Chess News
At 2010 Corus Chess, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Group A: Round 8 - 24th January
Viswanathan Anand - Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½
Alexei Shirov - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Vladimir Kramnik - Hikaru Nakamura 1-0
Sergey Karjakin - Nigel Short 1-0
Leinier Dominguez - Loek van Wely ½-½
Peter Leko - Jan Smeets 1-0
Fabiano Caruana - Sergey Tiviakov 1-0

Group B: Round 8 - 24th January
Erwin l'Ami - Pentala Harikrishna ½-½
Liviu Nisipeanu - Parimarjan Negi ½-½

Group C: Round 8 - 24th January
Soumya Swaminathan - Kjetil Lie ½-½
Abhijeet Gupta - Li Chao ½-½

All other players r managing win but Anand is still searching for his first win after 8 rounds ... Today 4 matches produced results but Anand had another uneventful draw.

In Group B and Group C, our all players drew their matches.

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

[QF] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) l (7) Alisa Kleybanova (RUS)/ Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 46 36

[R3] Eric Butorac (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) bt Leonardo Mayer(ARG)/ Horacio Zeballos(ARG) 67(3) 64 76(3)

Australian Open 2010 - Junior

[R1] (13) Arthur De Greef (BEL,22) l Vaidik Munshaw (IND,81) 46 67(5)
[R1] (Q) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) bt (Q)Miyu Kato (JPN,119) 64 62

[R2] (Q) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) vs (3) Daria Gavrilova (RUS,4)

[R1] Vaidik Munshaw (IND)/ Chuhan Wang (CHN) vs (4) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN)
[R1] Yuki Ito (JPN)/ Rishika Sunkara (IND) vs (6) Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER)/ Mai Grage (DEN)

Expected result, Sania and Virginia lost in straight sets against 7th seed ... But Rajeev Ram and Butorac r in doubles quarters beating Argentinian pair in tight 3 sets.

Rishika Sunkara scored good upset win over fellow Japanese qualifier in straight sets to moved in to second round ... In second round she has tough challenge of 15 yrs old Russian Daria Gavrilova, last year who was finalist at Junior Roland Garros and reached Junior US Open semis ... She also won Eddie Herr International Junior Tennis Championships in December.

Good fighting performance by Vaidik Munshaw against Belgian De Greef, who was a runner up at Orange bowl last month.

Chess News
At 2010 Corus Chess, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Group A: Round 7 - 23rd January
Fabiano Caruana - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Sergey Tiviakov - Peter Leko ½-½
Jan Smeets - Leinier Dominguez ½-½
Loek van Wely - Sergey Karjakin ½-½
Nigel Short - Vladimir Kramnik ½-½
Hikaru Nakamura - Alexei Shirov 1-0
Magnus Carlsen - Vassily Ivanchuk 1-0

Group B: Round 7 - 23rd January
Parimarjan Negi - Pentala Harikrishna ½-½

Group C: Round 6 - 22nd January
Stefan Kuipers - Soumya Swaminathan ½-½
Sjoerd Plukkel - Abhijeet Gupta 0-1

At Corus anybody faces Anand and manage draw ... Same thing happened in 7th round also against 17 yrs old Italian-American GM Fabiano Caruana ... American GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated leader Alexei Shirov to moved to second place with Magnus Carlsen, now they r ½ pt behind leader Shirov ... Anand is T7 with 3½ pts.

In Group B, Hari and Negi played safe draw while facing eachother ... Hari is on 4 pt remained 1½ pts behind leader Anish Giri on T6 position and Negi is on T8 with 3½ pts.

In Group C, Soumya managed her only second draw in 7 rounds and Abhijeet scored win playing with blacks ... Today leader 15 yrs old Ray Robson lost his match so now Abhijeet is only ½ pt behind leader.

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

[R2] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt Lucas Arnold Ker (ARG)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) 75 63

[R3] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs John Isner (USA)/ Sam Querrey (USA)

Australian Open 2010 - Junior

[R1] (13) Arthur De Greef (BEL,22) vs Vaidik Munshaw (IND,81)
[R1] (Q) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) vs (Q)Miyu Kato (JPN,119)

Good straight sets victory by Lee and Lukas in second round ... Next they r facing big server Americans, tricky match.

Rishika having some chance against her Japanese opponent to move in to second round.

