SWIMMING
World Championships
Rome: Thursday — Men’s Diving 3m Sringboard, Final — 1. He Chong (Chn) 505.20; 2. Troy Dumais (US) 498.40; 3. Alexandre Despatie (Can) 490.30 Women’s 3m Sychronised Springboard, Preliminaries — 1. China (Guo Jingjing, Wu Minxia) 342.90; 2. Italy (Tania Cagnotto, Francesca Dallape) 316.20; 3. Russia (Julia Pakhalina, Anastasia Pozdniakova) 305.49 Women’s Sychronised Swimming, Solo Free, Final — 1. Natalia Ishchenko (Rus) 98.833; 2.Gemma Mengual (Esp) 98.333; 3.Beatrice Adelizzi (Ita) 95.500 Duet Free, Preliminaries — 1. Russia (Natalia Ishchenko, Svetlana Romashina) 99.000; 2. Spain (Andrea Fuentes, Gemma Megual) 97.833; 3. China (Jiang Tingting, Jiang Wenwen) 96.666
TENNIS
Gastein International
Austria: Women’s singles, Round II, Thursday — Ioana Raluca Olaru (Rom) bt Sybille Bammer (3, Aut) 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 Andrea Petkovic (Ger) bt Iveta Benesova (4, Cze) 6-1, 0-0 (Benesova retired)
German Open
Hamburg: Men’s singles, Round III, Thursday — Simon Greul (Ger) bt Ivan Navarro (Esp) 7-5, 7-6(7) David Ferrer (6, Esp) bt Juan Monaco (Arg) 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 Viktor Troicki (10, Srb) bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Esp) 6-7(2), 6-4, 7-6(6) Victor Hanescu (11, Rom) bt Julien Benneteau (Fra) 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 Nicolas Almagro (14, Esp) bt Robin Soderling (3, Swe) 7-5, 6-3 Pablo Cuevas (Uru) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (8, Ger) 6-4, 7-6(8) Nikolay Davydenko (2, Rus) bt Jeremy Chardy (15, Fra) 6-3, 6-3
Indianapolis International
Men’s singles, Round II, Thursday — John Isner (US) bt Denis Istomin (8, Uzb) 6-4, 6-4 Robby Ginepri (US) bt Eduardo Schwank (Arg) 6-7(1), 6-3, 6-0 Sam Querrey (3, US) bt Rajeev Ram (US) 7-5, 6-3 Frank Dancevic (Can) bt Benjamin Becker (Ger) 6-2, 7-5 Dmitry Tursunov (1, Rus) bt Marcos Daniel (Bra) 6-3, 6-3 Alex Bogomolov Jr. (US) bt Dudi Sela (2, Isr) 6-4, 7-6(5) Wayne Odesnik (US) bt Igor Kunitsyn (4, Rus) 2-6, 6-1, 6-1
Slovenia Open
Portoroz: Women’s singles, Round II, Thursday — Sara Errani (5, Ita) bt Klara Zakopalova (Cze) 6-1, 6-1 Alberta Brianti (Ita) bt Olga Govortsova (Blr) 6-4, 6-1
