Tennis News -
At $1.401M Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE

[QF] (4) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) bt LOPEZ Feliciano (ESP)/ NADAL Rafael (ESP) 61 61

[QF] (WC) BOPANNA Rohan (IND)/ QURESHI Aisam-Ul-Haq (PAK) l (1) NESTOR Daniel (CAN)/ ZIMONJIC Nenad (SRB) 62 67(5) (6)10

[SF] (4) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) vs (2) ASPELIN Simon (SWE)/ KNOWLE Julian (AUT)

Hesh and Mark r on roll scoring another dominating victory ... But I m more impressed by performance by ‘Rookie pair’ (on ATP tour) of Bops and Aisam against seasoned pair of Nestor and Zimo ... This rookie pair almost pulled huge upset against top seeds ... This performance will definitely help them to perform better in future matches against these top teams.
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At $15K Ivory Coast F1, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire

[R2] (7) RASTOGI Karan (IND,514) bt (Q) NEDELKO Ivan (RUS,986) 62 61

[QF] (7) RASTOGI Karan (IND,514) vs SANON Valentin (CIV,629)

Doubles -
[QF] (1) RASTOGI Karan (IND)/ SATSCHKO Alexander (GER) bt BAJOT Jean-Pierre (FRA)/ COCO Rudy (FRA) 62 67(5) 10(7)

[SF] (1) RASTOGI Karan (IND)/ SATSCHKO Alexander (GER) vs BELYAEV Ilya (RUS)/ KROTIOUK Sergei (RUS)

These wins will help Karan to bring back his confidence on his own game and give him much required momentum while participating in bigger and tougher tournaments.
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Chess News -
At Morelia-Linares 2008, Mexico & Spain

Round 13 - Thursday, March 6th
Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½ Anand
Teimour Radjabov 1-0 Alexei Shirov
Levon Aronian ½-½ Magnus Carlsen
Veselin Topalov 1-0 Peter Leko

Anand began with the Najdorf against Ivanchuk but game was drawn in just 23 moves ... Carlsen and Aronian agreed to draw in 28 moves ... With win Topalov joined Aronian on 3rd position with 7 pts.

Now only last round is remaining and Anand is leading with ½ pt against Carlsen ... In last round both r playing with white-pieces against Topalov and Radjabov respectively.

Round 14 -
Anand vs Veselin Topalov
Peter Leko vs Levon Aronian
Magnus Carlsen vs Teimour Radjabov
Alexei Shirov vs Vassily Ivanchuk
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Hockey News -
At 2008 Olympic Qualifier, Santiago, Chile

India l Great Britain 2-3 (1-1)

Goal Scored -
India - V.R. Raghunath (PC) 3' & (PC) 64'
Mexico - Richard Mantell (PC) 15', Jonty Clarke 45', Rob Moore 69'

Other Matches -
Russia bt Chile 2-1
Austria bt Mexico 3-1

India and English side played entertaining hockey ... But Indian were extra physical and they paid penalty for that when Vickram Kanth was out due to yellow card, British side scored equalizer.

Yesterday Prabhjot Singh was off color and missed many crosses inside D ... But it was good to see Raghunath's improved PC conversion skill ... In end India again paid price of not keeping intensity for full 70 mins and allowed opponent to score goal in last couple of minutes.