Tennis News -
At $175K Japan Open Tennis Championships,

[R1] (2) MIRZA Sania (IND,29) bt (WC) MORITA Ayumi (JPN,139) 60 64

[R2] (2) Sania Mirza (IND,29) vs Casey Dellacqua (AUS,84)

Doubles -
[R1] MIRZA Sania (IND)/ FUSANO Christina (USA) vs RADWANSKA Urszula (POL)/ SZATMARI Agnes (ROU)
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At $125K +H Mons Challenger, Belgium

[R1] GHOUSE Mustafa (IND)/ JONES Alun (AUS) vs (WC) BEMELMANS Ruben (BEL)/ DESEIN Niels (BEL)
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Golf News -
At Viking Classic - Final Standing (PGA Tour)

T39 Arjun Atwal 70 70 71 75 - 2 $ 14,350.00
T64 Daniel Chopra 71 72 74 74 + 3 $ 7,385.00
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Chess News -
At Asian Chess Championship 2007, Philippines

GM Abhijit Kunte won bronze medal with 7.5 pts and IM Gopal G.N. also surprised everyone with his performance, he finished on 9th place with 7 pts ... With this top 10 finish both r qualified for World Chess Cup 2007, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

In last round Abhijit (elo 2519) defeated top seed Chinese GM Ni Hua (elo 2681) playing with black to grab qualifier place ... In this tournament Abhijit didn't lose a single game and played above expectation against higher rating players, he managed to draw with Chinese Hao Wang (elo 2626), Zou Jianchao (elo 2572) and Jun Zao (elo 2558), Indonesian Utut Adiyanto (elo 2583) and Susanto Megaranto (elo ,2554) and Qatar's Mohamad Al-Modiahki (elo 2563).

As per information, Abhijit's performance was equivalent to elo 2656 pts, so from this tournament he will gain around 21 elo pts ... Other hand Gopal's performance was equivalent to elo 2617 pts.

Performance of Other Indians in this tournament -
13 G Rohit 7 pts
19 GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly 6.5 pts
21 GM Deepan Chakravarthy 6 pts
25 GM Sandipan Chanda 6 pts
33 GM Nilotpal Das 5.5 pts
37 IM Girinath P.D.S. 5.5 pts
41 GM Parimarjan Negi 5.5 pts
53 IM Arun Prasad 4.5 pts
63 IM Ravi Lanka 4.5 pts
66 Lalith Babu M. R. 4 pts