TENNIS

ATP HAMBURG MASTERS

Round II: Roger Federer (1, Sui) bt Nicolas Lapentti (Ecu) 6-3, 6-3 Florian Mayer (Ger) bt Albert Portas (Spa) 6-3, 6-4 Fernando Verdasco (Spa) bt Joachim Johansson (Swe) 7-6 (7-4), 6-1 Carlos Moya (7, Spa) bt Alberto Martin (Spa) 6-2, 6-3 Albert Costa (Spa) bt Olivier Rochus (Bel) 7-5, 6-4 Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) bt Victor Hanescu (Rom) 6-0, 3-6, 7-6 (7-3) Andrei Pavel (Rom) bt Tim Henman (5, GBR) 6-2, 6-2 Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) bt Lars Burgsmueller (Ger) 7-5, 7-5 Lleyton Hewitt (17, Aus) bt Tommy Haas (Ger) 6-4, 7-5 Tommy Robredo (16, Spa) bt Mariano Zabaleta (Arg) 6-4, 6-2 Fernando Gonzalez (13, Chi) bt Julian Knowle (Aut) 0-6, 6-4, 6-2 Marat Safin (Rus) bt Sargis Sargsian (Arm) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 David Ferrer (Spa) bt Dominik Hrbaty (Svk) 6-0, 6-3 Guillermo Coria (2, Arg) bt Luis Horna (Per) 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 Juergen Melzer (Aut) bt Irakli Labadze (Geo) 6-1, 6-0 Flavio Saretta (Bra) bt Oscar Hernandez (Spa) 6-4, 6-3.

WTA ROME MASTERS

Round II: Elena Bovina (Rus) bt Patty Schnyder (11, Sui) 3-6, 7-6 (7-5) retd Vera Zvonareva (8, Rus) bt Dinara Safina (Rus) 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 Flavia Pennetta (Ita) bt Nadia Petrova (4, Rus) 1-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 Francesca Schiavone (14, Ita) bt Samantha Reeves (US) 6-3, 6-4 Ai Sugiyama (7, Jpn) bt Mary Pierce (Fra) 6-2, 6-4 Anna Smashnova-Pistolesi (16, Isr) bt Maria Elena Camerin (Ita) 6-2, 6-1 Conchita Martinez (13, Spa) bt Karolina Sprem (Cro) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 Amelie Mauresmo (2, Fra) bt Nathalie Dechy (Fra) 7-5, 6-2 Dally Randriantefy (Mad) bt Vera Douchevina (Rus) 6-0, 6-3 Svetlana Kuznetsova (9, Rus) bt Marta Marrero (Spa) 6-0, 6-4 Paola Suarez (12, Arg) bt Tatiana Golovin (Fra) 6-2, 7-5 Elena Likhovtseva (Rus) bt Anastasia Myskina (3, Rus) 7-5, 1-6, 6-3 Jennifer Capriati (5, US) bt Maria Vento-Kabchi (Ven) 6-2, 6-1.

CRICKET

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

First division: BRISTOL: Northamptonshire 218 (U. Afzaal 63; J. Averis 6/32) vs Gloucestershire 93/0 (C. Spearman 53 ..) OLD TRAFFORD: Lancashire 187 (M. Loye 59 ..) vs Worcestershire 77/4 EDGBASTON: Warwickshire 358/6 (J. Troughton 77, G. Hogg 69 .., I. Trott 61) vs Surrey Second division: Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan 346/8 (M. Elliott 114, M. Maynard 64, D. Hemp 55) vs Essex GRACE ROAD: Leicestershire 223 (J. Sadler 62, . Gibson 57 ..; R. Sidebottom 4/52, C. Shreck 4/73) vs Nottinghamshire 85/3 TAUNTON: Somerset 375 (J. Hildreth 101, K. Dutch 72, J. Cox 66, K. Parsons 55) vs Durham 9/0 HEADINGLEY: Hampshire 322 (. Pothas 100, W. Kendall 50) vs Yorkshire 40/1.

TOUR MATCH

KINGSTOWN, WICB XI 135 in 45.3 ovs (R. Hinds 48; M. Islam 4/9, K. Mahmud 3/33). Bangladesh 136/7 in 41 ovs (H. Bashar 47).Bangladesh bt the West Indies Cricket Board XI by 3 wickets.

BADMINTON

UBER CUP

JAKARTA, semi-finals: China 3 Japan 0 (Gong Ruina bt Kanako Yonekura 11-5, 11-2 Gao Ling/Huang Sui bt Shizuka Yamamoto/Seiko Yamada 15-3, 150-2 Zhang Ning bt Kaori Mori 11-7, 11-7.

HOCKEY

FOUR-NATION MEET

Men: India 2 (Arjun Halappa 5, Sandeep Singh 34) Japan 1 (Nishimura 41) China 0 South Korea 3 (Lee Jung-Son 5, Kang Sung-Jong 30, Kim Jung-Chol 41) Women: China 4 (Fu Baorong 1, 15, Li Shuang 10, Zhou Wanfeng 34) India 0 (Interrupted by rain at 17 minutes into second half and remaining 18 minutes will be played Friday morning).

