Hamdard Delton Junior Squash Championship 2007

Hamdard Delton All India Junior Squash Championship 2007
Boy’s U-13 Arslan H. Bhatti beat Syed A.M.S. Bukhari 3-9, 9-1, 9-2, 2-9, 9-0

Boy’s U-11 Tayyab Aslam beat Amaad Fareed – 6-9, 10-8, 6-9, 9-5, 9-2

Boy’s U-15 Syed H. S. Bukhari beat Haroon Rasheed 9-5, 4-9, 9-3, 9-3

Boy’s U-17 Shaikh Saqib beat Aurangzeb Khan – 9-7, 9-4, 5-9, 9-5

Girl’s U-11 Pankhuri Malhotra beat Heba Johnson – 10-8, 9-7, 9-2

Girl’s U-13 Aparajita B. W/O Sachika Ingale

Girl’s U-15 Aparajita B. beat Urvashi Singh – 9-5, 9-3, 9-1

Girl’s U-17 Surbhi Mishra beat Rangashree V. – 9-0, 9-0, 9-1

Boy’s & Girl’s U-9 Ranjeet beat Divyanshu – 9-3, 9-1

India v West Indies ODI Chennai

India 268/10 (Robin Uthappa 70, Sachin Tendulkar 60, Rahul Dravid 57, Dwayne Bravo 4/39)

West Indies 270-7 (Marlon Samuels 98, Brian Lara 83, Ajit Agarkar 3/45) 

Saurav Ghosal enters the main draw of EBS Dayton Open

Saurav Ghosal beat world # 34 Eric Galvez of Mexico 11-8, 11-6, 8-11, 12-10 to enter the main draw of the $50,000 EBS Dayton Open. He will play #3 seed Karim Darwish in the first round.

Australian Open Tennis

FINAL Serena Williams (US) bt (1) Maria Sharapova (Rus) 6-1 6-2

SEMI-FINALS (1) Maria Sharapova (Rus) bt (4) Kim Clijsters (Bel), Serena Williams (US) bt (10) Nicole Vaidisova (Cze)

FINALS (1) Roger Federer (Swi) v (10) Fernando Gonzalez (Chi)

SEMI-FINALS (1) Roger Federer (Swi) bt (6) Andy Roddick (US), (10) Fernando Gonzalez (Chi) bt (12) Tommy Haas (Ger)

India v West Indies ODI Cuttack

India 189/10 (KD Karthik 63, AB Agarkar 40, Powell 27/4) beat West Indies 169/10 (Shiv Chanderpaul 66, R Powar 42/3)

Oscar Nominees

The nominees for the 79th Academy Awards, to be held at the Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles on 25 February:

Best picture : Babel; The Departed; Letters From Iwo Jima; Little Miss Sunshine; The Queen

Best director : Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima; Stephen Frears, The Queen; Paul Greengrass, United 93; Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Babel
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

SRFI coaching schedule

JAN 15-31 Asian Juniors Camp, Chennai
MAR 2-3 Refrees Clinic, Mumbai
19-24 ASF Level 2 Coaching Course, Chennai
APR2-6 ASF Level 1 Coaching Course, Mumbai
24-28 ASF Level 1 Coaching Course, Delhi
MAY 20-27 Coaching Clinic, Mumbai
JUN TBC Coaching & Refrees Clinic, Bangalore
JUL 16-17 Refrees Clinic, Chennai
AUG 1-11 ASF Level 1 Coaching Course, Kolkata
TBC Coaching Clinic, Hyderabad
SEP TBC Coaching Clinic, Jaipur
OCT TBC Refrees Clinic, Delhi
TBC Coaching Clinic, Delhi
DEC 4-5 Refrees Clinic, Chennai
TBC Asian Coaching Conference

Asian Junior Squash Championships, Hong Kong

Squash Rackets Federation of India announced the squad for the 13th Asian Junior Championships to be held in Hong Kong from 3rd to 10th February 2007.

The Boys team comprises Sandeep Jangra, Harinderpal Singh, Parth Sharma and Naresh Kumar. Ramit Tandon and Ravi Dixit will also participate in the boys individual event while Dipika Pallikal and Anwesha Reddy will participate in the girls individual event. The squads have been selected on the basis of the performances at the National and International events held in 2006.

English Premiership weekend

Arsenal (Robin van Persie, Thierry Henry) 2-1 Man Utd (Wayne Rooney)
Liverpool (Dirk Kuyt, Jermaine Pennant) 2-0 Chelsea

1 Man Utd 57 points, 2 Chelsea 51 points, 3 Liverpool 46 points, 4 Arsenal 45 points

India v West Indies ODI Nagpur

India beat West Indies by 14 runs
India 338/3 (Gautam Gambhir 69, Saurav Ganguly 98); West Indies 324/8 (Chris Gayle 52, Shiv Chanderpaul 149*)