CHESS

Olympiad

Round 9 Results: Men — Armenia (15) lost to Israel (16) 1.5-2.5 Russia (13) lost to Ukraine (15) 1.5-2.5 Serbia (14) bt Azerbaijan (13) 2.5-1.5 France (12) lost to China (14) 1-3 Vietnam (12) lost to England (14) 1-3 Belarus (12) drew with Slovakia (13) Kazakhstan (11) lost to The Netherlands (13) 1-3 Cuba (12) drew with Hungary (12) 2-2 Sweden (11) lost to Bulgaria (13) 2-2 India (11) lost to United States of America (13) 0.5-3.5 (Krishnan Sasikiran lost to Gata Kamsky, Hikaru Nakamura beat P. Harikrishna, Surya Sekhar Ganguly drew with Alexander Onischuk, Varuzhan Akobian bt G.N. Gopal).

Women: China (14) lost to Serbia (15) 1.5-2.5 Poland (15) bt United States of America (13) 3-1 Ukraine (15) bt Romania (13) 3-1 Georgia (14) bt Slovenia (12) 4-0 Argentina (11) lost to Armenia (14) 0.5-3.5 Russia (13) bt Lithuania (11) 3-1 Hungary (13) bt Vietnam (11) 2.5-1.5 India (12) drew with France (12) 2-2 (D Harika bt Marie Sebag, Almira Skripchenko drew with Tania Sachdev, Silvia Collas drew with Nisha Mohota, Sophie Millet bt Swati Ghate) Bulgaria (11) lost to Uzbekistan (13) 1.5-2.5 The Netherlands (12) bt Sweden (10) 2.5-1.5.

GOLF

Hong Kong Open

Final round (Sunday): 265 Lin Wen-tang (Tpe) 65 69 64 67; Rory McIlroy (GBR) 70 64 66 65; Francesco Molinari (Ita) 66 67 67 65 267 Pablo Larrazabal (Esp) 69 67 64 67; Chawalit Plaphol (Tha) 66 66 70 65 268 David Gleeson (Aus) 72 65 65 66; Bernhard Langer (Ger) 69 67 63 69; Iain Steel (Mal) 68 68 66 66; Richard Sterne (RSA) 64 69 69 66; Oliver Wilson (GBR) 66 66 65 71 269 Oliver Fisher (GBR) 67 65 73 64; Graeme McDowell (GBR) 71 68 65 65; Angelo Que (Phi) 68 68 67 66; Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 71 63 66 69 270 Liang Wenchong (Chn) 64 71 69 66; Colin Montgomerie (GBR) 68 65 68 69

SOCCER

Bundesliga

Saturday — Cologne 1 Hoffenheim 3 Arminia Bielefeld 2 Bayer Leverkusen 1 Bayern Munich 4 Energie Cottbus 1 Eintracht Frankfurt 4 Hanover 96 0 Schalke 04 3 Borussia Moenchengladbach 1 VfL Bochum 2 Hertha Berlin 3 VfL Wolfsburg 4 VfB Stuttgart 1

English Premier League

Saturday — Aston Villa 0 Manchester United 0 Chelsea 0 Newcastle United 0 Liverpool 0 Fulham 0 Manchester City 3 Arsenal 0 Middlesbrough 1 Bolton Wanderers 3 Portsmouth 2 Hull City 2 Stoke City 1 West Bromwich Albion 0

Ligue 1

Saturday — Caen 1 Auxerre 0 FC Lorient 1 Toulouse 0 Girondins Bordeaux 1 Stade Rennes 1 Grenoble 0 Le Havre 0 Paris St Germain 1 Olympique Lyon 0 St Etienne 0 Nice 1 Valenciennes 2 Sochaux 2

Primera Liga

Saturday — Real Madrid 1 Recreativo Huelva 0 Sevilla 0 Valencia 0 Villarreal 0 Real Valladolid 3

Serie A

Saturday — Fiorentina 4 Udinese 2 Inter Milan 1 Juventus 0

TENNIS

Davis Cup

Mar del Plata: World Group final, (Saturday) — Doubles result Feliciano Lopez/Fernando Verdasco (Esp) bt Agustin Calleri/David Nalbandian (Argentina) 5-7, 7-5, 7-6(7-5), 6-3