CHESS

NATIONAL JUNIOR GIRLS meet

KOZHIKODE, Fourth round: Saheli Nath (Ben) 3 lost to Eesha Karvade (Mah) 4 Tania Sachdev (Del) 3 drew with Saba Aziz Mhate (Mah) 3 J Rajasurya (ECA) 2.5 lost to Kruttika Nadig (Mah) 3.5 Praneetha (CCA) 3 drew with Soumya Swaminathan (Mah) 3 Sneha Ghatpande (Mah) 3 drew with Raghavi (TN) 3 P Sivasankari (TN) 3 drew with H Soumya (ACA) 3 Mary Ann Gomes (GNCA) 2 lost to Ramyakrishna (AP) 3 R Gomathi (CCA) 2 lost to Nabeela Farheen (TN) 3 Iswarya Shobana (GSCA) 3 bt V K Sindhu (TN) 2 Jennitha Anto (ACA) 2.5 drew with Nimmi George (Ker) 2.5 Alka Das (Jha) 2.5 drew with P Uthra (KCA) 2.5 Supriya Maji (Ben) 3 bt D S Manasapriya (MCA) 2 C P Athira (Ker) 1.5 lost to Amrutha Mokal (Mah) 2.5 Kiran Monisha Mohanty (Ori) 2.5 bt M Rajadarshini (TN) 1.5 C Delphin (MCA) 2 drew with Malar Selvi (TN) 2.

SWIMMING

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

MADRID, finals: Men’s one metre springboard diving: 1.Joona Puhakka (Fin) 430.86 points 2.Nicola Marconi (Ita) 392.25 3. Tobias Schellenberg (Ger) 389.07 Women’s one metre springboard diving: 1.Heike Fischer (Ger) 289.26 2.Natalia Umyskova (Rus) 285.45 3.Tania Cagnotto (Ita) 283.95 Men’s 200m individual medley: 1.Markus Rogan (Aut) 1:59.79 2. Jani Sievinen (Fin) 2:00.43 3.Massimiliano Rosolino (Ita) 2:00.53 Women’s 100m freestyle: 1.Malia Metella (Fra) 54.46 2. Marleen Veldhuis (Ned) 54.86 3.Nery Mantey Niangkouara (Gre) 55.05 Women’s 100 m breaststroke: 1.Svitlana Bondarenko (Ukr) 1:09.23 2. Elena Bogomazova (Rus) 1:09.37 3= Mirna Jukic (Aut) 1:09.41 3= Maria Östling (Swe) Men’s 100m freestyle: 1. Filippo Magnini (Ita) 48.87 2. Pieter van den Hoogenband (Ned) 49.33 3. Christian Galenda (Ita) 49.55 Men’s 10km open water: 1. Yevgeny Kochkarov (Rus) 1:45:21.5 2. Massimiliano Parla (Ita) 1:45:22.8 3. Anton Sanachev (Rus) 1:45:23.9 Women’s 5 km open water: 1. Britta Kamrau (Ger) 59:11.3 2. Stefanie Biller (Ger) 59:14.4 3. Xenia Lopez (Spa) 59:16.3.

FOOTBALL

Ligue 1

Olympique Lyon 1 (Juninho Pernambucano 26) Bastia 0 Racing Strasbourg 0 Monaco 0 AC Ajaccio 1 (Yohan Dumont 14) Sochaux 0 Nantes 0 En Avant Guingamp 0 Le Mans 1 (James Fanchone 43pen) Lille 1 (Milenko Acimovic 33) Stade Rennes 0 Metz 0 Olympique Marseille 1 (Camel Meriem 31) Montpellier 1 (Fode Mansare 66) Nice 1 (Georges Ba 62) Toulouse 1 (Fernandao 6).

PREMIER LEAGUE

Southampton 3 (James Beattie 19, Titus Bramble 39og, Leandre Griffit 88) Newcastle United 3 (Shola Ameobi 7, Lee Bowyer 35, Darren Ambrose 90+4).

ITALIAN CUP

TURIN, Juventus 2 (David Trezeguet 20, Alessandro Del Piero 46) Lazio 2 (Bernardo Corradi 69, Stefano Fiore 84) First leg 0-2; Lazio win 4-2 on aggregate.

GOLF

ASIAN OPEN

SHANGHAI, Round I leaders: 66 Simon Dyson (GBR) 67 K.J. Choi (Kor), Gregory Hanrahan (US), Prayad Marksaeng (Tha), Greg Norman (Aus) 68 Marcus Both (Aus), Alex Cejka (Ger), David Drysdale (GBR), Mattias Eliasson (Swe), Paul McGinley (Irl), Craig Spence (Aus) 69 Adam Groom (Aus), James Kingston (RSA), Rafael Ponce (Ecu), Gary Rusnak (US) 70 Jonathan Cheetham (GBR), Gary Emerson (GBR), Chris Gane (GBR), Craig Kamps (RSA), Edward Loar (US), Prom Meesawat (Tha), Eiji Mizuguchi (Jpn), Cesar Monasterio (Arg), Gareth Paddison (NZ), Chawalit Plaphol (Tha), Jyoti Randhawa (Ind), Boonchu Ruangkit (Tha), Zhang Lian-wei (Chn).

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