Tennis News
At € 370K BCR Open, Bucharest, Romania

[Q2] (8) Somdev Devvarman (IND,243) bt Florin Mergea (ROU,592) 61 62
[Q3] (8) Somdev Devvarman (IND,243) vs (2) Filippo Volandri (ITA,93)

Somdev scored another easy victory against Romanian player in 58 mins but now he is having big task against top-100 Italian Filippo Volandri, true clay courter.
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At $225K Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic, Bali, Indonesia

[Q1] (5) Shikha Uberoi (IND) Bye
[Q2] (5) Shikha Uberoi (IND) l (2) Sandy Gumulya (INA) 16 36

Doubles -
Shikha Uberoi (IND)/ Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) vs Nadia Petrova (RUS)/ Marta Domachowska (POL)
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At $125K (+H) Orleans Challenger, France

[Q1] (7) Harsh Mankad (IND,546) bt (WC) Mohammed Affes (TUN,UNR) 64 62
[Q1] Purav Raja (IND,861) bt Kenny De Schepper (FRA,1420) 63 64

[Q2] Purav Raja (IND,861) l (2) Vladimir Obradovic (SRB,398) 46 46
[Q2] (7) Harsh Mankad (IND,546) l Jean-Kome Loglo (TOG,UNR) 46 63 67(5)

Harsh having tough time with his singles career ... He is low on confidence and these results really doesn't helping his cause.
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Chess News
At the Women's World Championship 2008, Nalchik, Russia

Quarter-Finals -
Humpy Koneru (IND,2622) - Yang Shen (CHN,2445) 1-0

Humpy started well with winning first match with whites against Chinese player.
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At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

Fifth Round -
Viswanathan Anand - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Vassily Ivanchuk - Veselin Topalov ½-½
Teimour Radjabov - Levon Aronian ½-½

Anand had another draw ... Lets hope after today's break he come out with a bang.