TENNIS

WTA LOS ANGELES OPEN

Round II: Kim Clijsters (1, Bel) bt Emilie Loit (Fra) 6-1, 6-1 l Lindsay Davenport (2, US) bt Barbara Schett (Aut) 6-3, 6-1 l Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) bt Jelena Dokic (5, Yug) 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 l Amanda Coetzer (8, RSA) bt Aranxta Parra (Esp) 6-1, 6-1 l Virginia Ruano Pascual (Esp) bt Elena Dementieva (9, Rus) 6-3, 5-7, 7-5 l Meghann Shaughnessy (10, US) bt Fabiola Zuluaga (Col) 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) l Nicole Pratt (Aus) bt Eleni Daniilidou (12, Gre) 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 l Paola Suarez (Arg) bt Elena Bovina (13, Rus) 2-6, 7-5, 7-5 l Viktoriya Kutuzova (Ukr) bt Alexandra Stevenson (15, US) 6-3, 3-3 retired l Francesca Schiavone (16, Ita) bt Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha) 5-7, 6-3, 6-0 l Rita Grande (Ita) bt Angelique Widjaja (Ina) 6-4, 1-6, 6-4.

WTA HELSINKI OPEN

Round II: Karolina Sprem (8, Cro) bt Barbara Rittner (Ger) 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, 6-4 l Petra Mandula (4, Hun) bt Tatiana Perebiynis (Ukr) 6-2, 6-2 l Vera Douchevina (Rus) bt Denisa Chladkova (3, Cze) 6-2, 6-3 l Round I: Jelena Kostanic (Cro) bt Flavia Pennetta (5, Ita) 6-4, 7-6 (10-8) l Myriam Casanova (Sui) bt Rita Kuti Kis (Hun) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 l Anna Pistolesi (2, Isr) bt Jana Hlavackova (Cze) 6-3, 6-4 l Marta Marrero (Esp) bt Evgenia Koulikovskaya (Rus) 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (8-6).

ATP MASTERS SERIES

MONTREAL, Round II: Paradorn Srichaphan (11, Tha) bt Daniel Nestor (Can) 7-5, 6-4 l Roger Federer (3, Sui) bt Greg Rusedski (GBR) 6-4, 6-3 l Max Mirnyi (Blr) bt Lleyton Hewitt (5, Aus) 7-5, 6-7 (4-7), 7-5 l Sebastien Grosjean (9, Fra) bt Ramon Delgado (Par) 6-3, 6-2 l Tommy Robredo (16, Esp) bt Wayne Black (Zim) 6-0, 6-2 l Jiri Novak (10, Cze) bt James Blake (US) 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 l Rainer Shuettler (8, Ger) bt Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Rus) 6-1, 6-4 l Andy Roddick (6, US) bt Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg) 7-6 (8-6), 6-2 l Feliciano Lopez (Esp) bt Paul-Henri Mathieu (Fra) 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 l Karol Kucera (Svk) bt Martin Verkerk (15, Ned) 7-6 (12-10), 7-6 (7-3) l Andre Agassi (1, US) bt Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) 7-6 (7-3,) 6-2 l Vincent Spadea (US) bt Arnaud Clement (Fra) 6-0, 6-7 (5-7), 7-5 l David Nalbandian (Arg) bt Tim Henman (GBR) 6-4, 6-4 l Simon Larose (Can) bt Jose Acasuso (Arg) 7-6 (7-5), 1-6, 7-5 l Juan Carlos Ferrero (2, Esp) bt Younes El Aynaoui (Mar) 6-3, 6-4 l Karol Beck (Svk) bt Mariano Zabaleta (Arg) 6-1, 6-1.

CRICKET

ENGLISH LEAGUE

DIVISION I: HEADINGLEY, Warwickshire Bears 273/6 (N. Knight 95, J. Troughton 77). Yorkshire Phoenix 274/3 (S. Fleming 139 n.o.). Yorkshire Phoenix won by 7 wkts l DIVISION II: NORTHAMPTON, Northamptonshire Steelbacks 319/7 (M. Hussey 123, P. Jaques 76). Scottish Saltires 244 (R. Dravid 114). Northamptonshire Steelbacks won by 75 runs.

CHESS

DORTMUND OPEN

Round VI: Viktor Bologan (5, Mda) beat Arkadi Naiditsch (2, Ger) l Petr Leko (2, Hun) lost to Viswanathan Anand (3) l Teimour Radjabov (2.5, Aze) drew Vladimir Kramnik (3.5, Rus).

