TENNIS

HAMBURG ATP MASTERS

Round III: Carlos Moya (Esp) bt Fernando Verdasco (Esp) 6-

4, 3-6, 6-4 Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) bt Flavio Saretta (Bra) 6-4,

2-6, 6-4 Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) bt Andrei Pavel (Rom) 4-6, 6-4,

6-3 Roger Federer (Sui) bt Fernando Gonzalez (Chi) 7-5, 6-

1 David Ferrer (Esp) bt Albert Costa (Esp) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3

Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) bt Florian Mayer (Ger) 6-0, 7-6 (7-4)

Jurgen Melzer (Aut) bt Marat Safin (Rus) 6-4, 6-4 Roger

Federer (Sui) bt Fernando

Gonzalez (Chi) 7-5, 6-1 Ivan

Ljubicic (Cro) bt Andrei Pavel

(Rom) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 Guillermo Coria (Arg) bt Tommy Robredo (Esp) 7-5, 6-4.

ROME WTA MASTERS

ROME, Round III: Serena

Williams (US) bt Dally

Randriantefy (Mad) 6-1, 6-3

Silvia Farina Elia (Ita) bt Maria

Sharapova (Rus) 7-6 (7-3), 6-0

Vera Zvonareva (Rus) bt

Elena Bovina (Rus) 6-0, 6-3

Francesca Schiavone (Ita) bt Elena Likhovtseva (Rus) 6-1, 6-3 Jennifer Capriati (US) bt Paola Suarez (Arg) 6-2, 6-2 Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) bt Ai Sugiyama (Jpn) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7-4) Amelie Mauresmo (Fra) bt Conchita Martinez (Esp) 6-3, 6-4 Anna Smashnova-Pistolesi (Isr) bt Flavia Pennetta (Ita) 6-2, 6-2.

CRICKET

ENGLISH COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

First Division (second day of four): BRISTOL: Northamp-

tonshire 218 (U. Afzaal 63; J. Averis 6/32) vs Gloucestershire

432/5 (C. Spearman 139, A. Gidman 66 .., T. Hancock 65,

Shoaib Malik 51 ..) OLD TRAFFORD: Lancashire 187

(M. Loye 59 ..) & 200/3 (C. Hooper 100, I. Sutcliffe 81 ..)

vs Worcestershire 146 (J. Anderson 6/49, G. Keedy 4/20)

EDGBASTON: Warwickshire 546 (G. Hogg 158, J. Troughton

77, A. Giles 70, I. Trott 61; M. Bicknell 4/130 vs Surrey 190/7.

Second Division: SOPHIA GARDENS: Glamorgan 435 (M.

Elliott 114, A. Wharf 78, M. Maynard 64, D. Hemp 55; G.

Napier 4/91) vs Essex 301/6 (A. Habib 131 .., J.

Middlebrook 80) GRACE ROAD: Leicestershire 223 (J.

Sadler 62, . Gibson 57 .; R. Sidebottom 4/52, C. Shreck

4/73) & 94/2 vs Nottinghamshire 366 (M. Ealham 139, R.

Warren 72; D. Gibson 5/98) TAUNTON: Somerset 375 (J.

Hildreth 101, K. Dutch 72, J. Cox 66, K. Parsons 55) & 68/2

vs Durham 235 (J. Lewis 65; R. Johnson 7/69) HEADING-

LEY: Hampshire 322 (. Pothas 100, W. Kendall 50) & 114/5 v

sYorkshire 316 (M. Lumb 83).

TOUR MATCH

New Zealand in England

CANTERBURY: New Zealand 297/2 (Michael Papps 126,

Mark Richardson 92, Nathan Astle 32 .., Scott Styris 14

..) vs Kent.

GOLF

TEXAS MEET

Round I: 64 Peter Lonard (Aus), J.L. Lewis (US) 65 Tiger

Woods (US), Dudley Hart (US) 66 Jerry Kelly (US), Chris

Smith (US), Stephen Leaney (Aus), Jay Williamson (US),

Sergio Garcia (Esp), Nick Price (Zim), Rod Pampling (Aus),

Daniel Chopra (Swe), Kevin Durkin (US) 67 Jesper Parnevik

(Swe), Carl Pettersson (Swe), Shaun Micheel (US), Mark

'Meara, Bob Burns (US), Kenny Perry (US), Jonathan Byrd

(US), Duffy Waldorf (US), Deane Pappas (RSA), John Cook

(US), Ben Crane (US), Robert Damron (US) 68 Esteban

Toledo (Mex), Vijai Singh (Fij), Mark Hensby (Aus), Greg

Chalmers (Aus), Luke Donald (GBR).

