Tennis News
At $4.5M BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, USA

[R1] CHUANG Chia-Jung (TPE)/ MIRZA Sania (IND) l DULKO Gisela (ARG)/ PEER Shahar (ISR) 16 46

[R1] (3) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) bt KUNITSYN Igor (RUS)/ TURSUNOV Dmitry (RUS) 75 63

Mahesh and Mark scored straight sets victory over tricky Russian pair to move into second round ... But Sania with Taiwanian Chuang lost cheaply in first round.
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At $50K Bangkok Challenger, Thailand

[Q1] (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND,317) bt Faris Akhazzan (GBR,UNR) 63 62

Expected easy victory for Rohan against unranked opponent.
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Chess News
At the FIDE Women Grand Prix, Istnbul, Turkey

Round 6 - 13 March 2009

GM KONERU Humpy 1 - 0 GM CHIBURDANIDZE Maia

Humpy scored victory with white pieces against Georgian GM Maia Chiburdanidz ... So after 6 round Chinese GM Hou Yifan still leading by ½ pt ... In 7th round Humpy is facing leader GM Hou Yifan with black pieces.