TENNIS

NSCI ITF MEET

MUMBAI, Isha Lakhani bt Shiho Hisamatsu (Jpn) 6-4, 6-3 l Megha Vakharia bt Hana Sromova (Cze) 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 l Sania Mirza bt Sonal Phadke 6-0, 6-0 l Rushmi Chakravarthi bt Verena Beller (Ger) 6-2, 7-6 (7-1) l Suchanan Viratprasert (Tha) bt Sai Jayalakshmy (Ind) 6-3, 6-3 l Montinee Tangphong (Tha) bt Radhika Tulpule (Ind) 6-0, 6-2 l Gabriala Navratilova (Cze) bt Ankita Bhambri 6-2, 6-2 l Akgul Amanmuradova (Uzb) bt Mana Penkova (Bul) 6-2, 6-2.

FOOTBALL

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Group E — MANCHESTER: Manchester United 3 (Diego Forlan 6, Ruud van Nistelrooy 43, 60) Rangers 0 l ATHENS: Panathinaikos 1 (Michalis Konstantinou 59) VfB Stuttgart 3 (Takis Fyssas 67og, Kevin Kuranyi 75, Andreas Hinkel 77) l Group F — OPORTO: Porto 1 (Dimitri Alenitchev 21) Olympique Marseille 0 l BELGRADE: Partizan Belgrade 0 Real Madrid 0 l Group G — ROME: Chelsea 4 (Hernan Crespo 15, Eidur Gudjohnsen 70, Damien Duff 75, Frank Lampard 80) Lazio 0 l ISTANBUL: Besiktas 1 (Ronaldo Guiaro 82) Sparta Prague 0 l Group H — VIGO: Celta Vigo 3 (Peter Luccin 25pen, Savo Milosevic 39, Vagner 63) Ajax Amsterdam 2 (Wesley Sonck 53, Rafael van der Vaart 82) l BRUGES: Club Bruges 0 AC Milan 1 (Kaka 86).

CRICKET

TOUR MATCH

DHAKA: England 328 in 49.3 ovs (Vikram Solanki 79, Ian Blackwell 62, Andrew Strauss 51); BCB Development XI 167 in 47.4 ovs (Manjarul Islam 47). England bt Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Development XI by 167 runs.

For the book

n The Jammu and Kashmir tourism ministry has decided to begin multi-winter sports courses, including skiing and paragliding from this month.Paragliding and kayaking courses would be conducted at Sanasar and Mansar, respectively, while skiing courses would be organised at Patnitop.