Tennis News -
At US$769K Memphis Open, TN, USA

[QF] (1) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) bt KUNITSYN Igor (RUS)/ THOMAS Jim (USA) 63 62

[SF] (1) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) vs HAGGARD Chris (RSA)/ MELZER Jurgen (AUT)

Hesh and Mark r scoring dominating victories.
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At $10K Sant Boi Futures, Spain

[R2] NAGARAJ Sandhya (IND,594) bt (5) BOU-NOGUEIRO Rebeca (ESP,342) 76(5) 64

[QF] NAGARAJ Sandhya (IND,594) vs (LL) DOBRA Simona (CZE,668)

Creditable victory considering its against top 350 Spanish player and importantly on clay.
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At $15K India F2 Futures, New Delhi

Singles Semi Finals -
KEDRYUK Alexey (KAZ,606) bt (Q) GAJJAR Rohan (IND,1103) 62 63
(2) SATSCHKO Alexander (GER,331) bt (Q) IVANOV Simeon (BUL,942) 61 64

Singles Final -
(2) SATSCHKO Alexander (GER,331) bt KEDRYUK Alexey (KAZ,606) 64 64

Doubles Final -
(3) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)/ ASHUTOSH SINGH (IND) bt (2) Vijay KANNAN (IND)/ Alexey KEDRYUK (KAZ) 36 76(5) 10(5)

Still good outing for Rohan considering 6 wins in a row, 3 in qualifying and 3 in maindraw.

Watched doubles final, it was fun to see frustrated Alexey ... :-) Very good comeback victory by Vivek and Ashutosh ... They continue to impress as a pair.
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Chess News -
At Morelia-Linares 2008, Mexico & Spain

Round 8 - Thursday, February 28th

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

Viswanathan Anand started with Sveshnikov Sicilian to win in 57 moves ... Superb result for Anand as he started out ½ pts ahead of Alexei Shirov and Veselin Topalov, but both lost their games and giving a full point lead to Anand after 8 rounds.

Now today in 9th round Anand is playing against Levon Aronian with black-pieces.

Standing after 8th Round -

1 Vishwanathan Anand IND 5½ pts
T2 Levon Aronian ARM 4½ pts
T2 Magnus Carlsen NOR 4½ pts
T4 Veselin Topalov BUL 4 pts
T4 Alexei Shirov ESP 4 pts
6 Teimour Radjabov AZE 3½ pts
T7 Peter Leko HUN 3 pts
T7 Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 3 pts