Tennis News
At $500K South Africa Tennis Open, Johannesburg

[R1] (5) Rajeev Ram (USA,84) bt (WC) Rik De Voest (RSA,239) 67(3) 63 63

Good comeback victory for Ram against local tricky player, Rik De Voest.
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At $50K Dallas Challenger, Texas, USA

Doubles
[Q2] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Dominic Inglot (GBR) bt (1) John Paul Fruttero (USA)/ Andreas Siljestrom (SWE) 64 76(8)

[R1] (Q) Purav Raja (IND)/ Dominic Inglot (GBR) vs (1) Scott Lipsky (USA)/ David Martin (USA)

Purav and Dominic Inglot upset top-seed pair to qualify for main draw, where they r facing tough match against main draw top-seed pair of Lipsky and Martin.
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At Egypt F1 Futures 2010, Giza (clay)

[Q3] (8) Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND,907) l (9) Michal SCHMID (CZE,956) 46 46

[R1] (4) Rohan Gajjar (IND,475) vs (WC) Mohamed Moussa (EGY,UNR)
[R1] (PR) Karan Rastogi (IND,1051) vs (Q) Enrico Fioravante (ITA,959)

Doubles
[R1] Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Karan Rastogi (IND) vs Tim Goransson (SWE)/ Thomas Kromann (DEN)

Srirambalaji failed to qualify.

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

Pune FC dw Mahindra United 0-0

PFC were lucky to hold Mahindra in goalless draw in very dull match ... Mahindra were in control from the start but they couldn't manage to convert chances they got.
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Sporting Clube-de Goa l East Bengal 0-1

Goal Scored - Yakubu Yusif (EB) 85'

Scratchy win from East Bengal against last placed team.
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Chirag United bt Shillong Lajong 2-0

Goal Scored - Josimar Da Silva (CU) 60' & 69'

Chirag won match after double strike from Josimar in 10 minutes.
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Mumbai F.C l Viva Kerala 0-1

Goal Scored - Anish K.P (VK) 36'

Viva Kerala looks on roll after their back to back victory ... Won this tough away match against Mumbai FC.
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JCT l Air India 0-2

Goal Scored - Goal Scored - Ravinder Singh (AI) 5', N.D.Opara (AI) 41'

Air India scored important win in their relegation battle and managed to keep them ahead of Salgaocar after this win in away match.
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Dempo SC bt Mohun Bagan 3-1

Goal Scored - Nicalou Borges (DSC) 58', Sunil Chhetri (DSC) 77' & 85' and Sueoka Ryuji (MB) 60'

Dempo scored very important win against Mohun Bagan with last 15 minutes goals from Sunil Chhetri .. This win definitely improve their chance of grabbing this season's I-League title.
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Salgaocar SC l Churchill Brothers 1-2

Goal Scored - Mandjou Keita (SSC) 9' and Gouramangi Singh (CB) 42', Odafe Onyeka Okolie (CB) 89'

Odafe scored winner in dying minutes to give Churchill important victory.

Tennis News
At $50K Dallas Challenger, Texas, USA

Doubles
[Q1] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Dominic Inglot (GBR) bt Ti Chen (TPE)/ Jean-Noe Insausti (FRA) 46 62 13(11)

[Q2] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Dominic Inglot (GBR) vs (1) John Paul Fruttero (USA)/ Andreas Siljestrom (SWE)

[R1] (2) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) vs Alex Bogomolov Jr. (USA)/ Michael Ryderstedt (SWE)

Purav is playing in doubles qualifying partnering ex-UVa player, Dominic Inglot ... So Purav having sound doubles partner ... In first qualifying round they stretched to super tie-break, but scored good comeback victory.
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At Egypt F1 Futures 2010, Giza (clay)

