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Venus, Hingis sail through
Cronje gets
hefty sum for interview
Match-fixing in India
not possible: Lele Has BCCI fallen in line? |
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PCA to spend more on coaching Love matches liven up tennis scene
Pre-Olympic boost
for Greene Olympics
live on DD Sports Monique stuns top
seed Manisha National carrom
meet begins Punjab win National tennis
meet in New Delhi
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NEW YORK, Sept 2 (DPA, AP) — The top twosome in tennis both advanced without rough spots as women’s number 1 Martina Hingis and men’s third seed Magnus Norman each moved through at the $ 15-million U.S. Open. Hingis and low-key Swede Norman have been a romantic item for much of the year, but they keep their personal lives and their tennis duties totally separate. Hingis yesterday needed just 37 minutes in a 6-1, 6-0 rout for a fourth-round spot over Italian Tathiana Garbin of Italy, the only tennis player known to sport a pierced tongue. Hingis, at 19 the owner of 31 career titles including this one in 1997, produced a similar score against Garbin in the third round of the French Open. Norman, winner of four titles this year and seeded here for the first time, was untroubled by France’s Cyril Saulnier 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in their one-way second-round encounter. Women’s third seed Venus Williams continued her run through this year’s draw, taking nearly 90 minutes to overcome fellow American Meghann Shaughnessy 7-6 (6-3), 6-1 on nearly 90 minutes. The Wimbledon winner scrapped through to notch her 22nd straight win. It looked like a struggle, but Williams didn’t see it that way. The Wimbledon champion with a dozen career titles has reached the New York semi-finals for the past two years and came into the night match on a 21-match win streak with four titles. Williams and her opponent exchanged eight breaks in the first dozen games, with the seed totalling 23 of her 27 unforced errors in the one-hour first set. Two-time champion Monica Seles, seeded sixth, slogged through heat and humidity, managing a victory over fellow American Chanda rubin 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Seles said she was not physically at 100 per cent. “I didn’t feel my legs at all, I didn’t want to get into long points. My return game was nowhere. But I knew she wouldn’t get up.” Crowd favourite Anna Kournikova, seeded 12, beat Czech Sandra Kleinova 6-4, 6-1, 15th seed Jennifer Capriati ousted another Czech, Adriana Gersi 6-2, 6-3. Men’s seed Cedric Pioline, tenth, came back from two sets to love down for a win over brit greg rusedski 6-7 (4-7), 3-6, 6-4, 7- 6 (7-5), 6-3, while sixth seed Marat Safin had to go the distance over Italy’s Gianluca Pozzi 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 Spain’s 12tth seed Juan Carlos Ferrero beat Argentine Hernan Gumy 1-6, 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 6-2, 6-3. Two high-profile unseeded American names went at it, with 1996 finalist Todd Martin carving out victory over Michael Chang 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Alex Corretja, Spain’s number 8 and a rising threat on the north American surfaces, whipped Swiss Marc Rosset 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3. Amanda Coetzer, the 13th seed from South Africa, was ousted in straight sets by 33rd-ranked Magui Serna of Spain, who in five previous meetings had failed to win one set. Serna advanced 7-5 7-6 (7-3) to reach the round of 16 against third-seeded Wimbledon champion Venus Williams. Australian qualifier Wayne Arthurs, who ousted Kuerten in the opening round, served his way past compatriot Jason Stoltenberg 2-6, 7-6 (7-2) 6-2, 6-4, to move deeper still into the tournament. No 8 Nathalie Tauziat was winner on a muggy, overcast day at the National Tennis Center, downing Janet Lee of Taiwan 6-3, 6-2. Seles, twice a champion on these hardcourts, had trouble finding her game, although she won the opening set by breaking rubin’s serve in the final game. Rubin, who once was ranked sixth in the world before a wrist injury sidelined her, returned the favour in the final game of the second set. In other No. 11 Sandrine Testud crushed Kristie Boogert of the Netherlands 6-0, 6-1, while in men’s second-round matches, No. 14 Nicolas Kiefer stopped Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden 6-1, 6-4, 6-3, and Sjeng Schalken of the Netherlands defeated Adria Voinea of Romania 6-2, 6-3, 6-1. Hyung-Taik Lee of Korea, a qualifier, beat No. 13 Franco Squillari of Argentina, Jerome Golmard of France ousted No. 16 Nicolas Lapentti 7-6 (3), 6-0, 2-6, 4-6, 7-6 (5), and in a women’s second-round match, Lilia Osterloh of Canal Winchester, Ohio, advanced when No. 14 Dominique Van Roost retired while tied 7-6 (7), 4-6. |
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Cronje gets
