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Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
Tennis star Sania Mirza prominently features in the Arjuna awardees for the year, along with golfer Jyoti Randhawa. The other significant names are Deepak Thakur, for his consistent performances in hockey, Helen Mary, women’s hockey team goalkeeper, athletes J.J. Sobha and Anil Kumar
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Asian number one Paradorn Srichaphan showed steely nerves to dispatch Cyril Saulnier 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-5) in the second round of the ATP Pilot Pen tournament.
Despite two first round losses at the Cincinnati and Montreal Masters Series events, the 26-year-old has reached the quarter-finals of three events in the lead up to the US Open.
“For some reason, everything clicks when I play in the summer here in the US,” said Srichaphan.
“I always enjoy the hot weather which reminds me of Thailand. I also feel comfortable on these hardcourts which I grew up on."
Srichaphan now faces either third seed David Ferrer or Thomas Zib in the last eight. |
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
Laender and partner shocked in 1st round
Top Seeded Leander Paes & ZIMONJIC, Nenad were shocked by Tommy. HAAS & J. MELZER, They went down 6-4, 7-6 (4)
From the desk of Mustafa Kamal......
Do you know this Indian Player from just a few years ago.....
How many endorsments did she get for her achievements ?
How much money / Land / Plot's were awarded to her by the Government ?
How many Corporate's came forward to sponsor her ?
How many Godfather's did she have in terms of Politicians, Businesmen, Civil servants. ?
What were we all doing when she was slogging out on the circuit ?
I have listed a brief introduction about her, I would appreciate if you can name her in the comments section.
At the same time I would like you to imagine a situation where this player was provided with the financial support provided to Ms. Mirza, If someone would have gone out of the way to secure wildcards for her in Grandslam events, I mean promote and hype her the way Sania was done........ Sania got a GVK sponsorship in the year 2000, Did Mr.GVK knew that an Indian player who was far more better than Sania existed and deserved his sponsorship more than Sania?. Then ?????????? it's possible !!!!!!!!!!!!. I leave it your your imagination
Her brief achievements.
Member of Indian Olympic Tennis Squad in 2000 for Sydney Olympics
Best WTA ranking of 132. Victories against top-50 world players like Magdaleena Maleeva, Sylvia Plishke, Mirijana Lucic, Prakusya and Janet Lee.
Partnered World No. 1 Kim Clijsters in doubles in WTA event in Belgium.
Played against Venus and Serena Williams in 2000 Australian Open doubles event.
Played Wimbledon (from 1999-2001)
Played U.S. Open (from 1999-2002)
Played Australian Open (from 1999-2001)
Played French Open (from 1999-2002)
Played several other major tournaments around the world.
No 1 Player for India for 10 years in Asian Games, Fed Cup, South Asian Federation Games and World Youth Cup. Led India to Asia Group 1 in Fed Cup.
Bronze medallist in Asian Games 1998 in mixed doubles with Mahesh Bhupathi.
Triple gold medallist at SAF games in Chennai 1995.
Asagoe & Na Li out of Rogers Cup - Toronto
Round 3
Anastasia Myskina (Russia) beat Shinobu Asagoe (Japan) 7-6(5) 7-5
Nadia Petrova (Russia) beat Na Li (China) 6-2 3-0 RET
Justine Henin-Hardenne (Belgium) def Jie Zheng (China) 6-2 6-4
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Thursday, August 18, 2005 |
Vijay Amritraj - A true Indian Tennis Icon
Vijay Amritraj a tennis player whose achievements are legendary..... an unasuming and simple man from my experiance of being with him in Thailand, when you meet him its hard to believe that HE has been a trail blazer, a person who has excelled in everything he did, whether it was tennis or his production company. It was a dream come true for me because I had grown up watching his exploits on the tennis court.
Though his achievements are known the world over I feel most of the Indian's are not aware of it.
I have listed a few of his achievements to remind Indian's of this " GREAT SPORTSMAN "
At times I wonder why the media did not give him 10% of the coverage which is now given to Sania.
Tennis Achievements
Played Wimbledon for 17 straight years
Led India to Davis Cup finals in 1974 and 1987
Reached Wimbledon quarterfinals in 1973 & 1981, U.S. Open in 1973 & 1974
Number onel player in Asia for 14 years
Has beaten the world's best in tennis: Bjorg, McEnroe, Connors, Lendl, Newcombe, Smith
Founded BAT (Britannia Amritraj Tennis) Academy in India to develop future tennis champions. It was a unique program of its kind in all of Asia in any sport - Leander Peas is a BAT product.
5-time president of the ATP Tour Players Council
Career High INDESIT ATP Entry Ranking - Singles: 16 (7/7/1980)
Career High ATP Entry Ranking - Doubles: 39 (10/21/1985)
Awards
Only Asian to receive Baron Pierre de Coubertin Award.
Padma Shree award from Indian government
Key to the City of Los Angeles
Zheng wins, Fujiwara goes down
| Rika Fujiwara of Japan went down to Hana Sromova (Czech Republic) 4-6 7-5 6-0 while Jie Zheng of China defeated Ai Sugiyama of Japan 2-6 7-6(8) 6-3. |
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
Zheng, Fujiwara and Na Li win
Results from the Toronto Cup Women's Singles matches on Tuesday
Round 1
Jie Zheng (China) beat Maria Emilia Salerni (Argentina) 6-3 6-4
Rika Fujiwara (Japan) beat Maria Elena Camerin (Italy) 6-0 6-3
Conchita Martinez (Spain) beat Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Germany) 6-2 2-6 6-3
Sesil Karatantcheva (Bulgaria) beat Jill Craybas (United States) 6-2 6-7(1) 7-5
Na Li (China) beat 11-Jelena Jankovic (Serbia and Montenegro) 6-4 5-7 6-2
Virginie Razzano (France) beat Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spain) 6-3 3-6 6-3
12-Ana Ivanovic (Serbia and Montenegro) beat Tathiana Garbin (Italy) 6-2 7-6(3)
10-Nathalie Dechy (France) beat Fabiola Zuluaga (Colombia) 6-2 6-4
Srichaphan out of ATP Masters Series
Srichaphan went down to Guillermo Coria in the first round of ATP Masters Series-Cincinnati