NATIONAL B MEET

NAGPUR, Round X: R.B. Ramesh (8.5) drew Sriram Jha (8) l S. Satyapragyan (7.5) drew Rahul Shetty (8) l N.K. Mishra (7) lost to Koneru Humpy (8) l Pankaj Joshi (7) lost to M.R. Venkatesh (8) l N. Sudhakar Babu (7) drew Saptarshi Roy (7) l Atanu Lahiri (6.5) lost to B.S. Shivanandan (7.5) l Singh Vikramjit (6.5) drew Deepan Chakravarthy (7) l L. Imocha (6.5) lost to Suvrajit Saha (7.5) l V. Saravanan (7.5) bt J. Ramakrishna (6.5) l Roktim Bandopadhyay (7.5) bt Yogesh Gore (6.5) l Prathamesh Mokal (7.5) bt P.D.S. Girinath (6.5) l Vishal Sareen (7.5) bt Manish Kumar (6.5) l C.S. Gokhale (7.5) bt K.V. Shantaram (6.5) l Himanshu Sharma (7.5) bt V. Koshy (6.5) l Argayadip Das (7.5) bt Rishipal Singh (6.5) l G.B. Prakash (7) bt V. Hariharan (6.5) l Rahul Sangma (6) lost to D.V. Prasad (7) l Sayantan Dutta (6) lost to Nassir Wajih (7) l K. Vishveswaran (7) bt Ravikumar (6) l Shasikant Kutwal (7) bt Poobesh Anand (6) l P. Konguvel (7) beat P.K. Singh (6) l V.R. Kamble (7) bt Amit Pal Singh (6) l Appolosana (6) lost to S. Arun Prasad (7) l Debashish Chakroborty (6) lost to Sahu Sekhar Chandra (7) l M Srinivasa Rao (6) bt Jaydev Saha (6) l Srikar K S (6) lost to G.B. Joshi (7) l Dinesh Sharma (6) drew Prasanna Iyer (6.5).

FOOTBALL

FRIENDLY

LISBON, Sporting Portugal 3 (Luis Filipe 25, Joao Pinto 62, 80) Manchester United 1 (Hugo Vieira 87og).

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Second qualifying round, second leg: GLASGOW, Celtic (Sco) 1 (Gvildys og-21) FBK Kaunas (Ltu) 0. Celtic win 5-0 on aggregate) l VALETTA, Sliema Wanderers (Mlt) 0 FC Copenhagen (Den) 6 (Jonsson 17, 43, Norregaard 39, Chetcuti 46-og, Zuma 49, Roll Larsen 65). Copenhagen win 10-1 on aggregate l ZAGREB, Dynamo Zagreb (Cro) 2 (Mijatovic 60, Drpic 63) NK Maribor (Slo) 1 (Balajic 11). Dynamo Zagreb win 3-2 on aggregate l GRAZ, GAK Graz (Aut) 2 (Sick 14, Kollmann 75) KF Tirana (Alb) 1 (Agolli 92). GAK win 7-2 on aggregate l SOLNA (SWEDEN): Djurgarden (Swe) 2 (Johansson 10, Wowoah 77) Partizan Belgrade (Yug) 2 (Ilic 62, Malbasa 67-pen). Partizan win on away goals rule after tie finished 3-3 on aggregate l HELSINKI, HJK Helsinki (Fin) 1 (Maekelae 64) MTK Budapest (Hun) 0. MTK win 3-2 on aggregate l SOFIA, CSKA Sofia (Bul) 1 (Lima 90-pen) FC Pyunik (Arm) 0. CSKA win 3-0 on aggregate l PRAGUE, Slavia Prague (Cze) 2 (Kuka 42, Skacel 73) Leotar Trebinje (Bih) 0. Slavia win 4-1 on aggregate l NICOSIA, Omonia Nicosia (Cyp) 2 (Rauffmann 16, Charalambous 51) Wisla Krakow (Pol) 2 (Zurawski 5, 72). Wisla win 7-4 on aggregate l SKOPJE, Vardar (Mkd) 1 (Dos Santos 65) CSKA Moscow (Rus) 1 (Gogniev 31). Vardar win 2-1 on aggregate l DONETSK, Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukr) 2 (Vukic 60, Brandao 89) Sheriff Tiraspol (Mol) 0. Shakhtar Donetsk win 2-0 on aggregate l BUDAPEST, Maccabi Tel Aviv (Isr) 1 (Pantsil 25) MSK Zilina (Svk) 1 (Sninsky 16). Zilina win 2-1 on aggregate.

CALCUTTA LEAGUE

First division, Group B: Victoria SC 0 Aikya Sammilani 1 (Sudip Das) l Behala Youth 0 United Students 0 l Garalgacha 1 (Prasanta Sarkar) Tangra FC 0.

For the book

The four-day Raid-de-Himalaya will be held from October 7-10 and cover a distance of 2000 km through rugged hilly terrain, high mountain passes and tribal areas in Himachal Pradesh. It will be flagged off from Shimla and end in Manali.