Tennis News
At 2.233M Dubai Open Championship,

[R2] (2) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) l Rik De Voest (RSA)/ Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 67(4) 26

Disappointing result for Mahesh and Mark, who were highest seeded pair remaining in the draw ... Our pair had 10 break point chances and converted only 2 ... Other hand Voest-Tursunov had 8 chances and they converted 4 in this 1 hr 18 mins match ... Voest-Tursunov won more couple of points from our pair in final total points stats, 63-61.
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At $500K Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, Florida, USA

[QF] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA) bt (3) Jamie Murray (GBR)/ Dusan Vemic (SRB) 64 62

Good win by Rajeev and Bobby against 3rd seeds.
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Chess News
At XXVI Linares 2009, Spain (Avg. rating 2755) - from February 19th to March 7th 2009

Round 7 - Thursday , 26 February 2009

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

Viswanathan Anand continued to experiment with his new 1.d4 variation playing with white but Alexander Grischuk was happy to draw after 37 moves ... Interestingly black still hasn't lost a single game and today Vassily Ivanchuk scored a victory with it against Levon Aronian ... The other two games were drawn.