Indian men created history in the 16th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship by claiming the gold medal in the team event for the first time.
Anup Sridhar went down 24-22, 14-21, 13-21 to Korean Lee Hyun in the second round of the Malaysia Super Series.
Viren Rasquinha and goal-keeper Adrian D'Souza have been named to the list of 32 probables for the Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament
India dropped a place to ninth in the latest world hockey rankings, which Champions Trophy winners Germany lead. Australia are second and the Netherlands third.
Australia thrashed the already qualified Germany 5-0 to secure their place in the final.
Top seeds Wesley Moodie and Rik de Voest of South Africa beat second seeds Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi 6-4, 7-6 (4) in the final of the US $50,000 ATP Challenger in New Delhi on Friday.
Rob Reckers' double strike gave defending champions the Netherlands a flying start as they blanked Great Britain 4-0 in the Samsung Champions Trophy opener in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
Defending champions the Netherlands were off to a good start in the 29th men's Champions Trophy hockey tournament, that got underway in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, scoring a comfortable 4-0 win over Great Britain.
The Indo-Pakistani duo lost to the top seeded Australian-South African pair of Stephen Huss and Wesley Moodie 7-6(10), 6-3 at the $150,000 Malaysian Open ATP Challenger tournament in Kuala Lumpur .
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi edged out second seeds Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana in the match tie-break to enter the final of the Malaysia Open.
The American proved he is still a force to reckon with as he went down 7-6, 7-5 in an exhibition match against Federer in Kuala Lumpur.
Rafael Nadal beat Richard Gasquet 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the exhibition game in Kuala Lumpur.
Roger Federer beat Pete Sampras 6-4, 6-3 in the first of three Asian exhibition matches in Seoul.
The two greats will play first of the three exhibition matches in Asia in Seoul on Tuesday.
India were drawn in Group A with Korea, Iran and Macau for the Asian Zone tournament.
India tasted its fourth defeat in five matches, losing to Korea 3-2 in the Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament.
Santiago Freixa scored twice in Spain's 3-1 victory over the World cup runners-up.\n\n
P Kashyap and Arvind Bhat did the star turn as India trounced Australia 4-1 and advanced to the last eight stage of the Thomas Cup finals even as the women's team went down 1-4 to Korea despite Saina Nehwal's thrilling win over Seung Hee Bae in the Uber Cup, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Tuesday.
Apparently, there are something like 25 million passports in the country, in addition to those of about five million semi-skilled and unskilled Indian workers in the Gulf, southeast Asia and elsewhere.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday.
Five goalkeepers, four full backs, 10 mid-fielders and 11 forwards figure in the 30-man list.
He also made it clear that the government had nothing to hide on the Volcker issue and that there was a procedure to be followed.
The Spices Board will take part in 13 global fairs during the current financial year.
The Indian ace beat Muhd Hafiz B Hashim of Malaysia and stormed into the men's singles quarter-finals at the World Badminton Championships.
Chetan Anand and Trupti Murgunde bowed out after losing their first round singles matches at the World Badminton Championships at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Pakistan take on Nigeria in another match in the Afro Asian Games hockey tournament.
His final margin of victory over second placed James Winslow was a whopping 31 seconds.
The 18-year-old displayed his mastery of wet conditions to take his first Formula Renault V6 race victory.
The Olympic gold medallist breasted the tape in 13.30 seconds, the fastest in the history of the Asian Athletics Championships.
Sohail Abbas and Waseem Ahmed have been included in the squad for the Champions Trophy.
They will meet Iran in the title match on Sunday.
