Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa jumped from 15th to 13th in the latest rankings
New Delhi (IANS):
India’s most successful women’s doubles shuttlers Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa rose two places to be at No.13, matching their career-best in the latest rankings released by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Thursday.
Jwala and Ashwini, who won the women’s doubles bronze at the 2011 World Championships, reached the semi-finals of the US Open Grand Prix Gold which helped them rise up the ladder.
Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy also jumped two places to be ranked No.24 in the men’s doubles following their finals appearance at the US Open on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Indian shuttlers maintained their positions in singles.
Olympic medallist Saina Nehwal is still No.2 with P.V. Sindhu at No.14 among the women. In men’s singles, Kidambi Srikanth, Parupalli Kashyap and H.S. Prannoy are still on No.3, 10 and 12, respectively.
There is no Indian representation in top-25 of mixed doubles.
Indian shuttlers are currently participating at the ongoing $50,000 Canada Open Grand Prix in Calgary.
Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea ended runners-up at the ATP Gerry Weber Open following a surprise straight set defeat at the hands of Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram, here on Sunday.
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Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea ended runners-up at the ATP Gerry Weber Open following a surprise straight set defeat at the hands of Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram, here on Sunday.
The second-seeded Indo-Romanian pair lost the summit clash 6-7(5) 2-6 against the unseeded American-South African team in one hour and 12 minutes.Bopanna and Mergea had come into the event after wining the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, last week.
They had advantage, following an early break but lost the momentum as well as their grip over the contest as the match progressed. They could not force a Match tie-breaker as they were outplayed in the second set.
They won 300 ranking points each and shared 50,880 as prize money for their effort.
source: http://www.zeenews.india.com / Z News / Home> News> Sports News> Tennis / PTI / Sunday – June 21st, 2015
Seagram’s 100 Pipers Music CDs in association with Pride of Karnataka, an initiative of Round Table India and Ladies Circle India felicitated 12 ‘true legends’ from the state.
Ashwini Nachappa and Pramoda Devi
Among those felicitated were Priya Mani, Ricky Kej, RK Misra, Prasad Bidpa, Manoviraj Khosla, Shukla Bose, Ashwini Nachappa and Robin Uthappa. Kartik Mohindra, Business Head, International Brands, Pernod Ricard India, said, “True legends are successful people who lead a positive change on society. The True Legends awards recognizes and felicitates successful personalities who have risen above the material pursuits of success, and believe in giving back to humanity. Each True Legend story is very inspiring and will forever be remembered for good.”
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Bengaluru / TNN / June 19th, 2015
Den Thimmaiah of Kodagu emerged as the fastest driver at the second edition of Maruti Suzuki Autocross Championship at Supernova Arena in Bengaluru on Sunday. Thimmaiah won three races which included four podium finishes.
Advocate P.S. Muthamma (Kaliyanda Muthamma Poonachcha) has been appointed as the Special Public Prosecutor of Lokayukta in Mysuru, according to an order issued by the Lokayukta Office in Bengaluru.
Muthamma was earlier serving as Special Public Prosecutor for the Fast Track Court in Mysuru.
A resident of Seshadri Iyer Road in the city, Kaliyanda Muthamma Poonachcha is a native of Kolakeri near Napoklu in Kodagu district.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Monday – June 08th, 2015
Femi Ogunode shatters his own Asian 100m record with a 9.91s
M.R. Poovamma, the fastest qualifier in the semifinals, retained her 400m silver while Liksy Joseph came up with an inspired performance for the heptathlon silver with a personal best as India’s women athletes did themselves proud at the 21st Asian athletics championship here on Thursday.
Purnima Hembram, a former Asian junior champion, followed Liksy for the women’s heptathlon bronze, and in the men’s section, G. Lakshmanan won the 5,000m bronze bettering his personal best by nearly 14 seconds.
