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China Daily | Updated: 2007-05-09 07:16

BASEBALL

NEW YORK: Major League Baseball results on Monday (home team in CAPS):

Cleveland 10 BALTIMORE 1

Seattle 3 NY YANKEES 2

San Diego 4 ATLANTA 2

LA Dodgers 6 FLORIDA 1

Houston 5 CINCINNATI 4

MILWAUKEE 3 Washington 0

Colorado 3 ST. LOUIS 2

Golf

Latest world rankings

NEW YORK: Latest world rankings issued on Monday: (U.S. unless stated, last week's positions in brackets)

1. (1) Tiger Woods 20.77

2. (2) Jim Furyk 7.61

3. (3) Phil Mickelson 7.60

4. (4) Adam Scott (Australia) 7.07

5. (5) Ernie Els (South Africa) 7.04

6. (6) Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 6.15

7. (7) Vijay Singh (Fiji) 6.15

8. (8) Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 5.79

9. (9) Retief Goosen (South Africa) 5.73

10. (10) Luke Donald (Britain) 5.49

11. (11) Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 5.04

12. (12) Trevor Immelman (South Africa) 4.73

13. (13) Paul Casey (Britain) 4.58

14. (14) Sergio Garcia (Spain) 4.42

15. (15) Zach Johnson 4.00

16. (16) Charles Howell III 3.74

17. (18) Rory Sabbatini (South Africa) 3.72

18. (42) Steve Stricker 3.46

19. (17) Nick O'Hern (Australia) 3.29

20. (19) David Toms 3.23

PGA Tour money list

NEW YORK: Leading money winners on 2007 PGA Tour: (US unless stated):

1. Tiger Woods $4,142,391

2. Vijay Singh (Fiji) $3,192,050

3. Phil Mickelson $2,500,588

4. Charles Howell III $2,485,337

5. John Rollins $1,910,600

6. Zach Johnson $1,862,637

7. Luke Donald (Britain) $1,856,959

8. Aaron Baddeley (Australia) $1,813,858

9. Adam Scott (Australia) $1,810,816

10. Mark Calcavecchia $1,774,200

11. Boo Weekley $1,691,599

12. Rory Sabbatini (South Africa) $1,650,358

13. Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) $1,637,574

14. Henrik Stenson (Sweden) $1,602,219

15. Steve Stricker $1,470,828

16. Scott Verplank $1,453,616

17. Nick Watney $1,450,238

18. Robert Allenby (Australia) $1,397,965

19. Trevor Immelman (South Africa) $1,375,677

20. Brett Wetterich $1,318,898

European Tour money list

LONDON: Leading money winners on 2007 European Tour: (British unless stated) 1. Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 1,615,383 euros

2. Retief Goosen (South Africa) 1,215,983

3. Paul Casey 860,767

4. Yong-eun Yang (South Korea) 747,104

5. Ernie Els (South Africa) 719,025

6. Charl Schwartzel (South Africa) 671,431

7. Raphael Jacquelin (France) 660,720

8. Nick O'Hern (Australia) 621,886

9. Trevor Immelman (South Africa) 607,513

10. Justin Rose 574,263

11. Markus Brier (Austria) 539,305

12. Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 476,909

13. Jyoti Randhawa (India) 448,630

14. Anton Haig (South Africa) 428,333

15. Niclas Fasth (Sweden) 425,760

16. Sergio Garcia (Spain) 398,295

17. Simon Dyson 347,244

18. Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spain) 347,224

19. Michael Campbell (New Zealand) 345,635

20. Andrew McLardy (South Africa) 336,280

PGA Tour's FedExCup points table

NEW YORK: 2007 PGA Tour's FexExCup points table on Monday: (US unless stated)

1. Tiger Woods 16,598

2. Vijay Singh (Fiji) 13,582

3. Charles Howell III 11,806

4. Phil Mickelson 10,868

5. John Rollins 8,331

6. Mark Calcavecchia 8,044

7. Adam Scott (Australia) 7,781

8. Luke Donald (Britain) 7,735

9. Aaron Baddeley (Australia) 7,690

10. Boo Weekley 7,638

11. Zach Johnson 7,441

12. Rory Sabbatini (South Africa) 6,391

13. Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 6,259

14. Nick Watney 6,140

15. Robert Allenby (Australia) 6,079

16. Steve Stricker 6,043

17. Scott Verplank 5,891

18. Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 5,748

19. Mark Wilson 5,609

20. Bubba Watson 5,281

NBA

NEW YORK: NBA playoff second-round results on Monday (home team in CAPS).

