India failed to exploit the home advantage as barring ace shuttler Chetan Anand none could advance to the second round on the first day of the World Badminton Championship in Hyderabad on Monday.
Indian shuttler Anand Pawar pulled off a stunning straight-game victory over top seeded compatriot Chetan Anand to reach the quarter-finals of the Bitburger Open in Germany on Friday. Eleventh seed Pawar beat world No 15 Anand 21-16, 21-13 in 30 minutes and set up a quarter-final clash with fifth seed Eric Pang of the Netherlands, who beat 10th seed Dane Peter Mikkelsen 23-21, 21-11.
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Wild card Harsh Mankad won the US $10,000 ITF singles event in Chandigarh after his opponent in the final, Rohan Bopanna, pulled out due to a knee injury. The victory gave Mankad his second crown, having won the doubles title along with Rupesh Roy at the CLTA Complex on Friday.
India's men's and women's doubles pairs reached the semi-finals of the New Zealand Open Grand Prix badminton tournament in Auckland on Thursday in contrasting fashion.
The semi-finals of the ONGC-IBSF World Billiards (Time Format) championship will be an all-Indian affair, after defending champion Pankaj Advani, eight-time World champion Geet Sethi, Rupesh Shah and Devendra Joshi made the grade at the Karnataka State Billiards Association in Bangalore on Monday.
Reigning champion Pankaj Advani scored a hard-fought victory over Rupesh Shah to set up a title clash with veteran Geet Sethi in the points format of the ONGC IBSF World Billiards Championship in Bangalore on Thursday. In the first semi-final, Sethi staged a remarkable recovery to beat Devendra Joshi.
India's poster boy of cue sports, Pankaj Advani, an eight-time world champion, had to miss the event due to his qualification for the 'International Championship', one of the most prestigious major ranking snooker events.
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The 23-year-old Bangalore-based cueist posted a 150-90, 151-0, 150-24, 150-0, 86-150, 150-72, 150-12 victory to win the ONGC-IBSF World Billiards Points Format Championship.
Pankaj Advani survived a scare before beating New Zealand's Gary Oliver in a league encounter of the ONGC IBSF World Billiards Championship in Bangalore on Tuesday. The 23-year-old local boy prevailed over his dogged opponent 3-2 (101-151, 151-98, 117-151, 152-0, 151-107), but not before some tense moments in an edge-of-the-seat match at the Karnataka State Billiards Association hall.
Indian players, including Pankaj Advani, Rupesh Shah and Geet Sethi scored easy victories during the opening day of the IBSF World Billiards Championship in Bangalore on Monday.
Defending champions Pankaj Advani (timed format), who is in line for a hattrick, and Rupesh Shah (point format) will be seen in action in the IBSF World Billiards Championship which gets underway in Bangalore on Monday.
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Chetan Anand's bid to win his third title on the trot came crashing as the national champion went down fighting against third seed Indonesian Andre K Tedjono in the men's singles final at the Dutch Open Grand Prix badminton tournament in Amsterdam on Sunday. Sixth seed Chetan lost 15-21, 21-11, 19-21 in a 51-minute gruelling battle.
Indian shuttlers had a field day in the KLRC Bulgarian Grand Prix in Sofia. Aditi Mutatkar, in the women's singles, Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas, in the men's doubles, and the mixed doubles pair of V Diju and Jwala Gutta entered the quarter-finals on Thursday.
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Chetan Anand and Saina Nehwal retained the men's and women's singles titles at the National Badminton Championship.
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Pankaj Advani qualified for the Asian Billiards Championships after topping the selection trials.
Also making the last 16 was the Sanave Thomas-Rupesh Kumar combination in the men's doubles, and woman shuttler Trupti Murugunde.
Divij Sharan, Vivek Shokeen, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya and National champion Ashutosh Singh advanced to the last eight stage in the US $10,000 grass court tournament.
Chetan Anand and Trupti Murgunde bowed out after losing their first round singles matches at the World Badminton Championships at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The Petroleum Sports Promotion Board cueist beat Rupesh Shah of Gujarat by six frames to five in a nail-biting final.
After young Pankaj Advani and experienced Ashok Shandiliya fetched a gold and silver on Tuesday, it was the turn of the snooker team, comprising Aditya Mehta, Yasin Merchant and Rupesh Shah, to bring cheer to the Indian camp.
Indian shuttlers thrashed New Zealand 5-0 in a Group B encounter in Glasgow.
The Indo-Czech pair shocked seventh seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram of Israel in the third round at the French Open.
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A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday.
It will be an all-Petroleum Sports Promotion Board affair when Devendra Joshi clashes with Dhruv Sitwala in the final of the National Billiards Championship.
They were beaten by unseeded pair of Dyce and Heliovaara 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-3 in the finals.
The 2005 World billiards champion routed Rupesh Shah 2-0 to maintain his unbeaten run in the Indian Cue Masters League 2005.
Sanave Thomas and Rupesh Kumar's giant-killing act came to an abrupt end. The Indian duo lost to the third seeded Indonesian pair of Markis Kidos and Hendra Setiawan in the doubles quarter-finals of the badminton competition.
Both scored fluent victories in the quarter-finals of the Shivaji Park Gymkhana Open billiards tournament.
Aparna Popat gave a tough fight to Rebecca Bellingam before losing 11-9, 8-11, 9-11 to crash out of the World Badminton Championships
Alok Kumar stormed into the final of the IBSF World Billiards Championship in Leeds on Friday and set up a title clash with Englishman David Causier.
The victory got him a place in the snooker semi-final of the All India Open Invitation tournament on Saturday.
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