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Baseball
NEW YORK: Baseball results on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):
Baltimore 6 NY YANKEES 3 (10 innings)
Tampa Bay 6 BOSTON 5
Minnesota 6 SEATTLE 1
NY Mets 10 PITTSBURGH 8
CLEVELAND 5 Detroit 2
Arizona 9 FLORIDA 6
WASHINGTON 4 Philadelphia 2
TORONTO 2 LA Angels 1
ATLANTA 6 San Francisco 3
St Louis 8 MILWAUKEE 3
TEXAS 4 Kansas City 3
Cincinnati 11 CHICAGO CUBS 9
Colorado 3 SAN DIEGO 0
OAKLAND 3 Chicago White Sox 2
LA DODGERS 6 Houston 3
SOCCER
English Premier League
LONDON: English Premier League results on Wednesday:
Birmingham 2 (McShane 28-og, O'Connor 82) Sunderland 2 (Chopra 75, John 90)
Fulham 2 (Healy 23, Smertin 26) Bolton 1 (Helguson 12)
Manchester City 1 (Johnson 43) Derby 0
Portsmouth 1 (Benjani 53) Manchester Utd 1 (Scholes 15)
Reading 1 (Bikey 30) Chelsea 2 (Lampard 47, Drogba 50)
Wigan 1 (Sibierski 55) Middlesbrough 0
Played Tuesday
Tottenham 1 (Gardner 26) Everton 3 (Lescott 3, Osman 37, Stubbs 45)
European Champions League
PARIS: Champions League third qualifying round first leg results on Wednesday:
Toulouse (FRA) 0 Liverpool (ENG) 1 (Voronin 43)
Spartak Moscow (RUS) 1 (Pavlyuchenko 42) Celtic (SCO) 1 (Hartley 21)
Tampere United (FIN) 0 Rosenborg (NOR) 3 (Koppinen 20, Kone 22, 82)
Bate Borisov (BLR) 2 (Radkov 40, Bliznuk 90) Steaua Bucharest (ROM) 2 (Goian 58, Dica 84)
FK Sarajevo (BIH) 0 Dynamo Kiev (UKR) 1 (Shatskikh 12)
Fenerbahce (TUR) 1 (Souza Alex 32) Anderlecht (BEL) 0
Werder Bremen (GER) 2 (Almeida 47, Jensen 85) Dinamo Zagreb (CRO) 1 (Balaban 43)
FC Zurich (SUI) 1 (Alphonse 90) Besiktas (TUR) 1 (Delgado 3)
Ajax (NED) 0 Slavia Prague (CZE) 1 (Kalivoda 76-pen)
Red Bull Salzburg (AUT) 1 (Zickler 10-pen) Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) 0
Sparta Prague (CZE) 0 Arsenal (ENG) 2 (Fabregas 72, Hleb 90+1)
FC Sevilla (ESP) 2 (Luis Fabiano 48, Kanoute 65) AEK Athens (GRE) 0
TENNIS
Cincinnati ATP
CINCINNATI, Ohio: Results here on Wednesday in the $2.2 million ATP Cincinnati Masters (x denotes seeded player):
2nd rd
Juan Monaco (ARG) bt Rafael Nadal (ESP x2) 7-6 (7/5), 4-1 retired (arm injury); Juan Del Potro (ARG) bt Philip Kohlschreiber (GER) 6-1, 2-6, 6-4; Jurgen Melzer (AUT) bt Mario Ancic (CRO) 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (11/9); Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA x8) 6-1, 3-2 retired; Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) bt Fernando Gonzalez (CHI x6) 6-2, 7-6 (9/7); Nicolas Almagro (ESP) bt Ivan Ljubicic (CRO x11) 6-4, 6-4; David Ferrer (ESP) bt Radek Stepanek (CZE) 6-2, 7-5; Carlos Moya (ESP) bt Novak Djokovic (SRB x4) 6-4, 6-1; Sam Querrey (USA) bt Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) 5-7, 6-3, 6-4; James Blake (USA) bt Nicolas Kiefer (GER) 6-4, 6-4; Tomas Berdych (CZE) bt Arnaud Clement (FRA) 7-6 (7/1), 7-6 (7/4); Nikolay Davydenko (RUS x5) bt Robby Ginepri (USA) 6-2, 6-7 (7/9), 6-3; Roger Federer (SUI x1) bt Julien Benneteau (FRA) 6-3, 6-3; Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) bt Juan Chela (ARG) 6-7 (6/8), 6-4, 6-2.
WTA Toronto
TORONTO: Results here on Wednesday from the third day of a $1.34 million WTA hardcourt tournament (x denotes seed):
2nd rd
Nadia Petrova (RUS x6) bt Stephanie Dubois (CAN) 6-7 (4/7), 6-2, 6-1; Marion Bartoli (FRA x7) bt Maria Kirilenko (RUS) 6-2, 2-1, retired, left knee injury; Francesca Schiavone (ITA) bt Elena Dementieva (RUS x8) 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 6-2; Dinara Safina (RUS) bt Nathalie Dechy (FRA) 6-1, 6-2; Patty Schnyder (SUI) bt Flavia Pennetta (ITA) 6-3, 6-2; Tatiana Golovin (FRA) bt Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 6-4, 6-3; Meghann Shaughnessy (USA) bt Lucie Safarova (CZE) 3-6, 6-4, 7-5; Eleni Daniilidou (GRE) bt Maria Elena Camerin (ITA) 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 7-5; Sybille Bammer (AUT) bt Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) 6-4, 6-2; Virginie Razzano (FRA) bt Anna Chakvetadze (RUS x5) 7-6 (7/5), 2-0, retired, illness; Yan Zi (CHN) bt Ana Ivanovic (SRB x4) 6-3, 6-1; Justine Henin (BEL x1) bt Andreja Klepac (SLO) 6-3, 6-1; Jelena Jankovic (SRB x2) bt Marie-Eve Pelletier (CAN) 6-0, 6-1.
(China Daily 08/17/2007 page22)
