Badminton News
At $80K Yonex German Open Grand Prix, Mulheim

[Q1] Chetan Anand (IND)/ Diju Valiyaveetil (IND) l Yoshiteru Hirobe (JPN)/ Hajime Komiyama (JPN) 24-22 18-21 12-21

[R1] (9) Arvind Bhat (IND,28) vs Koen Ridder (NED,132)
[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,45) vs Daren Liew (MAS,82)
[R1] (15) Anup Sridhar (IND,38) vs Sven-Eric Kastens (GER,110)
[R1] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,13) vs Henri Hurskainen (SWE,62)

[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) vs (7) Ekaterina Ananina (RUS)/ Anastasia Russkikh (RUS)

[R1] (4) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Chayut Triyachar (SIN)/ Shinta Mulia Sari (SIN)

With German Open our players started their European tour .. Saina will join them from next week at All England Open.
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Chess News
At XXVI Linares 2009, Spain (Avg. rating 2755) - from February 19th to March 7th 2009

Round 5 - Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Leinier Domínguez ½-½ Teimour Radjabov
Wang Yue ½-½ Levon Aronian
Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½ Viswanathan Anand
Alexander Grischuk ½-½ Magnus Carlsen

Viswanathan Anand managed to draw after running into an opening problem against Vassily Ivanchuk, Anand used some miraculous stalemate motifs to save the game in 65 moves ... Very tough game, excellent Black’s defensive game produced by Anand ... All the other games were also drawn.
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Tennis News
At 2.233M Dubai Open Championship,

[R1] (2) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt (WC) Hamoud Abbas (UAE)/ Mahmoud-Nader Al Baloushi (UAE) 63 61

As expected very easy win against local pair for Mahehs and Mark.
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At $500K Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, Florida, USA

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) vs (ALT) Paul Capdeville (CHI)/ Evgeny Korolev (RUS)
[R1] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA) bt (WC) Xavier Malisse (BEL)/ Vincent Spadea (USA) 62 75

Huss-Hutchins pair pulled out due to Hutchins back injury so Rohan and Jarkko playing against alternate pair ... Rajeev and Bobby had winning start.