Tennis News
At ATP World Tour Finals, London, England

Group B
Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Oliver Marach (AUT) 36 67(3)

Kubot and Marach produced very solid performance to beat Lee and Lukas ... Lee and Lukas struggled with return game and Kubot and Marach take full advantage of it ... In second set Lee and Lukas fought back but both served a single double fault in tie-break and that was enough for Kubot and Marach to scored victory ... In other Group match Ram and Mirnyi defeated Bryans in straight sets.
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At $10K Malaysia F5 Futures, Kuala Lumpur

[R1] Divij SHARAN (IND, 764) l Marin BRADARIC (CRO, 671) 67(3) 63
[R1] (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND, 483) bt Juan Antonio LOS SANTOS (MAS, UNR) 16 62 63

[R2] (1) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,368) vs Ante PAVIC (CRO,873)
[R2] (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND, 483) vs Marin BRADARIC (CRO,677)

Doubles
[QF] (1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) vs DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA)
[QF] HAENLE (GER)/ SHOKEEN (IND) vs JAYA (MAS) / SI (MAS)
[QF] (2) GAJJAR (IND)/ O'BRIEN (IRL) vs HUANG (TPE) / SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA)

Divij also lost his first round match ... Young Juan, whos is Malaysian one of top junior, stretched Ranjeet to 3 sets ... In second round Vishnu and Ranjeet r facing Croatian opponents.
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Chess News
At The FIDE World Chess Cup 2009, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia - November 20th to December 15th 2009

Round One Tie-break
Krishnan Sasikiran (IND) bt Erwin L'Ami (NED) 2½-½

Parimarjan Negi (IND) l Vadim Milov (SUI) ½-2½

Sasi produced clinical performance against L'Ami in tie-break but same Milov did against Negi ... In both matches 4th game was cancelled after player taking winning lead.