CHESS

National A Women’s MEET

CHENNAI: Round IV (Sunday) — S Vijayalakshmi 3 drew D Harika 3.5 Tania Sachdev 3 drew S Meenakshi 3 Padmini Rout 2.5 drew E Karavade 3l Amruta Mokal 2 lost to Swati Ghate 3l Kruttika Nadig 3 bt Sai Meera 2l Saheli Nath 2.5 drew Kiran Mohanty 2.5l S Harini 2 lost to Nisha Mohota 2.5l Lakshmi Sahithi 2.5 bt Aarthie Ramaswamy 1.5l Nimmy George 2.5 bt J E Kavitha 1.5l I Ramya Krishna 2 drew M R Sangeetha 2l Swati Mohota 2.5 bt R Mahima 1.5l S Sujatha (tn) 1 lost to Soumya Swaminathan 2l R Preethi 2 bt aabha thakur 1l P Priya 1.5 bt N Raghavi 1l Bajsakhi Das 1.5 bt Bhakti Kulkarni 1l H Nileveli 1 drew Kanuri Tejaswi 1.5l Pon N Krithikha 1 byel Round V (Sunday) — D Harika 4 drew with Kruttika Nadig 3.5l Eesha Karavade 3.5 drew S Vijayalakshmi 3.5l Swati Ghate 3.5 drew Tania Sachdev 3.5l S Meenakshi 4 bt Nimmy George 2.5l Nisha Mohota 3 drew with Swati Mohota 3l Kiran Mohanty 3 drew with Padmini Rout 3l P Lakshmi Sahithi 2.5 lost to Saheli Nath 3.5l S Soumya 2 lost to I Ramyakrishna 3l Sai Meera 2 lost to S Harini 3l M R Sangeetha 2 lost to Amruta Mokal 3l Aarthie Ramaswamy 2.5 bt R Preethi 2l J E Kavitha 2 drew with P Priya 2l Kanuri Tejaswi 2.5 bt Baisakhi Das 1.5l R Mahima 2.5 bt N Raghavi 1l Pon N Krithika 1 lost to H Nilavoli 2l Aabha Thakur 1.5 drew with S Sujatha 1.5l Bhakti Kulkarni 2 bye

FOOTBALL

PRIMERA LIGA

Sunday: Valencia 4 (Miguel Angel Angulo 10, David Villa 40pen,75, Vicente 90+2) Deportivo Coruna 0l Atletico Madrid 1 (Fernando Torres 57) Espanyol 2 (Raul Tamudo 9, Luis Garcia 61) Athletic Bilbao 4 (Dani Bautista 6og, Ismael Urzaiz 27,41, Joseba Garmendia 59) Recreativo Huelva 2 (Ikechukwu Uche 55, Jose Sarriegie 88og) Celta Vigo 1 (Fernando Baiano 17) Villarreal 1 (Diego Forlan 65) Getafe 1 (Daniel Gueiza 50) Real Betis 1 (Juanito 86) Gimnastic 2 (David Garcia 41, Ruben Castro 76) Levante 1 (Riga Mustapha 28) Osasuna 3 (Savo Milosevic 60, Javier Flano 68, Francisco Punal 80pen) Real Mallorca 0l Racing Santander 0 Real Zaragoza 2 (Diego Milito 60, Angel Lafita 80)

Premier League

Sunday: Chelsea 1 (Mickael Essien 84) Arsenal 1 (Matthieu Flamini 78)

SERIE A

Sunday: Lazio 3 (Christian Ledesma 44, Massimo Oddo 52pen, Massimo Mutarelli 73) AS Roma 0l AC Milan 0 Torino 0l Atalanta Bergamo 3 (Davide Bombardini 28, Ferreira Pinto 57, Cristiano Doni 67) Messina 2 (Nicolas Cordova 76, Arturo Di Napoli 85) Cagliari 0 Parma 0l Catania 1 (Gionatha Spinesi 68) Udinese 0l Chievo Verona 0 Fiorentina 1 (Adrian Mutu 81) Empoli 0 Inter Milan 3 (Hernan Crespo 60, Zlatan Ibrahimovic 78, Walter Samuel 87) Sampdoria 0 Siena 0

