TENNIS

MIAMI MASTERS

MEN, ROUND I: Franco Squillari (Arg) bt Hyung-Taik Lee (Kor) 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 l Guillermo Canas (Arg) bt Tommy Haas (Ger) 6-1, 7-6 (8-6) l Olivier Rochus (Bel) bt Kenneth Carlsen (Den) 7-5, 6-1 l Xavier Malisse (Bel) bt Irakli Labadze (Geo) 6-2, 6-0 l Mariano Zabaleta (Arg) bt Gregory Carraz (Fra) 6-4, 7-5 l Juan Monaco (Arg) bt Joachim Johansson (Swe) 7-6(8-6), 6-2.

ROUND II: Juan Ignacio Chela (25, Arg) bt Cyril Saulnier (Fra) 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 l Nicolas Kiefer (Ger) bt Rainer Schuettler (6, Ger) 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7-3) l Robby Ginepri (US) bt Gaston Gaudio (30, Arg) 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 l Lleyton Hewitt (17, Aus) bt Robin Soderling (Swe) 6-4, 6-2 l Rafael Nadal (32, Esp) bt Goran Ivanisevic (Cro) 6-4 retd l Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) bt Arnaud Clement (24, Fra) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 l Jurgen Melzer (Aus) bt Tim Henman (7, GBR) 6-7 (7-3), 2-6, 7-6 (7-4) l Guillermo Coria (3, Arg) bt Wayne Ferreira (RSA) 7-6 (7-2), 6-0 l Andrei Pavel (Rom) bt Nicolas Massu (10, Chi) 7-6(7-3), 6-1 l Todd Martin (US) bt Jarkko Nieminen (29, Fin) 6-3, 5-7, 7-5 l Julien Benneteau (Fra) bt Mardy Fish (16, US) 6-4, 6-4.

WOMEN, ROUND I: Kristina Brandi (US) bt Jelena Kostanic (Cro) 7-5, 6-2 l Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie (Rom) bt Zuzana Ondraskova (Cze) 6-4, 6-4 l Saori Obata (Jpn) bt Alina Jidkova (Rus) 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 l Nicole Pratt (Aus) bt Arantxa Parra (Esp) 7-6 (7-3), 6-7 (7-2), 6-4 l Lubomira Kurhajcova (Svk) bt Nicole Vaidisova (Cze) 6-2, 6-4 l Maria Kirilenko (Rus) bt Els Callens (Bel) 6-7 (7-3), 6-1, 7-6 (7-3) l Vera Douchevina (Rus) bt Emmanuelle Gagliardi (Sui) 6-2, 6-4 l Shenay Perry (US) bt Marlene Weingartner (Ger) 6-2, 6-1 l Tatiana Panova (Rus) bt Barbara Schett (Aut) 6-4, 6-2.

ROUND II: Tatiana Golovin (Fra) bt Dinara Safina (23, Rus) 6-1, 6-2 l Jelena Jankovic (Cro) bt Magdalena Maleeva (14, Bul) 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 l Maria Sharapova (17, Rus) bt Shinobu Asagoe (Jpn) 6-2, 3-6, 6-0 l Karolina Sprem (30, Cro) bt Lindsay Lee-Waters (US) 6-1, 6-2 l Serena Williams (1, US) bt Marta Marrero (Esp) 6-1, 6-0 l Eleni Daniilidou (25, Gre) bt Akiko Morigami (Jpn) 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 l Magui Serna (18, Esp) bt Jamea Jackson (US) 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 l Jennifer Capriati (4, US) bt Klara Koukalova (Cze) 6-0, 6-1 l Maria Vento Kabchi (Ven) bt Ai Sugiyama (6, Jpn) 6-1, 7-5 l Elena Likhovtseva (31, Rus) bt Barbora Strycova (Cze) 6-1, 6-4 l Aniko Kapros (Hun) bt Tina Pisnik (22, Slo) 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 l Jill Craybas (US) bt Petra Mandula (30, Hun) 7-6 (7-5), 6-2.

GOLF

PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, ROUND II: 135 Kevin Sutherland (US), Jerry Kelly (US) l 137 Ernie Els (RSA), Adam Scott (Aus) l 138 Vijai Singh (Fij), Padraig Harrington (GBR) l 139 Bob Burns (US), Duffy Waldorf (US), Jeff Sluman (US), Phil Mickelson (US) l 140 Kenny Perry (US), Bob Tway (US), Frank Lickliter II (US), Alex Cejka (Ger).

MADEIRA ISLAND OPEN

MACHICO, ROUND II: 136 Knud Storgaard (Den) l 140 Euan Little (GBR), Garry Houston (GBR) l 141 Chris Gane (GBR), Rolf Muntz (Ned), Warren Bennett (GBR) l 143 Jesus Maria Arruti (Esp), Robert Rock (GBR), Alan McLean (GBR), Andreas Ljunggren (Swe) l 144 John Mellor (GBR).

CALiFORNIA MEET

RANCHO MIRAGE, ROUND II: 138 Dottie Pepper (US, 68, 70), Lee Jung-Yeon (Kor, 69, 69) l 139 Karrie Webb (Aus, 68, 71) Wendy Doolan (Aus, 70, 69) Aree Song (Kor, 66, 73) l 140 Rosie Jones (US, 67, 73) l 141 Michelle Wie (US, 69, 72), Grace Park (Kor, 72, 69) Kim Mi-Hyun (Kor, 71, 70) l 142 Carin Koch (Swe, 70, 72) Cristie Kerr (US, 71, 71) Catriona Matthew (GBR, 67, 75), Stacy Prammanasudh (US, 71, 71).

CHESS

BLINDFOLD AND RAPID MEET

MONACO, ROUND VI: BLINDFOLD — Alexander Morozevich drew Loek Van Wely l Vassily Ivanchuk bt Veselin Topalov l Peter Leko bt Francesco Vallejo Pons l Vladimir Kramnik drew Viswanathan Anand l Alexei Shirov lost to Evgeny Bareev l Boris Gelfand drew Peter Svidler.

RAPID — Anand bt Kramnik l Bareev bt Shirov l Vallejo Pons lost to Leko l Topalov bt Ivanchuk l Svidler bt Gelfand l Van Wely bt Morozevich

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