FOOTBALL
International friendlies
BRAGA: Portugal 1 (Nuno Valente 5) Italy 2 (Christian Vieri 40, Fabrizio Miccoli 75) l GIJON: Spain 2 (Fernando Morientes 23, Raul 60) Denmark 0 l TUNIS: Tunisia 0 Ivory Coast 2 (Didier Drogba 34, 63) l RABAT: Morocco 3 (Nabil Baha 66, 73, Jawad Zairi 77) Angola 1 (Joao Jamba Asaha 82) l CHISINAU: Moldova 2 (Sergei Datu 40pen, 86) Azerbaijan 1 (Gurban Gurbanov 20) l TA’QALI: Malta 1 (Michael Mifsud 90) Finland 2 (Alexei Yeremenko 51, Jari Litmanen 84) l SOFIA: Bulgaria 2 (Dimitar Berbatov 14, 67) Russia 2 (Dmitry Sychev 9, 31) l TALLINN: Estonia 0 Northern Ireland 1 (David Healy 45) l SKOPJE: Macedonia 1 (Goran Stavrevski 26) Ukraine 0 l CELJE: Slovenia 0 Latvia 1 (Maris Verpakovskis 36) l BELGRADE: Serbia & Montenegro 0 Norway 1 (Martin Andresen 76pen) l ZAGREB: Croatia 2 (Tomislav Sokota 2, Darijo Srna 76) Turkey 2 (Zafer Biryol 73, Cagdas Atan 78) l LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg 1 (Daniel Huss 87) Bosnia 2 (Zvjezdan Misimovic 61, Elvir Bolic 71) l PLOCK: Poland 0 United States 1 (DaMarcus Beasley 25) l BRATISLAVA: Slovakia 1 (Marek Mintal 72) Austria 1 (Roland Kollmann 90) l COLOGNE: Germany 3 (Kevin Kuranyi 45+1, Dietmar Hamann 55, Michael Ballack 81) Belgium 0 l GOTHENBURG: Sweden 1 (Zlatan Ibrahimovic 54) England 0 l ROTTERDAM: Netherlands 0 France 0 l BUDAPEST: Hungary 1 (Krisztian Kenesei 18pen) Wales 2 (Jason Koumas 20, Robert Earnshaw 76) l HERAKLION: Greece 1 (Vassilis Tsartas 57) Switzerland 0 l TIRANA: Albania 2 (Adrian Aliaj 42, Alban Bushi 79) Iceland 1 (Eidur Gudjohnsen 67) l CAIRO: Egypt 2 (Mohamed Abu Treika 59, Abdel Halim Ali 67) Trinidad and Tobago 1 (Stern John 79) l DUBLIN: Ireland 2 (Ian Harte 52, Robbie Keane 90+2) Czech Republic 1 (Milan Baros 81) l Glasgow: Scotland 1 (James McFadden 56) Romania 2 (Christian Chivu 37, Daniel Pancu 50) l TUESDAY: TEL AVIV: Israel 2 (Pini Balili 34, Walid Badir 64) Lithuania 1 (Tal Ben-Haim 43og) l LONDON: Australia 1 (Marco Bresciano 19) South Africa 0.
WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS
South American Zone
MONTEVIDEO: Uruguay 0 Venezuela 3 (Gabriel Urdaneta 19, Hector Gonzalez 63, Juan Arango 78) l ASUNCION: Paraguay 0 Brazil 0 l LIMA: Peru 0 Colombia 2 (Freddy Grisales 29, Frankie Oviedo 42).
CHESS
MONACO MEET
Blindfold Round X: Alexander Morozevich (Rus) bt Evgeny Bareev (Rus) l Vladimir Kramnik (Rus) bt Peter Svidler (Rus) l Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr) lost to Viswanathan Anand (Ind) l Peter Leko (Hun) drew with Veselin Topalov (Bul) l Alexei Shirov bt Francisco Vallejo Pons (Esp) l Boris Gelfand (Isr) bt Loek van Wely (Ned) l Rapid: Anand bt Ivanchuk l Bareev bt Morozevich l Svidler bt Kramnik l Topalov bt Leko l Van wely lost to Gelfand l Vallejo Pons lost to Shirov.
TENNIS
MIAMI MASTERS
Men’s quarter finals: Fernando Gonzalez (21, Chi) bt Andrei Pavel (Rom) 6-7 (7-5), 6-3, 6-4 l Guillermo Coria (3, Arg) bt Nicolas Kiefer (Ger) 6-3, 6-3 l Women’s quarter finals: Nadia Petrova (8, Rus) bt Nathalie Dechy (21, Fra) 6-2, 6-2 l Elena Dementieva (5, Rus) bt Venus Williams (2, US) 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7-3).
MUMBAI ITF MEET
MUMBAI, Round II: Jie Hao (Chn) bt Wilawan Choptang (Tha) 7-6 (7-0), 7-5 l Rushmi Chakravarthy (Ind) bt Minori Takemoto (Jpn) 6-0, 6-1 l Satomi Kinjo (Jpn) bt Iciri Rai (Ind) 6-2, 6-4 l Melanie South (GBR) bt Rebecca Llewellyn (GBR) 6-3, 6-3 l Doubles Round I: Rushmi Chakravarthy/Sai Jayalakshmi (Ind) bt Samrita Sekar-Archana Venkatraman (Ind) 6-4, 6-4 l Chia Jung-chuang (Tpe)/Chin Bee-khoo (Mas) bt Krushmi Chheda-Sandhya Nagraj (Ind) 6-0, 6-3.
ITF MOROCCO MEET
MOROCCO, Singles pre-quarters: Sania Mirza (Ind) bt Katarina Kachlikova (Svk) 6-2, 6-3 l Doubles quarters: Sania Mirza/ Katarina Kachlikova (Ind, Svk) bt Nedjahdi Samia/ Nachit Majda (Alg/Mar) 6-2, 6-1.
For the book
Russia, host of next year's world figure skating championships, opposes rapid introduction of a new judging system Code of Points (CoP) and favours its experimental use only, the head of the country's federation said on Thursday.