hefty sum for interview LONDON, Sept 2 (PTI) — Sacked South African skipper Hansie Cronje is rumoured to have been paid as much as £ 100,000 by a South African television company for talking about his part in the cricket match-fixing scandal, The Daily Telegraph wrote today. Nobody in the Cronje camp has confirmed the amount of the fee or even whether he received one, but Leslie Sackstein, his lawyer, defended Cronje’s “democratic right” to earn money because he had no source of income since his sacking from the team. Besides, as Mr Sackstein mentioned, the legal fees have been mounting since Judge Edwin King’s inquiry started in June. An interview on M-Net between Mike Haysman and Cronje, published later on the internet, contained sanctimonious piffle about “making a mistake” and expressing gratitude that friends had rallied around, the daily said. According to the report, regrets were expressed that, as captain, he sucked Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams into the scheming, resulting in two players being suspended and fined by the South African cricket authorities. |
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Windies collapse against England LONDON, Sept 2 (AFP) — England were 17 without loss in their second innings when rain forced an early tea on the third day of the fifth and final Test against the West Indies at The Oval here today. Michael Atherton was on 11 and Marcus Trescothick on five, England leading by 173 runs. Earlier, the West Indies were bowled out for a lowly 125, having collapsed to 78 for eight, to give England a first innings lead of 156. Craig White claimed a Test best return of five for 32, surpassing the five for 57 he took in the fourth Test at Headingley. The tourists total would have been worse but for a ninth wicket stand of 44 between Ridley Jacobs and Nixon McLean. West Indies openers Sherwin Campbell and Adrian Griffith opened the day with deceptive confidence when play began on time in bright sunshine after two hours 20 minutes had been lost to rain on Friday. Campbell gloved one delivery from Andy Caddick high over the slips for four before playing a more convincing off-drive for four. Darren Gough, at the Vauxhall end, appeared to be straining too hard for pace and was no-balled twice, before he was replaced after 25 minutes by Craig White. Nasser Hussain made a double change, bringing on Dominic Cork in place off Caddick and the switch was immediately successful. With his score on 20 and the total on 32, Campbell failed to move his feet sufficiently to Cork’s third delivery and played the ball on to his stumps. White’s next over was dramatic. Generating genuine pace from his ambling run-up, he deceived Griffith (6) into edging a delivery which Graeme Hick caught in his finger-tips at second slip. To a mighty roar from the capacity crowd, Brian Lara, the world record holder for Test and first-class innings, followed Griffith back into the pavilion after the next ball when White uprooted his leg stump. Wavell Hinds departed lbw to Cork for two after missing a straight delivery, Ramnaresh Sarwan (5) edged White to Marcus Trescothick, who took a fine diving catch in the gully, and captain Jimmy Adams was also out for five when he edged Cork for Hick to take his second catch. SCOREBOARD England (1st innings): 281 Extras: (lb3, nb6) 9 |
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Match-fixing in India
not possible: Lele NEW DELHI, Sept 2 — Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jayawant Lele has claimed match-fixing is just not possible in Indian cricket. Replying to a question in Star TV’s Janata ki Adalat (to be telecast tomorrow at 10 a.m. and 11 p.m. on Star Plus), Mr Lele said: “I don’t know about other countries, but as far as India is concerned, match-fixing is not possible. Name of five important players of our cricket team — Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly, Srinath and Kumble — have never appeared in papers. If their names are not there, match-fixing cannot take place”. The BCCI secretary refused to comment on the demand by members of Parliament that the BCCI be taken over by the government. “It is their perception”, he said, according to a media release. Mr Lele acknowledged that the BCCI was the richest Cricket Board in the world, having telecast contracts worth Rs 235 crores over the next five years. Mr Lele attributed shortage of funds in other sports to poor marketing strategy. Asked to comment on Manoj Prabhakar’s tapes, Lele said “It’s all unauthorised, unethical and not acceptable”. Asked about Manoj Prabhakar’s meeting with him, Lele said: “I did not tell him anything. He has made it all up himself”. Commenting on the cricket experience of the cricket administrators, Lele said: “They have not played international cricket, but cricket kya cheez hai wo sab khele hue hain...aisa koi zaroori nahin ki jo cricket achche khelte, who hi achha administrator...it is not necessary that the