CHESS

WORLD CUP

Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), Round III, Game I ? Magnus Carlsen (Nor) bt Ivan Cheparinov (Bul) Emil Sutovsky (Isr) drew Etienne Bacrot (Fra) Levon Aronian (Arm) bt Alexander Areshchenko (Ukr) Yuri Shulman (US) drew Alexander Grischuk (Rus) Boris Gelfand (Isr) drew Levan Pantsulaia (Geo) Mikhail Gurevich (Tur) drew Alexei Shirov (Esp) Jobava Baadur (Geo) drew Sergei Rublevsky (Rus) Loek Van Wely (Ned) bt Teimur Radjabov (Aze) Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr) bt Xu Jun (Chn) Konstantin Sakaev (Rus) bt Sergei Tiviakov (Ned) Vladimir Malakhov (Rus) bt Ivan Sokolov (Ned) P. Harikrishna (Ind) drew Alexey Dreev (Rus) Gata Kamsky (US) drew Ilia Smirin (Isr) Francisco Vallejo Pons (Esp) drew Zahar Efimenko (Ukr) Joel Lautier (Fra) drew Evgeniy Najer (Rus) Lazaro Bruzon (Cub) bt Evgeny Bareev (Rus)

FOOTBALL

PREMIER LEAGUE

Manchester United 3 (Paul Scholes 20, Wayne Rooney 80, Ruud van Nistelrooy 84) Portsmouth 0 Blackburn Rovers 0 Everton 2 (James McFadden 28, Mikel Arteta 45) Chelsea 1 (John Terry 61) Middlesbrough 0 Newcastle United 1 (Alan Shearer 32pen) Aston Villa 1 (Gavin McCann 75) Tottenham Hotspur 3 (Hossam Ahmed Mido 37, Robbie Keane 51, Michael Carrick 77) Sunderland 2 (Dean Whitehead 16, Anthony Le Tallec 60) West Bromwich Albion 0 Fulham 0 Bolton Wanderers 2 (Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye 20, Stelios Giannakopoulos 32) Arsenal 0 Liverpool 3 (Mike Pollitt 19og, Peter Crouch 42, Luis Garcia 70) Wigan Athletic 0

LIGUE 1

Monaco 2 (Francois-Joseph Modesto 11, Olivier Sorlin 40) Le Mans 0 Metz 2 (Gregory Proment 14pen,66) Toulouse 2 (Daniel Moreira 40, Francileudo Santos 90) Racing Strasbourg 0 Sochaux 0 Ajaccio 0 ES Troyes AC 1 (Gharib Amzine 79) Auxerre 4 (Peguy Luyindula 2,39, Luigi Pieroni 30, Benoit Cheyrou 90+3) Nantes 0 Girondins Bordeaux 1 (Fernando 81) Lille 0 Olympique Lyon 2 (Fred 5, John Carew 90+3) Paris St Germain 0

BUNDESLIGA

Werder Bremen 2 (Nelson Valdez 64, Tim Borowski 73) MSV Duisburg 0 Arminia Bielefeld 0 Schalke 04 1 (Christian Poulsen 51) Hamburg SV 3 (Thimothee Atouba 43, Benjamin Lauth 54, Sergei Barbarez 73) Cologne 1 (Bjoern Schlicke 58) Borussia Moenchengladbach 0 Nuremberg 1 (Marek Nikl 62) Borussia Dortmund 0 Hanover 96 2 (Steve Cherundolo 16, Christoph Dabrowski 85) VfB Stuttgart 0 Bayern Munich 0

SERIE A

Inter Milan 1 (Adriano 24) Ascoli 0 Chievo Verona 2 (Sergio Pellisier 45+1, Simone Tiribocchi 82) AC Milan 1 (Kaka Kaladze 22)

PRIMERA LIGA

Athletic Bilbao 1 (Pablo Orbaiz 90+6) Atletico Madrid 1 (Mateja Kezman 12) Real Madrid 1 (Ronaldo 18) Getafe 0 Celta Vigo 2 (Fabian Canobbio 5, Fernando Baiano 20) Real Betis 1 (Edu 90)

IFA SHIELD

Calcutta, Final ? Bayern Munich 5 (Stefan Maierhoefer 27, 54, Michael Stagmayer 51, George Niedermeier 58, Jose Ortiz 83) Ever-Ready 1 (Lalkamal Bhowmick 22)

GOLF

EPGA TOUR HONG KONG OPEN

Round IV ? 271 Colin Montgomerie (GBR) 69 66 66 70 272 K.J. Choi (Kor) 67 72 64 69, James Kingston (RSA) 68 69 64 71, Keng-Chi Lin (Tai) 68 69 66 69, Edward Loar (US) 68 64 71 69, Thammanoon Srirot (Tha) 71 67 66 68 273 Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 68 68 67 70, Wook-Soon Kang (Kor) 64 70 68 71, Damien McGrane (Irl) 68 71 63 71 274 Simon Yates (GBR) 69 69 61 75 275 Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 65 68 68 74, Rick Gibson (Can) 65 66 71 73, Peter Gustafsson (Swe) 69 69 67 70 277 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 69 69 66 73 279 Gaurav Ghei (Ind) 68 72 67 72 280 Shiv Kapur (Ind) 69 70 68 73 282 Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 65 71 72 75 287 Amandeep Johl (Ind) 72 69 71 75

HOCKEY

WOMEN’S CHAMPIONS TROPHY

Final ? Australia 0 Netherlands 0 (4-5). Netherlands won after penalty shoot-out 3-4 place ? Argentina 2 China 2 (8-9). China won after penalty shoot-out 5-6 place ? Germany 5 South Korea 1

SQUASH

WORLD OPEN

HONG KONG, Semi-finals, Men’s Singles ? Amr Shabana (5, Egy) bt Peter Nicol (6, GBR) 11-8, 11-2, 11-6 David Palmer (3, Aus) bt James Willstrop (8, GBR) 11-9, 13-11, 12-10 Women’s Singles ? Rachael Grinham (1, Aus) bt Natalie Grinham (4, Aus) 10-8, 9-6, 9-4 Nicol David (3, Mas) bt Vanessa Atkinson (2, Ned) 6-9, 9-1, 10-9, 9-3

TENNIS

DAVIS CUP

WORLD GROUP FINAL, Bratislava, Saturday ? Mario Ancic/Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) bt Dominik Hrbaty/Michal Mertinak (Svk) 7-6 (7-5), 6-3, 7-6 (7-5)

For the book

Fifth seed Yasin Merchant of Maharashtra overcame second seed Manan Chandra of PSPB 6-3 to lift the P.D. Avasia Open Snooker Challenge Cup at the 41st CCI Open Billiards & Snooker Tournament on Sunday. Merchant won 81(43)-46, 81-20, 78(54)-7, 65-25, 38-53, 43-61, 21-72, 66-17, 63-40.