Wednesday, October 6, 2010

COMMONWEALTH GAMES - DAY 3 UPDATES

13:13 England's Steve Scott and Stevan Walton got the gold in the men's double trap (pairs). India's pairing of Sodhi and Noria settled for the silver.

13:11 News just filtering that Australia have got another gold in cycling. Australia's Megan Dunn gets the gold in the 25km points race


12:58 Luczak has claimed the first set against Bopanna 6-2. In the second, it's one-game all.

12:50 India gets one more silver in shooting: Ronjon Sodhi and Asher Noria get the silver in the double trap (pairs).

Malawi trouncing India in netball. The score-line 82-26 there. Never seen this game for more than 10 mins before and it does look a bit like basketball.

Just got information that Narang, earlier in the day, had shot a perfect 600 in the qualification to the individual 10 mtr air rifle event. That means that he had equalled his own record.

12:27 Luczak takes an early lead and sees a slight opening in the Bopanna serve but Bopanna comes up with a huge serve to save the break point. But Luczak isn't fazed and come back again and breaks Bopanna. Luczak leads 3-1 in the first set.

12:16 Rohan Bopanna in action against Peter Luczak of Australia. Luczak, seeded second behind Devvarman, is the favourite but Bopanna is coming off a good run which also included his heroic performance in the Davis Cup. It is one game apiece in the first set.
Narang gets his second gold of the Games but Bindra settles for the silver.

12:08 Narang gets gold in 10 mtr air rifle individual shooting event. Bindra claims silver.
Bindra shoots 10.7 to Narang's 10.3. Wondering whether it's too big a lead to eat into at this stage of the game.

Narang has 651.9 points, Bindra has 645.3 points and Huckle has 643.2 points

Narang has 630.8 points. Bindra has 625.3 points and Parr has 623.1 points.

11:54 Hold on to your hats as there is action in the 10 mtr air rifle individual shooting event. Both Gagan Narang and Abhinav Bindra are in the reckoning.

11:52 Sania holds the next serve to beat Teei 6-0, 6-2. A very comfortable victory.

11:49 Oh dear. Teei, who had just broken Sania, gets broken by Sania. It is now 5-2 and the Indian will serve to close out the match.

11:46 Teei has opener her account in the match. Sania now leads 4-2 in the second set.
It is Brittany Teei and not Brittany Teel. Apologies for that. Meanwhile, Sania has just held her serve to love to race into a 2-0 lead.

11:26 Sania is up and running in the second set as well and she breaks the opponents serve immediately.

11:20 Sania wins the first set 6-0 against Brittany Teel.

11:18 India blanks Wales five nil in the mixed team event in badminton.

11:14 Sania is up five game to love in the first set. In other news, India are looking good to blank Wales 5-0 in the mixed team badminton event.

11:05 Sania Mirza in action in the second round of the women's singles.

10:52 Another commanding performance from the Indians in the mixed team event in badminton against Wales. The women's doubles team have won their match in straight sets.

10:50 Australia have started their men's hockey campaign by beating Scotland 9-0. Emphatic to say the least.

10:48 Manoj defeats Van Zyl to enter the final of the men's 84 kg Greco-Roman event.

10:46 Manoj Kumar of India in action against South Africa's Van Zyl in the semifinals of the men's 84 kg Greco-Roman event.

10:43 Devvarman makes short work of Jayawickrame to enter the quarterfinals.

10:33 Devvarman gets an early break in thesecond set and again holds his serve to lead 3-1. Things looking rosy for Indian number 1

10:31 Don't forget folks.. there is a whopping 28 gold medals up for grabs today - including nine in the pool.

10:26 Somdev Devvarman in action against Amresh Jayawickrame of Sri Lanka. And the Indian is up a set and holds serve in the initial stages of the second stage.

India's Dharmender Dalal loses to Australia's Ivan Popov in the semi-finals of the men's 120 kg Greco-Roman category

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