best player can be a good selector or the best player can be a good coach”. Lele refused to comment on the match-fixing controversy, saying: “I don’t want to say anything about any comments made by anyone on match-fixing...go ask the CBI, ask Delhi Police or ask any other investigating agency”. Asked how cricket lovers’ trust could be regained, Lele said: “That trust can be regained only when we start playing and start winning and I am confident that with the influx of new players and the cricket academy, we will certainly do well”. On I.S. Bindra’s charge that officials involvement in match-fixing was more than those of players, Lele said: “It’s not the officials who play, it is the players who play, and the administrators have no influence on the players. There is no conversation”. |
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Has BCCI fallen in line? CHANDIGARH: It seems that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has fallen in line with the diktats of the Union Sports Minister, Mr Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, that “tainted” players should not be asked to play for the country till they were cleared both by the Income Tax Department as well as the CBI, while selecting the probables for the ICC knockout tournament to be played in Nairobi next month. It is for this reason that players like Mohammad Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja and Nikhil Chopra as also Nayan Mongia have not found a place in the list of 23 probables for the tournament. Mr Dhindsa has been repeatedly saying that “tainted” players should not be selected to play for India till they were cleared of the charges of fixing matches as also amassing illgotten wealth. In fact, the Union Sports Minister has gone on record to say that cricket coach, Kapil Dev, should also be asked to step down till such time he was cleared of the allegation that he offered money to Manoj Prabhakar to play below par in a one-day match in Sri Lanka . It was announced at Chennai on Saturday, where the national selectors met to finalise the probables, that a final decision on the Kapil Dev would be taken by the board President, Dr A.C. Muthiah, who has been empowered by the BCCI Working Committee to take a final decision on Kapil after talking with the former all-rounder. The board President and Kapil Dev have already had a preliminary meeting in New Delhi and are scheduled to meet again. But going by all indications it is quite likely that Kapil will be asked to step down at least till such time he is cleared both by the CBI as well as the Income Tax Department. But the board had very little option but to fall in line with the “directive” of the Union Sports Minister. In case the board had gone ahead and exhibited its autonomy and had selected the “tainted” players for the conditioning camp it is quite possible that permission to play in the Nairobi tournament would have been denied. And in any case the government has yet to give its nod to India’s participation in the ICC tournament. While there is no denying the fact that the BCCI is flush with funds and needs no government grants to run its activities, it still needs government permission, both to host teams in the country as also to take part in tournaments abroad. Quite recently, the board was denied permission to field a team in the five-match “offshore” series against Pakistan at Toronto but the reason why permission was denied was put on the current relations between India and Pakistan. But the national selectors have shown good sense by calling up players like Yuvraj Singh of Punjab and now attending the National Cricket Academy at Bangalore, Mohammad Kaif of Uttar Pradesh, Ajay Ratra, the young wicketkeeper from Haryana, and Reetinder Singh Sodhi of Punjab, who has been knocking for recognition at the senior level for quite some time. All four players had played a steller role in India’s winning of the Junior World Cup in Sri Lanka earlier this year. In any case Indian cricket needs to look ahead after the issue of matchfixing and betting threatened to rip apart the whole system. A lot will depend on the youngsters slowly making their way into senior company as also the leadership the board provides . Now is the time to forget the unsavoury events of the recent past and look ahead and build for the future. |
