AQUATICS

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

MONTREAL, MEN: 10km Freestyle ? 1. Chip Peterson (US) 1:46:38.1 2. Thomas Lurz (Ger) 1:46:45.2 3. Petar Stoychev (Bul) 1:46:50.4 WOMEN: 10km Freestyle ? 1. Edith van Dijk (Ned) 1:56:00.5 2. Federica Vitale (Ita) 3. Britta Kamrau (Ger) 1:56:04.0 WOMEN: 10m Platform ? 1. Laura Wilkinson (US) 564.87 2. Loudy Tourky (Aus) 551.25 3. Tong Jia (Chn) MEN: 3m Springboard ? 1. Alexandre Despatie (Can) 813.60 2. Troy Dumais (US) 752.76 3. Chong He (Chn).

CHESS

CHINA GMs MEET

TAIYUAN, Final round: P Harikrishna (Ind, 8.5) drew Sergey Karjakin (Ukr, 5.5) Alexander Motylev (Rus, 7.5) lost to Bu Xinagzhi (Chn, 6.5) Zhang Zhong (Chn, 4.5) drew Zhao Xue (Chn, 3) Tigran Petrosian (Arm, 5.5) drew Ni Hua (Chn, 6) Wang Hao (Chn, 4.5) lost to Zhang Pengxiang (Chn, 5) Luke McShane (Eng, 3) lost to Wang Yue (Chn, 6.5).

WORLD YOUTH MEET

BELFORT, Round I (Indians only): U-10 Boys ? Mukhit Ismailov lost to Sahaj Grover K Sudarshan Surya lost to Bence Nyizsnyik Daniel Hoven Fernandez lost to K Harsh Shiven Khosla bt Arman Kohi Gurbangeldi Amangeldiev lost to Vasant Varman Cao Jiajie bt Kushal Shirodkar Rishi Thariani bt Guillaume Lamard U-10 Girls ? K. Sai Nirupama bt Alexandra Barantseva U-12 Boys ? Justin Chow lost to Parimarjan Negi S.P. Sethuraman bt Kevin Coustance Charles Karuga Lost to N. Srinath Prasanna Rao bt Nikita Mescovs Hari Hara Sudhan lost to Ray Robson U-12 Girls ? Farida Mammadbayova bt Rucha Pujari Hejajipour Mitra bt P Lakshmi Sahiti Ghazal Hakimifard bt G Srisha Gutta U-14 Boys ? Fares Amokrane lost to Y. Sandeep P. Shyam Nikhil lost to Wel Chenpeng Petrus Stefanus lost to Sankalp Modwal Jorge Cabrera bt T Pranav U-14 Girls ? Katsiaryna Homyakova drew Pon. N. Krithika Catherine Danaher lost to Ramya Krishna U-16 Boys ? Lloyd Hughes lost to K Vijaya Keerthi D Sai Srinivas bt Jean-Pierre Trang Ishaq Ahmed lost to G. Rohit U-16 ? Mihaela Iurascu lost to D Harika Alave Hour Homa lost to Saheli Nath Mary Ann Gomes bt Ellen Carlsen U-18 Boys ? Bat-Ochir Gunsen drew Deep Sengupta Olivier Chow lost to Deepan Chakkravarthy U-18 Girls ? N Vinuthna drew Khayala Isgandarova Gintare Paulauskaite lost to Soumya Swaminathan.

CRICKET

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Div I: CARDIFF ? Middlesex 284/9 in 45 ovs (P. Weekes 72). Glamorgan 173 in 35.4 ovs (Peploe 4/38). Middlesex won by 111 runs DERBY ? Derbyshire 223/8 in 45 ovs (T. Friend 52). Durham 224/4 in 43.3 ovs (M. Hussey 97). Durham won by 6 wkts.

TENNIS

AMERSFOORT OPEN

Round II: Agustin Calleri (Arg) bt Victor Hanescu (6, Rom) 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 David Sanchez (Esp) bt Alex Calatrava (Esp) 6-2, 6-2 Melle van Gemerden (Ned) bt Christophe Rochus (4, Bel) 6-2, 7-5 Nicolas Massu (3, Chi) bt Jiri Vanek (Cze) 6-4, 7-5 Round I: Mariano Puerta (1, Arg) bt Janko Tipsarevic (SCG) 6-2, 6-2.