LIGUE 1

Sunday: Olympique Lyon 3 (Sylvain Wiltord 45+2, Cris 87, Florent Malouda 88) Paris St Germain 1 (Pauleta 60)

Lille 2 (Mathieu Bodmer 22, Abdul Kader Keita 53) St Etienne 2 (Ilan 8,66)

BUNDESLIGA

Sunday: Schalke 04 3 (Christian Pander 14, Kevin Kuranyi 25, Peter Lovenkrands 47) Borussia Dortmund 1 (Alexander Frei 82)

VfL Wolfsburg 1 (Alexander Madlung 50) Alemannia Aachen 2 (Laurentiu Reghecampf 72, Nico Herzig 78)

FIFA CLUB WORLD MEET

TOKYO, First round: Chonbuk (Kor) 0 America (Mex) 1 (Ricardo Rojas 79)

IFA SHIELD

CALCUTTA: East Bengal 1(Alvito D’Cunha, 56 penalty) Mahindra United 1(Yusif Yakubu, 24)

GOLF

WGC WORLD CUP

ST JAMES (BARBADOS): Round IV (Sunday) — 268 Germany (Marcel Siem, Bernhard Langer) 66 (won title in sudden-death playoff); Scotland (Marc Warren, Colin Montgomerie) 69 269 Sweden (Carl Pettersson, Henrik Stenson) 72 270 South Africa (Rory Sabbatini, Richard Sterne) 68 271 Spain (Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Miguel Angel Jimenez) 69; United States (Stewart Cink, J.J. Henry) 69; Argentina (Andres Romero, Angel Cabrera) 73 273 Australia (John Senden, Mark Hensby) 69; Mexico (Esteban Toledo, Jose Octavio Gonzalez) 71; Italy (Francesco Molinari, Emanuele Canonica) 71; Wales (Bradley Dredge, Stephen Dodd) 71 275 Switzerland (Martin Rominger, Nicolas Sulzer) 68; Ireland (Paul McGinley, Padraig Harrington) 69; 277 Colombia (Manuel Merizalde, Camilo Villegas) 70 278 Canada (Mike Weir, Jim Rutledge) 71; England (David Howell, Luke Donald) 72 280 Singapore (Lam Chih Bing, Mardan Mamat) 69 281 Denmark (Thomas Bjorn, Soren Hansen) 70 283 South Korea (S.K. Ho, Charlie Wi) 75 285 France (Jean van de Velde, Raphael Jacquelin) 77 288 Barbados (James Johnson, Roger Beale junior) 72; Trinidad & Tobago (Robert Ames, Stephen Ames) 78 289 Japan (Tetsuji Hiratsuka, Hideto Tanihara) 74

295 Jamaica (Peter Horrobin, Delroy Cambridge) 80

EPGA TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

MPUMALANGA (South Africa) — 275 Alvaro Quiros (Esp) 74 66 68 67 276 Charl Schwartzel (RSA) 68 68 68 72 279 Lee Westwood (GBR) 73 66 67 73 280 Darren Fichardt (RSA) 72 70 69 69; Ross Fisher (GBR) 73 69 68 70 281 Hennie Otto (RSA) 71 69 69 72; Mark Pilkington (GBR) 70 71 65 75 282 Ernie Els (RSA) 72 72 69 69

For the book

World equestrian champion Zara Phillips, the granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, was named the BBC's sports personality of the year on Sunday, beating golfer Darren Clarke. Phillips, whose mother Princess Anne won the award in 1971, won the individual gold at the World Equestrian Games in Germany and helped Britain win a team silver. Clarke helped Europe beat the US to win the Ryder Cup in September, came second, while gymnast Beth Tweddle came third.