ATHLETICS

Inter-state national championships

chennai l Men: 200m — 1. Anil Kumar (Ker) 20.90 secs; 2. Abhishek Pandey (UP) 21.54; 3. Ganesh satpute (Mah) 21.83 l 800m — 1.P.S. Primesh (Ker) 1:50.90 secs; 2. K.A. Jaya Kumar (Ker) 1:51.53; 3. K.S. Ashok (Kar) 1:53.07 l 400m hurdles — 1. Gurpreet Singh (Pun) 51.14 secs; 2. Kuldev Singh (Pun) 51.98; 3. S. Kiran Prasad (Ker) 52.38 l 5000m — 1. Mukesh Kumar (UP) 14:48.82 secs; 2. Sunil Kumar (Har) 14:49.13; 3. Pritam Bind (Utt) 15:00.01 l 4x400m relay — 1. Kerala (3:13.69 secs); 2. Uttar Pradesh (3:15.45); 3. Tamil Nadu (3:19.47) l Triple jump — 1. Amarjeet Singh (Pun) 16.44m (NMR: old record — 16.18m, by Suresh Babu of Kerala in Palai in 1976 and that was equalled by Pritipal Singh of Punjab in Bangalore in 2002); 2. Alex Thomas (TN) 15.56; 3. Bhupinder Singh (Pun) 15.48 l Discus — 1. Vikas S. Gowda (Kar) 58.48m; 2. Gursewak Singh (Pun) 53.32; 3. Amandeep Singh (Pun) 50.22 l Javelin — 1 Jagdish Bishnoi (Pun) 75.38m; 2. Gajinder (UP) 73.16; 3. Omnasain (Har) 72.71. women: 200m — 1. Saraswati Saha (Ben) 23.30; 2. Rakhi Saha (Ben) 24.78; 3. Anju Kumari (TN) 25.16 l 800m — 1. Madhuri A. Singh (Pun) 2:02.55 secs; 2. Sunita (Del) 2:05.51; 3. S. Shanthi (TN) 2:09.63 l 10,000m — 1.Rajni (Pun) 39:35.57 secs; 2. Vaishali Chatra (Mah) 40:27.38; 3. Asha Sadhu (Ben) 41:14.69 l 400m hurdles — 1. Babita Chaudhary (Mah) 1:00.20 secs; 2. S Rosalin Arokiamary (TN)1:01.92; 3. K.J. Vijila (Ker) 1:02.30 l 4x400m relay — 1.Tamil Nadu (3:51.12 secs); 2. Kerala (3:52.56); 3. Bengal (4:11.82) l 20 km walk — 1. Amandeep Kaur (Pun) 1:54.47 secs; 2. L. Deepmala Devi (manipur) 1:57.29; 3. Sandeep Kaur (Pun) 1:58.02 l Pole Vault — 1. Chetna Solanki (UP) 3.50m; 2. V.S. Surekha (TN); 3. Deepa Chaudhary (Del) 3.30m (All three set new meet marks, eclipsing Surekha’s own 3.20m, set at inter state meet in Jamshedpur in 2003) l Heptathlon — 1. Soma Biswas (Ben) 6162 pts; 2. Sushmita Singh Roy (Ben) 5105; 3. Manju Paullose (Ker) 4647.

CHESS

Biel International festival

Round II: Main section — Krishnan Sasikiran (1, Ind) lost to Ruslan Ponomariov (1.5, Ukr) l Alexander Morozevich (2, Rus) Etienne Bacrot (Fra) l Luke McShane (0, Eng) lost to Yannick Pelletier (1, Sui). Master’s section — Bragi Thorfinnsson (1, Isr) lost to Mikhail Kobalia (2, Rus) l Pavel Eljanov (2, Ukr) bt Thomas Pahtz (1, Ger) l Till Wippermann (1, Ger) lost to Evgeny Alekseev (2, Rus) l Boris Avrukh (2, Isr) bt Andrei Lukin (1, Rus) l Nadezhda Kosintseva (1, Rus) lost to Christian Bauer (2, Ger) l Alexander Rustemov (1.5, Rus) drew Alexander Raetsky (1.5, Rus) l Ilia Schneider (1, Ger) lost to Mikhail Ulibin (2, Rus) l Ivan Nemet (1, Sui) lost to Michael Roiz (2, Isr) l Alexander Riazantsev (1.5, Rus) drew P. Konguvel (1.5, Ind) l Andreas Huss (1, Sui) lost to Zahar Effimenko (2, Ukr) l Andrei Shariyazdanov (1.5, Rus) drew Murtez Handozi (1.5, Kos) l P. Magesh Chandran (2, Ind) bt Giuseppe Valenti (1, Ita) l R.R. Vasudevan (0.5, Ind) lost to Hans-Jurg Kanel (1.5, Sui) l Michael Desboeufs (1, Sui) drew Parimarjan Negi (1).

