CHESS

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Round XI: Viswanathan Anand (Ind, 6.5) bt Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzb, 4.5)lMichael Adams (Eng, 4) drew with Veselin Topalov (Bul, 8.5) Judit Polgar (Hun, 3) drew with Peter Leko (Hun, 5)lPeter Svidler (Rus, 7) bt Alexander Morozevich (Rus, 5.5)

ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

Hyderabad ?? Surya Sekhar Ganguly bt Jayson Gonzales (Phi) lRui Wang (Chn) drew with Sandipan ChandalHimanshu Sharma drew with Wu Wenjin (Chn)lAbhijit Kunte bt Vishal Sareen Dibyendu Barua drew with Abhijit Gupta Roktim Bandyopadhyay drew with M.R.Venkatesh Lanka Ravi bt Xie George Wendi (Aus)lTejas Bakre drew with DP.SinghlDeepan Chakravarty bt Lim Yee Weng (Mas) Sharbaf Mohsen (Iri) drew with Satyapragyan Swayangsul G Rohit bt V Saravanan lPoobesh Anand bt Lukey Stephen (NZL)lParik Valay drew with Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury D Harika bt VisweswaranlArghyadip Aas drew with Sudhakar BabulRR. Laxman bt PG Md Omar Ak Hira (Bru)lGN. Gopal bt Rishipal Singh Palit Somak bt Ramu

TENNIS

Kremlin Cup

Round I: Men’s ?? Andrei Pavel (Rom) bt Stephane Bohli (Sui) 6-4, 6-4 lTeimuraz Gabashvili (Rus) bt Gilles Muller (Lux) 6-3, 6-1lPaul Goldstein (US) bt Mikhail Ledovskikh (Rus) 6-2, 6-4lFilippo Volandri (Ita) bt Razvan Sabau (Rom) 6-0, 6-1l Nicolas Kiefer (Ger) bt Alexander Popp (Ger) 6-4, 6-1lFlorian Mayer (Ger) bt Lars Burgsmueller (Ger) 6-3, 6-2 lJan Hernych (Cze) bt Florent Serra (Fra) 6-4, 6-4

Round I : Women’s ??? Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Ger) bt Virginie Razzano (Fra) 3-6, 7-5, 6-1l Flavia Pennetta (Ita) bt Nathalie Dechy (Fra) 6-3, 7-5l Samantha Stosur (Aus) bt Alicia Molik (Aus) 6-3, 6-2 Sesil Karatantcheva (Bul) bt Jelena Jankovic (SCG) 6-2, 6-1lPatty Schnyder (Sui) bt Anna Chakvetadze (Rus) 2-6, 6-2, 7-5lElena Likhovtseva (Rus) bt Vera Douchevina (Rus) 3-6, 6-2, 7-5

WTA Thailand Open

Round I ?? Melinda Czink (Hun) bt Tathiana Garbin (Ita) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1l Catalina Castano (Col) bt Maria Vento-Kabchi (Ven) 6-3, 6-2 lSuchanan Viratprasert (Tha) bt Su-Wei Hsieh (Tpe) 6-2, 7-6lShahar Peer (Isr) bt Severine Bremond (Fra) 6-3, 6-4lMartina Sucha (Slo) bt Yoon Jeong Cho (Kor) 6-4, 6-1l Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spa) bt Rika Fujiwara (Jap) 7-5, 7-6(7-5)lMeng Yuan (Chn) bt Aiko Nakamura (Jap) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3

ATP Stockholm Open

Round I ?? Davide Sanguinetti (Ita) bt Taylor Dent (US) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4lParadorn Srichaphan (Tha) bt Fernando Verdasco (Spa) 7-6(7-4), 6-3lAlberto Martin (Spa) bt David Ferrer (Spa) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2lVince Spadea (US) bt Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg) 6-2, 4-6, 6-1

ATP Vienna Open

Round I ?? Rainer Eitzinger (Aut) bt Nicolas Almagro (Spa) 7-6(7-6), 6-2lNicolas Lapentti (Ecu) bt Andreas Seppi (Ita) 7-5, 7-6lTim Henman (GBR) bt Antony Dupuis (Fra) 7-5, 6-3 lFernando Gonzalez (Chi) bt Tomas Berdych (Cze) 6-2, 6-2l Oliver Marach (Aut) bt Jiri Novak (Cze) 6-4, 6-3

For the book

China continued their crackdown on doping offences in athletics by catching 26 athletes using illegal substances this year ahead of this month's 10th National Games. Organisers vowed to keep the Games clean and run more than 1,000 urine tests, 20 per cent more than at the 2001 event, where 11 athletes tested positive for doping.