Chess News -
Grandmaster Pendyala Harikrishna won the under-20 Chess 960 to become World rapid chess champion in Mainz, Germany ... He defeated grandmaster Akrdij Naditischin of Germany.

He won 8 games clash 4.5 pts - 3.5 pts.

But most astonishing feature of this match was after loosing 1st, 2nd and 4th games, Hari was behind 0.5 - 3.5 ... Then he managed to win consecutive 4 games to win title by 1 pt.
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Golf News -
Crowne Plaza Open, China - Round 1 (APGA Tour)

T2 Amandeep JOHL 67 -5
T12 Digvijay SINGH 68 -4
T16 Harmeet KAHLON 69 -3
T22 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA 70 -2
T22 Rahil GANGJEE 70 -2
T32 Gaurav GHEI 71 -1
T32 Gurbaaz MANN 71 -1
T77 Amritinder SINGH 74 +2
T106 Uttam Singh MUNDY 76 +4
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Tennis News -
At Cincinatti Masters, USA

[R2] BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ GIMELSTOB Justin (USA) l (6) ERLICH Jonathan (ISR)/ RAM Andy (ISR) 67(1) 75 4-10
[R2] (7) DAMM Martin (CZE)/ PAES Leander (IND) bt DLOUHY Lukas (CZE)/ VIZNER Pavel (CZE) 63 62

[QF] 7) DAMM Martin (CZE)/ PAES Leander (IND) vs (3) KNOWLES Mark (BAH)/ NESTOR Daniel (CAN)
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At the $50K Bronx challenger, USA

Doubles -[R1] DELLACQUA CASEY (AUS)/ RAO SUNITHA (USA) l (4) KUDRYAVTSEVAALLA (RUS)/ POUTCHEK TATIANA (BLR) 62 36 36
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Indian Satellites 25K + H - 7 Aug/ 3 Sep 06 (Leg 2)

Singles pre-quarterfinals -
V.M. Ranjeet (IND) bt (1) Vivek Shokeen (IND) 46 61 62
Aqeel Khan (PAK) bt Ashutosh Singh (IND) 46 75 63
Navdeep Singh (IND) bt Arjun Goutham (IND) 63 36 64
Purav Raja (IND) bt Divij Sharan (IND) 62 36 75
Nima Roshan (USA) bt Jaco Mathew (IND) 64 26 76(9)
Yuri Bezeruk (AUS) bt Sriram Balaji (IND) 36 76(2) 61
Stephen Amritraj (USA) w/o Peter Shults (USA)
Pathanjali Ravishankar (IND) bt Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) 76(2) 36 75

Doubles quarterfinals -
Vijay Kannan (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt Patrick Eichenberger (SUI)/ Tristan Farron-Mahon (IRL) 61 62
Jaco Mathew (IND)/ Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt Sandeep Kirtane (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) 76(2) 57 76(5)