BADMINTON

World championships

ANAHEIM (CALIFORNIA) Men’s singles pre-quarters ? Lin Dan (1, Chn) bt Shoji Sato (Jpn) 15-8, 9-15, 15-5 Hyun II Lee (13, Kor) bt Muhd Hafiz Hashim (8, Mal) 15-11, 15-5 Peter Gade Christensen (3, Den) bt Sony Dwi Kuncoro (Ina) 15-11, 15-10 Chen Hong (7, Chn) bt Ng Wei (9, HKG) 15-7, 14-17, 15-3 Chong Wei Lee (5, Mal) bt Bjorn Joppien (16, Ger) 15-4, 15-3 Bao Chunlai (4, Chn) bt Choong Hann Wong (10, Mal) 15-6, 15-12 Taufik Hidayat (6, Ina) bt Boonsak Ponsana (11, Tha) 15-9, 15-17, 15-10 Kenneth Jonassen (2, Den) bt Aamir Ghaffar (Eng) 15-2, 15-4. Women’s doubles quarter finals ? Wei Yang-Jiewen Zhang (Chn) bt Gail Emms-Donna Kellogg (Eng) 15-7, 15-10 Kyung Won Lee-Hyo Jung Lee (Kor) bt Pei Tty Wong-Eei Hui Chin (Mal) 15-6, 15-5 Dan Zhang-Yawen Zhang (Chn) bt Yili Wei-Tinting Zhao (Chn) 15-8, 15-9 Ling Gao-Sui Huang (Chn) bt Saralee Thungthongkam-Sathinee Chankrachangwong (Tha) 15-3, 15-4.

CRICKET

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

DIVISION I, DAY III ? LONDON: Surrey 463 (M. Ramprakash 192; W. Rudge 3/97, C. Bandara 3/88). Gloucestershire 350 & 294/6 (R. Sarwan 99, K. Ali 66; N. Doshi 3/68) DIVISION II, DAY III, DERBYSHIRE? Derbyshire 426 & 194/8 (D. Kaneria 5/65) Essex 306 (G. Flower 61, R. Irani 99, D. Gough 51; G. Welch 5/68) MANCHESTER ? Lancashire 537 (M. Chilton 130, A. Symonds 146, D. Cork 52, W. Hegg 68; G. Kruis 5/102, T. Bresnan 4/111) York 417 & 71/0 WORCESTERSHIRE ? Worcestershire 696/8 decl (B. Smith 172, S. Davies 148; K. Parsons 3/81) Somerset 318 & 220/8 (R. Price 4/67, G. Batty 4/121)

GOLF

WGC-NEC Invitational

AKRON (OHIO) Round I ? 66 Tiger Woods (US), Vijai Singh (Fij), Henrik Stenson (Swe) 67 Chris DiMarco (US), Davis Love III (US), Nick Dougherty (GBR) 68 Stuart Appleby (Aus), Sergio Garcia (Spa), Nick ’Hern (Aus) 69 Phil Mickelson (US), Chris Riley (US), Luke Donald (GBR) 70 Mark Hensby (Aus), Zach Johnson (US), Colin Montgomerie (GBR), Kenny Perry (US), David Howell (GBR), Adam Scott (Aus), Thomas Bjorn (Den), Kazuhiko Hosokawa (Jpn), Sean ’Hair (US), Brent Geiberger (US) 71 Marc Cayeux (Zim), John Daly (US), Rod Pampling (Aus), K.J. Choi (Kor), Fred Couples (US), Kenneth Ferrie (GBR), David Toms (US), Mike Weir (Can), Paul McGinley (Ire), Tim Clark (RSA) 72 Niclas Fasth (Swe), Ted Purdy (US), Jose Maria Olazabal (Spa), Stewart Cink (US), Chad Campbell (US), Steve Elkington (Aus), Ryan Palmer (US), Thomas Levet (Fra), Michael Campbell (NZ), Jim Furyk (US), Justin Leonard (US) 73 Woody Austin (US), Ian Poulter (GBR), Thongchai Jaidee (Tha), Scott Verplank (US), Rory Sabbatini (RSA), Tom Lehman (US), Trevor Immelman (RSA), Lee Westwood (GBR) 74 Stephen Ames (Can), Stephen Gallacher (GBR), Stephen Dodd (GBR), Peter Lonard (Aus), Fred Funk (US), Geoff Ogilvy (Aus), Bart Bryant (US), Ben Crane (US) 75 Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn), Paul Casey (GBR), Angel Cabrera (Arg) 79 Jyoti Randhawa (Ind).

HOCKEY

Eight-nation meet

AMSTERDAM Pakistan 3 (Mohammed Saqlain 15, Imran Mohammed 30, Shakeel Abbassi 68) India 1 (Didar Singh 56) Spain 4 (Victor Sojo 54, Santi Freixa 56, Eduard Tubau 68, Albert Sala 69) Germany 1 (Nico Sonnenschen 48).

TENNIS

Toronto Cup

Round III ? Women’s singles: Anastasia Myskina (9, Rus) bt Shinobu Asagoe (Jpn) 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 Nadia Petrova (6, Rus) bt Na Li (Chn) 6-2, 3-0 ret Nicole Vaidisova (Cze) bt Hana Sromova (Cze) 6-2, 6-2 Amelie Mauresmo (2, Fra) bt Conchita Martinez (Spa) 6-0, 6-2 Gisela Dulko (Arg) bt Svetlana Kuznetsova (3, Rus) 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (8-6) Flavia Pennetta (14, Ita) bt Serena Williams (5, US) WO. Men’s singles: Robby Ginepri (US) bt Carlos Moya (Spa) 6-3, 6-4 Andy Roddick (5, US) bt Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg) 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) bt Gael Monfils (Fra) 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 Lleyton Hewitt (3, Aus) bt Mario Ancic (Cro) 6-1, 6-4 Marat Safin (4, Rus) bt Dominik Hrbaty (Svk) 6-0, 6-3 Jose Acasuso (Arg) bt Luis Horna (Per) 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 Nikolay Davydenko (6, Rus) bt Fernando Gonzalez (Chi) 6-3, 6-4 Roger Federer (1, Sui) bt Olivier Rochus (Bel) 6-3, 6-4.

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