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Headlines (18 July) :
Calmer start at Royal Birkdale
Calmer conditions greeted the early starters in the
second round of the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale on Friday.
Pattinson gets shock England call
England today handed Darren Pattinson a shock Test
debut in the second match of the npower series against South Africa.
Black Cats bid for Spurs quartet
Sunderland have bid for four Tottenham players as they
look to significantly boost their squad ahead of the new Premier
League season.
Hanley calls it a day
Former England winger Steve Hanley has been forced to
retire from playing after failing to recover from a back injury.
Chambers decision on Friday
Dwain Chambers will not find out if his lifetime
Olympics ban will be lifted until Friday, the High Court judge
hearing his case has confirmed.
EPL to attract foreign stars
The new English Premier League scheduling has been
designed to target the best Twenty20 talent from both home and overseas.
Zaki set for Wigan move
Egypt striker Amr Zaki is set to complete his move to
Wigan early next week after passing a medical on Thursday night.
Ferguson confirms Berbatov bid
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson fully
expects to prise striker Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham by the end
of the summer.
Hughes hails City quality
Mark Hughes was delighted with the quality shown by
new boy Jo and winger Martin Petrov after he started his reign as
Manchester City manager with victory over EB Streymur.
Green: West Ham don't care about me
West Ham goalkeeper Robert Green is considering his
future with the club after claiming he was shunned in his bid to
secure an improved contract. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 17 July 2008
FOOTBALL:
UEFA Under-19 Championship, Group A: Spain U19 0
Hungary U19 1, Germany U19 3 Bulgaria U19 0 Group B: Czech Rep U19 0
Greece U19 0, England U19 0 Italy U19 0
UEFA Cup First Qualifying Round, First Leg: Cherno
More 4 UE Sant Julia 0, Pelister Bitola 0 Apoel Nicosia 0, FC Vaduz 1
Zrinjski Mostar 2, Siroki Brijeg 0 Partizani Tirana 0, Hapoel Ironi 1
Mogren 1, Koper KS Vllaznia Late, Hajduk Split 4 Birkirkara 0,
Marsaxlokk FC 0 NK Slaven Koprivnica 4, Gyori ETO 1 FC Zestafoni 1,
Ararat Yerevan 0 Bellinzona 1, FC Dacia 1 Borac 1, Tobol 1 FK Austria
Magna 0, Hertha Berlin 8 FC Nistru 1, Khazar Lenkoran 0 Lech Poznan
1, Legia Warsaw 0 Gomel 0, FC Spartak Trnava 2 WIT Georgia Tbilisi 2,
MTZ-RIPO 2 MSK Zilina 2, Shakhtyor Karaganda 1 Debrecen 1, FH
Hafnarfjordur CS Grevenmacher Late, FK Vetra 1 Viking FK 0, Racing
Luxembourg 0 Kalmar FF 3, FC Honka 3 IA Akranes 0, Glentoran 1 SK
Liepajas Metalurgs 1, Brondby 1 B36 Torshavn 0, EB Streymur 0 Man
City 2, JFK Olimps 0 St Patricks 1, Djurgardens IF 0 Flora Tallinn 0,
FK Suduva 1 The New Saints FC 0, Cliftonville 0 FC Copenhagen 4, Cork
2 FC Haka 2, SV Red Bull Salzburg Banants Yerevan Late, Bangor City 1
FC Midtjylland 6, Hapoel Tel-Aviv 3 Juvenes/Dogana 0, Omonia Nicosia
2 FK Milano 0, Vojvodina 1 Olimpik Baku 0, TVMK Tallinn 0 FC
Nordsjaelland 3, Zeta 1 Interblock 1
Friendly Match: Stormvogels Telstar 0 Sheff Wed 3,
Aldershot 3 Crystal Palace 4, Port Talbot 0 Swansea 4, Forfar
Hibernian XI Late, Birmingham 3 Plzen 1, Berwick 2 Hamilton 3, CFR
Cluj-Napoca 2 Motherwell 1, Donegal Celtic 1 Ipswich 4, St Blazey 0
Exeter 8, Faversham Town 0 Gillingham 8, Hampton & Richmond 2
West Ham 4, Falkirk 0 Hartlepool 0, Trafford 0 Altrincham 4,
CRICKET
Second XI Championship, Kings School, Canterbury
Kent vs MCC Young Cricketers MCC Young Cricketers 147
& 107-3 Kent 350-6d (CR Hemphrey 65, CD Piesley 127 not out)
LV County Championship - Division One
Taunton Somerset 427 (Z de Bruyn 81, P D Trego 65, M E
Trescothick 58, I D Blackwell 55, J L Langer 50) & 129-5 (J L
Langer 65 no) v Kent 208
Guildford Surrey 220 (S A Newman 113, B W Harmison
4-27) v Durham 259-5 (W R Smith 126 no, P Mustard 62 no)
Arundel Sussex 426 (M W Goodwin 184, C D Hopkinson
106, R S C Martin-Jenkins 59, J A Tomlinson 5-108) v Hampshire 131-5
(J P Crawley 70)
LV County Championship - Division Two
