CHESS

WORLD JUNIOR MEET

Yerevan, Round XII, Boys — Georg Meier (Ger, 8.5) drew Ivan Popov (Rus, 9) Arman Pashikian (Arm, 8) drew Wang Hao (Chn, 8.5) Adly Ahmed (Egy, 9) bt Davit Jojua (Geo, 7.5) Dmitry Andreikin (Rus, 8.5) bt Avetik Grigoryan (Arm, 7.5) Maxim Rodshtein (Isr, 7.5) drew Abhijeet Gupta (Ind, 7.5) Parimarjan Negi (Ind, 7.5) drew Gawain Jones (Eng, 7.5) G. Rohit (Ind, 7) lost to Evgeny Romanov (Rus, 8) Deepan Chakravarthy (Ind, 6.5) lost to Amin Bassem (Egy, 7.5) Ashwin Jayaram (Ind, 7.5) bt G. N. Gopal (Ind, 6.5) R. Arun Karthik (Ind, 5.5) bt Maxat Alaguzov (Kaz, 4.5) Pablo Garcia Cardenas (Esp, 5) drew Abhishek Das (Ind, 5) Girls — Elena Tairova (Rus, 8.5) bt D. Harika (Ind, 8.5) Melia Salome (Geo, 8.5) bt Jolanta Zawadzka (Pol, 8.5) P. Priya (Ind, 7.5) lost to Vera Nebolsina (Rus, 9.5) Gulmira Dauletova (Kaz, 8) bt Eesha Karavade (Ind, 7) Sabrina Vega Gutierrez (Esp, 7.5) bt Sona Pertlova (Cze, 7) Soumya Swaminathan (7.5) bt Anahit Kharatyan (Arm, 6.5) Ghazal Hakimifard (Iri, 6.5) lost to Anna Gasik (Arm, 7.5) Bela Khotenashvili (Geo, 7) bt Tatev Abrahamyan (US, 6) Mary Ann Gomes (Ind, 7) bt Katrine Tjolsen (Pol, 6) Padmini Rout (Ind, 6) lost to Kulon Klaudia (Pol, 7).

FOOTBALL

WORLD CUP ASIAN QUALIFIER

Round I, second leg (Monday) — Macau 1 Thailand 7. Thailand win 13-2 on aggregate.

TENNIS

ATP MADRID MASTERS

Round I (Monday) — Fernando Verdasco (Esp) bt Albert Montanes (Esp) 6-1, 6-1 Feliciano Lopez (Esp) bt Filippo Volandri (Ita) 6-3, 6-2 Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) bt Andrei Pavel (Rom) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 Andy Murray (GBR) bt Radek Stepanek (Cze) 6-4, 6-1 Mario Ancic (Cro) bt Marc Gicquel (Fra) 6-4, 6-2 Juan Martin Del Potro (Arg) bt Potito Starace (Ita) 7-5, 6-1 Stefan Koubek (Aut) bt Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 Juan Monaco (Arg) bt Igor Andreev (Rus) 6-7 (5), 6-0, 6-4 Robby Ginepri (US) bt Juergen Melzer (Aut) 2-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4.

WTA ZURICH OPEN

Round I (Monday) — Michaella Krajicek (Ned) bt Sania Mirza (Ind) 6-1, 6-4 Alona Bondarenko (Ukr) bt Timea Bacsinszky (Sui) 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 Tatiana Golovin (Fra) bt Maria Kirilenko (Rus) 6-3, 6-4 Nicole Vaidisova (Cze) bt Katarina Srebotnik (Slo) 6-4, 6-2.