Sorry for missing from the scene for 15 days.

Last few weeks some good results I missed to post ... Here r some of them.

Chess -

Vishy had very so so MTEL Masters chess tournament, where he finished 3rd.

Mtel Masters Sofia BUL (BUL), 11-21 v 2006 cat. XX (2745)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2804 ** 11 01 =0 =1 =1 6.5 2842
2 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2671 00 ** 1= 1= 1= =1 6.0 2831
3 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2803 10 0= ** == 1= 1= 5.5 2768
4 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2743 =1 0= == ** == 10
5.0 2744 5 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2708 =0 0= 0= == ** == 3.5 2641
6 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2738 =0 =0 0= 01 == ** 3.5 2635
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In Chess olympid our 2nd seed men's team started poorly, they lost against 74th rank Morocco 1-3 and then in midways split points with lowly ranked Chinese team (2-2) ... After 6 rounds our team is at position 8th with 16.5 pts.

Other hand our Women team performing well ... After 6 rounds they r on 6th position with 13 pts.

7th round pairing -

Men - India Vs Ukrain
Women - India Vs USA
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Tennis News -

This week Sania participated in 3 tier Istanbul Cup, where she was participating after long injury break.

Singles -
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,38) bt Ipek Senoglu (TUR, 889) 63 61
[R2] Sania Mirza (IND,38) l Michaela Krajicek (HOL,54) 64 16 26

Doubles -
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Alicia Molik (AUS) bt (1) Anna-lena Groenefeld (GER)/Meghann Shaughnessy (USA) w/o (Shaughnessy: right ankle sprain)
[QF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Alicia Molik (AUS) bt Jelena Kostanic (CRO)/Angelique Widjaja (INA) 63 63
[SF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Alicia Molik (AUS) bt Yuliana Fedak (UKR)/ Eva Hrdinova (CZE) 36 63 76 (3)
[F] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Alicia Molik (AUS) l Alyona Bondarenko (UKR)/Anastasia Yakimova (BLR) 26 46
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At French Open Qualies -
Men -
[Q1] Rohan Bopanna (IND,266) l Michael Lammer (SUI,244) 46 67(0)

Women -
[Q1] Shikha Uberoi (IND) bt Maria Jose Argeri (ARG) 26 62 61
[Q1] Sunitha Rao (USA) bt Claudine Schaul (LUX) 63 63

[Q2] Shikha Uberoi (IND) l (14) Galina Voskoboeva (RUS) 57 26
[Q2] Sunitha Rao (USA) l (24) Edina Gallovits (ROM) 46 64 46

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,38) vs (10) Anastasia Myskina (RUS,12)
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And at $ 15 K ITF Indian Futures 1, Delhi , Indians had good outing ... Karan and Vivek played exceptionally well ... Karan won his 1st futures title to become India's #3 player.

1st round results -
(1) Henry ADJEI-DARKO (GHA) defeated Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 76(4) 57 75
Mustafa GHOUSE (IND) defeated Nitin KIRTANE (IND) 63 16 61
Vijay PAUL (USA) defeated Purav RAJA (IND) 36 61 63
(7)Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND) defeated Tushar LIBERHAN (IND) 64 63
(3)Karan RASTOGI (IND) defeated Tai-Wei LIU (TPE) 76(7) 64
Amir WEINTRAUB (ISR) defeated Kamala KANNAN (IND) 75 67(2) 62
Yaoki ISHII (JPN) defeated Divij SHARAN (IND) 64 36 63
Aditya MADKEKAR (IND) defeated (5) Murad INOYATOV (UZB) 63 67(4) 61
(8) Vinod SRIDHAR (IND) defeated Rishi BEHL (IND) 64 63
Dmitri MAKEYEV (KAZ) defeated Nishank MISHRA (IND) 63 64
Navdeep SINGH (IND) defeated Varun WALIA (IND) 62 64
(4) Nick MONROE (USA) defeated Yu-Da SHIEH (TPE) 62 63
(6)Vishal UPPAL (IND) defeated Shivang MISHRA (IND) 46 64 76(8)
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) defeated Sumit-Prakash GUPTA (IND) 64 61
Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) defeated Rohan GIDE (IND) 75 63
Aqeel KHAN (PAK) defeated (2) Alexey KEDRIOUK (KAZ) 76(5) 16 63

Second round results -
(1) Henry ADJEI-DARKO (GHA) bt Mustafa GHOUSE (IND) 75 62
(7)Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND) bt Vijay PAUL (USA) 63 61
(3)Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt Amir WEINTRAUB (ISR) 61 64
Yaoki ISHII (JPN) bt Aditya MADKEKAR (IND) 61 61
Dmitri MAKEYEV (KAZ) bt (8) Vinod SRIDHAR (IND) 75 61
(4) Nick MONROE (USA) bt Navdeep SINGH (IND) 60 75
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt (6)Vishal UPPAL (IND) 61 61
(WC) Aqeel KHAN (PAK) bt Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) 36 62 61

Quarterfinals -
(1)Henry ADJEI-DARKO (GHA) defeated (7)Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND) 64 75
(3)Karan RASTOGI (IND) defeated Yaoki ISHII (JPN) 63 57 64
(4)Nick MONROE (USA) defeated Dmitri MAKEYEV (KAZ) 06 63 62
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) defeated Aqeel KHAN (PAK) 64 36 63

Semifinals -
(3)Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt (1)Henry ADJEI-DARKO (GHA) 46 76(6) 64
(4)Nick MONROE (USA) bt Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) 75 46 62

Final -
(3)Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt (4)Nick MONROE (USA) 26 62 61

Doubles final -
Henry Adjei-Darko (GHA) / Sunil Kumar (IND) bt Mustafa Ghouse (IND)/ Kamala Kannan (IND) 76(5) 64