New Road Worcestershire 307-4 (D K H Mitchell 78, V S
Solanki 69, B F Smith 58 no, S C Moore 57) v Glamorgan
Uxbridge Warwickshire 393 (J O Troughton 88, T Frost
84, N M Carter 67, A G Botha 54, T J Murtagh 4-66) v Middlesex 70-3
Northampton Derbyshire 485-7 dec (J L Clare 129 no, G
G Wagg 108, W W Hinds 76, P M Borrington 57, G M Smith 50) v
Northamptonshire 48-0
NatWest Pro40 - Division One Old Trafford Match
abandoned, rain, 1pt each No result
Tour Match
Grace Road Leicestershire 354-4 dec (J Allenby 138 no,
J W A Taylor 51) v Bangladesh A 215-3 (Tamim Iqbal 78, Mohammad
Nazimuddin 75)
GOLF
Collated first round scores in the 137th OPEN
CHAMPIONSHIP, RoyalBirkdale GC, Birkdale, Southport, Merseyside,
England(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 70):
69 Robert Allenby (Aus), Graeme McDowell, Rocco
Mediate (USA) 70 Bart Bryant (USA), Adam Scott (Aus), Greg Norman
(Aus) 71 Retief Goosen (Rsa), Simon Wakefield, Peter Hanson (Swe),
Anthony Wall, Jim Furyk (USA), Fredrik Jacobson (Swe), Mike Weir
(Can), Gregory Havret (Fra) 72 Ross Fisher, Jeff Overton (USA),
Chih-bing Lam (Sin), Kevin Stadler (USA), Anthony Kim (USA),
Alexander Noren (Swe), Sergio Garcia (Spa), KJ Choi (Kor), Miguel
Angel Jimenez (Spa), Ian Poulter, Brandt Snedeker (USA), Stuart
Appleby (Aus) 73 Zach Johnson (USA), Paul Waring, Colin Montgomerie,
David Duval (USA), Heath Slocum (USA), Hiroshi Iwata (Jpn),
Jose-Filipe Lima (Por), John Rollins (USA), Jean Van de velde (Fra),
Jay Williamson (USA), Stephen Ames (Can) 74 Azuma Yano (Jpn), Tom
Watson (USA), Tom Lehman (USA), Todd Hamilton (USA), Brendan Jones
(Aus), Nick O'Hern (Aus), Trevor Immelman (Rsa), Justin Rose, Mark
O'Meara (USA), Peter Appleyard, Gregory Bourdy (Fra), Tom Gillis
(USA), Padraig Harrington, Dave Horsey 75 Soren Hansen (Den), Martin
Kaymer (Ger), David Frost (Rsa), Pablo Larrazabal (Spa), Robert
Karlsson (Swe), Sean O'Hair (USA), Martin Wiegele (Aut),
Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra), Chris Wood, Scott McCarron (USA), Michael
Campbell (Nzl), Yoshinobu Tsukada (Jpn), Peter Baker, Davis Love III
(USA), Nick Dougherty, Stewart Cink (USA), Aaron Baddeley (Aus),
Richard Finch, Phillip Archer, Jonathan Lomas, Lee Westwood, Thomas
Aiken (Rsa) 76 David Smail (Nzl), Woody Austin (USA), Pelle Edberg
(Swe), Charles Howell III (USA), Graeme Storm, Danny Chia (Mal),
Henrik Stenson (Swe), David Howell, Barry Hume, Hideto Tanihara
(Jpn), Alex Cejka (Ger), Mark Calcavecchia (USA), Ewan Porter (Aus),
Richard Green (Aus), Angelo Que (Phi), Camilo Villegas (Col), Tim
Clark (Rsa) 77 James Kingston (Rsa), Andres Romero (Arg), Oliver
Wilson, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus), Gary Boyd, Justin Leonard (USA), Prayad
Marksaeng (Tha), Philip Walton, Ryuji Imada (Jpn), Wen-chong Liang
(Chn), Craig Parry (Aus), Steve Stricker (USA), Rodney Pampling
(Aus), Angel Cabrera (Arg), Simon Khan, Thomas Sherreard, Paul Goydos
(USA), Paul Lawrie, Scott Verplank (USA)
SPEEDWAY
World Cup, Vojens, Denmark
Race Off: 1 Sweden 53 (Fredrik Lindgren 14), 2 Poland
50 (Grzegorz Walasek 12), 3 Great Britain 36 (Chris Harris 11), 4
Russia 17 (Grigory Laguta 12)(Note: Sweden and Poland go through to
the World Cup final to face Australia and Denmark Great Britain and
Russia are eliminated)
CYCLING:
Tour de France, Narbonne, France
Leading final positions after Stage 12 (Lavelanet -
Narbonne, 168.5km): 1 Mark Cavendish (Gbr) Team
Columbia 3hrs 40mins 52secs, 2 Sebastien Chavanel (Fra)
Francaise des Jeux at same time, 3 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step at
same time, 4 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram at same time, 5 Oscar
Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank at same time, 6 Francesco Chicchi (Ita)
Liquigas at same time, 7 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole at same
time, 8 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis - Le Credit par Telephone at
same time, 9 Julian Dean (Nzl) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 at same
time, 10 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner at same time, 11 Robbie
McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto at same time, 12 Jimmy Casper (Fra)
Agritubel at same time, 13 Robert Hunter (Rsa) Barloworld at same
time, 14 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale at same time, 15
Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre at same time, 16 Kim Kirchen (Lux)
Team Columbia at same time, 17 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team
Columbia at same time, 18 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues
Telecom at same time, 19 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner at same
time, 20 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto
Selected Others: 49 David Millar (Gbr) Team
Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 3hrs 40mins 52secs
General Classification after stage 12: 1 Cadel Evans
(Aus) Silence - Lotto 50hrs 23mins 05secs, 2 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team
CSC - Saxo Bank at 0.01, 3 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team
Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 at 0.38, 4 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner
at 0.46, 5 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank at 0.57, 6 Carlos Sastre
Candil (Spa) Team CSC - Saxo Bank at 1.28, 7 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team
Columbia at 1.56, 8 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale at 2.32,
9 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi at 3.51, 10
Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas at 4.18, 11 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
(Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi at 4.26, 12 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
(Spa) Caisse d'Epargne at 4.41, 13 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La
Mondiale at 5.23, 14 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre at 5.37, 15 Oscar
Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne at 6.01, 16 Alexandre Botcharov
(Rus) Credit Agricole at 6.07, 17 Stefan Schumacher (Ger)
Gerolsteiner at 6.11, 18 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas at 7.00, 19
Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Credit par Telephone at 7.07, 20
Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank at 8.34
Selected Others: 47 David Millar (Gbr) Team
Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 50hrs 58mins 27secs, 147 Mark Cavendish (Gbr)
Team Columbia 52:50:31
TENNIS:
ATP Dutch Open Tennis, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2nd rd: (2) Jose Acasuso (Arg) bt Edouard
Roger-Vasselin (Fra) 6-3 6-4, (5) Albert Montanes (Spa) bt Pablo
Cuevas (Uru) 6-4 6-4, (4) Marcel Granollers-Pujol (Spa) bt Ivan
Navarro Pastor (Spa) 6-4 6-4, Oscar Hernandez (Spa) bt Jesse Huta
Galung (Ned) 6-3 6-2
WTA Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria
2nd rd: Patricia Mayr (Aut) bt Rossana De Los Rios
(Par) 6-3 6-3
ATP Austrian Open, Kitzbuhel, Austria
2nd rd: (6) Jurgen Melzer (Aut) bt Leonardo Mayer
(Arg) 6-4 6-2
ATP Studena Croatia Open, Umag, Croatia
2nd rd: (6) Guillermo Canas (Arg) bt Boris Pashanski
(Ser) 6-7 (3-7) 6-3 7-5, Roko Karanusic (Cro) bt (5) Ivan Ljubicic
(Cro) w/o, Maximo Gonzalez (Arg) bt (2) Ivo Karlovic (Cro) 3-6 6-3
6-4, (4) Igor Andreev (Rus) bt Daniel Gimeno-Traver (Spa) 6-2 7-6 (7-3)
ATP Indianapolis Tennis Championships, Indianapolis,
Indiana, United States
2nd rd: Bobby Reynolds (USA) bt Alejandro Falla (Col)
6-1 6-1, Yen-Hsun Lu (Tpe) bt Rajeev Ram (USA) 6-1 7-6 (7-1), (1)
James Blake (USA) bt Woong-Sun Jun (Kor) 6-3 7-5, (4) Samuel Querrey
(USA) bt Vincent Spadea (USA) 4-6 6-3 6-4
WTA Tour Bank of the West Classic, Stanford,
California, United States of America
2nd rd: Aleksandra Wozniak (Can) bt Sybille Bammer
(Aut) 6-4 7-5, (5) Patty Schnyder (Swi) bt Alisa Kleybanova (Rus) 7-6
(10-8) 6-4, (6) Marion Bartoli (Fra) bt Anne Keothavong (Gbr) 6-3 1-6 7-5
Blackrock Tour of Champions Turkcell Legends Cup,
Istanbul, Turkey
Round Robin: Cedric Pioline bt Sergi Bruguera 4-6 7-5
10-7, Thomas Muster bt Andrei Chesnokov 7-6 (7-5) 6-7 (4-7) 12-10,
Goran Ivanisevic bt Pat Cash 6-4 6-2, Fernando Meligeni bt Alladin
Karagoz 6-1 6-2 |