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PCA to spend more on coaching CHANDIGARH, Sept 2 — Punjab will host two North Zone Ranji Trophy matches this year, according to Mr M.P. Pandove, secretary of the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA). The first match, between Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, will be played at Jalandhar from November 5 to 8. The second match to be hosted by the PCA will be between traditional rivals Punjab and Haryana, which will be played at Amritsar from November 11 to 14. The newly constituted executive committee of the PCA which met today at the PCA Stadium at SAS Nagar earmarked substantial funds for the promotion of the game in the state. The association decided to earmark Rs 25 lakh annually for coaching while Rs 15 lakh has been earmarked for the benevolent fund which will be used to help cricketers, umpires as well as cricket administrators facing financial crisis. Also, the association will spend Rs 2.33 lakh on creating infrastructure in the various districts. The decision to earmark funds for coaching, building of infrastructure in the districts as also the setting up of the benevolent fund were discussed in principal in the general body meeting of the association held last Sunday. Mr Inderjit Singh Bindra, President of the PCA, disclosed that the Board of Control for Cricket in India was yet to pay Rs 1 crore to the PCA as part of the TV rights for two international matches hosted by the PCA — India versus Pakistan as also India versus New Zealand. The PCA has decided to introduce prize money both for the inter-district cricket championship for the Katoch Trophy as also other age group inter-district tournaments. For the Katoch Trophy the prize money will be Rs 50,000, the prize money for the age group tournaments will be Rs 30,000. Mr Bindra disclosed that PCA had tied up with crikinfo.com for developing a web site. Complete data bank would be stored in the web site. The PCA President said that plans for the centre of excellence, in the form of a cricket academy, would be ready in another fortnight. The academy would be functional in about another six months. Various sponsors had already come forward and evinced keen interest to sponsor this academy. The executive committee also formed the various sub committees of the association. The senior selection committee will have Chaman Lal Malhotra as Chairman while the other members will be Joginder Singh, Rakesh Rathore, Balbir Singh and R.P. Singla. The junior selection committee includes Umesh Kumar (as Chairman), Sanjay Mishra, Suresh Sharma, Satish Sharma and Mohinder Singh. Mr S.K. Kakkar, who has stepped down from the post of vice-president of the association this year, will be Chairman of the tournament and fixtures committee, Mr Ashwani Kumar will be Chairman of the technical and coaching committee, Mr Rajan Kashyap will be Chairman of the finance committee and Mr Rajiv Bali of the marketing and sponsorship committee while Daljit Singh will head the ground maintenance committee. |
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Love matches liven up tennis scene NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) — Love matches are livening up the world of international tennis with so many romances in the offing that a scorecard is needed to keep track of all the connections. Thursday afternoon at the U.S. Open was a perfect case in point with lovebirds Llyeton Hewitt of Australia and Kim Clijsters of Belgium playing in back-to-back matches on stadium court. The two teens, frequently mistaken for being brother and sister rather than girlfriend and boyfriend, have been a steady item for quite a while. Close enough that Clijsters spent part of the summer on the road with Hewitt at tournaments in Cincinnati and Indianapolis instead of competing herself. The third match on stadium court featured Andre Agassi, who started a relationship with retired tennis great Steffi Graf just before the start of last year’s U.S. Open. Agassi’s day ended in professional heartbreak as he lost his second-round match, but at least he had Graf there to console him afterwards. Jennifer Capriati, the child that tennis fans first let into their hearts when barely a teenager, has now given her heart to fellow pro Xavier Malisse of Belgium. The couple have been an item since at least the Australian Open in January. Women’s world number one Martina Hingis has found a new number one guy in third-ranked Magnus Norman of Sweden. The couple was first seen together when they repeatedly dined in each other’s company at the tennis masters series-Indian Wells tournament in March. By the French Open, Hingis and Norman were less secretive about their relationship, coyly trying to avoid questions about the romance, but constantly watching each other play. This is not the first tennis merger for Hingis, who was previously linked to Spaniard Julian Alonso, American Justin Gimelstob and fellow Swiss Ivo Hueberger. The wildly popular Anna Kournikova seems to favour hockey players to tennis players when speaking of romance, though on occasion she has been linked to Australian tennis player Mark Philippoussis. Kournikova briefly dated Florida Panthers hockey star Pavel Bure before going back to long-time beau Sergei Federov, the Detroit Red Wings ace iceman. Two top-ranked women prefer baseball players off the court — reigning French Open champion Mary Pierce and Amanda Coetzer. Pierce is engaged to Cleveland Indians second baseman, Roberto Alomar, but no wedding date has been announced.