TENNIS

WTA Los Angeles meet

Round I: Amy Frazier (15,US) bt Alina Jidkova (Rus) 6-2, 6-2 l Anna Smashnova-Pistolesi (10, Isr) bt Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spa) 6-2, 6-1 l Barbara Schett (Aut) bt Claudine Schaul (Lux) 6-3, 6-4 l Nicole Pratt (Aus) bt Petra Mandula (Hun) 0-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 l Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) bt Cara Black (Zim) 6-2, 6-4 l Maria Vento-Kabchi (Ven) bt Gisela Dulko (Arg) 6-2, 6-2 l Elena Likhovtseva (Rus) bt Vilmarie Castellvi (Pur) 6-3, 6-2 l Eleni Daniilidou (Gre) bt Teryn Ashley (US) 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 l Jelena Jankovic (SCG) bt Meghann Shaughnessy (US) 7-6 (7-2), 6-1, 6-3 l Patty Schnyder (9, Sui) bt Lindsay Lee-Waters (US) 6-1, 6-4 l Iveta Benesova (Cze) bt Abigail Spears (US) 6-3, 6-4. Round II: Nadia Petrova (7, Rus) bt Jessica Kirkland (US) 6-2, 6-3 l Venus Williams (2, US) bt Ashley Harkleroad (US) 6-2, 6-1 l Elena Dementieva (4, Rus) bt Lilia Osterloh (US) 6-4, 6-2.

ATP INDIANAPOLIS MEET

Round I: Karol Beck (Svk) bt Amer Delic (US) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 l Jan Hernych (Cze) bt Jan-Michael Gambill (US) 6-4, 3-0 retired l Julien Jeanpierre (Fra) bt Gilles Elseneer (Bel) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 l Rik De Voest (RSA) bt Wayne Arthurs (Aus) 7-6 (8-6), 6-1 l Michel Kratochvil (Sui) bt Jan Vacek (Cze) 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 l Ivo Karlovic (Cro) bt Brian Vahaly (US) 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 l Todd Reid (Aus) bt Michael Llodra (Fra) 4-6, 6-3, 3-0 retired l Sebastien De Chaunac (Fra) bt Antony Dupuis (Fra) 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 l Noam Okun (Isr) bt Lu Yen-Hsun (Tai) 6-3, 6-1 l Jeff Morrison (US) bt Julien Benneteau (Fra) 6-4, 7-6 (8-6) l Gregory Carraz (Fra) bt Sargis Sargsian (Arm) 6-3, 6-3 l Fabrice Santoro (Fra) bt Hyung-taik Lee (Kor) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 l Alex Bogomolov Jr (US) bt Kenneth Carlsen (Den) 6-4, 6-4. Round II: Ivan Ljubicic (10, Cro) bt Rajeev Ram (US) 6-2, 6-3 l Paradorn Srichaphan (4, Thai) bt Thierry Ascione (Fra) 7-6 (7-4), 6-1.

ATP Croatia Open

UMAG: Round I — Guillermo Canas (6, Arg) bt Olivier Patience (Fra) 6-3, 6-2 l Tomas Zib (Cze) bt Igor Andreev (3, Rus) 6-3, 6-4 l Carlos Moya (1, Spa) bt Roko Karanusic (Cro) 6-4, 6-4 l Filippo Volandri (4, Ita) bt Novak Djokovic (SCG) 7-6, 6-1 l Alex Calatrava (Spa) bt Arnaud Di Pasquale (Fra) 6-4, 6-3 l Jiri Novak (2, Cze) bt Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (Spa) 6-4, 6-2 l Flavio Saretta (7, Bra) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (Sui) 6-3, 6-1 l Christophe Rochus (Bel) bt Jose Acasuso (Arg) 6-3, 7-5 l Alberto Martin (5, Spa) bt Jerome Golmard (Fra) 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.

ATP KITZBUEHEL MEET

Round I: Potito Starace (Ita) bt Marc Lopez (Spa) 7-6 (7-1), 6-2 l Stefan Koubek (Aut) bt Marc Rosset (Sui) 6-3, 6-0 l Radek Stepanek (Cze) bt Daniel Gimeno-Traver (Spa) 6-7 (2-7), 7-5, 7-6 (7-3) l Andreas Seppi (Ita) bt Michal Tabara (Cze) 7-6 (7-4), 6-3. Round II: Florian Mayer (6, Ger) bt Peter Luczak (Aut) 6-2, 6-4 l Albert Costa (11, Spa) bt Werner Eschauer (Aut) 6-3, 6-7 (2-7), 6-3 l Juan Monaco (Arg) bt David Ferrer (10, Spa) 7-5, 6-4 l Luis Horna (7, Per) bt Alejandro Falla (Col) 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-2).

FOOTBALL

Copa America semi-final

LIMA: Argentina 3 (Carlos Tevez 33, Luis Gonzalez 50, Juan Pablo Sorin 80) Colombia 0.

ASIAN CUP

Iran 3 (Reza Enayati 71, Javad Nekounam 80, Ali Daei 87pen) Thailand 0 l Qatar 1 (Wesam Rizik 59p) Bahrain 1 (Mohummad Hubail 90).

CFL Super Division

East Bengal 0 Eastern Railway 0 l Mohun Bagan 1 (Abhay Kumar 75) Railway FC 0.

For the book

Former Italy midfielder Demetrio Albertini has left Lazio to join newly promoted Serie A side Atalanta. Albertini, who has won 79 caps for Italy, joined Lazio last season after spending a year on loan in Spain with Atletico Madrid at the end of a 13-year spell with AC Milan.