Badminton News
At $200K Yonex All England Open Super Series 2009, Birmingham

[R2] Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l (2) Yong Dae Lee (KOR)/ Hyo Jung Lee (KOR) 23-21 20-22 14-21

Very close loss against WR #2 Korean team for Diju and Jwala in 48 mins match ... In first game Korean were leading by couple of points from beginning until 14-17 but then our pair made it 17-all and won this game after saving 2 game points ... In second game our pair take 5-1 lead but Korean catched them at 7-all ... This time also Koreans were leading 14-17, again our pair won next 3 poits but Koreans kept pressure taking 17-19 lead ... Our pair fought back making 19-all but Koreans converted 2nd game point to win this crucial game ... In third game Koreans were in control from the start taking 3-11 lead but our pair tried comeback winning next 8 points to make 11-all ... After 14-all Korean pair didn't give any chance to our pair to won consecutive 7 points to win this match.
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Chess News
At XXVI Linares 2009, Spain (Avg. rating 2755) - from February 19th to March 7th 2009

Round 12 - Thursday, 5 March 2009

Teimour Radjabov ½-½ Leinier Domínguez
Levon Aronian ½-½ Wang Yue
Viswanathan Anand ½-½ Vassily Ivanchuk
Magnus Carlsen 1-0 Alexander Grischuk

Another draw for Anand with white pieces against Vassily Ivanchuk ... In other match Magnus Carlsen defeated leader Alexander Grischuk with white pieces ... With this victory Carlsen joined Vassily Ivanchuk in the second place just half a point behind Grischuk.