Tennis News -
At $3.77M Sony Ericsson Open, Miami, USA

[R1] (8) Paul Hanley (AUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Yves Allegro (SUI)/ Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs Tomas Berdych (CZE)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)

Sania has withdrawn from Miami Masters due to her right wrist injury ... Ukranian Mariya Koryttseva has taken Sania's place in the draw as a lucky loser.

Miami Masters doubles draw is out ... Lee and Paul r in same draw of Mahesh and Mark, if these pairs win their respective matches then they can face eachother in quarters.
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At $50K+H AGT Challenger, Leon, Mexico

[R1] GHOUSE Mustafa (IND)/ RAM Rajeev (USA) bt GARCIA Adrian (CHI)/ MAYER Leonardo (ARG) 76(8) 76(1)

[QF] GHOUSE Mustafa (IND)/ RAM Rajeev (USA) vs (3) KUBOT Lukasz (POL)/ TECAU Horia (ROU)

Rajeev retired from his singles match so there was uncertainty over his doubles participation with Mustafa ... But he looks fine as they played and scored victory ... This was Mustafa's first victory of 2008 season at challengers level.
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At $10K India F4 Futures, Gurgaon

Singles Quarter Finals -
(1) GHAREEB Mohammad (KUW,435) bt KUMANTSOV Andrey (RUS,772) 67(4) 63 4-1 Retd.
JEBAVY Roman (CZE,768) BT (5) KHAN Aqeel (PAK,547) 75 16 64

THOMPSON Nathan (USA,637) bt (4) NAM Hyun-Woo (KOR,509) 61 1-0 Retd.
(2) SUN Peng (CHN,481) bt (Q) UZAKOV Vaja (UZB,820) 64 36 63

Doubles Semi Finals -
LEE Hsin-Han (TPE)/ WANG Yu Jr. (CHN) bt (WC) KANNAN Kamala (IND)/ KHAN Aqeel (PAK) 63 36 10(6)

SHARAN Divij (IND)/ VARDHAN Vishnu (IND) bt LIBERHAN Tushar (IND)/ ROY Rupesh (IND) 75 75
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Chess News -
At $336K 17TH Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament, Nice, France
Tueday March 26 Round X

Blindfold Chess -
Ivanchuk-Mamedyarov 0-1
Van Wely-Topalov 1/2-1/2
Gelfand-Anand 0-1
Karjakin-Morozevich 1/2-1/2
Aronian-Kramnik 1/2-1/2
Carlsen-Leko 1/2-1/2

Rapid Chess -
Mamedyarov-Ivanchuk 1/2-1/2
Topalov-Van Wely 1-0
Anand-Gelfand 0-1
Morozevich-Karjakin 1-0
Kramnik-Aronian 1/2-1/2
Leko-Carlsen 1/2-1/2

Levon Aronian has won the 17th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament with one round to spare ... He is 2½ pts ahead of second place players.