Tennis News -
At $2.1M Pacific Life Open, Indian Wells, USA

[R2] (21) Sania Mirza (IND,32) vs Olga Savchuk (UKR,96)

Doubles -
[R1] (7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bethanie Mattek (USA) bt Klaudia Jans (POL)/ Gabriela Navratilova (CZE) 63 62

Good start in doubles with easy victory ... In singles Sania is playing against Olga Savchuk, whom she defeated in 2007 Australian Open.
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At $3.589M Pacific Life Open, Indian Wells, USA

[R1] (6) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) vs KAS Christopher (GER)/ WASSEN Rogier (NED)

[R1] (8) HANLEY Paul (AUS)/PAES Leander (IND) vs FERRER David (ESP)/ NADAL Rafael (ESP)

Lee and Paul having tough and tricky first round match against Rafa and Ferrer.
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At $50K Delhi Challenger, India

Singles Quarter-Finals -
(8) Naomi Cavaday (GBR,191) bt Carmen Klaschka (GER,309) 36 61 64
(4) Yanina Wickmayer (BEL,152) bt (6) Chanelle Scheepers (RSA,181) 67(5) 63 63

(5) Margit Rüütel (EST,180) bt (PR) Anikó Kapros (HUN,523) 64 63
Ekateryna Dzehalevich (BLR,208) bt (7) Sunitha Rao (IND,175) 75 62

Doubles Semi-Finals -
(1) Chun-Mei JI (CHN)/ Sheng-Nan SUN (CHN) bt (WC) Neha UBEROI (USA)/ Shikha UBEROI (IND) 75 63

(2) Sunitha RAO (IND)/ Aurelie VEDY (FRA) bt (4) Veronika CHVOJKOVA (CZE)/ Andrea HLAVACKOVA (CZE) 75 75

Creditable performance from Sunitha considering her health condition (stomach bug) though she lost good opportunity to win her first singles $50K Challenger title.

But in doubles Sunitha is in final with Vedy to face top seed Chinese pair.
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At $15K Ivory Coast F2, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire

[R2] (5) RASTOGI Karan (IND,512) bt (Q) TASSART Antoine (FRA,920) 76(3) 36 61

[QF] (5) RASTOGI Karan (IND,512) vs (1) MIDDELKOOP Matwe (NED,259)

Karan match was postponed due to rain, today he scored 3 sets victory over Frenchman ... Good to see one sided score in third set after losing second ... Now he will play against Dutch top seed in quarters ... Go Karan.
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At $10K Canada F2, Montreal

[R1] (1) SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND,419) l (WC) POSPISIL Vasek (CAN,1495) 26 36
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Badminton News -
At $200K Wilson Swiss Super Series, Basel

[R1] Jwala GUTTA (IND)/ Shruti KURIAN (IND) l Vita MARISSSA (INA)/ Liliyana NATSIR (INA) 18-21 17-21

[R2] Anup SRIDHAR (IND,30) vs (7) Taufik HIDAYAT (INA,7)
[R2] Saina NEHWAL (IND,29) vs (1) Xingfang XIE (CHN,1)

Interesting to see, can Anup repeat his last time win against Hidayat and also Saina's performance against WR # 1 to see how much she progressed.
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Golf News -
At Ballantine's Championship, Jeju Island, South Korea - First Round (EPGA Tour)

T3 RANDHAWA Jyoti 68 -4
T3 SINGH Jeev Milkha 68 -4
T63 GHEI Gaurav 72 Par
T98 KAPUR Shiv 74 +2