FOOTBALL

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

GROUP A: In Athens ? Olympiakos Piraeus 1 (Predrag Djordjevic 67) Deportivo Coruna 0 In Monaco ? Monaco 1 (Javier Saviola 54) Liverpool 0 GROUP B: In Madrid ? Real Madrid 1 (Raul 70) Bayer Leverkusen 1 (Dimitar Berbatov 36) In Kiev ? Dynamo Kiev 2 (Traianos Dellas 73-own goal, Maxim Shatskikh 81) AS Roma 0 GROUP C: In Munich ? Bayern Munich 5 (Claudio Pizarro 12, Hasan Salihamidzic 37, Torsten Frings 44, Roy Makaay 71, 80) Maccabi Tel-Aviv 1 (Barukh Dago 56-penalty) In Turin ? Juventus 1 (Marcelo Zalayeta 15) Ajax Amsterdam 0 GROUP D: In Manchester ? Manchester United 2 (Gary Neville 19, Ruud van Nistelrooy 53) Olympique Lyon 1 (Mahamadou Diarra 40) In Prague ? Sparta Prague 0 Fenerbahce 1 (Radoslav Kovac 21-own goal).

CHESS

WORLD GIRLS? UNDER-20

KOCHI, Round VIII: Ekaterina Korbut (6, Rus) bt Anna Ushenina (6, Ukr) Eesha Karavade (5.5, Ind) drew Elisabeth Paehtz (6, Ger) Zhang Jilin (5, Chn) drew Saheli Nath (5.5, Ind) Vinuthna (5.5, Ind) drew Dana Aketayeva Dana (4.5, Kaz) G.P. Shaesteh (4.5, Iri) lost to J.E. Kavitha (5.5, Ind) Alina Motoc (5, Rom) bt Aleksandra Mijovic (4, Scg) Tania Sachdev (4, Ind) bt G.C. Paloma (4, Esp) Raghavi (4.5, Ind) drew Joanna Majdan (4.5, Pol) Marties Bensdorp (4.5 Neth) Drew Siti Zulaikha (4.5, Mal) Stiri Alexandra (3.5, Gre) drew Nadig Kruttika (4, Ind) Koneru Chandra Hawsa (3.5, Ind) lost to Gutsko Anastasiya (4, Ukr) Perez R Jennifer (4, Cub) bt Nimmy George (3, Ind) Anuprita Patil (4, Ind) bt Hodova Lucie (3, Cze) Iswarya Shobana (3, Ind) lost to Ramya Krishna (4, Ind) Sandya (3, Ind) drew Meenu Rajendran (3.5, Ind).

WORLD JUNIOR MEET

KOCHI, Round VIII: Zhao Jun (6.5, Chn) drew Tigran Petrosian (6.5, Arm) Koneru Humpy (5.5, Ind) lost to P. Harikrishna (7, Ind) Evgeny Alekseev (6, Rus) bt Wojtasek Radoslaw (5, Pol) David Smerdon (5, Aus) lost to Yuri Drozdovsky (5.5, Ukr) Ferenc Berkes (5, Hun) drew Jianu Vlad-Cristian (5, Rom) Elshan Moradiabadi (5, Iri) drew Timur Gareyev (5.5, Uzb) Q.P. Yunieski (5.5, Cub) bt Deepan Chakravarthy (4.5, Ind) Bartel Mateusz (4.5, Pol) lost to Deep Sengupta (5.5, Ind) Leandro Perdomo (5, Arg) drew M.R. Venkatesh (5, Ind) Mark Paragua (5, Phi) bt Poobesh Anand (4.5, Ind) Stanislav Cifka (4, Cze) lost to Jan Smeets (5, Ned) Pablo Lafuente (4.5, Arg) drew Hans Tikkanen (4.5, Swe) Sai Srinivas (5, Ind) bt Abhijeet Gupta (4, Ind).

GOLF

USPGA GRAND SLAM MEET

NEW YORK, Round I: 65 Retief Goosen (RSA) 66 Vijai Singh (Fij) 68 Phil Mickelson (US) 70 Todd Hamilton (US)

For the book

Former Chile striker Ivan Zamorano has confirmed his interest in buying bankrupt Colo Colo, the country?s most popular club. ?I would be delighted to contribute and be involved in something which means a lot to me,? said Zamorano, who finished his career at the club last year.