CHESS

NATIONAL A MEET

Round VI ' D. P. Singh (Jha, 4) bt M. S. Thej Kumar (Kar, 1.5) Sriram Jha (LIC, 2) lost to Sandipan Chanda (PSPB, 3) M. R. Venkatesh (PSPB, 3.5) bt D. K. Sharma (LIC, 1.5) B. S. Shivanandan (Kar, 2.5) drew R. B. Ramesh (PSPB, 3.5) Abhijit Kunte (PSPB, 3) drew Deepan Chakravarthy (TN, 4) S. Kidambi (PSPB, 4.5) bt Vikramaditya Kamble (Mah, 1.5) Abhijeet Gupta (PSPB, 3.5) bt P. D. S. Girinath (AP, 1) Himanshu Sharma (Har, 2) lost to Arghyadip Das (Ben, 2.5) S. S. Ganguly (PSPB, 4) bt S. Arun Prasad (PSPB, 3) Lanka Ravi (PSPB, 1) lost to Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (Ben, 3.5) Koneru Humpy (AP, 5) w/ Women, Round V ' Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ori, 3.5) lost to Swati Mohota (Ben, 1.5) J. E. Kavitha (TN, 1.5) drew I. Ramya Krishna (AP, 3) Swati Ghate (LIC, 4) lost to Nimmy George (Ker, 3) Anupama Gokhale (PSPB, 1) drew I. Aiswarya Shobhana (TN, 2.5) M. Supriya (Ben, 2) lost to Alka Das (Jha, 2.5) Aarthie Ramaswamy (IA, 2) drew Amrutha Mokal (Mah, 2.5) S. Vijayalakshmi (IA, 2.5) lost to Eesha Karavade (Mah, 3) S. Meenakshi (IA, 2) lost to Mary Ann Gomes (Ben, 4) D. Harika (AP, 2) drew Nisha Mohota (PSPB, 2).

FOOTBALL

NATIONAL LEAGUE

CALCUTTA ' Mohun Bagan 1 (Mehtab Hussain) East Bengal 3 (Bhaichung Bhutia, S. Malsawmtluanga, Gouranga Dutta)

GOLF

EPGA US MASTERS

Round II ' 138 Chad Campbell (US) 71 67 141 Rocco Mediate (US) 68 73, Vijai Singh (Fij) 67 74, Fred Couples (US) 71 70 142 Phil Mickelson (US) 70 72, Darren Clarke (GBR) 72 70, Ernie Els (RSA) 71 71, Tim Clark (RSA) 70 72, David Howell (GBR) 71 71 143 Nick ’Hern (Aus) 71 72, Billy Mayfair (US) 71 72, Padraig Harrington (Irl) 73 70, Olin Browne (US) 74 69, Ben Crenshaw (US) 71 72, Retief Goosen (RSA) 70 73, Tiger Woods (US) 72 71 144 Stephen Ames (Can) 74 70, Scott Verplank (US) 74 70, Jason Bohn (US) 73 71, Rich Beem (US) 71 73, Mike Weir (Can) 71 73, Arron Oberholser (US) 69 75

SWIMMING

WORLD SHORT COURSE

SHANGHAI, Men, 50m Backstroke ' 1. Matt Welsh (Aus) 23.53; 2. Thomas Rupprath (Ger) 23.70; 3. Helge Meeuw (Ger) 24.01 50m Butterfly ' 1. Matt Welsh (Aus) 23.05; 2. Sergiy Breus (Ukr) 23.06; 3. Kaio Almeida (Bra) 23.07 Women, 100m Breaststroke ' 1. Tara Kirk (US) 1:05.25; 2. Suzaan van Biljon (RSA) 1:05.62; 3. Jade Edmistone (Aus) 1:06.08 200m Individual Medley ' 1. Qi Hui (Chn) 2:09.33; 2. Kaitlin Sandeno (US) 2:10.79; 3. Lara Carroll (Aus) 2:11.77 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay ' 1. Netherlands 3:33.32 WR (I. Dekker/H. Schreuder/C. Groot/M. Veldhuis); 2. Australia 3:34.95 (S. Reese/S. Edington/D. Miatke/L. Lenton); 3. Sweden 3:36.13 (J. Lillhage/T. Alshammar/A. Kammerling/I. Mattsson)

TENNIS

DAVIS CUP

PLAY OFF TIE, MUMBAI ' India 2 Pakistan 1 Leander Paes/Mahesh Bhupathi (Ind) bt Asim Shafik/Jalil Khan (Pak) 6-2, 6-3, 6-1

WORLD GROUP, QUARTER FINALS

Friday ' Australia beat Belarus 3-0 Chris Guccione (Aus) bt Max Mirnyi (Blr) 7-6 (7-4), 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) bt Vladimir Voltchkov (Blr) 6-2, 6-1, 6-2 United States 1 Chile 1 Fernando Gonzalez (Chi) bt James Blake (US) 6-7 (5-7), 0-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, 10-8 Andy Roddick (US) bt Nicolas Massu (Chi) 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-5) France 2 Russia 0 Marat Safin (Rus) bt Richard Gasquet (Fra) 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 (1-7), 6-1 Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) bt Arnaud Clement (Fra) 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) Croatia 1 Argentina 1 Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) bt Agustin Calleri (Arg) 6-7 (7-9), 5-7, 7-6 (8-6), 6-1, 6-2 David Nalbandian (Arg) bt Marin Cilic (Cro) 6-1, 6-1, 6-2

WTA AMELIA ISLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS

Quarter finals ' Lucie Safarova (15, Cze) bt Jill Craybas (US) 6-2, 6-2 Nadia Petrova (1, Rus) bt Virginia Ruano (Esp) 6-3, 6-0 Svetlana Kuznetsova (5, Rus) bt Patty Schnyder (2, Sui) 6-3, 6-1 Francesca Schiavone (3, Ita) bt Anna-Lena Groenefeld (7, Ger) 6-2, 6-3

For the book

The Home Office has launched a partnership with Premier League clubs to bring coaching, education and training opportunities to children from deprived communities.In the deal announced on Saturday, the clubs will seek to reach “thousands of youngsters" and tackle issues associated with lack of opportunities.