Qatar’s Femi Ogunode did what he had been promising for some time by lowering his own Asian 100m record to a stunning 9.91s. That should make him the fifth fastest man in the world this year.
The Nigeria-born Ogunode had set the previous mark of 9.93 while winning the Asian Games gold in Incheon last year.
There were disappointments too for India, with both the country’s eight-metre long-jumpers, Ankit Sharma (7.76m) and K. Prem Kumar (7.69m) finishing fourth and fifth respectively.
Ankit was in the medal range for a brief while before going down. An eight-metre jump would have fetched them gold, for it was with a 7.96m that China’s Goa Xinglong took the top spot.
Poovamma, the Asian Games bronze medallist who has a personal best of 51.73s, was in fact quicker in Wednesday’s semifinal which she topped with 52.94s. Her silver, behind China’s Yang Huizhen, came in 53.07s.
Arokia Rajeev, also an Incheon Asiad bronze medallist, was seventh in the men’s 400m while Srabani Nanda was fifth in the women’s 100m.
The women’s sprint relay team finished fourth and the men sixth. Suprisingly Manikanda Arumugam, who had helped the team to qualify for the Asians in 39.11s in the controversial trials in Bengaluru recently, was not part of the men’s relay squad which finished in 39.67s.
Qatar’s Mohamad Al Garni, who had won the men’s 1,500m on Wednesday, completed a distance double by taking the 5,000m title.
India have bagged their second medal at the Asian Athletics Championships, that is currently being played in Wuhan, China with MR Poovamma clinching the silver in the 400m. event.
The Kodagu-born athlete clocked a timing of 53.07 and thereby clinched her second consecutive silver at the Asian Championships after her silver medal win at the 2013 edition of the Championships, that were held in Pune.
But her medal, here though, seems like it might have come at a cost as she fell behind the Olympic qualification mark by 1.07 seconds.
This is now India’s second medal after Inderjeet Singh won Gold on Day One of the competition with an effort of 20.41m.
source: http://www.sportskeeda.com / Sports Keeda / Home> Athletics> Asian Athletics Championship> News / by Shankar Narayan / June 04th, 2015
Mahesh Bhatt says that he was moved “to tears” as Gulshan Devaiah faced the camera.
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt was moved by Gulshan Devaiah’s performance when the actor was shooting for Pooja Bhatt’s upcoming film “Cabaret”.
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt was moved by Gulshan Devaiah‘s performance when the actor was shooting for Pooja Bhatt’s upcoming film “Cabaret”.
Bhatt says that he was moved “to tears” as the actor faced the camera.
The 66-year-old shared a sneak peak of the shoot along with a photograph, in which Pooja is seen staring at the screen while Gulshan was seen enacting his character.
“CABARET: Day 2. Gulshan Devaiah faces the camera and moves us to tears,” Bhatt tweeted on Friday.
source: http://www.indianexpress.com / The Indian Express / Home> Entertainment> Bollywood / by Indo-Asian News Service, Mumbai / June 05th, 2015
The former world no 3 doubles player follows a healthy diet on a daily basis, but every time he’s in the city, the tennis ace likes to indulge in gulab jamuns.
At 22, critics in tennis had ruled him out. With a career ranking of 213 in men’s singles, Rohan Bopanna was hardly in the reckoning in the world tennis scene. Six years later, he achieved the unthinkable – he was ranked No 3 in the world (men’s doubles category) in 2013.
He has been a strong force since and has carried forward the legacy of his senior compatriots Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi. “I peaked late in my career because of the kind of system we have in India,” he says. “By the time we realise what’s good and what kind of training is required, many years are lost. In countries like the US, they have a system in place where they know how a top U-16 or U-18 player needs to train and reach top Slams. I am sure if we have better training facilities in place, we will see players peaking much early and have a longer career,” he says about starting a formidable career only in his early 30s.
