having donned India colours in the Asian Games, Davis Cup, Fed Cup and the Olympics earlier. The move was severely criticised by the affected parties but the Sports Ministry had struck to its stand that everyone including the MOIA, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and Sports Federations had been consulted. 

Now it transpires that the MOIS was in the dark all along. A Right To Information (RTI) application submitted to the MOIA by an aggrieved OCI, squash player Karm Kumar, on March 23, demanding copies of all the responses received from the Sports Ministry regarding PIO/OCI status to represent the country got this response. “The MOIA has not received any documents from the Sports Ministry…this ministry has not issued any notification on the subject of PIO/OCI,” said the MOIA letter. 

Karm, born and brought up in India, has a British passport because of his father. He is now fighting for his right to represent the country in the World Juniors. On Monday, he was declared 'stateless' and the WSF vice-president Gerard DeCourcy stated that the 16-year-old's entry could not be accepted for the World Juniors in July since he “is not represented by any country”. 

“I have been denied the right to compete in an individual capacity too and rendered a human rights violator by the Sports Ministry,” he said in disgust. 

By Ajai Masand, Hindustan Times, New Delhi


Ankita Sharma was the only Indian who played in the semi's of the ATCO junior open at Cairo, Egypt beating a seeded player in the quarter finals (29th June 2009)

    

INTERNATIONAL RESULTS ALL FINALS 

25/05/2009 : FASSP ST LUKE'S OPEN NEW CANAAN, USA
Mens:  Ryan Cuskelly bt Shahid Zaman 15/17 11/9 11/3 11/9
Womens: Miranda Ranieri bt Victoria Lust 11/6 7/11 13/11 11/1

01/06/2009 : GOLDEN OPEN KALGOORLIE, W. AUSTRALIA
Mike Corren  bt Nathan Stephenson 11/7, 11/5, 11/2

02/06/2009 : HEMUBO TROPHY ALMERE, NETHERLANDS
Gilly Lane bt Joe Lee 11/5, 11/7, 12/10

08/06/2009 : SEOUL OPEN SEOUL, KOREA
Nicol David bt Jenny Duncalf 11/6, 3/11, 11/6, 11/4 

12/06/2009 : ALEXANDRIA OPEN ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT
Camille Serme bt Omneya Abdel Kawy 11/7, 11/9, 11/4

14/06/2009 : MOTE CLASSIC PRO/AM MAIDSTONE, UK
Chris Ryder bt Aaron Frankcomb 11/13, 13/11, 11/2, 11/6

17/06/2009 : CLOUDY KRANJ OPEN, KRANJ, SLOVENIA
Adrian Waller bt Neil Hitchens 11/6, 11/4, 11/3

17/06/2009 : SCANDINAVIAN OPEN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Dylan Bennett bt Laurence Delasaux 11/8, 11/6, 11/3

Mens Ranking JULY 2009 

RANK             PLAYER                   COUNTRY
1                   Karim Darwish             EGY  
2                   Gregory Gaultier          FRA
3                   Ramy Ashour              EGY 
4                   Amr Shabana              EGY 
5                   Nick Matthew              ENG    
31                 Saurav Ghosal              IND
56                 Ritwik Bhattacharya       IND
112               Siddharth Suchde          IND
135               Harinder Pal Sandhu       IND
154               Naresh Kumar                IND
181               Gaurav Nandrajog          IND
305               Ravi Dixit                      IND
383               Karan Malik                   IND
383               Aditya Jagtap                IND
383               Ramit Tandon                IND

Womens Ranking JULY 2009

RANK             PLAYER                   COUNTRY
1                   Nicol David              MAS
2                   Natalie Grainger        USA
3                   Natalie Grinham        NED
4                   Rachael Grinham       AUS
5                   Jenny Duncalf          ENG     
41                 Joshna Chinappa       IND
48                 Dipika Pallikal            IND
168                Anwesha Reddy        IND
189                Surbhi Misra             IND

      
   
     
 

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