CRICKET

County Championship

Division I, Day II, CANTERBURY ' Kent 347. Warwickshire 288/7 (Nick Knight 100, I. Bell 63; A. Khan 6/73, M. Patel 3/90) LORD'S ' Nottinghamshire 546 (overnight 399/6) (P. Franks 104 ..; A. Richardson 7/113, P. Weeks 3/83). Middlesex 167/6 (E. Joyce 68 .., G. Smith 3/54) HOVE ' Sussex 252. Hampshire 280 (N. Pothas 84; R. Kirtley 4/54). Sussex 101/2 Division II, NORTHAMPTON ' 433/6 d (D. Sales 113, R. White 95, B. Shafayat 59,G. Brophy 52, M. Love 50; P. Defreitas 4/76). Leicestershire 69/0 (D. Robinson 46 ..) LEEDS ' Yorkshire 401/7 (Ian Harvey 161 .., T. Bresnan 48 ..). Matches to continue.

SNOOKER

World Championship

SHEFFIELD, Round II (Best of 25 frames) ' Ronnie 'Sullivan (1, Eng) is level with Allister Carter (Eng) 4-4 (0-109 99-17 14-75 63-16 83-41 3-66 4-86 76-19) Stephen Hendry (3, Sco) leads Anthony Hamilton (Eng) 6-2 (117-8 4-111 69-37 76-13 88-0 82-1 77-22 17-86) Round 1 (Best of 19 frames) ' Stephen Lee (9, Eng) bt Tony Drago (Mal) 10-5 (107-16 48-68 106-9 126-7 87-0 23-52 61-37 61-49 57-69 81-9 81-34 51-65 36-79 108-13 77-39) Ian McCulloch (Eng) bt Graeme Dott (15, Sco) 10-9 (80-29 70-51 67-61 61-46 28-74 38-84 31-106 77-33 59-31 111-16 4-77 0-120 67-50 0-122 52-72 14-85 55-80 66-1 63-38).

TENNIS

BARCELONA OPEN

Men's Singles Round II ' Stanislas Wawrinka (Sui) bt Jose Acasuso (Arg) 6-3, 6-4l Radek Stepanek (11, Cze) bt Guillermo Canas (5, Arg) 6-7 (6) 7-6 (2) 7-6 (5) Agustin Calleri (Arg) bt Guillermo Coria (4, Arg) 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (2 ) Rafael Nadal (8, Esp) bt Dominik Hrbaty (10, Svk) 6-1, 6-2 Nikolay Davydenko (7, Rus) bt Thomas Johansson (9, Swe) 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (2) Max Mirnyi (Blr) bt Carlos Moya (3, Esp) 6-4, 6-4 Juan Carlos Ferrero (Esp) bt Alberto Martin (Esp) 6-1, 6-2 Gaston Gaudio (2, Arg) bt David Ferrer (13, Esp) 6-3, 6-4.

U.S. Clay Court Championship

HOUSTON, Men's Singles, Round II ' Nicolas Lapentti (Ecu) bt Kevin Kim (US) 7-6 (1), 6-2 James Blake (US) bt Antony Dupuis (Fra) 6-4, 6-1 Sebastien Grosjean (6, Fra) bt Oscar Hernandez (Esp) 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 Andre Agassi (US) bt Alex Calatrava (Esp) 3-6, 6-4, 7-5.

Fed Cup

NEW DELHI, Asia Oceania Zone Group I ' China 2 (Jie Zheng bt Rushmi Chakravarthi 6-3, 6-0 Na Li bt Shikha Uberoi 6-1, 6-2) India 0

CHESS

Danish Open

COPENHAGEN, Round VI ' Krishnan Sasikiran (Ind, 4) drew with Jonny Hector (Swe, 2) Viorel Iordachescu (Mda, 3.5) lost to Jan Timman (Ned, 5) Sune Berg Hansen (Den, 2) lost to Hikaru Nakamura (US, 4.5) Tigar Hilarp Persson (Swe, 1.5) lost to Curt Hansen (Den, 4) Emil Hermansson (Swe, 1) drew with Davor Palo (Den, 2.5 ).

GOLF

BEIJING Open

Round I ' 63 Adam Scott (Aus) 66 Chawalit Plaphol (Tha) 67 Sergio Garcia (Esp) Adam Fraser (Aus), Yuan-Chi Chen (Tai) 68 Ter-Chang Wang (Tai), Richard Sterne (RSA), Gary Rusnak (US), Peter 'Malley (Aus), Retief Goosen (RSA), Colin Montgomerie (GBR), Prayad Marksaeng (Thai), Miles Tunnicliff (GBR), Lei Shang (Chn) 69 David Bransdon (Aus), Scott Drummond (GBR), Andrew Pitts (US), Barry Lane (GBR), Peter Lawrie (Irl) 71 Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 76 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 77 Harmeet Kahlon (Ind) 79 Rahil Gangjee (Ind).

Houston Open

Round I ' 64 Vijai Singh (Fij) 65 Brendan Jones (Aus), Gavin Coles (Aus) 67 Ted Purdy (US), Chris Smith (US), Carl Paulson (US), Tim Herron (US), Greg Owen (GBR), Jeff Maggert (US), Jimmy Walker (US), Brett Quigley (US) 68 John Daly (US), Tom Byrum (US), Joe Ogil-vie (US), Paul Claxton (US), Geoff Ogilvy (Aus), Brian Bateman 69 Billy Andrade (US), Rod-ney Pampling (Aus), David Hearn (Can), Mark Calcavecchia (US), Dean Wilson (US), Justin Bolli (US), Tom Pernice Jr (US), Bo Van Pelt (US), Marco Dawson (US), Da-niel Chopra (Swe), Craig Barlow (US), Charlie Wi (Kor), Arjun Atwal (Ind).

For the book

Top seed Vinod Sridhar of Tamil Nadu and crowd favourite Karan Rastogi, the third seed, entered the final of the Rs 4-lakh National Ranking men's tennis championship with str-aight-set semi-final victories on Friday.