CHESS
NATIONAL A MEET
Chennai, Round V (Thursday) — Abhijit Kunte (PSPB) 3.5 drew Tejas Bakre (IA) 4 Surya Sekhar Ganguly (PSPB) 4 bt Deepan Chakkaravthy (PSPB) 3 GN Gopal (PSPB) 3.5 drew MS Thejkumar (Kar) 3.5 MR Venkatesh (PSPB) 3.5 drew Parimarjan Negi (Del) 3 Dibyendu Baruna (Ben) 3.5 bt M Praveen Thipsay (BSB) 2.5 R.B. Ramesh (PSPB) 2.5 lost to Swayangsu Satyapragyan (IA) 3.5 S. Arun Prasad (PSPB) 2.5 lost to B. Adhiban (TN) 3.5 Rahul Shetty (IA) 3 drew Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (Rly) 3 Neelotpal Das (PSPB) 2 lost to N Sudhakar Babu (BSB) 3 Roktim Bandyopadhyay (Ben) 2.5 drew Sriram Jha (LIC) 2.5 Suvrajit Saha (Rly) 2.5 drew Sundararajan Kidambi (PSPB) 2.5 Neeraj-Kumar Mishra (Jha) 2 lost to K. Rathnakaran (Rly) 3 Vishnu Prasanna (TN) 2 lost to SP Sethuraman (TN) 3 Ravi Tahandelam Shanmugam (PSPB) 2 lost to Saptarshi Roy (Rly) 3 P. Konguvel (PSPB) 2.5 drew P. Karthikeyan (TN) 2.5 N. Sanjay (Kar) 3 bt Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (Mah) 2 Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 1.5 lost to M. Lalith Babu (AP) 2.5.
GOLF
INDIAN MASTERS
Delhi, Round II (Friday) — 136 Damien McGrane (Irl) 67 69 138 Hendrik Buhrmann (RSA) 69 69, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 69 69, Graeme McDowell (GBR) 69 69 139 Mikael Lundberg (Swe) 71 68 140 Arjun Atwal (Ind) 70 70, Benn Barham (GBR) 69 71, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 68 72, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 69 71, Jose Manuel Lara (Esp) 68 72, Digvijay Singh (Ind) 70 70 141 S.S.P. Chowrasia (Ind) 70 71, Darren Clarke (GBR) 72 69, Henrik Nystroem (Swe) 70 71 142 Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 65 77 144 Gaurav Ghei (Ind) 75 69, Amandeep Johl (Ind).
PEBBLE BEACH NATIONAL PRO-AM MEET
Round I (Thursday) — 66 Kent Jones (US) 67 John Mallinger (US), Roland Thatcher (US), Brad Adamonis (US) 68 Jay Williamson (US), Michael Allen (US), J.B. Holmes (US), Kris Cox (US), D.A. Points (US), Tim Herron (US), Robert Floyd (US), Mark Wilson (US), Olin Browne (US), Todd Demsey (US).
TENNIS
DAVIS CUP
World Group, Round I (Friday) — Dudi Sela (Isr) bt Jonas Bjorkman (Swe) 7-6(8), 6-3, 6-1 Israel lead Sweden 1-0 Mikhail Youzhny bt Nenad Zimonjic 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. Russia lead Serbia 1-0 Richard Gasquet bt Victor Hanescu 7-6 (5), 6-4, 7-5. France lead Romania 1-0.
WTA PARIS OPEN
Round II (Thursday) — Amelie Mauresmo (6, Fra) bt Eleni Daniilidou (Gre) 3-0 (Daniilidou retired) Virginie Razzano (Fra) bt Alize Cornet (Fra) 6-4, 7-5 Marion Bartoli (3, Fra) bt Dominika Cibulkova (Svk) 7-5, 6-1 Kateryna Bondarenko (Ukr) bt Yuliana Fedak (Ukr) 6-0, 6-3 Daniela Hantuchova (2, Svk) bt Katarina Srebotnik (Slo) 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 Anna Chakvetadze (1, Rus) bt Nathalie Dechy (Fra) 6-1, 6-3.
WTA PATTAYA OPEN
Round II (Thursday) — Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha) bt Olga Poutchkova (Rus) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 Jill Craybas (7, US) bt Renata Voracova (Cze) 2-6, 6-1 6-3 Akgul Amanmuradova (Uzb) bt Tzipora Obziler (9, Isr) 6-4, 6-2 Ekaterina Bychkova (Rus) bt Sunitha Rao (Ind) 6-4, 6-4 Andreja Klepac (Slo) bt Casey Dell'Acqua (2, Aus) 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 Agnieszka Radwanska (1, Pol) bt Anne Kremer (Lux) 6-2, 6-2 Chan Yung-jan (4, Tai) bt Lilia Osterloh (US) 6-4, 6-2 Vesna Manasieva (Rus) bt Angelique Kerber (5, Ger) 6-2, 6-1.
