CHESS

World Junior Championship

Round VII ??? Boys: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze, 6.5) bt Vugar Gashimov (Aze, 4.5)lAlexander Kharitonov (Rus, 5) drew Alekseev Evgeny (Rus, 5)lBartel Mateusz (Pol, 5) drew Wojtaszek Radoslav (Pol, 5)lJan Smeets (Ned, 5) drew Wang Yue (Chn, 5)lTomi Nyback (Fin, 5) bt Evgeny Romanov (Rus, 4.5)lEvgeny Tomashevsky (Rus, 4.5) drew Sergei Zhigalko (Blr, 4.5)lDaniel Stellwagen (Ned, 5) bt Glud Jacob Vang (Den, 4)lIldar Khairullin (Rus, 5) bt Levon Babujian (Arm, 4)lBartlomiej Heberla (Pol, 5) bt Andrey Zhigalko (Blr, 4)lWang Hao (Chn, 5) bt Tornike Sanikidze (Geo, 4)lS.Poobesh Anand (4, Ind) drew Farid Zeynalov (Aze, 4)lParimarjan Negi (3.5, Ind) drew Vasily Papin (Rus, 3.5)lDeep Sengupta (3.5, Ind) drew G.N.Gopal (3.5, Ind)lG.Rohit (3.5, Ind) bt Can Emre (Tur, 3.5)lYagiz Yasin Emrah (Tur, 3) bt Akshat Khamparia (2, Ind)

Girls: Beata Kadziolka (Pol, 5.5) drew Gu Xiaobing (Chn, 6)lTurkan Mamedjarova (Aze, 5.5) drew Dana Aketaeva (Kaz, 5)lNana Dzagnidze (Geo, 5)

drew Elisabeth Paehtz (Ger, 5)lNatalija Pogonina (Rus, 5.5) bt Anna Ushenina (Ukr, 4.5)lIrina Vasilevich (Rus, 5) bt Anna Sherevich (Blr, 4)lTania

Sachdev (5, Ind) bt Evgenia Meshcheriakova (Rus, 5)

FOOTBALL

WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS

PLAY-OFFS

Slovakia 1 (Filip Holosko 50) Spain1 (David Villa 71) Spain win 6-2 on aggregatelTurkey 4 (Tuncay Sanli 22,38,89, Necati Ates 52pen) Switzerland 2 (Alexander Frei 2pen, Marco Streller 84) Switzerland win 4-4 on aggregate lCzech Republic 1 (Tomas Rosicky 35) Norway 0 Czech Republic win 2-0 on aggregate Australia 1 (Marco Bresciano 34) Uruguay 0 Australia win 4-2 on penalties after 1-1 on aggregate lBahrain 0 (Hussain Ali Baba 90+) Trinidad & Tobago 1 (Dennis Lawrence 50) Trinidad & Tobago win 2-1 on aggregate

Friendlies

Ivory Coast 1 (Didier Drogba 69) Italy1 (Aimo Diana 86)lPoland 3 (Mariusz Lewandowski 8, Sebastian Mila 57, Grzegorz Piechna 87) Estonia 1 (Ingemar Teever 68)lMexico 0 Bulgaria 3 (Ianko Valkanov 5, Valeri Bojinov 34, Dimitar Berbatov 80)lEgypt 1 (Hossam Ahmed Mido 49) Tunisia 2 (Haykel Guemamdia 57,59)lQatar 0 Argentina 3 (Juan Riquelme 70, Julio Ricardo Cruz 71, Roberto Ayala 72)

TENNIS

ATP MASTERS CUP

Shangai, Round Robin Red Group Matches ??? Singles: Fernando Gonzalez (Chi) bt Mariano Puerta (Arg) 6-3, 4-6, 6-0lNikolay Davydenko (Rus) bt Gaston Gaudio (Arg) 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 lDavid Nalbandian (Arg) bt Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) 6-2, 6-2

Doubles: Wayne Arthurs/Paul Hanley (7, Aus) bt Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor (4, Bah/Aus) 6-3,6-4lBob Bryan/Mike Bryan (1,Aus) bt Leander Paes/Nenad Zimonijic (5,Ind/SCG) 7-5, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6(9-7)

For the book

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will inaugurate the regional sports centre of Mahesh Bhupathi Tennis Academy in Kochi on Sunday.

The sports centre, in association with the academy, will impart professional coaching to trainees in Kerala.