TENNIS

WTA ROME MASTERS

Round I: Karolina Sprem (Cro) bt Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) 6-2, 6-2 l Mary Pierce (Fra) bt Gisela Dulko (Arg) 6-1, 6-4 l Anna Smashnova-Pistolesi (Isr) bt Magui Serna (Esp) 6-2, 6-1 l Paola Suarez (12, Arg) bt Fabiola Zuluaga (Col) 5-7, 6-1, retired hurt l Conchita Martinez (13, Esp) bt Yuliana Fedak (Ukr) 6-1, 6-1 l Patty Schnyder (11, Sui) bt Anca Barna (Ger) 6-4, 6-1 l Maria Vento-Kabchi (Ven) bt Klara Koukalova (Cze) 7-6 (7-3), 2-6, 6-4 l Maria Elena Camerin (Ita) bt Jelena Dokic (Sem) 7-5, 7-5 l Nathalie Dechy (Fra) bt Kristina Brandi (Pue) 6-4, 6-4 l Elena Likhovtseva (Rus) bt Emilie Loit (Fra) 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) l Meghann Shaughnessy (US) bt Jelena Kostanic (Cro) 6-4, 7-6 (7-3) l Flavia Pennetta (Ita) bt Laura Granville (US) 6-0, 6-3.

ATP HAMBURG MASTERS

Round I: Carlos Moya (7, Esp) bt David Sanchez (Esp) 7-5, 6-4 l Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) bt Nicolas Kiefer (Ger) 6-4, 6-7 (2-7), 6-2 l Roger Federer (1, Sui) bt Gaston Gaudio (Arg) 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 l David Ferrer (Esp) bt David Nalbandian (6, Arg) 6-2, 6-3 l Tim Henman (5, GBR) bt Andreas Seppi (Ita) 7-5, 1-6, 6-3 l Victor Hanescu (Rom) bt Max Mirnyi (Bel) 7-6 (9-7), 3-6, 6-3 l Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) bt Martin Verkerk (12, Ned) 7-5, 7-6 (7-4) l Lars Burgsmueller (Ger) bt Rainer Schuettler (4, Ger) 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-4 l Albert Costa (Esp) bt Xavier Malisse (Bel) 6-3, 6-4 l Oscar Hernandez (Esp) bt Sjeng Schalken (14, Ned) 5-1, retired hurt l Mariano Zabaleta (Arg) bt Robin Soderling (Swe) 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 l Lleyton Hewitt (17, Aus) bt Jonas Bjorkman (Swe) 6-0, 7-6 (7-5) l Andrei Pavel (Rom) bt Cyril Saulnier (Fra) 6-2, 7-5 l Juergen Melzer (Aut) bt Nicolas Massu (9, Chi) 6-3, 6-0 l Fernando Gonzalez (13, Chi) bt Feliciano Lopez (Esp) 7-6 (7-4), 6-4).

VOLLEYBALL

OLYMPIC QUALIFIERS (WOMEN)

TOKYO: South Korea bt Italy 3-2 (17-25, 10-25, 25-17, 25-18, 18-16) l Thailand bt Nigeria 3-0 (25-16, 25-10, 25-13) l Russia bt Taiwan 3-0 (25-10, 25-14, 25-17) l Japan bt Puerto Rico 3-0 (25-23, 25-11, 25-23)

SWIMMING

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

MADRID, MEN: 50m butterfly — 1. Sergiy Breus (Ukr) 24.02 2. Nikolay Skvortsov (Rus) 24.05 3. Andriy Serdinov (Ukr) 24.16 l 100m backstroke — 1. Laszlo Cseh (Hun) 55.26 2. Markus Rogan (Aut) 55.27 3. Stev Theloke (Ger) 55.39 l 100m breaststroke — 1. Oleg Lisogor (Ukr) 1:01.13 2. Hugues Duboscq (Fra) 1:01.25 3. Richard Bodor (Hun) 1:01.54 l WOMEN: 50m butterfly — 1. Natalia Soutiaguina (Rus) 27.04 2. Martina Moracova (Svk) 27.09 3. Chantal Groot (Ned) l 200 metres backstroke — 1. Stanislava Komarova (Rus) 2:10.97 2. Anja Carman (Slo) 2:13.12 3. Sanja Jovanovic (Cro) 2:13.95 l 4x200m freestyle — 1. Spain 8:03.41 (Tatiana Rouba, Melissa Caballero, Laura Roca, Erika Villaecija) 2. France 8:06.04 (Celine Couderc, Katarin Quelennec, Elsa N’Guessan, Solenne Figues) 3. Romania 8:06.26 (Camelia Potec, Larisa Lacusta, Beatrice Caslaru, Simona Paduraru)

