Paes-Bhupathy win Challenge

CALCUTTA: India's top doubles pair Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi added one more feather to their cap when they won the title in the Jerusalem Challenger Tennis Championship defeating Wayne Black (Zimbabwe) and Kevin Ullyett (South Africa) in a three-set thriller, according to information reeived here today.

Paes and Bhupathi made a fine rally to win6-7 (4-7), 6-2, 7-6 (11-9). This was the Indian pair's fourth international doubles title.

After this tournament, Paes was ranked 50 and Bhupathy 51 in doubles, and as a pair they were ranked 13 in the ATP circuit.

Paes, however, lost in the first round of singles .

Deshmukh shocked

SANGLI: Former National (Under-25) champion Anup Deshmukh (2) points of LIC was shocked by upcoming Bengal teenager Roktim Bandopadhyay (3) in the 30th SK Vaidya Memorial International Rating Chess tournament, here, today.

Tamil Nadu schoolboy S Kidambi (2.5) held International Master V Koshy (2.5) of ONGC to a creditable draw.

India in group B

JAIPUR: India has been placed in sub group B with hosts Scotland, New Zealand and Norway in the fifth Sudirman Cup -- the symbol of supremacy for the world mixed team badminton championship to be held in Glasgow (Scotland) from May 19 to 24.

According to a communication of International Badminton Federation (IBF), record 63 countries will participate in the tournament -- an increase of almost 30 per cent over the last event in 1995.

Jr team sponsors

BANGALORE: The Punjab and Sind Bank will sponsor the Indian junior hockey team's trip to Milton Keynes, England, for the Junior World Cup in September, the bank's executive director, Mr BD Narang today said.

Talking to reporters here, Narang said the Bank had budgetted Rs 15 lakhs for the World Cup, apart from the Rs 10 lakh set aside for sponsoring the 58th Senior National Hockey Championship, commencing here from tomorrow.

TFA enter final

PATNA: Tata Football Academy (TFA), today drubbed Sikking Boys Club 6-0 to enter the finals of the Kalyani Black Label East Zone Federation Cup football championship played here at the Moinul Haq Stadium. The winners led 2-0 during the break.

TFA's Sheikh Sanjeev and substitute Kesto Ghosh scored two goals each while skipper Nitin Pradhan and Jamesh Singh found the net one each.

TFA will now meet the winners of tomorrow's match between Calcutta giants Mohammedan Sporting and Orissa Police, on May 16.

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