CHESS

ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

HYDERABAD ? Zhong Zhang (Chn) bt Jun Zhao(Chn) Marat Dzhumaev (Uzb) lost to Hai Dao Thien (Vie) Hao Wang (Chn) drew Reefat Bin-Sattar (Ban) Lanka Ravi lost to Neelotpal Das (Ind) Li Shilong (Chn) bt Darmen Dadvakasov (Kaz) Hua Ni (Chn) bt Angton Filippov (Uzb) Kidambi Sundararajan drew Yue Wang (Chn) Jun Xu (Chn) bt R. B. Ramesh Orazly Annageldyev (Tkm) bt Sandipan Chanda (Ind) Abhijit Kunte (Ind) drew B. S. B. Sivanandan (Ind) Abdulla Aio-Rakib drew Dung Nguyenanh (Vie) Saidali Iuldachev (Uzb) drew Sergey Kayumov (Uzb) Susanto Megaranto(Ina) bt Himamshu Sharma M. R. Venkatesh lost to Jianchao Zhou Krishnan Sasikiran bt Morteza Mahjoob (Iri) Murtas Kazhgaleyev (Kaz) bt Weiqi Zhour (Chn) Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (Iri) bt Sergui Simonenko (Tkm) Surya Shekar Ganguly bt R. R. Laxman Abijeet Gupta lost to Koneru Humpy G. Rohit drew Wu Wnjin (Chn) Shaotengyu (Chn) bt Ponnuswamy Konguvel Valay Parikh drew Tejas Bakre K. Visweswaran drew Pavel Gnusarev (Kaz) D. P. Singh lost to Jayson Gonzales (Phi) Deepan Chakravarthy bt Sunil Mokal G. N. Gopal lost to Meilis Annaberdiev (Tkm) V. Sarvganan lost to Swayangsu Satyapragyan Arghyadip Das lost to K. Dinesh Sharma Somak Palit lost to Deep Sengupta S. Poobesh Anand bt P. G. Mohd Omar AK Hira (Bru) J. Ramakrishna lost to Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury A. K. L. Hirawan Mohd Omar (Bru) bt D. Harika P. D. S. Girinath drew Babu N. Sudhakar Roktim Bandyopadhyaya bt Sai Srinivas Yogesh Gore drew Lim Yee Weng (Mas) Wnedi Xie George (Aus) bt S. Rishipal Singh K. Ramyu drew Atanu Lahiri

GOLF

JAPAN GOLF

Round III ? 203 Y. Yang 66 72 65 205 T. Taniguchi 66 71 68 206 T. Teshima 69 71 66, K. Miyamoto 67 72 67, D. Maruyama 68 71 67 208 Y. Miyazato 68 74 66, S. Katayama 67 73 68, K. Hosokawa 71 68 69 210 J. M. Singh 65 71 74

WGC CHAMPIONSHIP

Round II ? 133 Colin Montgomerie (GBR) 64 69 134 David Howell (GBR) 67 67, John Daly (US) 67 67 135 Mark Calcavecchia (US) 67 68, Jim Furyk (US) 68 67, Angel Cabrera (Arg) 69 66, Tiger Woods (US) 67 68 136 Sergio Garcia (Esp) 67 69, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 71 65, David Toms (US) 68 68 137 Ian Poulter (GBR) 67 70, Vijai Singh (Fij) 67 70, Chad Campbell (US) 67 70, Zach Johnson (US) 68 69, Adam Scott (Aus) 68 70, Davis Love III (US) 71 68 140 Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 70 70, Phil Mickelson (US) 71 69

EPGA TOUR TENERIFE MEET

Round II ? 135 Michael Kirk (RSA) 69 66, Stuart Little (GBR) 68 67 136 Titch Moore (RSA) 68 68, Stephen Scahill (Nzl) 70 66 137 Peter Baker (GBR) 69 68, John Bickerton (GBR) 69 68, Mark Roe (GBR) 69 68 138 Garry Houston (GBR) 73 65, Andres Romero (Arg) 66 72, Jamie Spence (GBR) 69 69 139 Johan Axgren (Swe) 72 67, Kariem Baraka (Ger) 71 68, Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 72 67, Marc Warren (GBR) 68 71

TENNIS

JAPAN OPEN

Men’s Singles, Semi-final ? Wesley Moodie (RSA) bt Jarkko Nieminen (7, Fin) 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (6-4) Mario Ancic (5, Cro) bt Bjoern Phau (Ger) 6-2, 6-1 Women’s Singles, Semi-final ? Tatiana Golovin (3, Fra) bt Sania Mirza (8, Ind) 6-2, 6-4 Nicole Vaidisova (2, Cze) bt Maria Kirilenko (4, Rus) 6-4, 6-2

ATP METZ OPEN

Quarter final ? Dominik Hrbaty (4, Svk) bt Mark Philippoussis (Aus) 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 Gael Monfils (6, Fra) bt Richard Gasquet (2, Fra) 7-6 (5-3), 6-2 Ivan Ljubicic (3, Cro) bt Robin Soederling (5, Swe) 6-7 (6-8), 6-3, 6-4 Nikolay Davydenko (1, Rus) bt Andreas Seppi (Ita) 6-3, 6-1

WTA TASHKENT OPEN

Semi-final ? Akgul Amanmuradova (Uzb) bt Maria Elena Camerin (7, Ita) 6-3, 6-4 Michaella Krajicek (5, Ned) bt Ekaterina Bychkova (1, Rus) 6-1, 6-3

FILDERSTADT GRAND PRIX

Quarter final ? Amelie Mauresmo (3, Fra) bt Nadia Petrova (6, Rus) 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 Elena Dementieva (5, Rus) bt Kim Clijsters (2, Bel) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 Lindsay Davenport (1, US) bt Anastasia Myskina (8, Rus) 6-2, 3-6, 6-1

For the book

Former Argentina goalkeeper Nery Pumpido has taken over as coach of struggling first division club Newell's Old Boys.Pumpido, a member of the 1986 World Cup-winning team, replaces former Chile coach Juvenal Olmos who resigned two weeks ago.