FOOTBALL

PRIMERA LIGA

Albacete 4 (Carlos Aranda 41pen, Antonio Pacheco 60, Ludovic Delporte 73, Juanma 89og) Racing Santander 0 l Atletico Madrid 2 (Fernando Torres 22, 75pen) Espanyol 0 l Murcia 1 (David Karanka 13) Villarreal 1 (Xisco 90+5) l Real Mallorca 1 (Fernando Correa 15) Valladolid 0 l Sevilla 3 (Inti Podesta 34, 47, Antonito 71) Real Zaragoza 2 (David Castedo 22og, David Villa 30pen) l Valencia 2 (Vicente 18, 66) Athletic Bilbao 1 (Santi Ezquerro 52).

PREMIER LEAGUE

Everton 0 Manchester City 0 l Southampton 3 (Michael Svensson 6, Brett Ormorod 45+1, 86) Charlton Athletic 2 (Scott Parker 46, 65).

BUNDESLIGA

Cologne 0 Bayer Leverkusen 0 l Schalke 04 2 (Jochen Seitz 1, 54) Bor. Moenchengladbach 1 (Ivo Ulich 43).

Ligue 1

Nice 2 (Everson 22, Lilian Laslandes 35) Montpellier 1 (Habib Bamogo 86pen) l Le Mans 2 (Daniel Cousin 33, Philippe Celdran 78) En Avant Guingamp 0.

SERIE A

Bologna 3 (Fabio Bilica 3og, Carlo Nervo 28, Giuseppe Signori 48) Ancona 2 (Emanuele Troise 70og, Goran Pandev 79) l Chievo Verona 0 AS Roma 3 (Francesco Totti 67, Mancini 70, Antonio Cassano 72) l Inter Milan 2 (Christian Vieri 25, 80) Perugia 1 (Giovanni Tedesco 88) l Lecce 1 (Ernesto Chevanton 69pen) Parma 2 (Alberto Gilardino 46, 77) l Modena 1(Carlo Taldo 83) Brescia 1 (Jonathan Bachini 84) l Sampdoria 2 (Francesco Flachi 1, Fabio Bazzani 73) Siena 1 (Roberto D’Aversa 38) l Udinese 1 (Carsten Jancker 87) Reggina 0.

CHESS

NATIONAL A MEET

KOZHIKODE, Round 7: S. Vikramjit Singh (3) drew P. Harikrishna l S. Kidambi (3) drew Sandipan Chanda (4) l S.S. Ganguly (5.5) beat Dibyendu Barua (4) l R.B. Ramesh (5) drew Abhijit Kunte (4) l Vishal Sareen (3.5) drew Roktim Bandhopadhyay (2) l M.R. Venkatesh (3) playing Prathamesh Mokal (2.5) l M. Srinivasa Rao (1.5) lost to Sriram Jha (2.5) l T.S. Ravi (2.5) lost to Koneru Humpy (6) l S. Satyapragyan (4) beat V. Hariharan (1.5) l Saptarshi Roy Chowdhary (4.5) drew Suvrajit Saha (4) l Neelotpal Das (4) drew Arghyadip Das (2.5) l Tejas Bakre (3) drew Praveen Thipsay (4).

TENNIS

ASIAN JUNIOR MEET

NEW DELHI, (Indians unless specified): Boys; Karan Rastogi bt Aditya Madkaker 6-2, 6-0 l Divij Sharan bt Prateek Shantharaju 6-1, 6-3 l Martin Sayer (HK) bt Sidharth Gulati 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 l Chen Chun (Tpe) bt Xioa Peng-lai (HK) 6-2, 6-2 l A.P. Rajgopalan bt Saurabh Kohli 6-4, 6-1 l Sunu Wahya Trijati (Ina) bt Vivek Shokeen 6-2, 2-0 (conceded) l Sandeep Kumar bt Navdeep Singh 6-2, 6-3 l Girls: Isha Lakhani bt Shweta Khakandki 6-0, 6-0 l P.Mallo bt Gayatri Krishnan 6-3, 6-3 l Kartiki Bhat bt Denise Harjanto (Ina) 6-3, 6-2 l S. Preethi bt Nungnudda Wanansuk (Tha) 7-5, 6-2 l Krushmi Chedda bt Sandhya Nagraj 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (7/4) l I-Hsuan Hwang (Tpe) bt Sandri Gangothri 6-3, 6-3 l K. Pooja bt Vishaka Sheron 6-4, 6-4 l Wen-Hain Hsu (Tpe) bt Vandana Murli 6-0, 6-2 l Punam Reddy bt Marutha Devi 6-2, 6-1.

For the book

Williams, who will lose Juan Pablo Montoya to Formula One rivals McLaren in 2005, now face a struggle to persuade Ralf Schumacher to extend his contract running until the end of next year. Ralf said no deal had been struck and his manager said he would consider other options if the negotiations failed.