BILLIARDS

National meet

BANGALORE: Quarter finals — Pankaj Advani (PSPB) bt Ashok Shandilya (Rlys) 1081-808 Rupesh Shah (Guj) bt Devendra Joshi (PSPB) 796-725 Dhruv Sitwala (PSPB) bt B. Bhaskar (Kar) 825-572 Geet Sethi (Guj) bt Alok Kumar (PSPB) 1404-649.

CHESS

Wijk Aan Zee meet

Round VII: Group A — Viswanathan Anand (Ind, 4) drew Teimour Radjabov (Aze, 5.5) Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 2) lost to Peter Svidler (Rus, 4) Sergei Tiviakov (Ned, 2.5) drew Sergey Karjakin (Ukr, 4) Alexei Shirov (Esp, 1) drew Alexander Motylev (Rus, 3) David Navara (Cze, 4) bt Loek van Wely (Ned, 2.5) Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr, 3) lost to Veselin Topalov (Bul, 5) Levon Aronian (Arm, 4) drew Vladimir Kramnik (Rus, 4.5). Group C — Peng Zhaoqin (Ned, 3.5) lost to Ian Nepomniachtchi (Rus, 6.5) Emanuel Berg (Swe, 5) bt Parimarjan Negi (Ind, 4) Michal Krasenkow (Pol, 5) bt Thomas Willemze (Ned, 1.5) John van der Wiel (Ned, 2) drew Nadezhda Kosintseva (Rus, 2.5) Manuel Bosboom (Ned, 4) bt Stellan Brynell (Swe, 2.5) Harmen Jonkman (Ned, 1.5) lost to Wouter Spoelman (Ned, 3.5) Edwin van Haastert (Ned, 3) drew Hou Yifan (Chn, 4.5).

FOOTBALL

Primera Liga

Villarreal 0 Sevilla Atletico Madrid 1 (Ze Castro 83) Osasuna 0

Serie A

Reggina 0 Palermo 0 Ascoli 1 (Michele Paolucci 73) Atalanta Bergamo 3 (Riccardo Zampagna 51, Adriano 85, Cristiano Doni 87)

English premier league

Manchester City 0 Blackburn Rovers 3 (Morten Gamst Pedersen 44, 62, Matt Derbyshire 90) Aston Villa 2 (Gavin Mahon 86og, Gabriel Agbonlahor 90) Watford 0 Fulham 1 (Vincenzo Montella 84pen) Tottenham Hotspur 1 (Pascal Chimbonda 88) Middlesbrough 5 (Gary Speed 5og, Abel Xavier 10, Mark Viduka 23, 84, Stewart Downing 43) Bolton Wanderers 1 (Kevin Nolan 25) Newcastle United 2 (James Milner 45+1, Nolberto Solano 53pen) West Ham United 2 (Carlton Cole 18, Marlon Harewood 22) Portsmouth 0 Charlton Athletic 1 (Amdy Faye 79) Reading 3 (Shane Long 44, Ulises de la Cruz 50, Stephen Hunt 70) Sheffield United 1 (Christian Nade 77) Liverpool 2 (Dirk Kuyt 4, Jermaine Pennant 18) Chelsea 0

GOLF

Bob Hope Classic

La Quinta (California): 268 Justin Rose (GBR) 67 65 66 70; Lucas Glover (US) 69 68 66 65 270 John Rollins (US) 67 67 69 67 272 Jeff Quinney (US) 68 69 69 66; Charley Hoffman (US) 66 70 68 68 273 Dudley Hart (US) 66 70 70 67; Joe Durant (US) 68 68 69 68; Matt Kuchar (US) 66 68 71 68; Heath Slocum (US) 68 68 69 68; Robert Allenby (Aus) 63 70 70 70 Duffy Waldorf (US) 71 71 65 66; Vaughn Taylor (US) 69 70 69 65 274 Scott Verplank (US) 66 66 68 74; Nathan Green (Aus) 70 68 68 68; Cliff Kresge (US) 72 68 68 66; Dean Wilson (US) 70 68 67 69; Johnson Wagner (US) 66 67 74 67; Charles Warren (US) 71 67 67 69 275 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 70 73 63 69; Phil Mickelson (US) 70 70 69 66; Daniel Chopra (Swe) 69 67 71 68; Craig Kanada (US) 65 73 68 69; Andrew Buckle (Aus) 67 73 66 69

Pakistan Open

KARACHI: Final scores — 269 Airil Rizman Zahari 67-68-64-70 271 Scott Hend 70-66-66-69 274 Simon Hurd 68-65-69-72 276 Muhammad Shabbir 66-72-67-71 278 Chris Rodgers 69-70-68-71; Rahil Gangjee 71-67-69-71 279 Olle Nordberg 72-66-70-71; Ashok Kumar 71-66-71-71; Yeh Chang-ting 69-69-72-69 280 Roy Moon 71-71-71-67; Mark Mouland 70-69-71-70; Gavin Flint 71-68-72-69; Barry Hume 68-68-73-71; Uttam Singh Mundy 68-68-75-69 281 Ross Bain 71-71-70-69; Lin Chien-bing 69-70-73-69; Richard Lee 68-72-72-69; Nam Young-woo 72-70-67-72; Tony Lascuna 70-69-67-75; Vivek Bhandari 68-72-74-67; S.S.P. Chowrasia 72-69-70-70; Mitchell Brown 70-71-67-73; Digvijay Singh 71-69-66-75 284 Amardip Malik 69-71-70-74 285 Amandeep Johl 72-69-68-76 291 Gaganjeet Bhullar 69-72-69-81 295 Rahul Ganapathy 68-75-77-75.

For the book

Lokomotiv Moscow have signed Ghana World Cup striker Asamoah Gyan on a four-year contract. Gyan joins the railway side from Italian Serie A club Udinese for a reported nine million euros ($11.66 million) fee, the fourth largest in Russian soccer history.