Tennis News -
At US$436K SAP Open, San Jose, California, USA

[Q1] Rohan Bopanna (IND,286) l K.J. Hippensteel (USA,779) 46 67(3)

Doubles -
[R1] BOPANNA Rohan (IND)/ QURESHI Aisam-Ul-Haq (PAK) vs (3) MIRNYI Max (BLR)/ MURRAY Jamie (GBR)
[R1] (2) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) vs LEVINSKY Jaroslav (CZE)/ STEPANEK Radek (CZE)

Bops and Aisam r back as partner this week .. They r having tough match against 3rd seed pair of mad max and Jamie Murray.
Mahesh and Mark r back on tour after good outing at Australian Open ... They r 2nd seed in SAP Open.
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At $15K India F1 Futures, Calcutta, Feb 18th-24th (clay)

Qualifying Round One -
Purav RAJA (IND) (1) bt Rahil MAKHARIA (IND) 61 61
Chin-Yu HUANG (TPE) bt Jason ALPEN (AUS) 63 62
Simeon IVANOV (BUL) (2) bt Mustafa GHOUSE (IND) 64 64
Rohan GIDE (IND) (10) bt Neishit VAKIL (IND) 61 61
Huai-En CHANG (TPE) (3) bt Matthew CURIC (AUS) 62 63
Yannick NELORD (IND) (14) bt Saurav SUKUL (IND) 62 64
Rohan GAJJAR (IND) (4) bt Jakob C RICHARDSON (AUS) 60 60
Kamala KANNAN (IND) (12) bt Kaushik RAJU (IND) 61 62
Vinod SRIDHAR (IND) (5) bt Rafique PARUTI (IND) 61 60
N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) (9) 61 76(8)
Hsien-Yin PENG (TPE) (6) bt Divyanshu SINGH (IND) 46 64 63
Shuang-Qiang LIANG (CHN) (11) bt Joel ANDRIOLO (AUS) 76(7) 75
Tzu-Yang LIN (TPE) (7) bt Saif ALI (IND) 64 46 63
Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) (15) bt Alon MOSES (IND) 61 63
Valentin DIMOV (BUL) (8) bt Vikram REDDY B (IND) 64 75
Yu CHANG (CHN) (13) bt Harshvardhan THIRANI (IND) 60 61

Qualifying Final Round -
Chin-Yu HUANG (TPE) bt Purav RAJA (IND) (1) 63 64
Simeon IVANOV (BUL) (2) bt Rohan GIDE (IND) (10) 62 61
Huai-En CHANG (TPE) (3) bt Yannick NELORD (IND) (14) 63 46 63
Rohan GAJJAR (IND) (4) bt Kamala KANNAN (IND) (12) 76(5) 36 62
Vinod SRIDHAR (IND) (5) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 46 63 61
Hsien-Yin PENG (TPE) (6) bt Shuang-Qiang LIANG (CHN) (11) 75 64
Tzu-Yang LIN (TPE) (7) bt Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) (15) 61 63
Valentin DIMOV (BUL) (8) bt Yu CHANG (CHN) (13) 62 16 62
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Athletics News -

India topped the medals tally in the 3rd Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha on Saturday ... India won 5 gold, 9 silver and 3 bronze medals to edge China (5-2-2) and last edition's champion, Kazakhstan (4-6-4) in the final standings.

The Indian medal winners -
Gold -
Men P. J. Vinod (heptathlon-5561 points).
Women Sinimol Paulose (800m-2:03.43; 1500m-4:15.42); Preeja Sreedharan (3000m-9:12.26); 4x400m relay team (Mandeep, Manjeet, Sini, Chitra)-3:37.46.
Silver -
Men Chatholi Hamza (800m-3:41.18), Surender Singh (3000m-7:49.47), Amarjeet Singh (triple jump-16.24m), Om Prakash (shot put-18.37), 4x400m relay team (Aboobacker, Vinay Chaudhary, Gurvinder Pal Singh, Virender Kumar Pankaj)-3:16.53.
Women Sushma Devi (800m-2:04.66, 1500m-4:21.78); Kavita Raut (3000m-9:26.01); Anju George (Long Jump-6.38).
Bronze -
Women Mandeep Kaur (400m-54.28), V. Leelavathy (60m hurdles-9.21); M. A. Prajusha (long jump-6.09)

Final day's results -

Men
3000m: 1. Sultan Zaman (Qatar) 7:49.31, 2. Surender Kumar Singh (India) 7:49.47, 3. James Kurui (Qatar) 7:50.56; Shot put: 1. Ahmed Gholoum (Kuwait) 18.55, 2. Om Prakash (India) 18.37, 3. Yao Yong Guang (China) 18.16; Heptathlon: 1. P. J. Vinod (India) 5561, 2. Hadi Sepehrzad (Iran) 5515, 3. Hiromasa Tanaka (Japan) 5306; 4x400m relay: 1. Saudi Arabia 3:14.25, 2. India 3:16.53, 3. Qatar 3:17.93.

Women
800m: 1. Sinimol Paulose (India) 2:03.43, 2. Sushma Devi (India) 2:04.66, 3. Margarita Matsko (Kazakhstan) 2:04.85; 4x400m relay: 1. India 3:37.46 , 2. Kazakhstan 3:38.10, 3. Thailand 3:43.22.
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Chess News -
At Morelia-Linares 2008, Mexico & Spain

Round 2 - Saturday, February 16th
Vishy Anand 0-1 Levon Aronian
Teimour Radjabov ½-½ Veselin Topalov
Vassily Ivanchuk 1-0 Peter Leko
Alexei Shirov ½-½ Magnus Carlsen

As per report, Anand fell to a terrible blunder on move 30 in his game against Levon Aronian. Similarly Peter Leko lost the thread around move 38 against Vassily Ivanchuk and gave up the full point. Radjabov spoilt a promising game against Veselin Topalov to a draw, while Shirov and Carlson never really left the draw window.
In third round, Anand is playing with blacks against Magnus Carlsen.
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Squash News -
At 14th Asian Senior Squash Championships 2008, Kuwait (13-21 Feb 2008)

[SF] (5/8) Joshna Chinappa (IND,43) l (2) Rebecca Chiu (HKG,13) 0-9 2-7 (Conceded her match stating slippery court.)