Paes-Dlouhy lose in semis Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy were beaten by top seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zemonjic 6-3 6-4 in the semi-final of the Madrid Masters on Saturday. In womens singles,Venus Williams reached her first Madrid final by beating Shahar Peer of Israel 6-3 6-0. The fourth-seeded American will play either Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic or Aravane Rezai of France. Rastogi loses to de Voest Karan Rastogi had to be content with yet another runner-up finish as the Indian lost the final of the $15,000 ITF Futures to top seed Rik de Voest of South Africa in New Delhi. Rastogi lost 6-2 7-5. Last week,Rastogi had lost the final of the ITF Futures in Kolkata to Murad Inoyatov of Uzbekistan. Shooters harassed in UK The Indian shooting contingent,partcipating at the ISSF World Cup in Dorset,UK was apparently harassed by the organisers,which forced team manager M Padmanabhan to shoot off a letter to the High Commission in London. According to the letter,released by the National Rifle Association of India,Manavjit Singh Sandhu was insulted by the transport supervisor. Parimarjan keeps lead Second seed Parimarjan Negi beat GM Eltaj Safarli to maintain his lead with seven and half points in the Parsvnath Commonwealth Chess Championship in New Delhi. Russian GM Pavel Maletin beat Ukraines Martyn Kravtsiv to be second with seven points,while a pack of five,including Prasanna Rao,who stunned GM Sriram Jha in the eighth round,is third. Geetu leads team to title Geetu Anna Jose scored 35 points to lead Super Girls to a 80-59 title win over Wonder Girls in the womens final of the Lakadawala Developers-Mastan Basketball Pro League in Mumbai. Besides top scoring with 35 points,Geetu also made contributions at the back.
