BADMINTON

World Championships

KUALA LUMPUR, Round III (Thursday), Men’s singles: Lin Dan (1, Chn) bt Dicky Palyama (15, Ned) 21-18 21-17 Sony Dwi Kuncoro (9, Ina) bt Lee Chong Wei (2, Mal) 21-11, 21-9 Chen Yu (6, Chn) bt Park Sung-hwan (14, Kor) 15-21, 21-16, 21-15 Bao Chunlai (4, Chn) bt Lee Hyun-il (Kor) 21-19, 21-11 Anup Sridhar (Ind) bt Hafiz Hashim (13, Mal) 21-19, 18-21, 21-15 Kenneth Jonassen (7, Den) bt Przemyslaw Wacha (2, Pol) 21-11, 21-12 Ronny Susilo (11, Sin) bt Chen Jin (3, Chn) 21-19, 21-14 Peter Gade (5, Den) bt Simon Santoso (16, Ina) 18-21, 21-15, 21-16 Women’s singles: Wong Mew Choo (10, Mal) bt Xie Xingfang (2, Chn) 21-10, 21-8 Lu Lan (7, Chn) bt Petya Nedeltcheva (9, Bul) 21-17, 21-12 Pi Hongyan (4, Fra) bt Saina Nehwal (Ind) 21-13, 21-17 Chen Wang (6, Hkg) bt Tine Rasmussen (12, Den) 21-13, 21-15 Xu Huaiwen (3, Ger) bt Kaori Mori (14, Jpn) 21-16, 19-21, 21-5 Zhang Ning (1, Chn) bt Maria Kristin Yulianti (15, Ina) 21-10, 21-9 Zhu Lin (5, Chn) bt Pui Yin Yip (11, Hkg) 21-9, 16-21, 21-14 Tracey Hallam (16, GBR) bt Ella Karachkova (Rus) 21-23, 21-15, 21-19.

GOLF

USPGA Wyndham Championship

GREENSBORO: Round I (Thursday) — 64 Will MacKenzie (US) 64 65 Steve Marino (US) 65, Brian Davis (GBR) 65, Lucas Glover (US) 65, Jeff Overton (US) 65 66 Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn) 66, John Merrick (US) 66, John Huston (US) 66, Todd Hamilton (US) 66, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 66, Todd Fischer (US) 66, Greg Kraft (US) 66 67 Bob Tway (US) 67, John Senden (Aus) 67, Jeff Maggert (US) 67, Joe Durant (US) 67, Kirk Triplett (US) 67, Vaughn Taylor (US) 67, Steve Allan (Aus) 67, Cliff Kresge (US) 67, Ryuji Imada (Jpn) 67, Jason Gore (US) 67, Kent Jones (US) 67, Mark Hensby (Aus) 67, Michael Putnam (US) 67 68 Jay Delsing (U.S.) 68, Ryan Palmer (US) 68, Daniel Chopra (Swe) 68.

Scandinavian Masters

ROSERSBERG: Round I (Thursday): 64 Scott Strange (Aus) 64 65 Fredrik Qvicker (Swe) 65, Sam Walker (GBR) 65 67 Rafael Cabrera (Esp) 67, Ian Garbutt (GBR) 67, Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 67, Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 67, Lee James (GBR) 67, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 67, Henrik Nystroem (Swe) 67, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 67, Dawie Van der Walt (RSA) 67 68 Philip Archer (GBR) 68, Nick Dougherty (GBR) 68, Stephen Gallacher (GBR) 68, Anton Haig (RSA) 68, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 68, James Kingston (RSA) 68, Paul Lawrie (GBR) 68, Thomas Levet (Fra) 68, Gary Murphy (Irl) 68 69 Joakim Baeckstroem (Swe) 69, Paul Broadhurst (GBR) 69, Christian Cevaer (Fra) 69, Luis Claverie (Esp) 69, Simon Dyson (GBR) 69, Mattias Eliasson (Swe) 69, David Griffiths (GBR) 69, David Higgins (Irl) 69, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 69, Gary Lockerbie (GBR) 69, Alan McLean (GBR) 69, Wade Ormsby (Aus) 69, Edward Rush (GBR) 69, Joel Sjoholm (Swe) 69, Jamie Spence (GBR) 69, Simon Wakefield (GBR) 69, Shaun Webster (GBR) 69, Fredrik Widmark (Swe) 69.

TENNIS

WTA Toronto Cup

Round III (Thursday) — Marion Bartoli (7, Fra) bt Dinara Safina (9, Rus) 6-2, 6-7(2), 6-0 Jelena Jankovic (2, Ser) bt Sybille Bammer (13, Aut) 6-2, 6-3 Virginie Razzano (Fra) bt Shahar Peer (11, Isr) 6-4, 6-3 Svetlana Kuznetsova (3, Rus) bt Meghann Shaughnessy (US) 6-3, 6-2 Nadia Petrova (6, Rus) bt Patty Schnyder (10, Sui) 6-4, 6-1 Justine Henin (1, Bel) bt Peng Shuai (Chn) 7-5, 6-2 Yan Zi (Chn) bt Eleni Daniilidou (Gre) 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(5) Tatiana Golovin (12, Fra) bt Francesca Schiavone (Ita) 6-2, 6-0.

ATP Cincinnati Masters

Round III (Thursday) — James Blake (9, U.S.) bt Juan Carlos Ferrero (Esp) 6-1, 6-4 Roger Federer (1, Sui) bt Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) 7-6(5), 7-5 Nikolay Davydenko (5, Rus) bt Tomas Berdych (10, Cze) 6-3, 6-2 David Ferrer (16, Esp) bt Andy Roddick (3, US) 7-6(4), 6-4 Sam Querrey (US) bt Juan Monaco (Arg) 6-3, 7-5 Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) bt Juergen Melzer (Aut) 6-3, 6-3 Carlos Moya (Esp) bt Juan Martin Del Potro (Arg) 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 Nicolas Almagro (Esp) bt Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 6-2, 6-2.