STUTTGART CUP

Round II: Paul-Henri Mathieu (16, Fra) bt Albert Costa (Esp) 6-3, 6-4 Fernando Verdasco (Esp) bt Igor Andreev (14, Rus) 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (7-5) Juan Monaco (Arg) bt David Ferrer (5, Esp) 6-4, 6-2 Gaston Gaudio (3, Arg) bt Andreas Beck (Ger) 6-3, 6-3 Tomas Zib (Cze) bt Andrei Pavel (12, Rom) 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 Tommy Robredo (4, Esp) bt Potito Starace (Ita) 6-7 (7-4), 6-3, 6-2 Rafael Nadal (1, Esp) bt Hugo Armando (US) 6-1, 6-2 Rainer Schuettler (Ger) bt Mikhail Youzhny (7, Rus) 7-5, 6-3 Tomas Berdych (11, Cze) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger) 7-6 (7-4), 1-6, 6-3 Nikolay Davydenko (2, Rus) bt Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (Esp) 6-4, 6-1 Andreas Seppi (Ita) bt Alberto Martin (15, Esp) 6-4, 6-4 Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) bt Juergen Melzer (10, Aut) 6-4, 6-7 (7-4), 6-4 Jiri Novak (6, Cze) bt Razvan Sabau (Rom) 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 Alexander Waske (Ger) bt Jose Acasuso (13, Arg) 7-5, 6-4.

INDIANAPOLIS CHAMPIONSHIP

Round II: Bjoern Phau (Ger) bt Jan Hernych (13, Cze) 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 Mardy Fish (16, US) bt Andy Murray (GBR) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 Giovanni Lapentti (Ecu) bt Cyril Saulnier (11, Fra) 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 Paul Goldstein (US) bt Max Mirnyi (6, Blr) 0-6, 6-3, 6-3 Kevin Kim (US) bt Hyung-Taik Lee (14, Kor) 7-6 (10-8), 6-4 Paradorn Srichaphan (9, Tha) bt Gregory Carraz (Fra) 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) Rajeev Ram (US) bt Tomas Cakl (Cze) 7-5, 7-6 (7-3) Karol Beck (10, Svk) bt Jonas Bjorkman (Swe) 6-4, 7-5 Taylor Dent (4, US) bt Jan-Michael Gambill (US) 6-3, 6-4 Kenneth Carlsen (12, Den) bt Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 Noam Okun (Isr) bt Xavier Malisse (15, Bel) 6-2, 6-4 Nicolas Kiefer (2, Ger) bt Antony Dupuis (Fra) 7-5, 6-4 George Bastl (Sui) bt Dominik Hrbaty (3, Svk) 6-4, 6-7 (8-6), 6-4.

PALERMO OPEN

Round II: Roberta Vinci (7, Ita) bt Jelena Kostanic (Cro) 7-5, 6-3 Tszvetana Pironkova (Bul) bt Anna Smashnova (Isr) 7-6 (7-0), 6-4 Nathalie Vierin (Ita) bt Marta Domachowska (6, Pol) 6-2, 6-3 Anabel Medina Garrigues (3, Esp) bt Conchita Martinez Granados (Esp) 7-5, 6-2.

CINCINNATI OPEN

Round II: Yoon Jeong Cho (Kor) bt Tatiana Panova (Rus) 6-7 (8-6), 6-2, 6-2 Patty Schnyder (1, Sui) bt Aiko Nakamura (Jap) 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 Daniela Hantuchova (4, Svk) bt Chanda Rubin (US) 6-2, 7-5 Shahar Peer (Isr) bt Ai Sugiyama (6, Jap) 5-7, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4.

For the book

Brazilian striker Luizao became the sixth highest scorer in Libertadores Cup history on Wednesday when he was awarded a goal from a game played in 2000. Luizao’s spokesman said the South American Football Confederation had made the alteration after the player wrote to them and sent them a video of the game between Corinthians, for whom he was playing at the time, and Paraguayan club Olimpia.