan’s first series win since whitewashing the West Indies in the three-match rubber in the 1997-98 season under the leadership of Wasim Akram. Bangladesh made a healthy 361 in the first innings and got the lead for the first time in their brief three-year Test history when they restricted Pakistan to 295. Akhtar added another four for 30 to get career-best match figures of 10-80 in his 27th Test match. Scoreboard Bangladesh Ist innings: 361 Pakistan first innings: 295 Bangladesh IInd innings: Sarkar c Umar b Akhtar 7 Omar c Latif b Akhtar 0 Bashar lbw b Gul 28 Ashraful c Umar b Kaneria 7 Saleh lbw b Akhtar 6 Kapali c Latif b Ahmed 16 Mashud lbw b Akhtar 0 Mahmud lbw b Kaneria 1 Rafique not out 9 Mortaza b Gul 14 Kabir b Gul 4 Extras
(lb-2 nb-2) 4 Total (all out, 33.5 overs) 96 Fall of wickets:
1-7 2-20 3-43 4-43 5-64 6-64 7-65 8-75 9-90 Bowling: Shoaib Akhtar 12-2-30-4, Shabbir Ahmed 7-2-21-1, Umar Gul 4.5-1-16-3, Danish Kaneria 10-3-27-2 Pakistan IInd innings: Hafeez not out 102 Umar c Mortaza b Mahmud 43 Hameed not out 18 Extras
(lb-1 w-1) 2 Total (1 wicket, 47.3 overs) 165 Fall of wicket:
1-140 Bowling: Mashrafe Mortaza 7-1-26-0, Alamgir Kabir 7.3-1-39-0, Khaled Mahmud 14-5-28-1 (w-1), Mohammad Rafique 12-2-34-0, Alok Kapali 6-0-30-0, Mohammad Ashraful 1-0-7-0 —
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Pak recall Saqlain Mushtaq Peshawar, August 30 Speedster Shoaib Akhtar is not available for the Multan Test because he was released by his English county club Durham for only two Test matches against Bangladesh. “Shoaib is an asset and naturally he will be missed,” chief selector Aamir Sohail said in a statement.
— AP
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Test organising committee formed Chandigarh, August 30 Others members of the committee are A Siddique, Varinder Singh, Mukul Joshi, S K Sinha, Y S Ratra, Gurinderjit Singh Sandhu, R C Vaish, Vijay Khanna, S S Bedi, S Y Quareshi, Karan A Singh, Seema Jain, Kulwant Singh, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, Arun Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, Gaurav Yadav, Keshav Chandra, Daljit Singh, Sudhir Mital, B C Gupta, Lalit Modi, Ashwani Kumar Minna, Prabhu Chawla, D P Reddy, G S Walia, Justice S S Sodhi, Justice S S Saron, Rajan Kashyap, Rajinder Singh, Prag Jain, R P Pandove, Mohinder Singh, Rajeev Bali, R P Singla, Viswajeet Khanna, Suresh Kumar, D P Azad, Kapil Khanna, Daljit Singh, Satish Gupta. The first meeting of the organising committee is scheduled to be held on September 3 at Dhruv Pandove Conference Hall, PCA Cricket Stadium at 6 p.m. under the chairmanship of Capt Amarinder Singh. |
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Sanchez
retains 400m hurdles title
Paris, August 30 Sanchez won the 400 metres hurdles in the fastest time since 1998 to emulate legend Edwin Moses in winning back-to-back titles in the event while Capel erased memories of his nightmare in the 2000 Olympic final to win the 200m crown. While those relative youngsters basked in their deserved glory, two grizzled champions Jan Zelezny and Allen Johnson stayed on course for a fourth world title each as the former qualified for the javelin final and the latter breezed through to the 110m hurdles decider. Sadly the Americans’ habit of dominating the controversy off the track continued as first the Los Angeles Times quoted 400m champion Jerome Young as saying he had tested positive for drugs before the 2000 Olympics, backing up first hand their story from Wednesday. However, a few hours later the 27-year-old athlete - who won gold in the 4x400m relay in Sydney - issued a personal statement denying he had ever failed a drugs test and claiming he had not heard the journalist’s questions clearly as it was by mobile phone and there had been a lot of noise. The matter seems set to run and run with the IAAF bound by a ruling last November, at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), who ruled in favour of the USATF that names of American athletes failing drugs tests between 1996-2000 should not be released because of a confidentiality clause. Another drugs related controversy surfaced on the track in the form of Italian policeman Andrea Longo, who qualified for the 800m final. In 2001, he was given a two-year drug suspension after testing positive for nandrolone but last month the IAAF gave him extra time to qualify for the championships as the original deadline fell within the period of his ban. The special dispensation caused a storm of criticism over the IAAF’s willingness to bend their own rules relating to doping offences. Sanchez, who turned 26 today, timed 47.25sec to win the 400m hurdles. He has said all along he will never be able to rival Ed Moses but in retaining the title he becomes the first one to do so since the great American achieved the feat in 1983 and 1987 when the championships were held every four years instead of two as they are now. However, Sanchez said his whole season had been set on at least emulating Moses in the world championships department. — AFP
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Railways
eves retain hockey title
Lucknow, August 30 In the final of the tournament which concluded here today, the holders played like champions, outclassing Universities team in a one-sided affair. The winners took command of the game from the very beginning. The first chance came their way in the fourth minute through a penalty corner which was converted by Suman Bala (1-0). The lead was consolidated by Kamla (2-0) in the 27th minute. Just before the half-time another chance came through their way and now it was the turn of Sumrai T to further increase the lead (3-0). Earlier, she missed a penalty stroke chance in the 14th minute. The half-time score was 3-0.
