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BASEBALL
NEW YORK: Major League Baseball results on Tuesday (home teams in CAPS):
TEXAS Seattle (postponed)
Oakland 4 BALTIMORE 2
LA ANGELS 9 Detroit 8 (10 innings)
Atlanta 11 FLORIDA 6
PHILADELPHIA 6 Washington 3
Toronto 10 BOSTON 3
PITTSBURGH 3 Houston 0
TAMPA BAY 6 NY Yankees 4
NY METS 2 Colorado 1 (12 innings)
Milwaukee 4 CHICAGO CUBS 1
Cleveland 5 MINNESOTA 3
Cincinnati 10 ST. LOUIS 3
San Diego 10 ARIZONA 5
San Francisco 5 LA DODGERS 3
NBA
NEW YORK: Results from the NBA play-offs on Tuesday (home team in CAPS):
1 2 3 4 T
TORONTO 14 19 25 31 89
New Jersey 12 24 27 20 83
(The best-of-seven series is level at 1-1)
1 2 3 4 T
CHICAGO 31 24 30 22 107
Miami 21 31 19 18 89
(Chicago lead the best-of-seven series by 2-0)
1 2 3 4 T
PHOENIX 31 37 27 31 126
LA Lakers 25 22 23 28 98
(Phoenix lead the best-of-seven series by 2-0)
SNOOKER
World Championship
SHEFFIELD, England: Results from the fourth day of the Snooker World Championship at the Crucible Theatre on Tuesday:
First Round (best of 19 frames)
Joe Swail (NIR) bt Mark Williams (WAL) 10-9
Frame scores (Swail first): 39-64, 23-68, 36-80, 14-72, 66-29, 78-34, 69-26, 71-22, 58-75, 74-38, 39-90, 114-0, 1-78, 42-55, 63-52, 69-0, 34-87, 71-1, 121-0
Stephen Maguire (SCO) bt Joe Perry (ENG) 10-3
Frame scores (Maguire first): 74-20, 31-57, 79-51, 70-32, 45-63, 92-13, 83-3, 124-0, 68-1, 56-40, 81-6, 75-30, 64-37
Mark Allen (NIR) bt Ken Doherty (IRL) 10-7
Frame scores (Allen first): 92-6, 95-27, 93-13, 65-40, 17-55, 21-54, 88-4, 50-63, 74-1, 25-59, 22-74, 14-74, 82-19, 0-135, 110-16, 76-43, 85-4
SOCCER
European Champions League
MANCHESTER, England: Result of Champions League semi-final first leg between Manchester United and AC Milan here on Tuesday: Manchester United (ENG) 3 (Ronaldo 5, Rooney 59, 90+1) AC Milan (ITA) 2 (Kaka 22, 37)
Scottish Cup
GLASGOW: Scottish Cup semi-final result on Tuesday:
Dunfermline 1 (McIntyre 86) Hibernian 0
Played Saturday April 14
St Johnstone 1 (Hardie 19) Celtic 2 (Vennegoor of Hesselink 13-pen, 54)
Final (May 26)
Celtic v Dunfermline
TENNIS
Casablanca ATP
CASABLANCA, Morocco: Results from the second day here on Tuesday of the 353,450 euros ATP tournament (x denotes seeding): 1st rd: Sebastien Grosjean (FRA) bt Victor Hanescu (ROM) 7-6 (7/4), 6-4; Nicolas Massu (CHI x7) bt Sergio Roitman (ARG) 6-2, 6-3; Albert Montanes (ESP) bt Danai Udomchoke (THA) 1-6, 6-3, 7-5; Thierry Ascione (FRA) bt Younes El Aynaoui (MAR) 6-4, 6-3; Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA x8) bt Kristian Pless (DEN) 6-3, 6-1; Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Martin Vassallo Arguello (ARG) 6-2, 6-2; Dominik Hrbaty (SVK x1) bt Alexander Peya (AUT) 7-6 (9/7), 6-4; Slimane Saoudi (ALG) bt Rabie Chaki (MAR) 6-2, 6-1; Jose Acasuso (ARG) bt Nicolas Devilder (FRA) 6-4, 6-4; Julien Benneteau (FRA x3) bt Frederico Gil (POR) 7-6 (7/2), 3-6, 7-6 (7/5).