[Q1] (15) Ronak MANUJA (IND,1209) bt Karim HATEM (EGY,UNR) 62 63
[Q1] (8) Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND,907) bt Daniele CATTANEO (ITA,UNR) 64 75
[Q1] Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,UNR) l Ahmed NAZIR (EGY,UNR) 46 26

[Q2] (15) Ronak MANUJA (IND,1209) l Oleksiy ODAZHYU (UKR,UNR) 67(9) 46
[Q2] (8) Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND,907) bt Ahmed NAZIR (EGY,UNR) 26 36

[Q3] (8) Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND,907) vs (9) Michal SCHMID (CZE,956)

Good to see our many players r honing their skill on clay.
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At $25K ITF Womens Tournament, Burnie, Australia

[Q1] (12) Aishwarya AGRAWAL (IND,1027) bt Erin BILLETT (AUS,UNR) 75 62

[Q2] (12) Aishwarya AGRAWAL (IND,1027) l (6) Tiffany WELFORD (AUS,679) 57 26

Tiffany Welford was tough customer as she was former top-300 player, who was making comeback after long injury break.

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

Group A: Round 13 - 31st January
Loek van Wely - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Nigel Short - Jan Smeets ½-½
Hikaru Nakamura - Sergey Tiviakov 1-0
Magnus Carlsen - Fabiano Caruana ½-½
Vassily Ivanchuk - Peter Leko ½-½
Alexei Shirov - Leinier Dominguez ½-½
Vladimir Kramnik - Sergey Karjakin ½-½

Group B: Round 13 - 31st January
Parimarjan Negi - Anish Giri ½-½
Pentala Harikrishna - Tomi Nyback ½-½

Group C: Round 13 - 31st January
Daniele Vocaturo - Soumya Swaminathan 1-0
Abhijeet Gupta - Ray Robson 1-0

In last round, Anand drew his game with Dutch GM Loek van Wely to finished on T4 position with 7½ pts ... He shared 4th position with American GM Hikaru Nakamura ... Magnus Carlsen won 2010 Corus Championship first time with 8½ pts .. ½ pt more than second place Kramnik and Shirov ... In Group B, Hari and Negi drew their respective matches ... Negi drew with Group B winner 15 yrs old Dutch GM Anish Giri ... Negi and Hari finished on T6 position with 6½ pts ... And in Group C, Abhijeet scored win against Ray Robson in last match but Soumya lost her last match and finished tied for last position with Plukkel, they ended on 3 pts ... Abhijeet finished on sole second position with 8½ pts, but he was 1½ pts behind Group C winner Chinese GM Li Chao.

Overall so-so tournament for Indian players.

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Mixed Doubles Final
(1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Jaroslav Levinsky (CZE) 75 63

Leander wins 2010 Australian Open mixed doubles title with Cara Black ... So with that Leander Paes equalled Indian record of maximum grandslam titles win by Mahesh Bhupathi, 11 each ... This was Leander's 5th mixed doubles title and 2nd with Cara Black, with whom he lifted 2008 US Open mixed doubles title.

In first set both pairs traded couple of breaks early but Lee and Cara take important break at 5-all breaking Makarova's serve and then Cara first time hold her serve in the match to won first set ... Second set started the way Lara and Cara wanted ... They broke Levinsky's serve in first game and take control of the match ... Then they never were under pressure on their own serve but kept pressure on Levinsky and Makarova's serve ... They again broke Levinsky's serve in 9th game to won match and championship.

In the final Lee played exceptional tennis ... He was as usual best near net in making volleys and quick hands ... He served well, didn't face single break point on his serve ... In the final he lost only 3 points on his serve.

