FOOTBALL
Primera Liga
Atletico Madrid 2 (Fernando Torres 42, Demis Nikolaidis 71) Sevilla 1 (Jose Antonio Reyes 77-pen) l Deportivo Coruna 4 (Diego Tristan 23, 76, Juan Carlos Valeron 51, Sergio 86) Real Zaragoza 1 (Juan Carlos Valeron 5-own goal) l Osasuna 1 (John Aloisi 34) Albacete 1 (Laurent Viaud 6) l Real Betis 1 (Joaquin 33) Real Madrid 1 (Ronaldo 60) l Real Mallorca 1 (Gonzalo Colsa 49) Racing Santander 1 (Mario Regueiro 75) l Real Sociedad 3 (Valery Karpin 7-pen, Igor Gabilondo 85, Nihat Kahveci 89) Espanyol 1 (Jordi Cruyff 90) l Villarreal 2 (Rodolfo Arruabarrena 67, Sonny Anderson 83) Malaga 0.
Ligue I
Olympique Marseille 3 (Didier Drogba 10, 48, Dmitry Sychev 88) RC Lens 2 (Daniel Moreira 13, Olivier Thomert 63).
Serie A
Ancona 0 Perugia 0 l Bologna 3 (Giuseppe Signori 1, Igly Tare 17, Carlo Nervo 44) Chievo Verona 1 (Mario Santana 32) l Brescia 0 AC Milan 1 (Giuseppe Pancaro 81) l Inter Milan 0 Empoli 1 (Tommaso Rocchi 90) l Juventus 4 (Alessandro Del Piero 15-pen, 59-pen, 61, David Trezeguet 37) Siena 2 (Nicola Ventola 71-pen, 80) l Reggina 1 (Francesco Cozza 26) Lecce 3 (Valeri Boijinov 2, 60, Ernesto Chevanton 4) l AS Roma 3 (John Carew 10, Francesco Totti 61, 67) Sampdoria 1 (Fabio Bazzani 6).
National League
Mohammedan Sporting 3 (Rahim Nabi 6, 19, Dipendu Biswas 14) JCT 1 (Jo Paul Ancheri 78) l Dempo 0 Salgaocar 0.
CHESS
Wijk aan Zee meet
Round VII: Viswanathan Anand (5, Ind) bt Zhang Zhong (2, CHN) l Vladimir Akopian (3.5, Arm) drew Michael Adams (4.5, Eng) l Loek van Wely (3.5, Ned) drew Peter Leko (Hun, 4) l Viktor Bologan (3, Mda) bt Ivan Sokolov (2.5, Ned) l Peter Svidler (4, Rus) bt Veselin Topalov (4, Bul) l Evgeny Bareev (3, Rus) drew Vladimir Kramnik (4.5, Rus) l Alexei Shirov (3, Esp) bt Jan Timman (2.5, Ned).
Commonwealth Meet
Final Round (Indians unless specified): Smirnov Pavel (7.5, Rus) bt Pravin Thipsay (6.5) l Nigel Short (7.5, Eng) bt P. Harikrishna (6) l Lanka Ravi (6) lost to Dzhumaev Marat (7, Uzb) l Niaz Murshed (7, Ban) bt Iskusnyh Sergey (6, Rus) l K. Sasikiran (6.5) bt Abhijeet Gupta (5.5) l Fominyh Alexander (6, Rus) drew Abhijit Kunte (6) l M.R. Venkatesh (6) drew Sandipan Chanda (6) l Vakhidov Tahir (6, Uzb) drew Vijayalakshmi (6) l Poobesh Anand (6) drew Sundararajan Kidambi (6) l K. Rathnakaran (6) drew Iuldachev Saidali (5.5, Uzb) l T.S. Ravi (5.5) drew Stuart Conquest (5.5, Eng) l R.B. Ramesh (6) bt Somak Palit (5) l Sudhakar Babu (5) lost to Koneru Humpy (6) l Tejas Bakre (5.5) drew S Meenakshi (5.5) l S. Roy Chowdhury (5.5) drew Atanu Lahiri (5.5) l R.R. Laxman (5) lost to Mahmood Lodhi (6) l Deep Sengupta (6) bt Koshy Varugeese (5) l Vishal Sareen (5.5) drew Sharad Tilak (5.5) l G.N. Gopal (5.5) drew Gurpreetpal Singh (5.5) l S.S. Ganguly (5.5) bt Yogesh Gore (5) l Safin Shukhrat (5, Uzb) drew Nisha Mohota (5) l Swati Ghate (5) drew Neelotpal Das (5) l Feldman Vladimir (4.5, Aus) lost to Michelakis George (5.5, RSA) l Vikas Sharma (4.5) lost to Devaki Prasad (5.5) l Jayant Gokhale (5) drew Deepan Chakkravarthy (5) l Rahul Shetty (5) drew Aarthie Ramaswamy (5) l Himanshu Sharma (5) drew Rishipal Singh (5) l Dinesh Sharma (4.5) lost to G. Balaji (5.5) l Lim Yee Weng (5, Mas) drew Chandrashekhar Gokhale (5) l P. Konguvel (5) drew Sai Srinivas (5) l D. Harika (4.5) drew Parimarjan Negi (4.5).
GOLF
Hawaiian Open
HONOLULU, Final Round: 262 Ernie Els (RSA) 65, Harrison Frazar (US) 66 l 265 Davis Love III (US) 67 l 266 Frank Lickliter II (US) 68 l 267 Jerry Kelly (US) 65, Briny Baird (US) 67 l 268 John Riegger(US) 67 l 280 Arjun Atwal (Ind) 71 68 68 73.
South African Open
SOMERSET WEST, Final Round: 276 Trevor Immelman (RSA) 67 l 279 Alastair Forsyth (GBR) 68, Steve Webster (GBR) 71 l 281 Darren Fichardt (RSA) 70 l 282 David Carter (GBR) 68, Miles Tunnicliff (GBR) 69, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 73, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 70 l 283 Sven Struever (Ger) 67, Titch Moore (RSA) 68, Stephen Scahill (NZL) 69, Nico Van Rensburg 71, Stephen Dodd (GBR) 73, Anders Hansen (Den) 76, Brett Rumford (Aus) 72.
TENNIS
ITF women’s meet
NEW DELHI, Round I: Shruti Dhawan (Ind) bt Tomoyo Takagishi (5, Jap) 6-1, 5-7, 6-3 l Diana Julianto (8, INA) bt Sonal Phadke (Ind) 6-4, 6-4 l Sheetal Gautham (Ind) bt Samrita Sekhar 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 l Sandhya Nagraj (Ind) bt Po-Kuen Lam (HKG) 6-4 6-3.
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