Earlier, in the hard-line match for the third and fourth places Haryana beat Punjab 3-1, when Punjab slipped from second place to fourth this time. At the end of the tournament, Uttar Pradesh Governor Vishnukant Shastri gave away the trophies to the winners and runners-up.
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3 Indian pugilists
in finals New Delhi, August 30 V. Johnson (heavyweight) Akhil Kumar (flyweight) and Diwakar Prasad (bantamweight) earned a bronze medal each for India as they lost in their respective semifinal bouts. However, Ali
Qamar, Ramanand and Jitender kept India in the hunt for gold as they made it to the finals in their respective bouts. While Qamar reached the final in the light flyweight category, Jitender made it to final of light heavyweight category and Ramanand qualified for the title contest in light weight.
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colts win 3 silvers in TT New Delhi, August 30 Ashlesha Bodas and Salankara won the silver in cadet girls doubles event while Devesh Karla and Aniket Koparkar in cadet boys doubles took the honours in the boys doubles event. The third silver came in the cadet boys team event.
— UNI
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Two upsets in TT meet Chandigarh, August 30 In the subjunior boys section, unseeded Ramit Bhatnagar of Delhi caused an upset by overpowering fourth seed Abhishek of Amritsar in three games with scores being 11-6,11-8,11-5. In the sub-junior girls section, third seed Sunanda Mahindra of DAV Public School, Sector 8, Chandigarh, surprised everyone by defeating her school mate and top seed Nadia Saini in four games. The scores were 0-11, 11-6, 11-9, 11-5. In the cadet boys final, Munish of Patiala outplayed Dharminder of Ludhiana 11-8, 11-7, 11-9 to win the title. In the cadet girls final, Barbie Nagpal who yesterday won the kid’s title, today clinched her second title by defeating top seed Sadhika Kaushal of Government Model Senior Secondary school, Sector 35 in four games. |
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Sports
training centre near Barog mooted Chewa (Solan), August 30 Elaborating it further, she said it was ideally located both in terms of height and weather. The existing training center at Shilaroo remained cut off during winters and served no purpose if training had to be conducted in winters. She was speaking on the occasion of the closing of the middle school sports boys meet of Kandhaghat zone at Chewa village near Barog. She later distributed prizes to the winners. Middle school Sakori bagged the first prize in Kho-Kho, Middle school Shilli in kabaddi and middle school Chewa in volleyball. Those present on the occasion included the local MLA Raghu Raj, local panchayats pradhans and government
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Amanpreet
sets new record
Chennai, August 30 Satya Narayanan and Mohd Arif (both from the Army) erased the old mark in the Free Pistol event for junior men services category. It was a creditable day for Amanpreet Singh, who today clinched the gold medal with a tally of 267 in the Free Pistol 50M open Championship. He was followed by Bhrigu Dutt (261) and Roshan Rawat (259) for the silver and bronze
medals. Amanpreet’s total was much higher than the existing record of 259 set by Akshay Agarwal in Chennai in 2000 in the junior men category. While Dutt also surpassed the earlier mark with 261, Rawat and Kaushik (259 each) equalled Agarwal’s record. In the Services section, Satyanarayana and Mohd Arif who scored 259 and 256 points, respectively, set new marks eclipsing the old one in the name of Surender Singh (Del) at 252 set in Asansol in 2001. In the 10m pistol events, the leading scorers were: Surjit Bhadu (Chd-367/400) in men, Neeraj Kumar (Army-379) in Services, Rachna Govil (Del-372) in women, Rohit Verma (UP-366) junior men; Tarsem Singh (Army 369) in
jr. men Services; Rutuja Kadam (Mah-359) in junior women; B. Jena (Utran-347) in sub
jr. men; Sandesh Reddy (AP-353) in handicapped and P.G. Bhatt (Mah-319) in veterans.
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Punjab
soccer league tie rescheduled Chandigarh, August 30 According to the Arjuna awardee Inder Singh, who is also the secretary of the Punjab Football Association, the match will now be played on September 1 at Phagwara at 4.30 p.m.
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