SANIYA UPSTAGES ARTI SINGH

Saniya Shaikh won the women's skeet gold award, beating Arti Singh by five shot, in the Sahara 54th National shooting finals at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, on Sunday.

The 18-year-old Saniya, who had won her maiden National women's heading two years ago in Jaipur in the deficiency of Arti, said the latest attempt would give her a lot of confidence.

Saniya, National junior champion for six times in a queue, shot round of 23, 21 and 22 (total 66), one short of her greatest score. With only four shooters in the dispute, there was no finishing.

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FERRARI PUTS FOCUS ON STRONG START TO 2011

Ferrari’s main focus for the new Formula One period is getting off to a strong start, to avoid even the opportunity of finishing the way it did in 2010.

Speaking at Ferrari’s annual winter move away in the Italian Dolomites on Wednesday.

Team director Stefano Domenicali says besides much focus has been made on the strategic errors the team made in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that concluded 2010, whereas an even larger trouble was failing to gain points early on.

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SOMDEV GETS A TOUGH FIRST ROUND AT AUSTRALIAN OPEN

India’s wild card contestant Somdev Devvarman was today handed a tough draw at the Australian Open as he is pitted against world number 51 Tommy Robredo in the first round of the men’s singles event here.

Somdev, ranked 110 in the world, was award one of the two wild cards for Asian players by the organisers of the first Grand Slam of the period.

Somdev had never managed to get into the most important draw as he failed in his previous two attempts in the qualifiers.

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SREESANTH OUT, ASHWIN BAGS WORLD CUP BERTH

The national selectors, who met for one and half hours to complete the team here, picked up three specialist spinners include Tamil Nadu spinner Ravichandran Ashwin also Piyush Chawla

Young batsman Rohit Sharma and pacer S. Sreesanth were on Monday misplaced from India’s 15-member squad for the upcoming cricket World Cup to be held in the sub-continent from February 19. 

Tamil Nadu spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and Piyush Chawla were name in the squad to be captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni and which include most of the star group of actors like Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.

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SHARAPOVA STARTS OFF IN STYLE

Maria Sharapova had her first be successful at Melbourne Park since claiming the 2008 Australian Open title, beating Thai veteran Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-1, 6-3 on Monday in the opening match on middle court.

The previous No. 1—ranked Sharapova, who missed the 2009 Australian Open with a shoulder wound and was ousted in the first-round last year by fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko, struggle with her serve and was inconsistent in the second set. 

After losing the opening examination game at love, Sharapova won seven directly games to take a 1—0 lead in the second set.

The 33—year—old Tamarine, clearly not in peak material condition, rallied and had a game point on serve for a 4—1 lead but Sharapova broke back and regain momentum, winning the final five games.

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OUSCHAN CASHES AT WPBA MASTERS

Jasmin Ouschan sweep through the 48-player field at the inaugural WPBA Masters tournament held January 6-9 to defeat the tour’s number-three-ranked player, Karen Corr, in the championship in a close 7-6 victory. The event was hosted by the Soaring Eagle Casino and option in Mount Pleasant, MI.

Corr went undefeated into Sunday’s matches after having dispatch the tour’s former number one, Ga Young Kim, in a delicate hill-hill contest the evening before. In her semi-final match against Monica Webb, the score seesaw to 2-all in the short race to 7.

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INDIA WORLD CUP SQUAD 2011 | INDIA TEAM WORLD CUP 2011

In Chennai selectors select a most excellent team for world cup 2011 .and this Indian teams inspire the Indian country for cricket world cup. There are many Big names omitted from final squad and many wounded players are included in final team.

But Indian cricket team is in better place this time to Win the world cup because they select a balance team with three spinners and7 professional Batsman .

A top seven of the Indian batting-order — Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni — are in the team as usual and Yusuf Pathan take the all-rounder’s compartment.

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