CHESS

NATIONAL A MEET

Round XIX ? R. B. Ramesh (PSPB, 9) drew Deepan Chakravarthi (TN, 13.5) D K Sharma (LIC, 7) drew V Kamble (Mah, 6) Sandipan Chanda (PSPB, 12) drew P D S Girinath (AP, 6.5) M S Thej Kumar (Kar, 7.5) drew Arghyadip Das (Ben, 6.5) Sriram Jha (LIC, 5.5) drew S Arun Prasad (PSPB, 7.5) M R Venkatesh (PSPB, 11.5) drew Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (Ben, 10.5) B S Shivananda (Kar, 6.5) drew Lanka Ravi (PSPB, 7.5) Koneru Humpy (AP, 12) drew S S Ganguly (PSPB, 13) Abhijit Kunte (PSPB, 11.5) bt Himanshu Sharma (Har, 6) S Kidambi (PSPB, 10) drew Abhijeet Gupta (PSPB, 8.5) D P Singh (Jha, 12) had a bye Women, Round XVI ? S Vijayalakshmi (IA, 10.5) bt Maji Supriya (Ben, 6) S. Meenakshi (IA, 11) bt Anupama Gokhale (PSPB, 5) D. Harika (AP, 10.5) drew Swati Ghate (LIC, 12.5) Nisha Mohota (PSPB, 11) bt J E Kavitha (TN, 6.5) Mary Ann Gomes (Ben, 11.5) drew Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ori, 8) Esha Karvade (Mah, 10) bt Soumya Swaminathan (Mah, 4) Amruta Mokal (Mah, 8) drew Swati Mohota (Ben, 6.5) Alka Das (Jha, 4) lost to I. Ramya Krishna (AP, 6.5) I Ishwarya Shobana (TN, 6.5) bt Nimmy George (Ker, 7.5) Aarthie Ramaswamy (IA, 8.5) had a bye

FOOTBALL

PREMIER LEAGUE

Blackburn Rovers 0 Liverpool 1 (Robbie Fowler 29) Aston Villa 3 (Milan Baros 10, 78, Gary Cahill 56) Birmingham City 1 (Chris Sutton 25)

LIGUE 1

Paris St Germain 0 Olympique Lyon 1 (Fred 24) Nice 2 (David Bellion 4, Jacques Abardonado 90+5) Stade Rennes 1 (John Utaka 45+2)

BUNDESLIGA

Nuremberg 3 (Robert Vittek 13, 87, Thomas Paulus 62) Kaiserslautern 2 (Halil Altintop 20, 48) Hanover 96 3 (Hanno Balitsch 2, Jiri Stajner 33, Per Mertesacker 67) VfB Stuttgart 3 (Danijel Lljuboja 52, Thomas Hitzlsperger 77, Jon Dahl Tomasson 82)

PRIMERA LIGA

Atletico Madrid 1 (Fernando Torres 81) Athletic Bilbao 0 Getafe 1 (Manuel Tena 84) Real Madrid 1 (Julio Baptista 61) Osasuna 1 (Francisco Punal 31pen) Malaga 1 (Richard Morales 80) Real Betis 0 Celta Vigo 2 (Jorge 18, Jesus Perera 89) Real Zaragoza 1 (Savio 19) Cadiz 2 (Lucas Lobos 42 pen, Matias Pavoni 47) Valencia 4 (David Villa 40 pen, Roberto Ayala 67, Mista 70, Ruben Baraja 86) Espanyol 0

GOLF

USPGA MIAMI CLASSIC

Round IV ? 269 Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 66 67 66 70 270 Jim Furyk (US) 64 67 68 71 271 Vaughn Taylor (US) 63 70 72 66, Billy Mayfair (US) 65 69 68 69 273 Brett Quigley (US) 68 70 68 67, Jerry Kelly (US) 68 69 66 70 274 Tim Clark (RSA) 72 65 68 69, Ernie Els (RSA) 71 67 65 71 279 Arjun Atwal (Ind) 67 70 71 71

HOCKEY

FOUR NATION MEET

Monchengladbach ? India 3 (Sandeep Singh 11, Rajpal Singh 18, 25) Argentina 2 (Ezequiel Paulon 61, Tomas McCormick 66) Sunday ? India 3 (Tushar Khandekar 44, Gagan Ajit Singh 55, Sandeep Singh Spain 5 (Juan Paolo Amat 9, 21, Eduard Tubau 37, 63, 69) Germany 3 Argentina 0

SNOOKER

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

SHEFFIELD, Round I ? Steve Davis (Eng) bt Andy Hicks (Eng) 10-4 (34-75, 83-3,4 69-40, 21-92, 91-24, 60-40, 74-38, 70-38, 70-38, 1-108, 37-70, 82-12, 65-2, 81-47) Graeme Dott (Sco) bt John Parrott (Eng) 10-3 (113-0, 62-8, 60-9, 68-9, 138-0, 70-1, 1-74, 28-69, 67-63, 70-64, 67-70, 88-5, 66-52) Stephen Lee (Eng) bt Allister Carter (Eng) 10-8 (29-63, 63-27, 59-50, 16-112, 67-27, 94-1, 67-60, 79-52, 23-71, 88-0, 8-84, 28-76, 1-64, 50-57, 4-135, 90-0, 76-0, 82-28) Mark Selby (Eng) bt John Higgins (Sco) 10-4 (69-63, 84-44, 44-74, 72-67, 36-67, 74-9, 84-57)

TENNIS

ATP HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL

Final ? Mardy Fish (US) bt Juergen Melzer (Aut) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3

WTA CHARLESTON CUP

Final ? Nadia Petrova (2, Rus) bt Patty Schnyder (Sui) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1

ATP VALENCIA INTERNATIONAL

Final ? Nicolas Almagro (Esp) bt Gilles Simon (Fra) 6-2, 6-3

For the book

Olympiakos Piraeus claimed their second successive Greek Championship and their ninth title in 10 years in spite of losing 1-2 at Larissa on Sunday. By the time their game had started, Panathinaikos, the only team that could still catch them, had already been beaten 0-1 by Iraklis, handing Olympiakos the title.