While he travels across the globe on tournaments, he plays a lot of golf to de-stress and take the edge of constantly competing. But when he comes back home, he never misses the opportunity to indulge in his all-time favourite sweet treat, gulab jamun, especially from Bhagatram Sweets on Commercial Street.
We talk to the Coorg tennis ace about what works for him, his trade secrets and fitness mantras.
Meal plan
Morning mantra
I am a morning person and no matter what time I sleep, I get up on the dot after eight hours. My biological clock is set to eight hours.
Breakfast I love my eggs, especially scrambled eggs with some brown bread toasted, a bowl of cereal with cold milk and fruits. The timing of my meals and what I eat – be it breakfast or lunch, dinner – always depends on and revolves around my match schedules.
Lunch Pasta is what I usually prefer to have for lunch along with some grilled fish.
Dinner For dinner, I usually get chicken with some brown or white rice. If not that I have a good steak but I make sure I eat dinner at least three hours before I go to bed.
Snack Snacks are always fruits for me and sometimes, I munch on raisins.
Guilty pleasure It’s the Bhagatram gulab jamuns that I really love and crave for. But luckily, I am not home most of the year, so I don’t have the temptation or rather don’t get to eat it as often.
Drink menu I really like fresh fruit juices. I get my protein in my meats, so I don’t feel the need to have any protein shakes.
Tricks of the trade Well, when it comes to tennis, the most important thing is to watch and pay attention to all the top players about how they train, move on court, eat right and learn from that. The main thing is that it requires 100 per cent commitment and discipline.
De-stress strategy Listening to some good music (it could be anything, even Hindi, at times) and playing any other sport apart from tennis helps me de-stress. I mostly play golf as it is easily available all over the world.
Best advice The most important thing, when you decide to take up something in life is to not have an ounce of doubt in your own mind about it. You need to be 100 per cent sure that this is what you want to do and there’s no absolutely no doubt about it.
Skin splurge My wife keeps suggesting I use sun blocks and creams but I am so careless, I just don’t bother. I think it’s time to start. However, I do visit spas quite regularly but that’s more for massages and nothing to do with improving my skin tone.
Downtime I catch up on my movies. If I get a chance to watch any Bollywood movie, then that’s my first preference for sure.
Fitness mantra I enjoy my interval running on the treadmill. To add to this, I work a lot on my core and balances. I do interval running about five times a week and then in the gym, I lift weights but that’s just to maintain my muscles and not really to gain bulk or look ripped.
source: http://www.bangaloremirror.com / Bangalore Mirror / Home> Columns> You / by Nandini Kumar, Bangalore Mirror Bureau / June 07th, 2015
The counting of gram panchayat election held on May 29 was held at St Joseph’s High School in Madikeri on Friday.
Manjula of Hoskeri in Madikeri taluk has won by a mere margin of one vote. Congress supported candidate Hamsa had contested from two constituencies in Hodavada and won both the constituency. T H Amahhed of Napoklu won for the fifth time while Ameena won for the third time. Subhash Somaiah in Galibeedu GP won for the fourth time. AAP district convener Madetira Thimmaiah has won the election.
The election was held for 1,133 seats in 102 gram panchayat. There was neck and neck situation for Congress and BJP supported candidates in the district. Though BJP supported candidates had a upper hand in Madikeri, the Congress supported candidates performed well in Virajpet and Somwarpet taluks.
The supporters of SDPI and AAP have opened their account in the district.
There was 1,219 seats in 102 gram panchayats. No nominations were filed for three seats and 83 persons were nominated unopposed. The district had 3.50 lakh voters and the 2.50 lakh voters had exercised their franchise.
The counting was held till late night. The exact picture will be known by Saturday morning, according to polling officials. AAP supported candidates Madetira Thimmaiah, Vamana, Prathima have won in Kadagadalu panchayat. SDPI supported candidate Shamsheer won in Nelyahudikeri.
source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> District / DHNS – Madikeri, June 06th, 2015
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