Coetzer is in a long-standing relationship with Baltimore Orioles outfielder, Brady Anderson. American Lindsay Davenport is currently hooked-up with doubles specialist Rick Leach’s brother, John, a former collegiate star at USC, who still occasionally plays on the satellite circuit. |
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Hockey team suffering from lack of match practice India’s Olympic hockey team may be suffering from the lack of good match practice in the lead up to the Sydney competition. The team is camped in a little coastal town in New South Wales near its northern border of Queensland. While training is going well, it seems they are having problems finding opponents to play matches against. “We can’t get any good teams to play against,” coach V. Bhaskaran told this correspondent from his motel room in Murwillambah. So far the only match practise the team has got is by forming teams among the squad and a few locals. However, Bhaskaran said that a game had been organised against a Queensland selection eleven for Friday and one against a Gold Coast Eleven for Monday. “Otherwise the training is going well and the boys are much fitter now than they were when we first arrived,” the coach said. He said the hockey facilities in the small town were excellent. “The turf we are practising on is the same as what we will encounter in Sydney,” he said. “We have two training sessions a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.” He said the team would move into the Athletes Village in Sydney on September 9 and play some warm up matches including one against Canada on September 13 before playing Argentina in their opening game of the competition. Brunei sends one-man team The oil rich Muslim nation decided to attend the Games only last week after the International Olympic Committee threatened to kick it out of the Olympic family if it failed to show up. Prince Hadi Sufri Bolkiah, younger brother of the Sultan of Brunei, is leading a five-man delegation to Sydney to watch sprinter Hassan Ali compete in the 100m. The officials will be staying in an inner-city hotel, while the lone athlete bunks down in the Olympic village. “The problem is that we are not good at Olympic sports,” a Brunei Olympic Council spokesman said. “We are very good at karate but unfortunately that is not an Olympic sport.” “We know our man is not going to win but we have to send someone,” Mr Berudin said. Brunei originally told the IOC it would only send officials to march in the Parade of Nations in the opening ceremony, as it had done in Atlanta. At that time the IOC allowed it that but not this time. The IOC changed the rules in 1999 so now countries such as Brunei have to send one athlete. Rule 31(3) of the Olympic charter, the rulebook for the Games, stipulates: “Each National Olympic Committee is obliged to participate in the Games of the Olympiad by sending athletes.” Officials hope the delegation would actually make it to Sydney, because they now have to book hotel rooms and flights at this short notice. Trinidad and Tobago
team lost in transit The team’s 17-member athletics contingent was due to arrive on the Gold Coast on two weeks ago for pre-Games training at the Runaway Bay Sports Super Centre, a resort owned by former Olympic runner Ron Clarke. But they failed to show up, leaving resort operators puzzled as to their whereabouts. Even the Trinidad and Tobago honorary consul here was unsure what had happened to the team. Now they have received an e-mail from the team early this week saying it would be arriving yesterday. But it didn’t say what time they were arriving or what flight they would be on, so they still have everyone puzzled. But the resort, which is hosting athletes from several international teams, isn’t holding its breath. “I’ve given up on them,” the manager said. “I’ve got the Bahamas team coming in today and the Norwegians coming tomorrow, but I’ve given up on the Trinidadians.” Apparently the athletes’ trip to Australia had been postponed because of delays in getting team members qualified for the Games by the International Amateur Athletics Federation. From refugee to national
champion to Olympian Two years in a refugee camp followed until the United Nations placed him in Melbourne in 1994. The Immigration Department helped him contact the Victorian wrestling team, with whom he competed until financial pressure forced a move to Sydney to find employment. “I had to give up wrestling for a year and just work, work, work to get money,” he said. In 1996 he caught the eye of wrestling officials at the Australian Institute of Sport and was offered a scholarship there, training under legendary Russian coach Anatoly Beloglazov, a triple world champion before moving on to coaching. Abdullah was desperate to compete for his adopted country at the Atlanta Olympics that year and was bitterly disappointed when he did not receive his citizenship in time. Abdullah has been training solidly in Australia and overseas for the past three years. His training and overseas travel make it impossible to hold down a full-time job, although until recently he was doing security work at pubs and nightclubs. Now he relies on his girlfriend for financial support while he pursues his dream: competing at the Olympics, with the knowledge that his family in Baghdad will be watching him on television, will make all the sacrifices worthwhile.
