Badminton News
At $200K Yonex All England Open Super Series 2009, Birmingham

[Q1] Anand Pawar (IND,46) bt (1) Carl Baxter (ENG,35) 18-21 21-17 23-21
[Q1] (3) Anup Sridhar (IND,50) bt Beng Hong Kuan (MAS,48) 21-12 12-21 21-19

[Q1] Chetan Anand (IND)/ Diju Valiyaveetil (IND) l Marcus Ellis (ENG)/ Robin Middleton (ENG) 21-17 17-21 17-21

[Q2] Anand Pawar (IND,46) bt Scott Evans (IRL,55) 21-6 20-22 21-12
[Q2] (3) Anup Sridhar (IND,50) bt Wei Feng Chong (MAS,53) 21-11 21-18

[R1] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,13) vs Andrew Smith (ENG,21)
[R1] Arvind Bhat (IND,27) vs (Q) Weijie Gong (CHN,63)
[R1] (Q) Anand Pawar (IND,46) vs (5) Sony Dwi Kuncoro (INA,5)
[R1] (Q) Anup Sridhar (IND,50) vs (2) Dan Lin (CHN,2)

[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs (4) Hongyan Pi (FRA,4)

[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) vs Chiou Hwee Haw (MAS)/ Pek Siah Lim (MAS)

[R1] Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs (Q) Johannes Schoettler (GER)/ Birgit Overzier (GER)

In the first qualifying match Anand played excellent game to score hard fought win against British No. 2 Carl Baxter in 52 minutes ... In third game Anand was doing chasing all the time, he was down 4-8 in the begining but he won next 5 points to lead 9-8 ... Then again Baxter take 15-18 lead but Anand didn't lose hope and make it 18-all and then converted 2nd match point ... In second match also Anand stretched to 3 games but he was in control.

Anup also stretched to 3 games in the first match but in second match he scored comfortable win.

Our both qualifiers having very tough first round against WR #2 and #5 respectively ... Arvind also having tough match against Chinese player though he is qualifier, Gong last week defeated Chetan Anand in quarters to reached the final of German Open GP.
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Chess News
At XXVI Linares 2009, Spain (Avg. rating 2755) - from February 19th to March 7th 2009

Round 11 - Tuesday, 3 March 2009

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

Today again Anand managed draw against Wang Yue in unspectacular game ... All other games also ended in the draw.