Filed under: Sania Mirza
Tennis star Sania Mirza and filmmaker Vishal Bharadwaj were honoured with the Society Young Achievers Award 2007 in Mumbai. They were awarded the honour on Thursday evening for their outstanding achievements in their field.Among the others who won awards were Vikrant and Ranjit (Business), Arnab Goswami (Media), Upen Patel (Glamour), Nandita Mahtani (Fashion), Payal Khandwala (Fine Arts), Rohit Roy (Television), Himesh Reshammiya (Performing Arts) and Shiney Ahuja (Films).
Socialite Bina Ramani was facilitated on the occasion as well, for standing up for truth in the Jessical Lall murder case.
On the panel of judges were Harsh Goenka, Mohamma Azharuddin,
Jehangir Sabavala, Pankaj Udhas, Haseena Jethmalani, Mandira Bedi and Anupam Kher among others.
They were awarded the honour on Thursday evening for their outstanding achievements in their field.
Among the others who won awards were Vikrant and Ranjit (Business), Arnab Goswami (Media), Upen Patel (Glamour), Nandita Mahtani (Fashion), Payal Khandwala (Fine Arts), Rohit Roy (Television), Himesh Reshammiya (Performing Arts) and Shiney Ahuja (Films).
Socialite Bina Ramani was facilitated on the occasion as well, for standing up for truth in the Jessical Lall murder case.
On the panel of judges were Harsh Goenka, Mohamma Azharuddin, Jehangir Sabavala, Pankaj Udhas, Haseena Jethmalani, Mandira Bedi and Anupam Kher among others
Filed under: Sania Mirza
KOLKATA (Reuters) – Australian Casey Dellacqua upset second seed Karolina Sprem of Croatia as three more seeded players made first round exits in the Kolkata Open on Tuesday.
Sprem, last year’s losing finalist, started well before left-hander Dellacqua, ranked 155, wrested the second set tiebreak and went on to clinch the clash of two 21-year-olds 2-6 7-6 6-2.
Home favourite Sania Mirza, seeded fifth, defeated compatriot and qualifier Rushmi Chakravarthi 6-0 6-4.
Italy’s Alberta Brianti upset third seed Yuliana Fedak of Ukraine 6-4 6-2 while Alla Kudryavtseva rallied to oust eighth-seeded fellow Russian Anastassia Rodionova 1-6 6-3 6-3.
Uzbek qualifier Iroda Tulyaganova, the 2002 Asian Games gold medallist, started her comeback from a long injury layoff by easing into the second round with a 6-4 6-1 win over Taiwan’s Chia-Jung Chuang.
Four seeded players have so far been knocked out of the tournament with sixth-seeded Estonian Kaia Kanepi losing to Thailand’s Tamarine Tanasugarn on Monday.
Former world number one Martina Hingis, the top seed, used her rest day to visit Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity institution, where she donated $20,000.
