GOLF

SOUTH AFRICAN OPEN

CAPE TOWN, ROUND II (Saturday): 137 Nico van Rensburg (RSA), Alastair Forsyth (GBR), Craig Lile (GBR) l 138 Brett Rumford (Aus), Stephen Dodd (GBR) l 139 Raphael Jacquelin (Fra), Anders Hansen (Den), Stephen Scahill (NZ), Simon Wakefield (GBR) l 140 Trevor Immelman (RSA), Titch Moore (RSA), Jose Manuel Carriles (Esp), Desvonde Botes (RSA), Hennie Otto (RSA) l141 Miles Tunnicliff (GBR), Alan Michell (RSA), Steve Webster (GBR).

Round III leaders (Sunday): 207 Anders Hansen (Den), Craig Lile (RSA) l 208 Steve Webster (GBR) l 209 Trevor Immelman (RSA), Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) l 210 Stephen Dodd (GBR) l 211 Darren Fichardt (RSA), Brett Rumford (Aus), Alastair Forsyth (GBR) l 212 Charl Schwartzel (RSA), Marcus Fraser (Aus), Nic Henning (RSA), Nico Van Rensburg (RSA) l 213 Justin Rose (GBR), Philip Golding (GBR), James Kingston (RSA), Lee Westwood (GBR) l Ian Poulter (GBR), Miles Tunnicliff (GBR), Desvonde Botes (RSA) l 214 David Lynn (GBR), Shaun Norris (RSA) l David Carter (GBR), Simon Wakefield (GBR), Stephen Scahill (NZ) l 215 Andrew Marshall (GBR), Colin Montgomerie (GBR), David Howell (GBR), Paul McGinley (Irl), Scott Dunlap (US), Alan Michell (RSA).

HAWAIIAN OPEN

HONOLULU, ROUND II (Saturday): 129 Steve Allan (Aus) l 130 Harrison Frazar (US) l 131 Ernie Els (RSA) l 132 Luke Donald (GBR) l 133 Robert Gamez (US), Jesper Parnevik (Swe), Hideto Tanihara (Jpn), Pat Bates (US), Fred Funk (US), Frank Lickliter II (US), Jerry Kelly (US), Paul Azinger (US) l134 John Riegger (US), John Huston (US), D.J. Brigman (US), Briny Baird (US), Craig Bowden (US).

CHESS

commonwealth meet

MUMBAI, ROUND VII: Nigel Short (6, GBR) bt Alexander Fominyh (5, Rus) l Smirnov Pavel (6, Rus) bt Dzhumaev Marat (5, Uzb) l Pravin Thipsay (6, Ind) bt Sandipan Chanda (4.5, Ind) l Vakhidov Tahir (5, Uzb) drew Sundararajan Kidambi (5, Ind) l Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (5, Ind) drew Abhijit Kunte (5, Ind) l Tejas Bakre (5, Ind) drew Koneru Humpy (5, Ind) l R. B. Ramesh (5, Ind) drew Abhijit Gupta (5, Ind) l Vishal Sareen (4.5, Ind) drew K. Sasikiran (4.5, Ind) l Ravi Thandalam (4, Ind) lost to P. Harikrishna (5, Ind) l S. Satyapragyan (4, Ind) lost to Iskusnyh Sergev (5, Rus) l Lanka Ravi (5, Ind) bt Chandrashekhar Gokhale (4, Ind) l Sriram Jha (4, Ind) lost to Somak Palit (5, Ind) l Niaz Murshed (5, Ban) bt Prathamesh Mokal (4, Ind) l Poobesh Anand (4.5, Ind) drew Michelakis George (4.5 Saf) l Sudhakar Babu (5, Ind) bt Deepan Chakkravarthy (4, Ind) l Dinesh Sharma (4, Ind) lost to Sharad Tilak (5, Ind) l Sekhar Sahu (4, Ind) lost to S. Vijayalakshmi (4.5, Ind) l D. Harika (4, Ind) drew Stuart Conquest (4, GBR) l Atanu Lahiri (4, Ind) drew S. S. Ganguly (4, Ind) l Safin Shukhrat (3.5, Uzb) lost to S. Meenakshi (4.5, Ind) l Lim Yee weng (4, Mas) drew Mahmood Lodhi (4, Pak) l M. R. Venkatesh (4.5, Ind) bt Swati Ghate (3, Ind) l G. Balaji drew P.D.S Girinath (4, Ind) l Konguvel Ponnuswamy (4, Ind) drew Berezina Irina (4, Aus) l M.K.A Russell (3.5, SL) lost to Gurpreetpal Singh (4.5, Ind) l N. Vinuthna (3.5, Ind) lost to David Gluckman (4.5, RSA) l Deep Sengupta (4, Ind) drew Yogesh Gore (4, Ind).