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BERLIN, Sept 2 (AFP) — Maurice Greene gave himself a pre-Olympic boost and a golden bonus by winning the men’s 100m in 9.86 sec, the best time of the season, at the final Golden League meeting of the series here yesterday. The German capital also provided a golden bonus for Morocco’s Hichamel Guerrouj, who came home in the 1500m in 3:30.90, Norway’s Trine Hattestad, who won the javelin, and Russian long jump star Tatiana Kotova, who beat Heike Drechsler of Germany by just one centimetre to edge her event. Along with US sprint star Gail Devers, who sat out the meeting with injury after winning five previous races in the series, the four share 50 kilos of gold on offer to those athletes managing at least five wins in the Golden League series. Devers had guaranteed her share with last week’s win at Brussels in the 100m hurdles and elected to rest as she nurses a thigh injury. Greene stormed home ahead of fellow American and training stablemate John Drummond, who clocked 9.96 and another US racer Tim Montgomery (USA), who timed 10.01. But it was a disappointing evening for both Atlanta Games champion Donovan Bailey of Canada, who timed 10.20 to finish sixth and Olympic bronze medalist Ato Boldon of Trinidad, whose time of 10.23 only brought eighth place. Michael Johnson, back to virtual full fitness after pulling a hamstring at the US Olympic trials, showed he is pretty much ready for Sydney as he won the men’s 400m, timing 45.00sec to see off Britain’s Mark Richards on (45.46) — just as he did a week ago in Brussels. |
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Olympics
live on DD Sports NEW DELHI, Sept 2 (UNI) — Doordarshan is making extensive arrangements for the high-quality live coverage of Sydney Olympics. The entire event will telecast live by DD Sports Channel. Besides, some of the events will be telecast live/deferred live/recorded by DD1 and DD2. Doordarshan had acquired the exclusive rights of telecast in the country. Additional programme staff is being roped in from Doordarshan’s different kendras across the country to ensure non-stop coverage. Prominent sports
correspondents from the print media will anchor the telecast. One presentation-cum-reference unit will provide latest back-up material for anchors. Doordarshan Kendra Delhi (DDK) will be the nodal section for transmission. Doordarshan will send its own team for coverage of the events
highlighting Indian participation. Customised coverage will be done for events like hockey, tennis, athletics and
badminton. There will be sidelights of the games, including interviews with Indian sportspersons and daily capsules. |
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Monique stuns top
seed Manisha JAIPUR, Sept 2 (PTI) — Unheralded Australian Monique Adamczak claimed her maiden ITF women’s circuit title when she stunned top-seeded Manisha Malhotra of India in the final here today. The 17-year-old Monique outwitted Manisha 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 in an hour and 40 minute battle of nerves at the Jai Club grass courts here and later added doubles crown by shocking yhe top seeded Indian pair. Monique, combining with Austrian Jennifer Schmidt beat Sai Jayalakshmi and Rushmi Chakravarthi 6-3, 1-6, 7-5 in the doubles final. Continuing her giant-killing spree, Monique scalped Manisha despite losing concentration and the second set. The Australian had started with upsetting third seed Wongkamalasai Orwan (Thailand) in the first round, defeated seventh seed Sonal Phadke in the quarterfinal before ousting sixth-seeded Suchanan Viratprasert of Thialand in the semifinals. Monique began in the same form today breaking Manisha in the very first game of the first set and raced to a 4-0 lead with another break of Indian’s serve. Manisha, who struggled with her first serves throughout the match, just managed to hold her serve in the fifth game but again dropped the seventh allowing Monique to serve out the set 6-2. |
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National carrom
meet begins CHANDIGARH, Sept 2 — The 30th Senior National and Inter-State Carrom Championship began today at Jalandhar. The six-day meet organised by the Punjab Carrom Association and Chandigarh Carrom Association was being held at PAP Campus, Jalandhar and as many as 400 participants drawn from 25 states and 13 affiliated institutions are taking part. The oath ceremony was performed by A. Mariaurudhayam, twice world carrom champion and nine-time national carrom champion. Today’s results: Women — TN bt Haryana 3-0; MP bt Vidharbha 3-0; Delhi bt Bengal 2-1; AP bt Manipur 3-0; Bihar bt Chandigarh 3-0; Hyderabad bt Meghalaya 3-0; Maharashtra bt Punjab 3-0; Assam bt Gujarat 3-0. |
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Punjab win RAMPURAPHUL (Bathinda) Sept 2 — Punjab, Chandigarh, Delhi and Haryana in the men’s section and the teams of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh and Madhya Pradesh in the women’s section have entered the semifinals of the second Circle-Style National Kabaddi Championship for men and women being played here. In the quarterfinals Punjab defeated Madhya Pradesh 59-20, Haryana defeated Rajasthan 69-21, Chandigarh defeated Jammu and Kashmir 68-43 and Delhi won the match against Uttar Pradesh 68-29 in the men’s section. |
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National tennis
meet in New Delhi NEW DELHI, Sept 2 — The 9th DSCL (DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd) National Hardcourt Tennis Championships will be held from October 9 to 22 at the Delhi Tennis Association courts. The championships, which carry a prize money of Rs 10 lakh, the highest in domestic tennis circuit, will be played in eight categories — men’s, ladies, under-18 boys and girls, under 16 boys and girls, and under 14 boys and girls. The championships had a record participation of 1500 players last year. |
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