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

[R1] BOPANNA Rohan (IND)/ QURESHI Aisam-Ul-Haq (PAK) l (3) MIRNYI Max (BLR)/ MURRAY Jamie (GBR) 46 46
[R1] (2) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) bt LEVINSKY Jaroslav (CZE)/ STEPANEK Radek (CZE) 62 63

[QF] (2) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) vs LIPSKY Scott (USA)/ MARTIN David (USA)

Good start for Hesh and Mark ... But Bops and Aisam had tough match against last week's Delray Beach International Tennis Championships winners.
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At $185K Copa Colsanitas Santander, Bogota, Colombia (Tier III)

[R1] JOZAMI Betina (ARG)/ RAO Sunitha (IND) bt ALVES Maria Fernanda (BRA)/ HLAVACKOVA Andrea (CZE) 06 64 10(8)

[QF] JOZAMI Betina (ARG)/ RAO Sunitha (IND) vs (1) BENESOVA Iveta (CZE)/ MATTEK Bethanie (USA)

Good comeback victory for Sunitha and her Argentinian partner ... Now they r having top seed pair in quarters.
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At $10K Nigeria F1 2008, Benin City

[R2] (3) APPINENI Prerana-Mythri (IND,698) bt CHENG Natalia (BRA,1053) 64 67(0) 64
[R2] (8) GOSWAMI Parul (IND,894) l MINIERI Giannina (CHI,UNR) 62 36 36
[R2] BURMAN Shivika (IND,UNR) l (5) SHLOMO Keren (ISR,726) 36 76(7) 46
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Chess News -
At Morelia-Linares 2008, Mexico & Spain

Round 5 - Wednesday, February 20th

Peter Leko 0-1 Anand
Veselin Topalov 0-1 Magnus Carlsen
Levon Aronian ½-½ Alexei Shirov
Teimour Radjabov ½-½ Vassily Ivanchuk

Anand continue with his good form with black-pieces ... He defeated Leko in 45 moves, this was his 3rd victory in 3 games with black-pieces ... With this win Anand takes sole lead with 3½ pts ... So now after today's rest day Anand will face Veselin Topalov, again Anand will be playing with black-pieces.