The Indian Express -- Sports

Monday, June 30 1997

Five seeds fail to sprout on People's Sunday

Wayne Ferreira became the only men's seed to fall when he lost to France's Cedric Pioline 4-6, 3-6, 3-6 in the third round. On the women's side, there was a major shake-out of the seeds, ranging from sixth seeded South African Amanda Coetzer to the 14th seeded Brenda Schultz-McCarthy even as the second seed Monica Seles came back from a set down to quell the challenge of Kristina Brandi of the United States.

Paes-Bhupathi bow out

The 20th best pair in the world played like a duo which was 20th from the bottom. And naturally, they cannot be expected to win. Thus, Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi had their hopes of making an impact in the doubles ground to the dust, losing to the Italian pair of Filippo Messori and Cristian Brandi in three sets 4-6, 6-3, 3-6 in the very first round.

No change in BAI: Prakash

Despite the resignation of Fazil Ahmed and appointment of V K Varma as the executive president of the Badminton Association of India, Prakash Padukone does not foresee any change in the functioning of the sport's governing body. The administrative changes took place at BAI's speical AGM in New Delhi yesterday.

Royal Aberdeen wins feature

Udai, Rohan triumph

Global Sport -- Two new faces for 3rd Test

Okerie 'trick floors Churchill

Bitten-off flesh salvaged

Royal snub to Diana, Fergie

Tyson bites off more than he can chew

State cagers' surprise weapon lay in springing tactical variation

Goran Ivanisevic, the Split personality