Chess News
At 2010 Corus Chess, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Group A: Round 6 - 22nd January
Viswanathan Anand - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Vassily Ivanchuk - Hikaru Nakamura ½-½
Alexei Shirov - Nigel Short ½-½
Vladimir Kramnik - Loek van Wely 1-0
Sergey Karjakin - Jan Smeets ½-½
Leinier Dominguez - Sergey Tiviakov 1-0
Peter Leko - Fabiano Caruana 1-0

Group B: Round 6 - 22nd January
Erwin l'Ami - Parimarjan Negi 1-0
Pentala Harikrishna - Varuzhan Akobian ½-½

Group C: Round 6 - 22nd January
Soumya Swaminathan - Robin v. Kampen 0-1
Abhijeet Gupta - Daniele Vocaturo 1-0

Another draw so Anand remained winless after 6 rounds ... In Group B, Hari managed draw with Akobian but Negi lost against Erwin ... In Group C, Abhijeet won his match but Soumya had another loss ... She will definetly going to loose chunk of ELO points.

Badminton News
At $200K Malaysia Super Series 2010, Kuala Lumpur

[QF] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) l Xin Wang (CHN,10) 21-14 8-21 11-21

Saina started well winning first game but Xin Wang overpowered her in remaining 2 games ... Last 2 games score was disappointing.

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Doubles
[R2] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) l (11) Simon Aspelin (SWE)/ Paul Hanley (AUS) 16 36
[R2] Eric Butorac (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) bt (7) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 62 36 76(2)

[R2] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) bt Timea Bacsinszky (SUI)/ Tathiana Garbin (ITA) 76(3) 63

[QF] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) vs (7) Alisa Kleybanova (RUS)/ Francesca Schiavone (ITA)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Sophie Ferguson (AUS)/ Carsten Ball (AUS) 75 75

Sania and Virginia scored straight sets victory in second round ... First set they won in tie-break but they controlled second set to move in to pre-quarter finals.

Today Somi AGAIN struggled with his serve and seeded Aussie pair take full advantage of it for easy victory over Indian pair ... Rajeev and his partner Butorac scored upset win over seeded Polish team.

Top-seed Lee and Cara needed their experience to pulled tight win over local pair in first round of MXD.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza, the defending champions at the 2010 Australian Open, withdrew due to Mahesh's torn calf muscle injury.

Australian Open 2010 - Junior Qualifying

[Q2] Sumeet Shinde (IND,179) l (10) Bruno Semenzato (BRA,136) 57 26
[Q2] Saurabh Singh (IND,174) vs (4) Jaden Grinter (NZL,93)
[Q2] (5) Sai Kartik Nakireddi (IND,105) l Jea Moon Lee (KOR,179) 67(4) 36

[Q2] Ankita Raina (IND,183) l (1) Marianne Jodoin (CAN,74) 16 36
[Q2] Natasha Palha (IND,274) l (9) Abigail Tere-Apisah (PNG,131) 36 46
[Q2] Rashmi Teltumbde (IND,267) l Alexandra Nancarrow (AUS,UNR) 57 36
[Q2] Prerna Bhambri (IND,186) l Elizaveta Ianchuk (UKR,1053) 67(4) 46
[Q2] Sharmada Balu (IND,159) l Li-Yun Tan (SIN,254) 46 46
[Q2] Aishwarya Agrawal (IND,221) l (6) Eri Hozumi (JPN,121) 64 26 26
[Q2] (10) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) bt Stefani Stojic (AUS,UNR) 61 62

[Q3] ((10) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) bt (7) Ursa Jeman (SLO,122) 46 63 64

Looking at junior qualifying scores it look massacre of our players on tennis court.

At last some good news, Rishika Sunkara qualified for main draw with comeback win over Ursa Jeman.

