Tennis News
At $500K Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, Florida, USA

[Q1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,154) bt Donald Young (USA,133) 64 64
[Q1] Rohan Bopanna (IND,321) l John Isner (USA,137) 26 16
[Q1] Rajeev Ram (USA,210) bt Dusan Vemic (SRB,272) 64 64

[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,154) vs Ryan Sweeting (USA,176)
[Q2] Rajeev Ram (USA,210) vs (1) Wayne Odesnik (USA,94)

Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) vs Stephen Huss (AUS)/ Ross Hutchins (GBR)
[R1] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA) vs (WC) Xavier Malisse (BEL)/ Vincent Spadea (USA)

Som played excellent tennis to score good win against talented Donald Young ... Som won 80% points on his first serve with 8 aces but his 1st serve percentage were 53%, and won only 42% of his 2nd serve points ... In the second set he was up 5-2 but Donald tried comeback winning next 2 games but Som finished on his serve ... Donald broke Somi's serve twice and Somi managed to break four times.
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Hockey News
At the four-match Hockey Series, Wellington

India bt New Zealand 2-1

Goal Scored - Tushar Khandekar (IND) 30', Sandeep Singh (IND) 40' PC and Simon Child (NZL) 4'

Indians won second match to take 1-0 lead in this hockey series after first match ended in draw ... In this match we kept more possession than opponents and were dominating ... In this match we managed to get 3 penalty corners.
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Chess News
At XXVI Linares 2009, Spain (Avg. rating 2755) - from February 19th to March 7th 2009

Round 3 - Saturday, 21 February 2009

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

All games in the third round ended in well fought draw ... Dominguez and Anand match played with Najdorf Sicilian variation which ended in the draw after 41 moves.
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Golf News
At Northern Trust Open - Third Round

T42 Jeev Milkha Singh 69 70 71 -3
T70 Daniel Chopra 73 67 74 +1

Jeev must be disappointed with his third round ... He started well scoring back to back birdies on 1st and 2nd holes ... But had 3 bogeys on a row on 6th, 7th and 8th holes ... After that he managed another birdie on 10th hole to finished even for the day.

Daniel couldn't repeat his scond round peformance ... He had 5 bogeys on 2nd, 4th, 9th, 12th and 17th holes but managed only 2 birdies on 6th and 11th holes.