Round VIII (Indians unless specified): Pravin Thipsay (6.5) drew Nigel Short (6.5, Eng) l Abhijit Kunte (5.5) drew Smirnov Pavel (6.5, Rus) l P Harikrishna (6) bt Tejas Bakre (5) l S Kidambi (5.5) drew Fominyh Alexander (5.5, Rus) l Abhijeet Gupta (5.5) drew Tahir Vakhidov (5.5, Uzb) l Dzhumaev Marat (6, Uzb) bt S Roy Chowdhury (5) l Koneru Humpy (5) lost to Niaz Murshed (6, Ban) l Iskusnyh Sergey (6, Rus) bt Sudhakar Babu (5) l Sharad Tilik (5) lost to Lanka Ravi (6) l Somak Palit (5) lost to K Sasikiran (5.5) l Sandipan Chanda (5.5) bt Anup Deshmukh (4.5) l Gurpreetpal Singh (5) drew RB Ramesh (5) l Vijayalakshmi (5.5) bt Ravi Hegde (4.5) l Michelakis George (4.5, RSA) lost to K. Rathnakaran (5.5) l David Gluckman (4.5, rsa) lost to M.R. Venkatesh (5.5) l Varugeese Koshy (5) drew R.R Laxman (5) l S. Meenakshi (5) drew Vishal Sareen (5) l Rishipal Singh (4.5) lost to Poobesh Anand (5.5) l Saidali Iuldachev (5, Uzb) bt D Harika (4) l Stuart Conquest (5; Eng) bt Saptarshi Roy (4) l S.S Ganguly (4.5) drew Vladimir Feldman (4.5, Aus) l Neelotpal Das (4.5) drew Jayant Gokhale (4.5) l Atanu Lahiri (5) bt Sriram Jha (4) l Mahmood Lodhi (5; pak) bt J. Ramakrishna (4) l Devaki Prasad (4.5) drew Berezina Irina (4.5, Aus) l Deepan Chakkravarthy (4.5) drew Lim Yee-weng (4.5, Mas) l Nisha Mohota (4.5) drew Himanshu Sharma (4.5) l Aarthie Ramaswamy (4.5) drew Dinesh Sharma (4.5) l Chandrashekhar Gokhale (4.5) drew Sekhar Sahu (4.5) l Yogesh Gore (5) bt Satyapragyan (4).

WIJK AAN ZEE MEET

Round VI: Veselin Topalov (4) bt Viktor Bologan (2) l Viswanathan Anand (4) bt Alexei Shirov (2) l Michael Adams bt Evegeny Bareev (2.5) l Peter Leko (3.5) drew Vladimir Akopian (3) l Vladimir Kramnik (4) bt Zhang Zhong (2) l Ivan Sokolov (2.5) drew Loek Van Wely (3) l Jan Timman (2.5) drew with Peter Svidler (3).