Barcelona ATP Open
BARCELONA, Spain: Results from the second day of the 900,000-dollar Barcelona Open on Tuesday: 1st rd: Robin Soderling (SWE x13) bt Gaston Gaudio (ARG) 6-1, 6-0; Kristof Vliegen (BEL) bt Davide Sanguinetti (ITA) 6-2, 6-4; Boris Pashanski (SRB) bt Carlos Berlocq (ARG) 4-0, retired; Potito Starace (ITA) bt Sam Querrey (USA) 6-4, 6-4; Jiri Vanek (CZE) bt Juan Marin (CRC) 6-0, 3-2, retired; Paul Goldstein (USA) bt Fernando Vicente (ESP) 6-3, 6-7 (6/8), 6-3; Simone Bolelli (ITA) bt Marat Safin (RUS x11) 6-4, 7-6 (7/5); Nicolas Almagro (ESP x14) bt Fabio Fognini (ITA) 6-3, 6-2; Guillermo Canas (ARG x12) bt Max Mirnyi (BLR) 6-2, 7-6 (7/4); Carlos Moya (ESP x16) bt Marcel Granollers-Pujol (ESP) 6-2, 6-4
2nd rd
Tommy Robredo (ESP x3) bt Feliciano Lopez (ESP) 6-2, 6-2; David Nalbandian (ARG x4) bt Albert Martin (ESP) 6-2, 6-0; Agustin Calleri (ARG x15) bt Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) 6-2, 6-2.
Budapest Grand Prix
BUDAPEST: Budapest Grand Prix women's singles first round results on Tuesday: Anne Kremer (LUX) bt Maria Kirilenko (RUS x3) 6-3, 6-4; Olga Savchuk (UKR) bt Lucie Hradecka (CZE) 6-0, 6-3; Andreja Klepac (SLO) bt Melinda Czink (HUN) 6-2, 6-4; Yulia Beygelzimer (UKR) bt Tatiana Poutchek (BLR) 7-6 6-4; Karolina Sprem (CRO) bt Zsofia Gubacsi (HUN) 7-6 (4), 6-1; Sorana Cirstea (ROM) bt Kyra Nagy (HUN) 7-6, 3-6, 6-3; Martina Sucha (SVK) bt Hana Sromova (CZE) 7-6, 6-1.
yachting
Louis Vuitton Cup
VALENCIA, Spain: Louis Vuitton Cup round robin results and standings after Tuesday's third day of racing in Valencia, Spain.
Flight Four
Areva (France) 0 Team New Zealand 2
Desafio Espanol (Spain) 2 Mascalzone Latino (Italy) 0
United Internet Team Germany 2 China Team 0
Team Shosholza (South Africa) 2 Luna Rossa (Italy) 0
Victory Challenge (Sweden) 0 BMW Oracle (USA) 2
Bye: +39 (Italy)
Flight Five
+39 (Italy) 0 Mascalzone Latino (Italy) 2
Team New Zealand 2 Desafio Espanol (Spain) 0
Victory Challenge (Sweden) 2 United Internet Team Germany 0
Luna Rossa (Italy) 0 BMW Oracle (USA) 2
China Team 0 Team Shosholza (South Africa) 2
Bye: Areva (France)
Round robin standings
BMW Oracle (USA) 13
Team New Zealand 10
Luna Rossa (Italy) 9
Mascalzone Latino (Italy) 8
Victory Challenge (Sweden) 8
Team Shosholza (South Africa) 8
Desafio Espanol (Spain) 7
Areva (France) 5
United Internet Team Germany 3
+39 (Italy) 2
China Team 1
*The Louis Vuitton Cup winner will become the 32nd challenger for the America's Cup and face holders Alinghi in June.
(China Daily 04/26/2007 page22)
