Tennis News -

Sania dropped further in singles ranking, now she is ranked #60 in WTA singles ranking and remained on #26 in WTA doubles ranking.

On ATP, as expected Buji climbed to No. 2 Indian male player in singles after excellent 5 weeks run on Pro tour ... He is on his career best singles ranking.

In doubles Mahesh climb to 9th position ... But he will slide down in the ranking on 18th August ranking list when last year's Masters points will be removed ... Rohan also dropped outside top-50 doubles ranking.

ATP Singles Ranking as on 4th August 2008
222 Amritraj Prakash 172 pts
320 Devvarman Somdev 109 pts
328 Bopanna Rohan 106 pts
523 Sipaeya Sunil Kumar 49 pts
532 Singh Ashutosh 47 pts

ATP Doubles Ranking as on 4th August 2008
9 Bhupathi Mahesh 3200 pts
15 Paes Leander 2435 pts
54 Bopanna Rohan 921 pts
218 Ghouse Mustafa 283 pts
249 Singh Ashutosh 245 pts
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At the 18th World Junior Tennis Finals, TK Prostejov, Czech Republic (Red Clay)

India finished behind China and Korea in regionals so they r not seeded in this event ... We r clubed into tough draw with seeded Brazil and Great Britain ... Today we r playing our first match against Brazil.

Group B -
(4) Brazil
(6) Great Britain
Egypt
India

Brazil will be tough nut to crack but with last few weeks good performances we can hope for upset against Great Britain ... Go Digvijay and Ronit.
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At $10K Indonesian Futures, Jakarta

[Q1] REDDY Harshini (IND,UNR) l CHANTAWANNOP Penporn (THA,UNR) 16 26
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Chess News -
At Mainz Rapid World Championship, Germany
Final -
Vishy Anand (IND) bt Magnus Carlsen (NOR) 3-1

For 3rd Place -
Alexander Morozevich (RUS) bt Judit Polgar (HUN) 2½-1½

Anand won his 11th Mainz title in style ... He destroyed young Carlsen in first 2 games and then draw remaining 2 to scored comfortable victory ... Other hand Morozevich needed 4th game to score victory over Judit Polgar to capture 3rd place.

Anand won first game in 50th move where Carlsen started with Dragon opening ... Second game also ended on 50th move where Carlsen played Kramnik’s favorite opening the Catalan ... Third game played with Sicilian opening, which Anand managed to draw after 56 moves and then thy quickly agreed for draw in 4th game after 11 moves.