1 2 3 4 T

DETROIT 34 24 25 25 108

Chicago 18 25 19 25 87

(Detroit lead the best-of-seven series by 2-0)

1 2 3 4 T

UTAH 37 26 21 32 116

Golden State 35 31 23 23 112

(Utah leads the best-of-seven series by 1-0)

NHL

NEW YORK: NHL playoff semi-final result on Monday (home team in CAPS):

1 2 3 T

Detroit 2 0 0 2

SAN JOSE 0 0 0 0

(Detroit wins the best-of-seven series by 4-2)

Snooker

World championship

SHEFFIELD, England: John Higgins (Scotland) beat Mark Selby (England) 18-13 in the final of the world snooker championship in Sheffield, England on Monday (breaks over 50 in brackets, best of 35 frames, prefix denotes seeding)

5-John Higgins beat Mark Selby 18-13

Frame scores: 73-25 58-32 19-95 25-76 (67) 10-132 (116) 97-0 (97) 98-11 86-5 75-0 (75) 85-9 (70) 101-24 (100) 70-61 59-75 (Higgins 58) 98-0 78-55 (Higgins 53) 116-0 (106) 36-73 0-110 (109) 36-65 (65) 4-74 (62) 0-66 48-72 81-40 63-70 75-2 22-82 54-77 71-33 57-43 (57) 129-1 (129) 78-1 (78).

SOCCER

English Premier League

LONDON: English Premier League result on Monday: Charlton Athletic 0 Tottenham Hotspur 2 (Berbatov 7, Defoe 90+1).

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Man United 28 4 4 83 26 88

Chelsea 24 9 3 63 23 81

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Liverpool 20 7 10 55 25 67

Arsenal 19 10 8 63 35 67

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Everton 15 12 10 51 35 57

Tottenham 16 8 12 54 52 56

Bolton 16 7 14 45 50 55

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Reading 16 6 15 49 44 54

Portsmouth 14 11 12 45 42 53

Blackburn 15 5 16 48 50 50

Aston Villa 11 16 10 41 39 49

Middlesbrough 11 10 16 41 48 43

Newcastle 11 9 17 37 46 42

Manr City 11 9 17 28 42 42

Fulham 8 15 14 37 57 39

Sheff United 10 8 19 31 53 38

West Ham 11 5 21 34 59 38

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Wigan 9 8 20 35 58 35

Charlton 8 9 20 32 58 33

Watford 5 12 20 28 58 27

1-2: Champions League / EC I

3-4: Champions League preliminary round

5-7: UEFA Cup

18-20: Relegation

TENNIS

Rome Masters

ROME: Results from the first round of the Rome Masters men's singles on Monday (x-denotes seedings):

Potito Starace (Ita) bt Agustin Calleri (Arg) 6-3 6-1; Guillermo Canas (Arg) bt Juergen Melzer (Aut) 7-5 6-2; Robin Soederling (Swe) bt Benjamin Becker (Ger) 6-3 6-3; Gilles Simon (Fra) bt Andy Murray (GBR x10) 6-1 1-6 6-3; Oscar Hernandez (Spa) bt Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) 3-6 7-6 (3) 6-1; Jose Acasuso (Arg) bt Martin Verkerk (Ned) 6-3 7-5; Dmitry Tursunov (Rus) bt Jonas Bjorkman (Swe) 7-6 (10) 3-6 6-1; Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spa x16) bt Dominik Hrbaty (Svk) 3-6 6-1 6-4; Nicolas Almagro (Spa) bt Tim Henman (GBR) 7-5 6-1; Daniele Bracciali (Ita) bt Robby Ginepri (USA) 7-5 7-6(2).

Berlin Open

BERLIN: Berlin Open women's first round results on Monday:

Lucie Safarova (Cze) bt Olga Savchuk (Ukr)

6-3 6-7 (6) 6-0; Li Na (Chn x14) bt Maria Kirilenko (Rus) 6-1 3-6 6-1; Shahar Peer (Isr x13) bt Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Ger)

6-1 6-2; Severine Bremond (Fra) bt Sabine Lisicki (Ger) 6-2 6-1.

Prague Open

PRAGUE: Prague Open women's singles first-round results on Monday: Julia Schruff (Ger) bt Tsvetana Pironkova (Bul) 6-4 7-6; Virginie Razzano (Fra x7) bt Sun Tiantian (Chn) 6-0 7-5; Milagros Sequera (Ven) bt Julie Ditty (US) 6-2 6-4; Sandra Kloesel (Ger) bt Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha) 7-5 6-0.

YACHTING

Louis Vuitton

VALENCIA: Louis Vuitton Cup round robin two results and standings after Monday's racing in Valencia, Spain:

Flight 9

+39 (Italy) 2 Team Shosholoza (South Africa) 0

China Team 0 Areva (France) 2

Mascalzone Latino (Italy) 0 BMW Oracle Racing (USS) 2

Victory Challenge (Sweden) 2 Desafio Espanol (Spain) 0

Luna Rossa (Italy) 0 Team New Zealand 2

Bye: United Internet Team Germany

Round robin standings

BMW Oracle 35