Tennis News
At 2.233M Dubai Open Championship,

[R1] (2) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs (WC) Hamoud Abbas (UAE)/ Mahmoud-Nader Al Baloushi (UAE)
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Simone Bolelli (ITA)/ Ivo Karlovic (CRO)
[R1] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Martin Damm (CZE)/ Robert Lindstedt (SWE)
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At $500K Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, Florida, USA

[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,154) l Ryan Sweeting (USA,176) 57 46
[Q2] Rajeev Ram (USA,210) l (1) Wayne Odesnik (USA,94) 26 36

And Som again lost against big server Sweeting ... Som needs good 1st serve percentage, in this match he managed 56% and won only 57% on his 1st serve ... Sweeting created 20 break point chances and converted 4 of them on Som's serve ... Other hand Ryan faced 4 break point chances and Som converted 2 of them ... For me overall disappointing performance in this 1 hr 47 mins match considering preparation for our Davis cup tie against Chinese Taipei.
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Golf News
At Northern Trust Open - Final Standing

T39 Jeev Milkha Singh 69 70 71 69 -5 $ 27,720.00
T72 Daniel Chopra 73 67 74 74 +4 $ 12,285.00

On the final day Jeev started with birdie on the first hole ... Then he scored bogey on 4th hole but immediately managed to score birdie on next 5th hole ... On back 9 Jeev had back to back birdies on 15th and 16th holes but bogey on the last hole missed his chance of top 30 finish.

Only under par second round was good enough to make cut for Daniel, otherwise he struggled on the course ... Today he scored 2 birdies on 7th and 8th holes but 5 bogeys on 2nd, 4th, 5th, 14th and 18th holes ... He remained bottom of the leaderboard.
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Chess News
At XXVI Linares 2009, Spain (Avg. rating 2755) - from February 19th to March 7th 2009

Round 4 - Sunday, 22 February 2009

Teimour Radjabov 0-1 Alexander Grischuk
Magnus Carlsen ½-½ Vassily Ivanchuk
Viswanathan Anand 1-0 Wang Yue
Levon Aronian 1-0 Leinier Domínguez

Viswanathan Anand outplayed Chinese Wang Yue with Slav variation ... Anand won this match convincingly in 33 moves ... Alexander Grischuk punished the creative but over-optimistic play by Teimour Radjabov ... while Levon Aronian needed 92 moves to overcome Leinier Dominguez' resistance.