Tennis News -
At $2.5M Qatar Total Open, Doha

[R1] MIRZA Sania (IND,32) vs GOVORTSOVA Olga (BLR,50)

Doubles -
[R1] MIRZA Sania (IND)/ SCHIAVONE Francesca (ITA) vs KIRILENKO Maria (RUS)/ SZAVAY Agnes (HUN)

IMO, If she is still not fully recover from her injury then she should atleast avoid to play doubles in the same event in which she is making comeback.
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At $25K Clearwater Challenger, Florida, USA

[Q1] (16) UBEROI Neha (USA,332) bt SEMA Erika (USA,363) 63 67(3) 64

[Q2] (16) UBEROI Neha (USA,332) vs (WC) STEPHENS Sloane A (USA,UNR)

Surprisingly tough $25K challenger, where #245 Croatian is top seed in qualifying ... Neha began this tournament with hard fought victory against Japanese player ... Now she is facing 15 yrs old local girl, Sloane Stephens ... She looks talented as she defeated 4th seed #249 Serbian player, Ana Jovanovic, in straight sets ... But with her current good form Neha is capable of taking care of Stephens ... Go Neha.
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At $10K Nigeria F1 2008, Benin City

[Q1] BASAVARAJU Akshitha (IND,UNR) bt RILEY Alexandra (USA,UNR) 76(3) 60

[Q2] BASAVARAJU Akshitha (IND,UNR) l KHARCHENKO Anastasia (UKR,UNR) 36 16

Maindraw -
[R1] (3) APPINENI Prerana-Mythri (IND,698) vs (WC) IBRAHIM Sabath (NGR,UNR)
[R1] (8) GOSWAMI Parul (IND,894) vs SNELEN Rachel (USA,UNR)
[R1] BURMAN Shivika (IND,UNR) vs (WC) ABINU Fatimah (NGR,919)
[R1] EASWARAMURTHI Ashmitha (IND,1023) vs CAZEAUX Amandine (FRA,UNR)

Doubles -
[R1] EASWARAMURTHI Ashmitha (IND)/ EDWARDS Tegan (RSA) vs CONFALONIERI Valentine (ITA)/ MOSKAL Ksenia (RUS)
[R1] BURMAN Shivika (IND)/ EASWARAMURTHI Ashmitha (IND) vs (4) CHIAPARINI Fabiana (BRA)/ ROSSI Nathalia (BRA)
[R1] (2) APPINENI Prerana-Mythri (IND)/ GOSWAMI Parul (IND) vs HANDLER Natalie (ISR)/ SELAKOVIC Nevena (SRB)
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Chess News -
At Morelia-Linares 2008, Mexico & Spain

Round 3 - Sunday, February 17th

Magnus Carlsen 0-1 Anand
Peter Leko ½-½ Alexei Shirov
Veselin Topalov 1-0 Vassily Ivanchuk
Levon Aronian ½-½ Teimour Radjabov

Anand bounced back from his round two loss with a fine black-pieces win in 59th move against the Norwegian wonder boy Magnus Carlsen ... Veselin Topalov scored his second victory against Vassily Ivanchuk, to take the lead in this event ... The other two games were drawn.

Standing after 3rd Round -

1 Veselin Topalov BUL 2½ pts
2 Vishwanathan Anand IND 2 pts
T3 Levon Aronian ARM 1½ pts
T3 Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 1½ pts
T3 Peter Leko HUN 1½ pts
T6 Teimour Radjabov AZE 1 pts
T6 Alexei Shirov ESP 1 pts
T6 Magnus Carlsen NOR 1 pts

So now after today's rest day Anand will be playing against Radjabov with white-pieces.