Tennis News -
At $2.5M Qatar Total Open, Doha (Tier I)

[R1] MIRZA Sania (IND,32) l GOVORTSOVA Olga (BLR,50) 64 67(5) 2-3 Retd. (cramping)

Sania retired in singles and withdraw from doubles ... It was clear indication that she still doesn't recover from her injury ... Wrong decision of rushing back from serious injury, now one can only hope this does not result into longer break.
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At $185K Copa Colsanitas Santander, Bogota, Colombia (Tier III)

[R1] RAO Sunitha (IND,182) l (7) GALLOVITS Edina (ROU,71) 16 26
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At $15K Brownsville futures, Texas, USA

[R1] (8) SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND,419) l PALMANSHOFER Christoph (AUT,690) 26 46

Doubles -
[R1] SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND)/ YOO Daniel (KOR) bt (2) OBRADOVIC Vladimir (SRB)/ SITAK Artem (RUS) 64 61

[QF] SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND)/ YOO Daniel (KOR) vs ALBOT Radu (MDA)/ GRIGOROV Alexei (RUS)

After his recent training stint with Harshul I was personally hoping better performance from Sunil in singles ... May be yesterday was one of bad day in the office ... But I hope these days don't show up frequently in future.
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At $10K Nigeria F1 2008, Benin City

[R1] (3) APPINENI Prerana-Mythri (IND,698) bt (WC) IBRAHIM Sabath (NGR,UNR) 61 63
[R1] (8) GOSWAMI Parul (IND,894) bt SNELEN Rachel (USA,UNR) 62 61
[R1] BURMAN Shivika (IND,UNR) bt (WC) ABINU Fatimah (NGR,919) 60 61
[R1] EASWARAMURTHI Ashmitha (IND,1023) l CAZEAUX Amandine (FRA,UNR) 16 16

[R2] (3) APPINENI Prerana-Mythri (IND,698) vs CHENG Natalia (BRA,1053)
[R2] (8) GOSWAMI Parul (IND,894) vs MINIERI Giannina (CHI,UNR)
[R2] BURMAN Shivika (IND,UNR) vs (5) SHLOMO Keren (ISR,726)
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Hockey News -
Men's Hockey Olympics 2008 Qualifiers,

Indian team for Olympic qualifier is selected ... Defender Diwakar Ram is only new face in the team.

Goalkeepers - Bharat Chetri, Baljit Singh.
Defenders - Dilip Tirkey, V R Raghunath, Wiiliam Xalxo, Diwakar Ram
Midfielders - Gurbaj Singh, Prabodh Tirkey (captain), Bimal Lakra, Sardara Singh, Ignace Tirkey, Vikram Kanth
Forwards - Rajpal Singh, Prabhjot Singh, Tushar Khandekar, Shivendra Singh, Bharat Chikara, Ajeethesh Rai

Standbys - Sreejesh (goalkeeper), Samir Baxla (defender), S V Sunil, Birendra Lakra, Roshan Minz, Cheeyanna (all forwards)

Officials - Joaquim Carvalho (chief coach), M P Singh (coach), M Ramesh Parameswsaran (assistant coach), Ganguly Prasad (trainer-SAI, Bangalore), Sreekanth Iyengar (physio), Prasanna (video analyst), Nagaraj (masseur), M M Somayya (technical director) and R K Shetty (manager).
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Chess News -
At Morelia-Linares 2008, Mexico & Spain

Round 4 - Tuesday, February 19th

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

So with these results after 4 rounds Anand, Topalov and Aronian tied at top with 2.5 pts