Tennis News -
At $1.401M Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE

[R1] (WC) BOPANNA Rohan (IND)/ QURESHI Aisam-Ul-Haq (PAK) bt ANDREEV Igor (RUS)/ MATHIEU Paul-Henri (FRA) 75 64

[R1] HANLEY Paul (AUS)/ PAES Leander (IND) l (2) ASPELIN Simon (SWE)/ KNOWLE Julian (AUT) 16 36

Really powerful start for our wildcard pair in this big tournament ... Now they will face top seeds Nestor and Zimo in quarters ... But shocking one sided loss of Lee and Paul.
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At US$600K WTA Bangalore Open, India

[R1] (WC) Isha Lakhani (IND,357) l (Q) Agnes Szatmari (ROU,271) 26 26

Doubles -
[R1] Sunitha Rao (IND)/ Monique Adamczak (AUS) l (4) Anastasia Rodionova (RUS)/ Yaroslava Shvedova (RUS) 06 16

With that Indian challenge is over from this edition of Banglore Open.
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At $35K+H Kyoto Challenger, Japan (Spuckturf)

[R1] (PR) Harsh Mankad (IND,1283) l (6) Brendan Evans (USA, 206) 36 46

Doubles -
[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND) / Michael Ryderstedt (SWE) l Matthias Bachinger (GER) / Daniel Brands (GER) 57 36

With first round doubles loss very early end of a week for Harsh.
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At $15K Ivory Coast F1, Abidjan

[R1] (7) RASTOGI Karan (IND,514) vs (Q) ZORLU Ergun (TUR,985)

Doubles -
[R1] (1) RASTOGI Karan (IND)/ SATSCHKO Alexander (GER) vs BLANDIN Jeremy (FRA)/ TASSART Antoine (FRA)
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At $15K USA F6, McAllen, TX

[R1] SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND,418) vs (4) CHEKHOV Pavel (RUS,287)
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Chess News -
At Morelia-Linares 2008, Mexico & Spain

Round 11 - Monday, March 3rd
Teimour Radjabov ½-½ Anand
Levon Aronian ½-½ Vassily Ivanchuk
Veselin Topalov 1-0 Alexei Shirov
Peter Leko 1-0 Magnus Carlsen

In end quick 18 moves draw against Teimour Radjabov turned to be great result for Anand, as Carlsen lost against Leko to give 1 pt lead and only 3 rounds remaining means advantage Anand ... After 11 round Anand is leading with 7 pts and Aronian, Carlsen & Topalov r tied 2nd with 6 pts.

In 12th round Anand will play with white-pieces against Peter Leko.