Match summary
First set
Levinsky hold on luv
0-1 Lee hold on luv
1-1 Cara and Lee broke Makarova's serve on luv
2-1 Cara serve got broken on luv Poor serving from her with 1 DF
2-2 broke Levinsky's serve @30 with mis-hit from him ... Lee played couple of exceptional points near net
3-2 Lee hold @15
4-2 Makarova hold @15 ... Some big hitting from Makarova from back of the court
4-3 again Cara's serve broken @15 .. Makarova playing excellent returns
4-4 Levinsky hold @15 .. Lee is serving to remain in the first set
4-5 Lee hold @15 ... Important game as after that Cara will be serving
5-5 Lee and Cara responded breaking Makarova's serve @15 ... Cara need to hold her serve first time in the set to win it
6-5 and Cara hold on luv to captured first set ... Both cara and Lee played very good net game.
7-5

Second set
excellent start for second set ... Inspirational game from both to break Levinsky's serve on luv
1-0 consolidate the break with Lee holding his serve on luv with his usual quick hands near the net
2-0 Makarova hold after saving 2 break points
2-1 Cara hold @15 ... Lee was in usual best near the net
3-1 Levinsky hold @30
3-2 Lee hold @15
4-2 Makarova hold @30
4-3 Cara hold @15 ... Lee was lightening quick on the net, showing amazing quick hands near the net ... One game away from the title
5-3 broke Levinsky's serve after duece when Levinsky forehand shot went wide ... @40-30 Lee played amazing point to make it duece ... So Lee and Cara won Australian Open 2010 mixed doubles title.
6-3
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At $500K South Africa Tennis Open, Johannesburg

[Q1] (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND,202) bye
[Q1] Rohan Bopanna (IND,423) l Benjamin Janse Van Rensburg (RSA,1351) 36 57

[Q2] (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND,202) vs Roman Valent (SUI,534)

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,162) vs (6) Xavier Malisse (BEL,93)
[R1] (5) Rajeev Ram (USA,84) vs (WC) Rik De Voest (RSA,239)

Doubles
[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ James Cerretani (USA) vs (WC) Ruan Roelofse (RSA)/ Nikala Scholtz (RSA)
[R1] (3) Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Eric Butorac (USA) vs Philipp Marx (GER)/ Igor Zelenay (SVK)
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Yves Allegro (SUI)/ Marcc Chiudinelli (SUI)

By far this was poor result for Rohan ... May be we should rethink about our Davis Cup combination against Russia ... Somi having tough first round match.

In doubles, our all pairs r in bottom draw ... Prakash and his partner can meet Rajeev and Burtoc if they wins their respective first round matches.

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

Group A: Round 12 - 30th January
Viswanathan Anand - Vladimir Kramnik 1-0
Sergey Karjakin - Alexei Shirov ½-½
Leinier Dominguez - Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½
Peter Leko - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Fabiano Caruana - Hikaru Nakamura ½-½
Sergey Tiviakov - Nigel Short ½-½
Jan Smeets - Loek van Wely 1-0

Group B: Round 12 - 30th January
Emil Sutovsky - Pentala Harikrishna ½-½
Tomi Nyback - Parimarjan Negi 1-0

Group C: Round 12 - 30th January
Soumya Swaminathan - Abhijeet Gupta 0-1

In Round 12, Anand scored convincing win over Kramnik in 45 moves ... Game played with Petrov Classical Attack ... With this win Anand moved 4th place with 7 pts ... In Group B, Hari drew but Negi lost his match ... And in Group C, Abhijeet scored win against Soumya.

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

Group A: Round 11 - 29th January
Jan Smeets - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Loek van Wely - Sergey Tiviakov 1-0
Nigel Short - Fabiano Caruana ½-½
Hikaru Nakamura - Peter Leko ½-½
Magnus Carlsen - Leinier Dominguez 1-0
Vassily Ivanchuk - Sergey Karjakin ½-½
Alexei Shirov - Vladimir Kramnik ½-½

Group B: Round 11 - 29th January
Parimarjan Negi - Emil Sutovsky ½-½
Pentala Harikrishna - Ni Hua ½-½

Group C: Round 11 - 29th January
Benjamin Bok - Soumya Swaminathan 1-0
Nils Grandelius - Abhijeet Gupta 0-1

Another short draw for Anand ... Negi and Hari drew their respective matches in Group B ... Abhijeet won but Soumya lost playing with blacks in Group C.

