Japan beat Uzbekistan
A goal at the fag end of each half enabled the Japanese win the inaugural Group IV league match in the Sahara Cup Millennium football tournament.

Indonesia scratched from Millennium Cup
The team arrived on Monday with seven foreigners in their squad, in violation of article six of the competition rules, which says 'all players shall be subjects of their country'.

PSCB men, women book 3 semis slots
Rajasthan's Soumyadeep Roy and Bengal's Kasturi Chakraborty, in the men's and women's singles respectively, prevented a PSCB sweep of the semi-final places in the national table tennis championships.

Fazal and Uzbek partner in doubles semis
Syed Fazaluddin and Dmitri Tomashevich got the better of India's Rohan Bopanna and Vijay Kannan in the doubles quarter-finals of the ITF-Futures 2001 tournament.

Prakash consolidates position at the top
The GM norm holder from Indian Bank outclassed IM norm holder Jayant Gokhale to extend his lead to a full point at the end of the eighth round of the Global Trust Bank International Rating chess tournament.

Mukesh Kumar grabs the lead
Last season's player of the year returned a three-under 69 and took a one-stroke lead at the halfway stage of the Bhatiary Open 2001 golf tournament.

Safin in doubt for Australian Open
The 20-year-old Russian said it was recurrence of the same injury that forced him to miss a month's tennis in 1999.

Mohun Bagan win Rovers Cup
A goal in each half enabled the Calcutta giants beat Churchill Brothers 2-0 and claim the title for the 14th time.

Congrats, son-in-law!
The Ananths salute the World champion.

Forgotten art
The slow death of serve and volley makes tennis a lesser sport, says Rohit Brijnath.

FC Kochin lead Nat. Football League
After two matches, the southern challengers have four points, the same as Mohun Bagan, debutants Vasco and Indian Telephone Industries, but take the top spot in the 12-team league because their points have come from 'away' matches.

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