GOLF

Italian Open

Milan, Round I (Thursday) — 64 Ross McGowan (GBR) 64, Marco Ruiz (Par) 64 65 Mark Foster (GBR) 65, Hennie Otto (RSA) 65, Marc Warren (GBR) 65 66 Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 66, Estanislao Goya (Arg) 66, Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe) 66, Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 66, Alexander Noren (Swe) 66, Steve Webster (GBR) 66, Oliver Wilson (GBR) 66, Fabrizio Zanotti (Para) 66

Players Championship

Florida (Thursday) — 66 Sergio Garcia (ESP) 66 68 Kenny Perry (US) 68, Paul Goydos (US) 68 69 Heath Slocum (US) 69, Steve Elkington (Aus) 69, Ian Poulter (GBR) 69, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 69, Todd Hamilton (US) 69 70 John Merrick (US) 70, Nicholas Thompson (US) 70, Brett Quigley (US) 70, Fred Couples (US) 70, Troy Matteson (US) 70, Angel Cabrera (Arg)

SOCCER

Bundesliga

Wednesday — Nuremberg 2 (Charisteas 9, Pinola 32) MSV Duisburg 0 Bayer Leverkusen 1 (Sinkiewicz 90) Hertha Berlin 2 (Pantelic 26, Chahed 68pen) Bayern Munich 2 (Ribery 26, Podolski 47) Arminia Bielefeld 0 Eintracht Frankfurt 2 (Amanatidis 22pen, Weissenberger 62) VfL Wolfsburg 3 (Grafite 4, Schaefer 28, Dzeko 79) Hamburg SV 0 Werder Bremen 1 (Almeida 50)

Italian Cup

Semi-final second leg (Thursday) — Catania 1 (Silvestri 28) AS Roma 1 (Aquilani 26pen) First leg — AS Roma 1 Catania 0, AS Roma win 2-1 on aggregate.

TENNIS

ATP Rome Masters

Round III (Thursday) — Tommy Robredo (14, ESP) bt Nikolay Davydenko (4, Rus) 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(4) Stanislas Wawrinka (Sui) bt Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) 6-4, 6-3 Andy Roddick (6, US) bt Simone Bolelli (Ita) 7-6(5), 6-3 James Blake (8, US) bt Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 5-7, 7-5, 6-2