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

Round 9 - Sunday, 1 March 2009

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

Only Magnus Carlsen produced win in 42 moves, other games ended in uneventful draws.
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Tennis News
At $125K+H Bergamo Challenger, Italy

[R1] AMRITRAJ Prakash (IND,193) vs DORSCH Benedikt (GER,156)

Doubles
[R1] AMRITRAJ Prakash (IND)/ EVANS Brendan (USA) vs (1) BRUNSTROM Johan (SWE)/ ROJER Jean-Julien (AHO)

Prakash having decent first round match in singles but facing top seed pair in the first round of doubles.
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At $50K Cherbourg Challenger, France

[Q1] RAJA Purav (IND) l YSERN Pierrick (FRA) 26 76(2) 16
[Q1] GAJJAR Rohan (IND) l (WC) HAEHNEL Jerome (FRA) 06 26

Doubles
[R1] (1) BATTISTONE Brian (USA)/ MANKAD Harsh (IND) vs MONTCOURT Mathieu (FRA)/ SIDORENKO Alexandre (FRA)

This week Harsh and Brian r top seeds, so hopefully they will go deeper in this challenger.