Friday, September 4, 2009

Recent achievements by Indian sportsmen

Some significant sports news:

1. Its the first time in history of Indian tennis that Indian have advanced to second round of a grand slam tennis tournament in both men's and women's signles. Congradulations and best wishes to sania Mirza and Somdev Ddevvarman, and to all Indians. There are also two more Indians, Mahesh Bhupati and Leander Paes, with different partners particiapting in Men's Doubles and Mixed Doubles. In Mixed Doubles they hold top two seedings.

2. Force One, the team owned by Vijay Mallya, in Formula 1 GP motoracing has one points for the first time. Its car came second.

3. Nehru Cup football tournament was recently held in Delhi where 5 countries other than India participated. India won the title. For the semi-finals and finals, the stadium stnads were full to capacity. Hope this is representative of increasing popularity of sports other than cricket. All India Football Federation has announced cash awards for each player of the winning team

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