Chess News
At XXVI Linares 2009, Spain (Avg. rating 2755) - from February 19th to March 7th 2009

Round 8 - Saturday, 28 February 2009

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

Anand played a Semi-Slav (Anti-Meran) against Teimour Radjabov, but match ended after hard fought draw ... Levon Aronian played well-prepared Semi-Slav against Magnus Carlsen ... It take Aronian 6½ hours and 93 moves to overcome the resistance of his young Carlsen ... Grischuk still leads by a full point.
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Hockey News
At the four-match Hockey Series, Auckland

India dw New Zealand 1-1

Goal Scored - Shivendra Singh (IND) 13' and Dean Couzins (NZL) 70'

Indians dominated match from the start after taking lead early but again old problem of lethergic defence in dying minutes costed them victory ... They r still leading series by 1-0, today they r playing final match of four-match series against New Zealand.
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Tennis News
At $500K Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, Florida, USA

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) l (4) Eric Butorac (USA)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) 64 36 (8)10
[SF] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA) l Marcelo Melo (BRA)/ Andre Sa (BRA) 67(10) 62 (5)10

Rohan and Jarkko lost quarter-final match in super tie-break after winning the first set ... Rajeev and Bobby also lost their semis match in super tie-break.
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Badminton News
At $80K Yonex German Open Grand Prix, Mulheim

[QF] (2) Chetan Anand (IND,13) l Weijie Gong (CHN,63) 21-19 19-21 12-21
[QF] (4) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l Bo Zheng (CHN)/ Jin Ma (CHN) 17-21 12-21

Chetan started well winning the first game against Chinese opponent ... Then he tried best to won second game but after winning second game his Chinese opponent didn't give him chance in the third.

Diju and Jwala outclassed by their Chinese opponents in the quarters.