Chess News
At 2010 Corus Chess, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Group A: Round 5 - 21st January
Peter Leko - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Fabiano Caruana - Leinier Dominguez ½-½
Sergey Tiviakov - Sergey Karjakin ½-½
Jan Smeets - Vladimir Kramnik 0-1
Loek van Wely - Alexei Shirov 0-1
Nigel Short - Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½
Hikaru Nakamura - Magnus Carlsen ½-½

Group B: Round 5 - 21st January
Wesley So - Pentala Harikrishna ½-½
Varuzhan Akobian - Parimarjan Negi 0-1

Group C: Round 5 - 21st January
Mariya Muzychuk - Soumya Swaminathan 1-0
Benjamin Bok - Abhijeet Gupta ½-½

Another quite draw for Anand ... After 5 rounds Anand is still searching for his first win, other hand Alexei Shirov scored his 5th win in 5th game to lead by 1½ pts ... In Group B, Wesley So hold Hari to draw but Negi scored exciting win over Varuzhan Akobian playing with blacks ... In Group C, Abhijeet hold Bok playing with blacks but Soumya's struggled continue and she lost 4th match in 5 rounds.

Football News
At I League 2009-10, India - Round XI

Viva Kerala l Pune F.C. 0-3

Goal Scored - Arata Izumi (PFC) 11' & 54', Sergey Tokov (PFC) 90'

Pune FC scored third win a row and all their wins came in away matches ... In round 11 match they scored emphatic win over Viva.
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Dempo S.C bt Sporting Clube-de Goa 3-1

Goal Scored - Clifford Miranda (DSC) 20', Joaquim Abranches (DSC) 29', Peter Carvalho (DSC) 61' and Bisheshwor Singh (SCG) 36'

Dempo showed clinical performance against Sporting, this win helped them to regain top-spot in standing ... Now they r ahead by 2 points over Mahindra.
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Chiragh United SC dw JCT, Phagwara 1-1

Goal Scored - Josimar da Silva Martins (CU) 15' and Penn Ikechukwu Orji (JCT) 36'

Inexperienced JCT side managed to hold Chirag United in 1-1 draw.
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East Bengal bt Churchill Brothers 3-2

Goal Scored - Yusif Yakubu (EB) 10' & 38', Baichung Bhutia (EB) 53' and Ogba Kalu Nnanna (CB) 9', Vashum (CB) 13'

In well contested match East Bengal gave first defeat to Churchill Brothers.
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Air India bt Salgaocar S.C 2-1

Goal Scored - Avnit Singh Shergill (AI) 26', Vijith Shetty (AI) 79' and Ravinder Singh (SSC) 45'

So with this Airmen won their first home match.
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Mahindra United V Mohun Bagan 1-2

Goal Scored - Mohammed Rafi (MU) 9' and Marcos Pereira (MB) 58', Sueoka Ryuji (MB) 75'

Mohun Bagan scored very important win over leader Mahindra and joined them with 20 points ... This was Mahindra's first loss in ongoing I League.
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Mumbai FC bt Shillong Lajong FC 3-1

Goal Scored - Bashiru Abbas Mohammed (MFC) 22', Abhishek Yadav (MFC) 73', Subhas Chakraborty (MFC) 86' and Daniel Bidemi (SL) 50'

Shillong again lost against another Mumbai team

Badminton News
At $200K Malaysia Super Series 2010, Kuala Lumpur

[R2] Chetan Anand (IND,16) l (Q) Wei Feng Chong (MAS,56) 15-21 21-19 18-21
[R2] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) bt Ai Goto (JPN,26) 21-19 21-12

[QF] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) vs Xin Wang (CHN,10)

Good win by Saina ... After close first game she dominated second to move in to quarter final of this Super Series tournament ... WR #10 Xin Wang defeated WR #3 Danish Tine Rasmussen in second round ... Xin Wong is showing tremendous improvement in her game if we checked her results from last year ... Saina faced her last year in Malaysia Open GP, where as qualifier Wang defeated her in easy straight games in quarters, 14-21 10-21 ... So tough match for Saina.

Chetan again disappointed with his performance and failed to take advantage of weak draw in Super Series.

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Doubles
[R1] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt Leos Friedl (CZE)/ David Skoch (CZE) 63 61
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) l Michael Kohlmann (GER)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) 46 46
[R1] Eric Butorac (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) bt Thomaz Bellucci (BRA)/ Andre Sa (BRA) 63 64
[R1] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) bt (WC) Yayuk Basuki (INA)/ Kimiko Date Krumm (JPN) 64 62

[R2] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) vs (11) Simon Aspelin (SWE)/ Paul Hanley (AUS)
[R2] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Lucas Arnold Ker (ARG)/ Horia Tecau (ROU)
[R2] Eric Butorac (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) vs (7) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)
[R2] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) vs Timea Bacsinszky (SUI)/ Tathiana Garbin (ITA)

Lee and Lukas scored easy victory against Czech pair ... Rajeev and Butorac also moved to second round with win over Brazilian pair.

