FOOTBALL

UEFA CUP

GROUP A: In Gelsenkirchen: Schalke 04 2 (Gabor Gyepes 15 own goal, Levan Kobiashvili 40) Ferencvaros 0 In Basel: Hearts 2 (Dennis Wyness 31, Robbie Neilson 89) Basel 1 (Cesar Carignano 76) GROUP B: In Bucharest: Steaua Bucharest 2 (Adrian Neaga 3, Cristian Ciocoiu 19) Besiktas 1 (Ibrahim Akim 87) In Liege: Standard Liege 2 (Karel Geraerts 54, Michel Garbini 90+5) 2 Parma 1 (Andrea Pisanu 43) GROUP C: In Dnipropetrovsk: Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 (Serhiy Nazarenko 19) Austria Vienna 0 In Bruges: Club Bruges 1 (Rune Lange 62) Utrecht 0 GROUP D: In Tbilisi: Sporting 4 (Liedson 6, 28, 59, Hugo Viana 90) Dinamo Tbilisi 0 In Sochaux: Newcastle 4 (Lee Bowyer 28, Shola Ameobi 46, Craig Bellamy 75, Laurent Robert 90+1) Sochaux 0 GROUP E: In Villarreal: Villarreal 2 (Antonio Guayre 36, Javi Venta 74) Middlesbrough 0l In Rome: Lazio (Paolo Di Canio 52, Simone Inzaghi 73) 2 Partizan Belgrade 2 (Pierre Boya 6, 25) GROUP F: In Warsaw: AZ Almaar 3 (Barry van Galen 13, Martijn Meerdink 37, Stein Huysegems 39) Amica Wronki 1 (Jacek Dembinski 58) In Glasgow: Rangers 3 (Nacho Novo 58, Shota Arveladze 86, Hamed Namouchi 90) Graz AK 0 GROUP G: In Lisbon: Benfica 2 (Tomislav Sokota 11, Simao Sabrosa 28 penalty) Dinamo Zagreb 0 In Heerenvee: Heerenveen 1 (Ugur Yildirim 67) VFB Stuttgart 0 GROUP H: In St Petersburg: Zenit St Petersburg 1 (Andrei Arshavin 35) Sevilla 1 (Julio Baptista 72) In Athens: Lille 2 (Milivoje Vitakic 26, Matthieu Debuchy 64) AEK Athens 1 (Kofi Amponsah 72).

CHESS

WORLD GIRLS? UNDER-20

KOCHI: Round X: Ekaternia Korbut (8, Rus) bt Eesha Karavade (6.5, Ind) Elisabeth Paehtz (8, Ger) bt Tania Sachdev (5.5, Ind) Vinuthna (6, Ind) drew with Anna Ushenina (7.5, Ukr) Zhang Jilin (6.5, Chn) bt Dana Aketayeva (5.5, Kaz) Saheli Nath (5.5, Ind) lost to Joanna Majdan (6.5, Pol) Perez R Jennifer (6, Cub) bt J E Kavitha (5.5, Ind) Raghavi (5, Ind) lost to Alina Motoc (6, Rom) Nadig Kruttika (5.5, Ind) drew with Anastasiya Gutsko (5.5, Ukr) Van Weersel Arlette (4.5, Ned) lost to Siti Zulaikha (6, Mal) Koneru Chandra Hawsa (5, Ind) drew with Ghader Pour Shaesteh (5, Iri) Marties Bensdorp (5.5, Ned) bt Aleksandra Mijovic (4, Scg).

WORLD JUNIOR MEET

KOCHI: Round X: Quezada Perez Yunieski (7, Cub) drew with Harikrishna (8, Ind) Zhao Jun (7.5, Chn) drew with Yuri Drozdovsky (7, Ukr) Deep Sengupta (7.5, Ind) bt Evgeny Alekseev (6.5, Rus) Timur Gareyev (6.5, Uzb) drew with Tigran Petrosian (7, Arm) Erwin L?ami (6, Ned) lost to Jianu Vlad-Cristian (7, Rom) Sai Srinivas (6, Ind) lost to Jan Smeets (7, Ned) Radoslaw Wojtaszek (6, Pol) drew with Zhe Quan (6.5, Can) Deepan Chakravarthy (6, Ind) drew with Artem Iijin (6, Rus) Koneru Humpy (6, Ind) drew with Arghyadip Das (6, Ind) Elshan Moradiabadi (6, Iri) drew with Jadj Hadjesi Balind (6, SCG) Ferenc Berkes (6, Hun) bt Geir Sune Tallaksen (5, Nor) Mark Paragua (6, Phi) bt Grigor Grigorov (5, Bul) Pablo Lafuente (5.5, Arg) drew with Leandro Perdomo (5,5, Arg) Olsson Linus (6, Swe) bt M R Venkatesh (5, Ind) Jan Smeets (Ned, 5) bt David Smerdon (Aus, 5) M. R. Venkatesh (Ind, 5) lost to Sai Srinivas (Ind, 6) Jianu Vlad-Cristian (Rom, 5) bt Mateusz Bartel (Pol, 4.5) Hans Tikkanen (Swe, 4.5) lost to Artem Iljin (Rus, 5.5) Grigorov Grigor (Bul, 5) drew Pablo Lafuente (Arg, 5).

TENNIS

Fed Cup semi-finals

MOSCOW: Russia bt Austria 5-0 ? Svetlana Kuznetsova/Elena Likhovtseva bt Yvonne Meusburger/Patricia Wartusch 6-2, 6-2 Svetlana Kuznetsova bt Daniela Kix 6-1, 6-1 Anastasia Myskina bt Yvonne Meusburger 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.

GOLF

USPGA GRAND SLAM MEET

NEW YORK: Round II: 127 Phil Mickelson 68 59 132 Vijay Singh 66 66 133 Retief Goosen 65 68 145

For the book

Italian television viewers are turning away from soccer with the sport?s dozens of programmes showing falling viewing figures, an Italian daily reported on Friday