CHESS

National A Meet

Chennai, Round IX — SP Sethuraman (TN) 5.5 lost to Surya Sekhar Ganguly (PSPB) 7.5 Abhijit Kunte (PSPB) 5.5 drew GN Gopal 6 (PSPB) MS Thejkumar (Kar) 6 drew Dibyendu Barua (Ben) 5.5 MR Venkatesh (PSPB) 6 bt K. Ratnakaran (Rly) 5 R. Bandoyopadhyay (Ben) 5 drew Parimarjan Negi (Del) 5 Arun Prasad (PSPB) 5.5 bt Deepan Chakkaravarthy (PSPB) 4.5 Neelotpal Das (PSPB) 5.5 bt B. Adhiban (TN) 4.5 Saptarshi Roy (Rly) 5 drew RB Ramesh (PSPB) 5 Tejas Bakre (IA) 5 drew Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (Rly) 5 Konguvel Ponuswamy (TN) 4.5 drew N. Sudhakar Babu (BSB) 5 Shashikant Kutwal (Rly) 4.5 drew Praveen Thipsay (BSB) 4.5 V. S. Gujrathi (Mah) 5 bt Sriram Jha (LIC) 4 Nisha Mohata (PSPB) 4.5 drew Sundararajan Kidambi (PSPB) 4.5 Suvrajit Saha (Rly) 5 bt S. Satyapragyam (IA) 4 Ashwin Jayaram (TN) 4.5 bt N. Sanjan (Kar) 4 Rahul Shetty (IA) 3.5 lost to P. S. Mokal (Mah) 4.5 R. Preetham Sharma (Rly) 4 drew P. Karthikeyan (TN) 4 Neeraj Kumar Mishra (Jha) 3.5 drew MR Lalith Babu (AP) 4 B S Shivananda (Kar) 2.5 lost to Vishnu Prasanna (TN) 4 Akshat Khamparia (Rly) 4 bt Imocha Laishram (PSPB) 2 R. T. Shanmugam (PSPB) 2.5 lost to R. Ashwath (TN) 3.5 R. Arun Karthik (TN) 2.5 drew C. H. Meha Chinna Reddy (AP) 2.5.

FOOTBALL

Premier League

Monday — Arsenal 2 (Philippe Senderos 4, Emmanuel Adebayor 90+2) Blackburn Rovers 0.

TENNIS

WTA Cachantun Cup

Round I (Monday) — Gisela Dulko (2, Arg) bt Camila Silva (Chi) 6-4, 6-1 Pauline Parmentier (4, Fra) bt Maria Emilia Salerni (Arg) 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 Mariya Koryttseva (Ukr) bt Catalina Castano (Col) 7-6 (3), 6-1 Petra Cetkovska (Cze) bt Emilie Loit (3, Fra) 6-2, 7-6 (6) Julia Schruff (Ger) bt Maret Ani (Est) 6-1, 6-1 Lourdes Dominguez (Esp) bt Iveta Benesova (Cze) 6-2, 7-5.

ATP Brazil Open

Costa do Sauipe, Round I (Monday) — Carlos Moya (1, Esp) bt Santiago Ventura (Esp) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 Nicolas Lapentti (Ecu) bt Thomaz Bellucci (Bra) 6-2, 6-2 Fabio Fognini (Ita) bt Jiri Vanek (Cze) 6-3, 6-7, 7-6 Boris Pashanski bt Martin Vassallo Arguello (Arg) 6-4, 6-4 Albert Montanes (8, Esp) bt Nicolas Devilder (Fra) 6-4, 6-4.

ATP Delray Beach International

Florida, Round I (Monday) — Diego Hartfield (Arg) bt Tommy Haas (2, Ger) 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 Paul Capdeville (Chi) bt Clint Bowles (US) 6-2, 6-4 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Esp) bt Wayne Odesnik (US) 6-4, 6-2 Ivan Navarro (Esp) bt Florent Serra (Fra) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 Robby Ginepri (US) bt Mathieu Montcourt (Fra) 6-3, 6-0.

ATP Antwerp Diamond Games

Round I (Monday) — Yanina Wickmayer (Bel) bt Peng Shuai (Chn) 6-0, 6-4 Li Na (9, Chn) bt Elena Likhovtseva (Rus) 6-1, 6-1 Karin Knapp (Ita) bt Nathalie Dechy (Fra) 7-6, 6-4 Yaroslava Shvedova (Rus) bt Sybille Bammer (5, Aut) 6-0, 3-6, 6-2.

ATP Marseille Open

Round I (Monday) — Robin Soederling (Swe) bt Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 6-3, 5-7, 7-5 Paul-Henri Mathieu (8, Fra) bt Marc Gicquel (Fra) 7-6, 7-6.