DIVING, MEN: 3m synchro — 1. Italy (Nicola Marconi/Tommaso Marconi) 322.50 2. Russia (Sergey Anikin/Vassily Lissovsky) 321.90 3. Ukraine (Dmytro Lysenko/Yuriy Shlyakhov) 321.24 l WOMEN: 10m synchro — 1. Germany (Annett Gamm/Nora Subschinski) 303.72 2. Spain (Dolores Saez de Ibarra/Leire Santos) 294.60 3. Italy (Brenda Spaziani/Valentina Marocchi) 294.06

FOOTBALL

Ligue 1

RC Lens 1 (Amada Coulibaly 31) AJ Auxerre 3 (Yohan Lachuer 22, Lionel Mathis 74, Djibril Cisse 89) l Girondins Bordeaux 3 (Pascal Feindouno 22, 49, Marouane Chamakh 75) Paris St Germain 0.

BADMINTON

THOMAS CUP

JAKARTA, Day V: Japan bt South Africa 3-0 (Shoji Sato bt Chris Dednam 15-6, 15-7 l Sho Sasaki bt Dean Potgeiter 15-4, 15-4 l Toru Matsumoto bt Wiaan Viljoen 15-1, 15-2) l Thailand bt England 3-1 (Boonsak Ponsana bt Aamir Ghaffar 13-15, 15-13, 15-11 l Anthony Clark/Nathan Robertson bt Pramote Teerawiwatana/Tesana Pavisvas 15-6, 9-15, 15-10 l Thirayu Laohathaimongkol bt Andrew South 15-11, 15-6 l Sudket Prapakamol/Patapol Ngernsrisuk bt Robert Blair/David Lindley 17-14, 15-9) l Indonesia bt New Zealand 3-0 (Sony Dwi Kuncoro bt John Moody 15-3, 15-2 l Simon Santoso bt Geoffrey Bellingham 15-3, 15-2 l Luluk Hadiyanto/Alvent Yulianto bt Daniel Shirley/John Gordon 15-5, 15-8) l Germany bt USA 3-0 (Bjoern Joppien bt Eric Go 17-14, 15-5 l Jens Roch bt Howard Bach 15-2, 15-4 l Marc Zwiebler bt Kevin Han 15-2, 15-4.

UBER CUP

Indonesia bt Germany 3-0 (Silvi Antarini bt Xu Huaiwen 11-6, 13-10 l Maria Kristin bt Juliane Schenk 11-8, 1-11, 11-4 l Firdasari Adrianti bt Nicole Grether 11-7, 11-8) l Netherlands bt South Africa 3-0 (Karina de Wit bt Michelle Edwards 11-4, 11-3 l Judith Meulendijks bt Chantal Botts 11-0, 11-0 l Brenda Beenhakker bt Annari Viljoe 11-3, 11-0) l Malaysia bt Australia 3-0 (Wong Mew Choo bt Lenny Permana 11-5, 11-8 l Woon Sze Mei bt Kellie Lucas 13-10, 13-10 l Chin Eei Hui/Wong Pei Tty bt Kate Wilson-Smith/Jane Crabtree 15-12, 15-2) l Japan bt Canada 3-0 (Kanako Yonekura bt Charmaine Reid 11-8, 11-8 l Miho Tanaka bt Valerie St. Jacques 11-1, 11-0 l Chikako Nakayama/Keiko Yoshitomi bt Charmaine Reid/Helen Nichol 15-2, 15-4)

CHESS

NATIONAL JUNIOR GIRLS’ MEET

KOZHIKODE, Round II: R. K. Shruke lost to Eesha Karvade l Tania Sachdev bt M. Rajadarshini l Baisakhi Das drew Kruttika Nadig l Alka Das lost to Soumya Swaminathan l Saheli Nath bt Ramya Krishna l Supriya Maji lost to N. Raghavi l Sivasankari drew Lakshmi Praneetha l Rajasurya bt Nabeela Farheen l Ishwarya Shobana bt Jennitha Anto l Malar Selvi drew Amritha Mokal l Kiran Monisha Mohanty drew H Soumya l Dhyani B. Dave lost to Nimmi George l C. Delphin drew V. K. Sindhu l Sneha G. Pandey drew Sabaa Mahate l P. K. Jayashree lost to D. S. Manasapriya

For the book

Searches were carried out on twelve Italian football clubs, including Serie A sides Chievo, Lecce, Siena and Reggina, and documents seized as part of a probe into match-fixing, judicial sources said.