Score board
Baseball
NEW YORK: Results from MLB games on Wednesday (home team in CAPS).
WASHINGTON 6 Chicago Cubs 0
BOSTON 7 Tampa Bay 5
Minnesota 6 NY YANKEES 2
San Francisco 9 CINCINNATI 5
Philadelphia 8 HOUSTON 3
Toronto 10 OAKLAND 3
PITTSBURGH 5 Milwaukee 3
Baltimore 9 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 6
DETROIT 6 Cleveland 4
ST. LOUIS 5 Arizona 4
Seattle 4 KANSAS CITY 0
COLORADO 17 NY Mets 7
TEXAS 4 LA Angels 2
SAN DIEGO 1 Florida 0
Atlanta 5 LA DODGERS 2
Soccer
Copa America
PUERTO LA CRUZ, Venezuela: Copa America results on Wednesday:
Group B
Brazil 1 Ecuador 0
Scorer: Robinho 56 pen
Brazil: 1-Doni; 13-Daniel Alves (14-Alex Silva 81), 3-Alex Rodrigo, 4-Juan, 6-Gilberto (16-Kleber 57); 17-Josue, 5-Mineiro, 8-Gilberto Silva, 19-Julio Baptista (10-Diego 74); 11-Robinho, 9-Vagner Love
Ecuador: 1-Marcelo Elizaga; 18-Neicer Reasco, 2-Jorge Guagua, 17-Giovanny Espinoza, 15-Oscar Bagui; 8-Edison Mendez, 14-Segundo Castillo, 16-Luis Antonio Valencia, 19-Walter Ayovi (10-Felipe Caicedo 77); 9-Felix Borja (21-Carlos Tenorio), 11-Cristian Benitez
Referee: Sergio Pezzotta (Argentina)
Mexico 0 Chile 0
Mexico: 13-Guillermo Ochoa; 15-Jose Antonio Castro, 2-Jonny Magallon, 22-Francisco Rodriguez, 16-Jaime Lozano; 14-Gonzalo Pineda (20-Fernando Arce 81), 8-Jaime Correa, 7-Alberto Medina, 18-Andres Guardado (17-Adolfo Bautista 46); 10-Cuauhtemoc Blanco, 19-Omar Bravo (9-Luis Landin 74)
Chile: 1-Claudio Bravo; 4-Ismael Fuentes, 15-Pablo Contreras, 3-Sebastian Roco; 16-Manuel Iturra, 17-Arturo Sanhueza, 7-Rodrigo Tello, 21-Carlos Villanueva (14-Matias Fernandez 70), 20-Gonzalo Fierro; 8-Humberto Suazo, 22-Juan Lorca (11-Mark Gonzalez 77)
Referee: Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay)
Standings
Group B
W D L Gf Ga Pts
Mexico 2 1 0 4 1 7
Brazil 2 0 1 4 2 6
Chile 1 1 1 3 5 4
Ecuador 0 0 3 3 6 0
(Mexico, Brazil and Chile qualify)
Group A
Venezuela 1 2 0 4 2 5
Peru 1 1 1 5 4 4
Uruguay 1 1 1 1 3 4
Bolivia 0 2 1 4 5 2
(Venezuela, Peru and Uruguay qualify)
Group C
Paraguay 2 0 0 8 1 6
Argentina 2 0 0 8 3 6
United States 0 0 2 2 7 0
Colombia 0 0 2 2 9 0
(Paraguay and Argentina qualify)
World Youth Championship
TORONTO: Results from the World Youth Championship (Under-20) in Canada on Wednesday:
Group B: Zambia 1 Spain 2; Uruguay 1 Jordan 0
Group F: Scotland 0 Nigeria 2; Costa Rica 0 Japan 1
TENNIS
Wimbledon
LONDON: Wimbledon results on Wednesday, the ninth day of the 2007 Championships at the All England Club (x denotes seed):
Men
3rd rd
Rafael Nadal (ESP x2) bt Robin Soderling (SWE x28) 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (7/9), 4-6, 7-5; Novak Djokovic (SRB x4) bt Nicolas Kiefer (GER) 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 (6/8), 6-2, 7-6 (7/5)
4th rd
Andy Roddick (USA x3) bt Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) 6-2, 7-5, 7-6 (8/6); Richard Gasquet (FRA x12) bt Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 6-4, 6-3, 6-4.
Women
4th rd
Venus Williams (USA x23) bt Maria Sharapova (RUS x2) 6-1, 6-3
Quarter-finals
Marion Bartoli (FRA x18) bt Michaella Krajicek (NED x31) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; Justine Henin (BEL x1) bt Serena Williams (USA x7) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
Men's doubles 3rd rd
Bob and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def. Richard Bloomfield and Jonathan Marray, Britain, 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (4); Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra (10), France, def. Thomas Johansson, Sweden, and Andrei Pavel, Romania, 7-5, 6-3, 1-0, retired; Fabrice Santoro, France, and Nenad Zimonjic (4), Serbia, def. Jaroslav Levinsky and David Skoch (13), Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4; Martin Damm, Czech Republic, and Leander Paes (5), India, def. Scott Lipsky and David Martin, United States, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2; Mark Knowles, Bahamas, and Daniel Nestor (3), Canada, def. Wesley Moodie, South Africa, and Todd Perry, Australia, 6-3, 5-7, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.
Women's doubles 3rd rd
Cara Black, Zimbabwe, and Liezel Huber (2), South Africa, def. Jill Craybas and Laura Granville, United States, 6-1, 6-1; Alicia Molik, Australia, and Mara Santangelo (6), Italy, def. Maria Kirilenko and Elena Vesnina (12), Russia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3; Lisa Raymond, United States, and Samantha Stosur (1), Australia, def. Sania Mirza, India, and Shahar Peer (16), Israel, 6-0, 6-7 (4), 6-1; Peng Shuai and Yan Zi, China, def. Chan Yung-jan and Chuang Chia-jung (3), Taiwan, 6-3, 6-2.
Mixed doubles 2nd rd
Paul Hanley, Australia, and Tatiana Perebiynis (16), Ukraine, def. Leos Friedl, Czech Republic, and Rennae Stubbs, Australia, 6-4, 6-4; Fabrice Santoro and Severine Bremond, France, def. Jonathan Erlich, Israel, and Elena Vesnina (15), Russia, 6-3, 6-4; Bob Bryan, United States, and Samantha Stosur (2), Australia, def. Martin Garcia and Paola Suarez, Argentina, 6-1, 6-4; Leander Paes, India, and Meghann Shaughnessy (8), United States, def. Jaroslav Levinsky and Renata Voracova, Czech Republic, 6-0, 6-0; Jonas Bjorkman, Sweden, and Alicia Molik (5), Australia, def. Vince Spadea and Vania King, 1-6, 6-4, 6-4; Wesley Moodie, South Africa, and Vera Dushevina, Russia, def. Simon Aspelin, Sweden, and Mara Santangelo (6), Italy, 6-3, 7-5; Jordan Kerr, Australia, and Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, def. Kevin Ullyett, Zimbabwe, and Liezel Huber (4), South Africa, 7-6 (0), 4-6, 6-4; Alex Bogdanovic and Melanie South, Britain, def. Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond (1), United States, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Daniel Nestor, Canada, and Elena Likhovtseva (11), Russia, def. Sebastian Prieto, Argentina, and Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spain, 6-1, 6-2; Julian Knowle, Austria, and Sun Tiantian (14), China, def. Jarkko Nieminen and Emma Laine, Finland, 7-6 (5), 6-3.
(China Daily 07/06/2007 page22)
