SWIMMING

World Championships

Rome: Wednesday — Men’s Diving 3m Springboard, Preliminaries — 1. Troy Dumais (US) 483.65; 2. Alexandre Despatie (Can) 483.55; 3. He Chong (Chn) 480.90 Semi-finals — 1. Alexandre Despatie (Can) 485.05; 2. He Chong (Chn) 483.30; 3. Troy Dumais (US) 471.50 Women’s Open Water Swimming 10k — 1. Keri-Anne Payne (GBR) 2 hours, 1:37:1 seconds; 2. Ekatarina Seliverstova (Rus) 2:01:38:0; 3. Martina Grimaldi (Ita) 2:01:38:6 Synchronised Swimming Free Combination, Finals — 1. Spain (Alba Cabello, Ona Carbonell, Raquel Corral, Margalida Crespi, Andrea Fuentes, Thais Henriquez, Paula Klamburg, Gemma Mengual, Gisela Moron, Irina Rodriguez) 98.333 pts; 2. China (Huang Xuechen, Jiang Tingting, Jiang Wenwen, Liu Ou, Luo Xi, Shi Xin, Sun Wenyan, Wang Na, Wu Yiwen, Zhang Xiaohuan) 97.667; 3. Canada (MP Boudreau-Gagnon, Camille Bowness, Jo-Annie Fortin, Sandy Gill, Chloe Isaac, Eve Lamoureux, Stephanie Leclair, Elise Marcotte, Karine Thomas, Valerie Welsh) 96.167

TENNIS

Gastein Open

Austria: Women’s singles, Round II, Wednesday — Magdalena Rybarikova (6, Svk) bt Pauline Parmentier (Fra) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 Yaroslava Shvedova (Kaz) bt Shahar Peer (9, Isr) 6-2, 6-1

German Open

Hamburg: Men’s singles, Round II, Wednesday — Nikolay Davydenko (2, Rus) bt Philipp Petzschner (Ger) 6-3, 6-2 David Ferrer (6, Esp) bt Florian Mayer (Ger) 6-3, 6-2 Nicolas Almagro (14, Esp) bt Marcel Granollers (Esp) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 Simon Greul (Ger) bt Mischa Zverev (16, Ger) 0-6, 7-5,6-1 Juan Monaco (Arg) bt Jose Acasuso (12, Arg) 6-1, 1-1 (Acasuso retired) Julien Benneteau (Fra) bt Igor Andreev (7, Rus) 6-4, 6-3 Victor Hanescu (11, Rom) bt Jan Hernych (Cze) 6-2, 6-3

Slovenia Open

Portoroz: Women’s singles, Round II, Wednesday — Maria Elena Camerin (Ita) bt Vera Dushevina (7, Rus) 4-6, 7-5, 6-0 Rossana De Los Rios (Par) bt Roberta Vinci (4, Ita) 6-3, 6-4