FOOTBALL

UEFA CUP

Group A ? Monaco 2 (Emmanuel Adebayor 44, Olivier Veigneau 90+5) Hamburg SV 0 Viking Stavanger 2 (Toni Nhleko 26, Allan Gaarde 55) Slavia Prague 2 (Stanislav Vlcek 51, Karel Pitak 83) Group B ? Espanyol 1 (Moises Hurtado 90+1) Palermo 1 (Mariano Gonzalez 45) Lokomotiv Moscow 4 (Dmitry Loskov 60,64,84, Igor Lebedenko 63) Brondby 2 (Martin Retov 11, Morten Skoubo 28) Group C ? Halmstad 1 (Dusan Djuric 18) Sampdoria 3 (Sergio Volpi 31, Aimo Diana 67, Emiliano Bonazzoli 87) Hertha Berlin 0 Racing Lens 0 Group D ? Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0 Litex Lovech 2 (Milivoje Novakovic 73, Sergi Nazarenko 90og) AZ Alkmaar 0 Middlesbrough 0 Group E ? AS Roma 1 (Antonio Cassano 73) Racing Strasbourg 1 (Habib Bellaid 52) Tromso 3 (Benjamin Kibebe 22, Ole Martin Arst 37,74pen) Red Star Belgrade 1 (Nikola Zigic 24) Group F ? Olympique Marseille 1 (Taye Taiwo 90pen) Heerenveen 0 CSKA Moscow 2 (Vagner Love 49,73) Levski Sofia 1 (Valeri Domovchijski 90) Group G ? Shakhtar Donetsk 0 Rapid Bucharest 1 (Marius Maldarasanu 87) PAOK Salonika 1 (Christos Karipidis 48) VfB Stuttgart 2 (Danijel Lljuboja 85,90+1pen) Group H ? Zenit St Petersburg 2 (Alexander Kerzhakov 10,89) Sevilla 1 (Javier Saviola 90) Vitoria Guimaraes 1 (Marek Saganowski 85) Bolton Wanderers 1 (Ricardo Vaz Te 88)

IFA SHIELD

Calcutta ? Mohammedan Sporting 3 (Okonji Patrick 43, Satyajit Bose 72, Bolwe Mputu 80) East Bengal 2 (Chandan Das 68, Malswamtluanga 89)

FRIENDLY

Saudi Arabia 1 (Nawaf Al Temyat) Paraguay 0

GOLF

EPGA TOUR CHINA OPEN

Round II ? 132 Chawalit Plaphol (Tha) 65 67 135 Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 65 70, Oliver Wilson (GBR) 68 67 136 Simon Yates (GBR) 68 68 137 Ross Fisher (GBR) 69 68 138 Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 71 67, Miles Tunnicliff (GBR) 68 70 139 Shiv Kapur (Ind) 69 70 142 Gaurav Ghei (Ind) 72 70 143 Rahil Gangjee (Ind) 72 71 145 Amandeep Johl (Ind) 72 73, Harmeet Kahlon (Ind) 75 70

JAPAN GOLF

Round II ? 138 T. Suzuki 70 68, T. Izawa 68 70, T. Teshima 69 69 139 Y. Haku 72 67, M. Tateyama 70 69 140 H. Tanihara 72 68, S. Higaki 71 69, N. Kawahara 72 68 141 W. T. Yeh 71 70, J. D. Kim 73 68 142 J. M. Singh 71 71, T. Yoneyama 69 73, S. Yokota 71 71

For the book

Former French Open champion Albert Costa has decided to postpone his retirement and continue on the circuit for another year.'' I want to carry on playing as long as I keep getting invitations to play in tournaments."