Sania and Virginia also had winning start against veteran pair, who fought well in first set but didn't put much fight in second set after getting early break.

Forgettable start for Mahesh and Max Mirnyi for 2010 doubles partnership ... 4th seed pair knocked in first round in straight sets ... I would say zero match practice together before Australian Open cost them early exit.

Australian Open 2010 - Junior Qualifying

[Q1] Sumeet Shinde (IND,179) bt Damian Farinola (AUS,1297) 26 75 64
[Q1] Saurabh Singh (IND,174) bt Andrew Zedde (AUS,UNR) 64 63
[Q1] (5) Sai Kartik Nakireddi (IND,105) bt Matt Roso (AUS,UNR) 46 75 64

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,183) bt Samantha Harris (AUS,UNR) 16 76(4) 60
[Q1] Natasha Palha (IND,274) bt Sandy Vo (AUS,504) 63 64
[Q1] Rashmi Teltumbde (IND,267) bt Bernadette Massih (AUS,948) 57 75 64
[Q1] Prerna Bhambri (IND,186) bt (14) Khristina Blajkevitch (CAN,142) 61 76(3)
[Q1] (11) Kyra Shroff (IND,133) l Chelsea Te Tai (NZL,1033) 16 57
[Q1] Sharmada Balu (IND,159) bt Ashleigh Hancock (AUS,UNR) 67(4) 76(4) 62
[Q1] Aishwarya Agrawal (IND,221) bt Azra Hadzic (AUS,623) 36 76(4) 62
[Q1] Ashvarya Shrivastava (IND,346) l Ksenia Gospodinova (RUS,164) 36 62 26
[Q1] (10) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) bt Gussie O'Sullivan (AUS,UNR) 63 62
[Q1] Prathana Thombare (IND,225) l Nao Tada (JPN,370) 06 75 46

[Q2] Sumeet Shinde (IND,179) vs (10) Bruno Semenzato (BRA,136)
[Q2] Saurabh Singh (IND,174) vs (4) Jaden Grinter (NZL,93)
[Q2] (5) Sai Kartik Nakireddi (IND,105) vs Jea Moon Lee (KOR,179)

[Q2] Ankita Raina (IND,183) vs (1) Marianne Jodoin (CAN,74)
[Q2] Natasha Palha (IND,274) vs (9) Abigail Tere-Apisah (PNG,131)
[Q2] Rashmi Teltumbde (IND,267) vs Alexandra Nancarrow (AUS,UNR)
[Q2] Prerna Bhambri (IND,186) vs Elizaveta Ianchuk (UKR,1053)
[Q2] Sharmada Balu (IND,159) vs Li-Yun Tan (SIN,254)
[Q2] Aishwarya Agrawal (IND,221) vs (6) Eri Hozumi (JPN,121)
[Q2] (10) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) vs Stefani Stojic (AUS,UNR)

So our many juniors r in second qualifying round ... Good upset win by Prerna Bhambri and many comeback wins.

Badminton News
At $200K Malaysia Super Series 2010, Kuala Lumpur

[R1] Chetan Anand (IND,16) bt (Q) Kwong Beng Chan (MAS,62) 21-19 21-16
[R1] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) bt (Q) Li Lian Yang (MAS,230) 21-10 21-12

[R2] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) vs Ai Goto (JPN,26)

Winning start for Chetan and Saina for 2010 season ... Both won their respective first round matches at Malaysia Super Series.

At last minute Dan Lin withdrew from this Super Series so Chetan's bottom draw is open ... Hopefully Chetan will use this opportunity to go deep in this tourney.

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Rik De Voest (RSA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA) 64 16 67(6)
[R1] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) bt James Cerretani (USA)/ Travis Rettenmaier (USA) 57 64 75

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Sophie Ferguson (AUS)/ Carsten Ball (AUS)
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Carly Gullickson (USA)/ Bernard Tomic (AUS)

Mixed doubles draw is out .. Tough draw for Sania and Mahesh to defend their title ... They can face top-seed Lee and Cara in second round if both pairs win their respective first round matches.