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Mixed Doubles
[SF] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (7) Lisa Raymond (USA)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA) 67(6) 76(5) 10-7

[F] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Jaroslav Levinsky (CZE)

Lee and Cara pulled off very close MXD semi-final ... Lee and Cara lost first set in tie-break with score 6-8 ... In second set early they were couple of breaks down and score was 0-3 ... But then they broke back to make it 1-3 and again they broke when opponents were serving for the match at 4-5 ... This time in tie-break they prevailed ... And in super tie-break they controlled from the start with early mini-break and were up 9-4 ... Converted 4th match point to moved in another MXD final.

They will face unseeded Russian-Czech pair, who surprised all with their performance.
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At $50K Honolulu Challenger, Hawaii, USA

Doubles
[QF] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) l Hiroki Kondo (JPN)/ Go Soeda (JPN) 46 62 (6)10
[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) l Kevin Anderson (RSA)/ Ryler DeHeart (USA) 26 26

Our both pairs lost in quarter-finals ... Purav and Adil couldn't produced much fight in their match ... Harsh and Treat tried fightback after losing first set but lost in super tie-break against Japanese pair.

Tennis News
At $50K Honolulu Challenger, Hawaii, USA

Doubles
[R1] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) bt Marco Crugnola (ITA)/ Andrea Stoppini (ITA) 62 62
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt (WC) Jan-Michael Gambill (USA)/ Michael McClune (USA) 64 76(3)

[QF] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) vs Hiroki Kondo (JPN)/ Go Soeda (JPN)

Good easy winning start for season 2010 to Harsh and Treat against Italian pair ... Also good win by Purav and Adil against tricky local opponents.

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

Group A: Round 10 - 27th January
Viswanathan Anand - Alexei Shirov 1-0
Vladimir Kramnik - Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½
Sergey Karjakin - Magnus Carlsen 0-1
Leinier Dominguez - Hikaru Nakamura ½-½
Peter Leko - Nigel Short ½-½
Fabiano Caruana - Loek van Wely ½-½
Sergey Tiviakov - Jan Smeets 1-0

Group B: Round 10 - 27th January
Dimitri Reinderman - Pentala Harikrishna 1-0
Ni Hua - Parimarjan Negi ½-½

Group C: Round 10 - 27th January
Soumya Swaminathan - Nils Grandelius 1-0
Abhijeet Gupta - Kjetil Lie 0-1

After long agonizing wait Anand scored his first victory in ongoing Corus tournament in 10th round ... He defeated co-leader Alexei Shirov playing with Ruy Lopez opening in 55 moves.

In Group B, Negi hold his opponent playing with blacks but Hari suffered loss against Reinderman ... In Group C, Soumya scored her first victory of championship but Abhijeet lost he consecutive second match.

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

Viva Kerala bt Air India 2-1

Goal Scored - Shibinlal (VK) 22', Sakeer M.P. (VK) 87' and N.D.Opara (AI) 59'

Viva scored their third victory in I-League to come out of relegation group.
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Dempo S.C. dw East Bengal 0-0

East Bengal hold Dempo to goalless draw, so Dempo missed opportunity of increase points difference between them and second place Mahindra in the standing.
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Pune F.C bt Chirag United S.C. 2-1

Goal Scored - Shanmugam Venkatesh (PFC) 45', Douhou Pierre (PFC) 84' P and Josimar Da Silva (CU) 53'

Pune FC impressive run continues as they scored their 4th consecutive victory ... But this was their first home victory in the I-league in seven matches after losing two and drawing four in the first phase.
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Salgaocar S.C. bt Mohun Bagan 2-1

Goal Scored - Mandjou Keita (SSC) 44', Eneke Ikenwa (SSC) 47' and Ryuji Sueoka (MB) 14',

