CHESS

WORLD CUP

Round III — Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr) drew Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Rou) Ivan Cheparinov (Bul) bt Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze) Bartlomiej Macieja (Pol) drew Krishnan Sasikiran (Ind) Ernesto Inarkiev (Rus) drew Levon Aronian (Arm) Alexei Shirov (Esp) drew Alexander Onischuk (US) Sergei Rublevsky (Rus) drew Peter Svidler (Rus) Michael Adams (Eng) bt Zhou Jianchao (Chn) Laurent Fressinet (Fra) drew Evgeny Alekseev (Rus) Alexander Grischuk (Rus) drew Evgeny Bareev (Rus) Lenier Dominguez (Cub) drew Magnus Carlsen (Nor) Gata Kamsky (US) bt Kiril Georgiev (Bul) Vladimir Malakhov (Rus) drew Vladimir Akopian (Arm) Dmitry Jakovenko (Rus) bt Zoltan Almasi (Hun) Evgeny Tomashevsky (Rus) drew Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr) Wang Yue (Chn) bt Bu Xiangzhi (Chn) Sergey Karjakin (Ukr) drew Etienne Bacrot (Fra).

GOLF

EPGA New Zealand Open

Queenstown, Round III (Saturday) — 202 Richard Finch (GBR) 73 65 64 205 Steven Bowditch (Aus) 69 65 71 206 Peter Fowler (Aus) 69 75 62 208 Rick Kulacz (Aus) 71 69 68, Ewan Porter (Aus) 72 66 70, Paul Sheehan (Aus) 68 67 73 209 Kyron Sullivan (GBR) 72 68 69.

Sun City Challenge

Round III — 200 Trevor Immelman 67 66 67, Justin Rose (Eng) 68 65 67 205 Ernie Els 69 67 69 209 Henrik Stenson (Swe) 72 65 72 210 Luke Donald (Eng) 68 71 71, Adam Scott (Aus) 67 71 72 211 Rory Sabbatini 76 68 67.

TENNIS

DAVIS CUP

Portland, World Group final — US lead 2-0 vs Russia (James Blake (US) bt Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) 6-3, 7-6, 6-7, 7-6 Andy Roddick (US) bt Dmitry Tursunov (Rus) 6-4, 6-4, 6-2).