ASIAN OPEN

Round II: 135 Simon Dyson (Eng) 66-69 137 Miguel Angel

Jimenez (Esp) 71-66, Paul McGinley (Ire) 68-69 138 Greg

Hanrahan (US) 67-71, Alex Cejka (Ger) 68-70, Adam Groom

(Aus) 69-69, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 72-66 139 Greg

Norman (Aus) 67-72, Zhang Lian-wei (Chn) 70-69, Marcus

Both (Aus) 68-71 140 Chris Gane (Eng) 70-70, Choi Kyung-

ju (Kor) 67-73, Euan Little (Sco) 71-69, Thaworn Wiratchant

(Tha) 72-68, Mattias Eliasson (Swe) 68-72, Craig Spence

(Aus) 68-72, Prayad Marksaeng (Tha) 67-73 142 Jeev Milkha Singh 71-71(Ind) 143 Harmeet Kahlon 72-71 (Ind) 144 Jyoti Randhawa 70-74 (Ind) 145 Arjun Singh 72-73 (Ind) 147 Rahil Gangjee 72-75 (Ind).

FRANKLIN LPGA MEET

Round I: 66 Nancy Scranton (US) 67 Stacy Prammana-

sudh (US) 68 Candy Hannemann (Bra), Pat Hurst (US), Mi

Hyun Kim (Kor), Wendy Ward (US) 69 Wendy Doolan (Aus),

Lorie Kane (Can), Gloria Park (Kor), Angela Stanford (US)

70 Kristi Albers (US), Patricia Baxter-Johnson (US), Tracy

Hanson (US), Lorena Ochoa (Mex), Mikaela Parmlid (Swe),

Giulia Sergas (Ita).

SWIMMING

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPs

MADRID (Day IV): Men: 200m butterfly: 1. Denis Sylantiev

(Ukr) 1:56.71, 2. Ioan Gherghel (Rom) 1:56.82, 3. Anatoly

Poliakov (Rus) 1:57.45 200m breaststroke: 1. Paolo

Bossini (Ita) 2:11.73, 2. Dmitry Komornikov (Rus) 2:12.02, 3.

Richard Bodor (Hun) 2:13.27 50m backstroke: 1. Stev

Theloke (Ger) 25.61, 2. Darius Grigalionos (Lit) 25.67, 3.

David Ortega (Esp) 25.69 5 kms: 1. Fario Venturini (Ita)

51:41.4, 2. Alan Bircher (Gbr) 51:55.4, 3. Stefano Rubaudo

(Ita) 52:11.8. Women: 200m medley: 1. Yana Klochkova (Ukr) 2:12.56, 2. Hanna Shcherba (Blr) 2:15.03, 3. Beatrice Caslaru (Rom) 2:15.70 10kms: 1. Britta Kamram (Ger) 1:54:24.0, 2. Marta Nogues (Esp) 1:54:25.6, 3. Angela Maurer (GER) 1:54:26.0.

HOCKEY

FOUR NATION MEET

GIFU: Women: China 4 (Fu Baorong 1, 15, Li Shuang 10,

Zhou Wanfeng 34) India 0 South Korea 4 (Kim Seong-Eun

6, Oh Ko-Woon 11, 45, Ko Kwang-Min 69) Japan 0.

CHESS

NATIONAL JUNIOR GIRLS’ MEET

KOZHIKODE: Eesha Karvade (MAH) 4.5 drew with Kruttika

Nadig (MAH) 4 Ramya Krishna (AP) 3.5 drew with Tania

Sachdev (DEL) 3.5 S. Swaminathan (MAH) 3.5 drew with I.

Shobana (GLDN) 3.5 H. Sowmya (ACA) 3 lost to Saheli

Nath (WB) 4, . Raghavi (TN) 3 lost to Lakshmy Praneetha

(CCA) 4 Saba Aziz Mhate (MAH) 3 lost to P. Sivasankari

(TN) 4 Nabeela Farheen (TN) 4 bt Supriya Maji (WB) 3

Nimmy George (Ker) 3.5 bt Sneha Ghatpande (MAH) 3

Amruta Mokal (MAH) 3.5 bt Alka Das (JHA) 2.5 Anjanaa

Sowjanya (CAPA) 2.5 lost to K. M. Mohanty (ORI) 3.5.

VOLLEYBALL

WOMEN'S OLYMPIC QUALIFIERS

TOKYO: Japan bt South Korea 3-0 (25-19, 25-19, 25-15) Puerto Rico bt Nigeria 3-0 (25-17, 25-18, 25-16) Russia bt Thailand 3-0 (25-15, 25-18, 25-12) Italy bt Taiwan 3-0 (25-15, 25-19, 25-16).

BADMINTON

THOMAS CUP

JAKARTA, Semi-final: China bt South Korea 3-0 (Lin Dan bt Lee Hy-un Il 15-11, 15-2 Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng bt Lee Dong Soo and Kim Dong Moon 15-13, 15-11 Bao Chunlai bt Shon Seong Mo

15-2, 15-5).

For the book

Scottish champions Celtic have invited Brazilian Marcio Amoroso to join them on their pre-season tour of North America in July.The striker trained with the Glasgow club for the first time on Thursday and his agent Nivaldo Baldo said that the former Borussia Dortmund player would find it an honour to travel with Celtic.