Salgaocar scored huge upset win over formidable Mohun Bagan.
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Mumbai F.C dw Mahindra United 0-0

Mumbai FC hold Mahindra in Mumbai derby and ruined their chances of moving top of the standing.
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JCT Mills F.C. bt Sporting Clube de Goa 2-0

Goal Scored - Ajay Singh (JCT) 6', Baljit Sahni (JCT) 57'

JCT scored comfortable win against bottom place Sporting scoring a goal each in both half.
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Shillong Lajong F.C dw Churchill Brothers 0-0

Shillong Lajong hold Churchill to a goalless draw.

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Doubles
[QF] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) l Ivo Karlovic (CRO)/ Dusan Vemic(SRB) 36 46
[QF] Eric Butorac (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) l (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 57 64 67(2)

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (8) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Andy Ram (ISR) 64 63

[SF] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (7) Lisa Raymond (USA)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA)


Lee and Lukas didn't fired up today against big servers ... In both sets they lost their serve early and didn't able to break opponent's serve ... In end tame loss.

In mixed doubles top-seed pair of Lee and Cara scored comfortable straight sets victory over seeded pair ... In semis they r facing experienced doubles players, Moodie and Raymond.

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

Group A: Round 9 - 26th January
Sergey Tiviakov - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Jan Smeets - Fabiano Caruana 1-0
Loek van Wely - Peter Leko 1-0
Nigel Short - Leinier Dominguez ½-½
Hikaru Nakamura - Sergey Karjakin 0-1
Magnus Carlsen - Vladimir Kramnik 0-1
Vassily Ivanchuk - Alexei Shirov ½-½

Group B: Round 9 - 26th January
Parimarjan Negi - Dimitri Reinderman 1-0
Pentala Harikrishna - Liviu Nisipeanu ½-½

Group C: Round 9 - 26th January
Peng Zhaoqin - Soumya Swaminathan ½-½
Robin van Kampen - Abhijeet Gupta 1-0

Anand tried hard against Dutch GM Sergey Tiviakov but couldn't break deadlock of draw streak ... In Group B, Negi scored entertaining victory against Reinderman but Hari held draw by Nisipeanu ... In Group C, Soumya drew her third game in a row but Abhijeet Gupta lost and missed chance of going top of standing.

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Australian Open 2010 - Junior

[R2] (Q) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) l (3) Daria Gavrilova (RUS,4) 06 26

After losing easily in the first set Rishika produced some fight in second set.
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At $50K Honolulu Challenger, Hawaii, USA

Doubles
[R1] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) vs Marco Crugnola (ITA)/ Andrea Stoppini (ITA)
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs (WC) Jan-Michael Gambill (USA)/ Michael McClune (USA)

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Doubles
[R3] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt John Isner (USA)/ Sam Querrey (USA) 63 75

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)/ Rik De Voest (RSA) 64 62

[QF] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (8) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Andy Ram (ISR)

Australian Open 2010 - Junior
[R1] Vaidik Munshaw (IND)/ Chuhan Wang (CHN) l (4) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 26 67(3)

[R1] Yuki Ito (JPN)/ Rishika Sunkara (IND) l (6) Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER)/ Mai Grage (DEN) 76(5) 26 (6)10

After winning first set easily big servers American stretched Lee and Lukas in second but they won in 2 sets to moved into quarters.

Lee and Cara won first set with a single break ... In second set they broke opponent's serve in first game and take early 2-0 lead ... And they again broke opponent's serve in 7th game to take 5-2 lead ... ... They easily hold their serve to scored comfortable win to move in to MXD quarter-final ... Next they r facing 8th seed pair of Vesnina and Ram .. So that also means Lee is in quarters of Men's doubles and Mixed doubles.

After losing first set easily, Munshaw and Wang were up 3-0 in second ... Good fighting performance by Ito and Rishika, they lost in super tie-break.

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.