Saina lost the match

                                                       

Beijing, Dec 18: Badminton champion Saina Nehwal lost the women’s singles final of the BWF Super Series badminton championship against World Number 1 Wan Yihan by 21-18, 13-21, 13-21 on Sunday, Dec 18 in Liuzhou, China. Saina Nehwal is just 21-years-old this is the third match as runner.

World no.1 sports champion Yihan Wang’s six winning match of this year. Yihan started dominating from second set and won the two consecutive sets by 13-21 and 13-21.  

Gutta Jwala and V. Diju were the only other Indians who made it to the finals in mixed doubles in the 2009 edition of BWF Super Series.

Viswanathan Anand draws with Aronian in London Chess Classic

 

                                             
London, Dec 12: World Champion Viswanathan Anand’s hopes of catching up with his rivals have almost ended after he played out a draw with Levon Aronian of Armenia at the end of the seventh round of London Chess Classic here.

The world sports champion Viswanathan Anand had a lonely victory against Nigel Short of England, other than a loss against Hikaru Nakamura of United States.

In the open section, national champion Abhijeet Gupta scored a devastating victory over Gawain Jones of England to jump into sole lead with seven points out of a possible eight.

Fund for earthquake-ravaged at Sikkim

 

                                                   

Gangtok, Dec 6:  Ruud Gullit, Ronaldo, Paolo Maldini and Rene Higuita are the World football star.They will be takenon Indian celebrities in an demonstration match in January to collect funds for the earthquake-ravaged Sikkim.

The Coach for them is  Shyam Thapa, the Indian team consisting of footballers, filmstars and cricketers will exhibit their skill in the game at the exhibition match in Kolkata on January. The place were the sports will be took place which is nearer to the earthquake affected.

Sports ministry announces cash reward of 1.5 lakh each to hockey players

Hours after Indian players rejected Hockey India's paltry monetary offer, cash rewards trickled in for them on Wednesday with the sports ministry announcing Rs 1.5 lakh each and Punjab government pitching in with Rs 25 lakh to the team for winning the Asian Champions Trophy.

The hockey team, which won the Asian Champions Trophy in China after beating arch-rivals Pakistan in the final on Sunday, rejected HI's Rs 25,000 cash reward to each player, saying the paltry amount was not proper recognition of their achievement.