Chess News -
At Morelia-Linares 2008, Mexico & Spain

Round 6 - Friday, February 22nd

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

Anand managed to draw with Topalov after 43 moves ... Draw was good result for Anand to keep his ½ pt lead ... Leko managed draw against Aronian after 50 moves ... Radjabov scored win over Carlsen and moved to joint 3rd position.

Today Anand will play with white-pieces against Vassily Ivanchuk.
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Tennis News -
At US$436K SAP Open, San Jose, California, USA

[QF] (2) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) l LIPSKY Scott (USA)/ MARTIN David (USA) 62 67(5) (8)10
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At $15K Brownsville futures, Texas, USA

[SF] SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND)/ YOO Daniel (KOR) bt (WC) BATTISTONE Brian (USA)/ BATTISTONE Dann (USA) 26 60 10(6)

[F] SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND)/ YOO Daniel (KOR) vs (1) CHEKHOV Pavel (RUS)/ SIMMONDS Phillip (USA)

Sunil moved into final with Yoo scoring nice comeback win ... Now they will play against top seed American-Russian pair for the title.
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At $15K India F1 Futures, Kolkata (Clay)

Semi Finals -
(1) Alexander SATSCHKO (GER,329) bt Tsung-Hua YANG (TPE,683) 63 63
Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,584) bt (6) David SAVIC (SRB,500) 61 64

Finals -
(1) Alexander SATSCHKO (GER,329) bt Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,584) 60 60

(2) Vijay KANNAN (IND)/ Alexey KEDRYUK (KAZ) bt Huai-En CHANG (TPE)/ Hsien-Yin PENG (TPE) 76(7) 76(2)

These days if Indian is playing then doubles title or atleast finalist in doubles is expected ... In this tourney also same thing happened ... Congrats to Vijay and Alexey for their doubles title win but next week I m hoping better performance in singles from our players on hard court.
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At $15K India F2 Futures, New Delhi

Qualifying First Round -
Tushar LIBERHAN (IND) (1) BYE
Yuvraj HARAL (IND) bt Ashmeet SINGH (IND) 60 61
Alon MOSES (IND) bt Jakob C RICHARDSON (AUS) 60 60
Kamala KANNAN (IND) (13) bt Bharath-Srinivasan PARTHASARATHY (IND) 64 62
Purav RAJA (IND) (2) BYE
Jitender MEHLDA (IND) bt Sidharth KAUSHIK (IND) 75 63
Divyanshu SINGH (IND) bt Gursewak Singh AMRITRAJ (IND) 60 60
Rohan GIDE (IND) (14) bt Yogesh PHOGAT (IND) 64 62
Vaja UZAKOV (UZB) (3) BYE
Ravi-Krishna PALIVELA (IND) bt Girish GADGEEL (IND) 64 63
Mustafa GHOUSE (IND) bt Siddharth SOLANKI (IND) 60 60
Vijayant MALIK (IND) (9) bt Chin-Yu HUANG (TPE) 61 61
Simeon IVANOV (BUL) (4) bt Rahil MAKHARIA (IND) 62 60
N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Suresh KRISHNA (IND) 60 61
Joel ANDRIOLO (AUS) bt Neishit VAKIL (IND) 61 60
Valentin DIMOV (BUL) (11) bt Kaushik RAJU (IND) 60 62
Huai-En CHANG (TPE) (5) bt Sarosh QURAISHI (IND) 60 61
Matthew CURIC (AUS) bt Arvind SINGH (IND) 63 63
Ankit SACHDEVA (IND) bt Mandeep YADAV (IND) 63 75
Yu CHANG (CHN) (12) bt Arjun GOUTHAM (IND) 62 46 76(5)
Rohan GAJJAR (IND) (6) bt Saif ALI (IND) 63 61
Jason ALPEN (AUS) bt Vivek REDDY (IND) 76(4) 57 64
Saurav SUKUL (IND) bt Akshay KOHLI (IND) 61 62
Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) (10) bt Rubal SHANDILYA (IND) 62 62
Hsien-Yin PENG (TPE) (7) bt Jitin BISHNOI (IND) 62 64
Prashant SAWANT (IND) bt Viraj Sinh Rajendra Sinh SINDHA (IND) 62 60
Shuang-Qiang LIANG (CHN) bt Vikram REDDY B (IND) 64 64
Yannick NELORD (IND) (16) bt Rajiv Jacob SANDY (IND) 60 60
Tzu-Yang LIN (TPE) (8) bt Vikas CHAUHAN (IND) 60 61
Shrikant RATHI (IND) bt Ravjeet SINGH (IND) 63 60
Vidhan VYAS (IND) bt Hari CHIDAMBARAM (IND) 63 64
Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) (15) bt Hemant GARG (IND) 60 60