Somi and Kash fought hard from the start ... Their American opponents were experienced doubles players and our pair needed to fight for winning every point ... After 1 set all in third set, American pair broke Somi's serve in 4th game to take lead but our pair immediately broke their service in next game ... At 3-4 on Somi's serve our pair saved 3 break points from 0-40 to won that game ... Again in 10th game while serving for staying in the match they were down 3 match point, 0-40, on Kash's serve ... This time also they saved those match points to won this game ... Immediately in next game they broke American pair's serve and then while serving for the match they converted 4th match point to won match ... Excellent victory for them.

Bops and Aisam started well winning first set with single break ... But Rik De Voest and Scott Lipsky came back strongly winning second set ... Third set went to tie-break as both pairs were serving well ... In tie-break until 6-all nobody gave mini-break ... On Rohan's serve Rik De Voest and Scott Lipsky got mini-break to lead 6-7 and they promptly converted this match point to won this match.

Chess News
At 2010 Corus Chess, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Group A: Round 4 - 19th January
Viswanathan Anand - Hikaru Nakamura ½-½
Magnus Carlsen - Nigel Short ½-½
Vassily Ivanchuk - Loek van Wely 1-0
Alexei Shirov - Jan Smeets 1-0
Vladimir Kramnik - Sergey Tiviakov ½-½
Sergey Karjakin - Fabiano Caruana ½-½
Leinier Dominguez - Peter Leko ½-½

Group B: Round 4 - 19th January
Parimarjan Negi - Wesley So ½-½
Pentala Harikrishna - Arkadij Naiditsch 1-0

Group C: Round 4 - 19th January
Soumya Swaminathan - Li Chao 0-1
Abhijeet Gupta - Peng Zhaoqin ½-½

Another uneventful draw for Anand against American GM Hikaru Nakamura playing with whites ... Other hand Alexei Shirov scored 4th win in 4th game to lead Group A with a full point ... In Group B, Hari scored upset win over top-seed Arkadij Naiditsch playing with whites and Negi managed draw against Wesley So ... In Group C, Dutch woman GM Peng Zhaoqin hold Abhijit Gupta and Soumya's struggle in this high standard tournament is continued.

Chess News
At 2010 Corus Chess, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Group A: Round 3 - 18th January
Leinier Dominguez - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Peter Leko - Sergey Karjakin ½-½
Fabiano Caruana - Vladimir Kramnik ½-½
Sergey Tiviakov - Alexei Shirov 0-1
Jan Smeets - Vassily Ivanchuk 0-1
Loek van Wely - Magnus Carlsen 0-1
Nigel Short - Hikaru Nakamura 0-1

Group B: Round 3 - 18th January
Anna Muzychuk - Pentala Harikrishna 0-1
Arkadij Naiditsch - Parimarjan Negi ½-½

Group C: Round 3 - 18th January
Robin Swinkels - Soumya Swaminathan 1-0
Stefan Kuipers - Abhijeet Gupta 0-1

3rd draw in a row for Anand ... Alexei Shirov scored 3rd victory to remained ½ clear of Magnus Carlsen ... In Group B, Hari scored his first victory with blacks ... Negi managed draw against top-seed German GM Arkadij Naiditsch playing with blacks ... In Group C, Abhijeet Gupta scored his first victory playing with blacks ... Soumya's struggled continue, she lost against local grand master.

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,57) l (26) Aravane Rezai (FRA,23) 46 26

Sania played aggressive game in the first set ... Her serve was good and with only single break Aravane Rezai won first set ... In second set Sania broke Aravane Rezai's serve in second game to lead 2-0 but from here Aravane Rezai won next 6 games in a row breaking Sania thrice to won this match.

Chess News
At 2010 Corus Chess, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Group A: Round 2 - 17th January
Viswanathan Anand - Nigel Short ½-½
Hikaru Nakamura - Loek van Wely 1-0
Magnus Carlsen - Jan Smeets 1-0
Vassily Ivanchuk - Sergey Tiviakov ½-½
Alexei Shirov - Fabiano Caruana 1-0
Vladimir Kramnik - Peter Leko ½-½
Sergey Karjakin - Leinier Dominguez ½-½

Group A: Round 1 - 16th January
Sergey Karjakin - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Leinier Dominguez - Vladimir Kramnik ½-½
Peter Leko - Alexei Shirov 0-1
Fabiano Caruana - Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½
Sergey Tiviakov - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Jan Smeets - Hikaru Nakamura ½-½
Loek van Wely - Nigel Short 1-0

After 2 rounds Anand is still searching for first win ... In first round he drew his game playing with blacks against 2009 winner Sergey Karjakin ... In second round British grandmaster Nigel Short managed to hold him playing with blacks after 57 moves ... So Anand in T4th position with 1 pt and Alexei Shirov leading with 100% winning record.

