TENNIS

WTA Dubai Open

Semi-finals (Friday): Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) bt Ai Sugiyama (5, Jap) 6-0, 7-5.

Quarter finals (Thursday): Ai Sugiyama (5, Jap) bt Eleni Daniilidou (Gre) 6-1, 6-3 l Meghann Shaughnessy (US) bt Anastasia Myskina (4, Rus) 7-6 (7-2), 4-6, 6-3 l Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) bt Venus Williams (2, U.S.) 6-2, 6-3 l Justine Henin-Hardenne (1, Bel) bt Conchita Martinez (8, Esp) 6-1, 6-0.

ATP Marseille Open

Round II: Arnaud Clement (7, Fra) bt Olivier Rochus (Bel) 7-6 (10-8), 7-6 (7-1) l Jonas Bjorkman (Swe) bt Marat Safin (8, Rus) 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 l Marc Rosset (Sui) bt Guillermo Coria (2, Arg) 7-6 (7-2), 6-1 l Fernando Gonzalez (5, Chi) bt Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 6-2, 6-3 l Dominik Hrbaty (Svk) bt Albert Costa (6, Esp) 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (7-5) l Alberto Martin (Esp) bt Sargis Sargsian (Arm) 6-3, 6-3 l Max Mirnyi (4, Bel) bt Cyril Saulnier (Fr) 6-4, 6-4 l Robin Soderling (Swe) bt Gregory Carraz (Fra) 6-3, 6-4.

FOOTBALL

Uefa Cup

Round III, First Leg

MOSCOW: Spartak Moscow 0 Real Mallorca 3 (Samuel Eto’o 67, Antonio Gonzalez 80, Jesus Perera 85)

OSLO: Valerenga 1 (Runar Normann 54) Newcastle United 1 (Craig Bellamy 39)

GAZIANTEP: Gaziantepspor 1 (Yusuf Simsek 19) AS Roma 0

GROCLIN: Groclin Grodzisk 0 Girondins Bordeaux 1 (Chamakh 90)

MARSEILLE: Olympique Marseille (Didier Drogba 55-pen) 1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0

ISTANBUL: Galatasaray 2 (Murat Erdogan 26, Cesar Prates 52) Villarreal 2 (Sonny Anderson 7, Juan Roman Riquelme 22)

PERUGIA: Perugia 0 PSV Eindhoven 0

PARMA: Parma 0 Genclerbirligi 1 (Josip Skoko 60)

AUXERRE: AJ Auxerre 0 Panathinaikos 0

COPENHAGEN: Brondby 0 Barcelona 1(Ronaldinho 63)

BRUGES: Club Bruges 1 (Rune Lange 40) Debrecen (Hungary) 0

GLASGOW: Celtic 3 (Henrik Larsson 3, 90, Chris Sutton 12) Teplice 0

LIVERPOOL: Liverpool 2 (Steven Gerrard 67, Harry Kewell 70) Levski Sofia 0

SOCHAUX: Sochaux 2 (Pierre-Alain Frau 59, 81) Inter Milan 2 (Christian Vieri 8, Alvaro Recoba 61)

VALENCIA: Valencia 3 (Mohamed Sissoko 25, Fabian Canobbio 43, David Navarro 90) Besiktas 2 (Daniel Pancu 17, 39)

LISBON: Benfica 1 (Zlatko Zahovic 60) Rosenborg Trondheim 0

For the book

Defender Ledley King, who scored on his full England debut earlier this month, has signed a new four-year contract with Tottenham Hotspur, his agents said on Friday.