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  • Tennis to get a boost with Hawkeye technology

    Tennis to get a boost with Hawkeye technology

    MUMBAI: This is a move aimed at boosting the accuracy of line calls during a tennis event.

    A technology ‘Hawk-Eye Officiating will be used for the first time ever at a major mens tennis tournament. It makes its debut appearance as the Eagle Eye by Barclays at this years Masters Tennis tournament at the Royal Albert Hall. The event takes place from 29 November to 4 December 2005.

    The technology, which uses cameras to track the balls trajectory and sends information to a virtual reality machine, has been used at Grand Slam and ATP Tennis Masters Series events for the past three years, but only on television as an analytical tool for the commentary teams.

    Barclays is sponsoring the new Eagle Eye at The Masters Tennis, naming it after their world-famous Eagle crest and hoping to make it a favourite with players and spectators alike.

    Following approval from the International Tennis Federation (ITF) it will be used to aid umpires with disputed line calls. This is something that may add a new dimension to four-time champion John McEnroes vociferous objections on-court at the Royal Albert Hall.

    Hawk-Eye system founder Paul Hawkins said, Calling lines is a tough job everyone wants it to be the players ability that decides the outcome of a match and now Hawk-Eye can help make that happen.

    Masters favourite John McEnroe said, I m all for it, its about time it was introduced. Once again the Champions Tour is leading the way in innovations in the tennis circuit.

    The Masters Tennis is the final tournament on the world-wide ATP Delta Tour of Champions and players must have qualified to obtain their place in London. The top ten players in the Stanford Financial Champions Tour Rankings after all events on the Tour are complete will qualify automatically for London. The field will increase to 12 with the addition of two wild cards, with a $100,000 prize on offer for the winner of The Masters Tennis.

  • Sahara Sangeet Awards on SaharaOne

    Sahara Sangeet Awards on SaharaOne

    MUMBAI: Sahara Sangeet Awards 2004, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, will be shown on 10 October at 7:30 pm on SaharaOne channel.

    The event was held in honour of the musical geniuses of Indian popular music.

    According to an official release, the Sahara Sangeet Awards will showcase performances of Hrithik Roshan, Yana Gupta and Sameera Reddy, along with the choreographer Shiamak Davar, and his dance troupe and Asian music sensation – the Rishi Rich Project from London.

    The jury panel comprised personalities from the film and music fraternity like Shyam Benegal, Ramesh Sippy, Saapna Mukherjee, Sameer, Himmesh Reshammiya, Ken Ghosh, Viju Shah, Shiamak Davar and Raju Singh. The panel judged and voted on the nominations and selected the final award winners.

    The award function saw the attendance of Shabana Azmi, Feroz Khan, Javed Akhtar, Shankar Ehsan & Loy, Jatin Lalit, David Dhavan, Remo Fernandes, Sunidhi Chauhan amongst others.

    The award details:

    Javed Akhtar scored a hat trick with awards for best lyrics in pop music category for O Sahiba, best lyrics category (critics award) and best lyrics in the film music category for the title song in blockbuster Kal Ho Naa Ho.

    The legend’s honour went to music director Anandji of Kalyanji-Anandji fame while the music composer AR Rahman won awards for best music director (film music-Yuva) and best music arranger (critics award) for Yeh Rishta in the film Meenakshi.

    Playback singer-cum-music director Shankar Mahadevan claimed honours for best male singer and best album award and later along with Ahsan and Loy won prizes in the best song category for Kal Ho Na Ho and the best music director award. The awards for best film song and best new voice in film music went to Fateh Ali Khan for Rahaat .

    Other award winners were Awadoot Gupte (best new voice in pop music), Strings (best pop group,) Aksar (best song), H Sridhar and S Shivkumar (best sound recordist – critics award for the film Yuva), Ram Sampad (best music programmer -critics awards for the film Khakee), Sunidhi Chauhan (best playback female singer in Chameli), Amir Jamal (best male playback singer in Murder), Jatin Lalit (most popular choice award for soundtrack in Hum Tum), Alka Yagnik (best playback female singer in Tere Naam) and Udit Narayan (best male playback singer in Koi Mil Gaya).