In Group B, Playing with whites Parimarjan Negi drew his second game against WGM Anna Muzychuk, the lowest Elo rating opponent in the group ... He is on 1 pt ... Also playing with whites Pentala Harikrishna opened his account after drawing his game with David Howell .. He lost first game against local 15 yrs old GM Anish Giri, who is leading the standing.

In Group C, Abhijeet Gupta drew his second game playing with whites against Ukrainian WGM Marya Muzychuk ... He is on 1 pt ... Soumya Swaminathan opened her account after drawing against local lowly ranked Sjoerd Plukkel.

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Doubles
[R1] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Leos Friedl (CZE)/ David Skoch (CZE)
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs Michael Kohlmann (GER)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN)
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Rik De Voest (RSA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA)
[R1] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) vs James Cerretani (USA)/ Travis Rettenmaier (USA)

[R1] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) vs (WC) Yayuk Basuki (INA)/ Kimiko Date Krumm (JPN)

Somi and Prakash received Asian pair wild card for Australian Open ... So they r having good chance of making use of it ... Rohan and Aisam can face top-seed Bryans if they wins first round.

Sania and Virginia Ruano Pascal r 10th seed and r in same top draw of top seeds ... In first round they r facing 39 yrs old experienced Asian wild card pair, who r making comeback.

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

[Q3] (27) Somdev Devvarman (IND,161) l (12) Blaz Kavcic (SLO,126) 36 67(4)

Somi's struggle with his service games continued in this match ... In 5th game he broke Kavcic's serve in 5th game but after that he lost 4 games on row, where his serve broken twice, to lose first set ... In second set also Somi got broken early and was down 1-3 ... In 5th game he was 15-40 down on his serve, then he saved 2 break points to hold his serve and broke Kavcic's serve in next game to make it 3-all ... Then again he broke Kavic to lead 5-3 but again while serving for the set his service let him down ... He got broken and then second set went into tie-break where initially they exchanged mini-breaks ... But Kavcic take important mini-break on 8th point to lead 3-5 and that turned out crucial as he served it out to won this match.

Somi had big opprtunity of qualifying for main draw with this weak draw ... I feel this time he lost that opportunity due to poor service games ... I wish Somi's team look into this matter as early as possible,

Football News
At I League 2009-10, India - Round X

Chiragh United SC dw Dempo SC 1-1

Goal Scored - Edmilson Marques (CU) 67' and Peter Carvalho (DSC) 59'

In last match of 10th round Chiragh United drew their match with Dempo ... So both teams remain on second place with 19 pts behind leader Mahindra United with 20 pts.
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Air India l Mohun Bagan 0-5

Goal Scored - Jose Marcio Ramirez Barreto (MB) 45+' P, 47', 62' & 69', Kalia Perumal Kulothungan (MB) 58'

Jose Barreto scored 4 goals in this huge win for Mohun Bagan ... Their next match against Mahindra will be cracker.
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Salgaocar SC l Pune FC 1-3

Goal Scored - Mandjou Keita (SSC) 77' and Edmar Figueira (PFC) 24' & 81', Arata Izumi (PFC) 74'

Pune FC scored their successive second win in away match ... This helped them to move middle of the table.
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Viva Kerala bt JCT 1-0

Goal Scored - Reuben Senyo (VK) 21'

Early goal helped Viva to garner full points from this match.
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Mahindra United bt Shillong Lajong 5-0

Goal Scored - Paresh Shivalkar (MU) 9' & 14', Mohammed Rafi (MU) 35', Subair Muritala Ali (MU) 49' (PS) & 57'

Very dominating win by Mahindra against young talented Shillong Lajong side ... With this win Mahindra moved to the top of I League standing.
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Mumbai FC dw East Bengal 0-0

Mumbai FC managed draw with Kolkata giant.
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Sporting Clube de Goa dw Churchill Brothers SC 0-0

Sporting Clube de Goa also managed to hold mighty Churchill Brothers to goalless draw.