Leander Paes questioned partner Mahesh Bhupathi's commitment after the duo's loss in the tennis team event at the Asian Games.
India were on Saturday relegated to Group II of the Asia/Oceania zone after their humiliating 0-3 defeat against Chinese Taipei in the Fed Cup play-off tie here.
Kidambi Srikanth and H S Prannoy sailed into the pre-quarter-finals, but it was heartbreak for Parupalli Kashyap in the men's singles at the World Badminton Championships in Jakarta on Wednesday.
The script remained the same in the second game as well, with Sindhu maintaining her firm grip over the proceedings to race to a 6-0 lead in just two minutes.
Japan won the gold and Iran the bronze atthe Asian Junior Volleyball Championship.
Top seed Chin-Wei Chan of Chinese Taipei beat second seed Montinee Tangphong of Thailand 6-2, 6-3.
Rupesh Roy and his partner, Hsin Han Lee from Chinese Taipei, lost in the semi-finals of the boys' doubles at Wimbledon.
The Indian Davis Cupper was beaten by top seed top seed Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei 6-3, 5-7, 0-6 in the second round.
India have been seeded third in Group I of the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania zone. They have been given a bye in the first round before taking on the winner of the match between Chinese Taipei and Kazakhstan in the second round, scheduled from March 6 to 8, 2009.
Rain prevented play on the opening day of the Asia-Oceania zonal qualifying round in Seoul.
Chinese Taipei's Yeu Tzuoo Wang and Korea's warhorse Mi-Ra Jeon have been given top billing in the men's and women's singles respectively at the Asian Tennis Championships, beginning on Tuesday.
Till some singles talent is unearthed India will have to look up to captain Leander Paes to deliver the goods, says Davis Cup coach Nandan Bal.
Reena Kumari and Sumangala Sharma advanced to the second knock-out round, but Dola Banerjee bowed out in the women's individual 70 metres archery event at the Olympic Games.
The Indo-Swiss pair beat Yeu-Tzuoo Wang and Na Li 6-2, 6-2 in the first round at Australian Open
Archer Laishram Bombayla Devi advanced to the pre-quarter-finals in the women's individual recurve competition, defeating Chinese Taipei's Lin Shih-Chia, at the Rio Olympics on Wednesday.
Argentina's Angel Cabrera and Ricardo Gonzalez shot a record-breaking 11-under for the alternate shot format and moved into contention at the World Cup of Golf.
This is H S Prannoy's first final of the season and second since the runner-up finish at the Swiss Open last year.
India's women's recurve team shocked top seeds Germany 5-3 to set up a gold medal clash with Chinese Taipei in the first stage of the archery World Cup at the Yuanshen Stadium, in Shanghai, on Friday.
The Chinese Taipei veteran and the 33-year-old India ace lead the field after the third round in the Crowne Plaza Open, in Beijing.
Chetan Anand, Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Nikhil Kanetkar advanced to the second round of the All England Open Badminton tournament.
Karan Rastogi booked a semi-final berth at the Australian Open junior tennis championships in Melbourne.
The 2003 80kg class gold medallist joined eight other compatriots in the title round of different weight categories in the Asian Women's Boxing Championships.
HS Prannoy breezed into the quarter-finals with a stunning straight-game win over former world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore but it was curtains for Kidambi Srikanth at the Japan Open Super 750 tournament.
The 29-year-old Saina, an Olympic bronze medallist, had finished runner-up in the tournament last year, losing to Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu-Ying in the final.
The duo completed an Indian sweep winning the boy's and girl's event respectively of the Asian Junior Tennis Championship.
The former national champion easily beat Chih Hao Chen of Chinese Taipei to qualify.
After losing the first game, the 24-year-old Indian rebounded strongly to clinch a 15-21, 21-13, 21-13 win over Wan Ho in a gruelling second-round clash that lasted almost an hour.
On a day of upsets in the ATP Challenger, the Indian ace lost to Chinese Taipei qualifier Ti Chen.
India beat Chinese Taipei to take the bronze and clinch a place in the World Youth Cup.
Leander Paes feels India will find it tough in singles but the country can hope to win a medal in the Asian Games
Chin-Wei Chan of Chinese Taipei and Montinee Tangphong of Thailand will clash in the US $ 10,000 tournament final.
The Indian stalwart opened up a four-shot lead at the halfway stage of the US$830,000 Asia Japan Okinawa Open.
Yeu-Tuoo Wang of Chinese Taipei, at 204, is the highest ranked player in the fray for the ITF Futures tennis tournament in Mumbai.
India's leading juniors posted contrasting semi-final victories in the Asian junior tennis championships.
Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu celebrated her 23rd birthday with a straight-game win over Japan's Aya Ohori to enter the quarter-finals of the $1,250,000 Indonesia Open BWF World Tour Super 1000 tournament.
India's Karan Rastogi and partner Yi Chu-Huan won the doubles title in the Grade I 40th Astrid Bowl Charleroi Belgian International Junior Championships.
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