FOOTBALL

PREMIER LEAGUE

Bolton Wanderers 1 (Kevin Davies 53) Portsmouth 0 l Everton 0 Charlton Athletic 1 (Graham Stuart 41) l Manchester City 1 (Nicolas Anelka 50) Blackburn Rovers 1 (Garry Flitcroft 55) l Middlesbrough 3 (Juninho 8, John Curtis 90og, Massimo Maccarone 90+1) Leicester City 3 (Paul Dickov 49, 65, Marcus Bent 76) l Southampton 2 (Brett Ormerod 36, Kevin Phillips 43) Leeds United 1 (Matthew Kilgallon 75) l Tottenham Hotspur 2 (Robbie Keane 25pen, Helder Postiga 54) Liverpool 1 (Harry Kewell 75) l Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 (Kenny Miller 67) Manchester United 0.

Ligue 1

Bastia 0 Monaco 0 l Olympique Lyon 3 (Vikash Dhorasoo 9, Peguy Luyindula 36, Julien Viale 90+1) Montpellier 0 l Nantes 4 (Marama Vahirua 10, Mathieu Berson 14, Viorel Moldovan 55, Shiva N’Zigou 83) AC Ajaccio 0 l Racing Strasbourg 0 AJ Auxerre 2 (Olivier Kapo 20, Djibril Cisse 90+2) l Girondins Bordeaux 2 (Pablo Francia 17, Sylvain Franco 85) En Avant Guingamp 0 l Nice 0 Le Mans 1 (Daniel Cousin 42) l Paris St-Germain 0 Metz 0 l Stade Rennes 4 (Alexander Frei 39, 64, Olivier Monterubio 68, Kim Kallstrom 84) Sochaux 0 l Lille 0 Toulouse 1 (Cedric Faure 37).

SERIE A

Modena 1 (Nicola Campedelli 60) Lazio 1 (Claudio Lopez 24) l Udinese 1 (Matteo Ferrari 23og) Parma 1 (Adriano 80).

PRIMERA LIGA

Barcelona 1(Patrick Kluivert 63) Athletic Bilbao 1 (Carlos Gurpegi 86) l Murcia 2 (Diego Quintana 69, David Karanka 80) Celta Vigo 2 (Peter Luccin 7, Savo Milosevic 45+1) l Valladolid 0 Valencia 0.

TENNIS

SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL

MEN’S FINAL (Saturday): Lleyton Hewitt (7, Aus) bt Carlos Moya (3, Esp) 4-3 retd.

WOMEN’S SEMI-FINALS: Amelie Mauresmo (3, Fra) bt Francesca Schiavone (Ita) 6-3, 7-6 (7-2).

WTA CANBERRA CLASSIC

FINAL(Saturday): Paola Suarez (2, Arg) bt Silvia Farina Elia (3, Italy) 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5).

KOOYONG meet

MELBOURNE, FINAL(Saturday): David Nalbandian (Arg) bt Andre Agassi (US) 6-2, 6-3.

WTA TASMANIAN INTERNATIONAL

SYDNEY, FINAL(Saturday): Amy Frazier (US) bt Shinobu Asagoe (6, Jpn) 6-3, 6-3.

ITF WOMEN’S MEET

HYDERABAD, FINAL(Saturday): Sandy Gumulya (Ina) bt Rushmi Chakraborty (Ind) 6-1, 6-3.

National League

SATURDAY: MARGAO: Mahindra United 0 Churchill Brothers 1 (Yusif Yakubu, 12).

HOCKEY

AZLAN SHAH MEET

KUALA LUMPUR, Final: Australia 4 (Travis Brooks 21, 29, Michael Boyce 45, Troy Elder 57) Pakistan 3 (Kashif Jawaad 30, Sohail Abbas 44, 65) l Third-palce play-off: South Korea 3 (6) Germany 3 (5).

For the book

n Stephane Peterhansel celebrated double triumph at the Dakar Rally on Sunday when he became the first person to win both the motorbike and car categories in the gruelling desert race.