Score board

Baseball

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

CHICAGO CUBS 12 St. Louis 3

Tampa Bay 1 BOSTON 0

PITTSBURGH 9 Milwaukee 0

DETROIT 5 Toronto 4

NY METS 3 Atlanta 2

Washington 5 FLORIDA 4

PHILADELPHIA 6 Colorado 5 (10 innings)

Minnesota 4 KANSAS CITY 2

Cleveland 6 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 2

Oakland 9 SEATTLE 3

Arizona 5 SAN FRANCISCO 3

Basketball

European Championship

MADRID: European Championship results and standings from qualifying round Group F on Monday:

Italy 84 Turkey 75 (after extra time)

Lithuania 88 France 73

Germany 47 Slovenia 77

Standings

W L Pts

Slovenia 4 0 8

Lithuania 4 0 8

France 2 2 6

Italy 1 3 5

Germany 1 3 5

Turkey 0 4 4

Golf

World rankings

NEW YORK: World rankings on Monday (US unless stated, last week's positions in brackets):

1. (1) Tiger Woods 23.80 average points

2. (2) Phil Mickelson 9.89

3. (3) Jim Furyk 8.22

4. (4) Ernie Els (South Africa) 7.44

5. (5) Steve Stricker 7.17

6. (6) Adam Scott (Australia) 6.55

7. (7) Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 6.07

8. (9) K.J. Choi (South Korea) 5.72

9. (8) Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 5.64

10. (11) Rory Sabbatini (South Africa) 5.58

11. (12) Sergio Garcia (Spain) 5.55

12. (10) Vijay Singh (Fiji) 5.42

13. (15) Justin Rose (Britain) 4.95

14. (13) Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 4.95

15. (14) Luke Donald (Britain) 4.89

16. (16) Zach Johnson 4.47

17. (17) Retief Goosen (South Africa) 4.16

18. (19) Trevor Immelman (South Africa) 4.09

19. (18) Angel Cabrera (Argentina) 4.05

20. (26) Aaron Baddeley (Australia) 3.99

PGA Tour money list

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

1. Tiger Woods $9,607,052

2. Phil Mickelson $5,685,588

3. Steve Stricker $4,523,077

4. Vijay Singh (Fiji) $4,497,376

5. K.J. Choi (South Korea) $4,457,659

6. Rory Sabbatini (South Africa) $4,345,640

7. Jim Furyk $3,986,746

8. Sergio Garcia (Spain) $3,385,185

9. Aaron Baddeley (Australia) $3,317,919

10. Zach Johnson $3,302,838

11. Adam Scott (Australia) $3,296,285

12. Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) $2,803,203

13. Brandt Snedeker $2,723,943

14. Charles Howell III $2,717,291

15. Woody Austin $2,711,602

16. Scott Verplank $2,609,089

17. Hunter Mahan $2,592,995

18. Ernie Els (South Africa) $2,588,815

19. Justin Rose (Britain) $2,538,575

20. Padraig Harrington (Ireland) $2,490,983

European Tour money list

LONDON: Leading money winners on the 2007 European Tour on Monday (Top 20, British unless stated):

1. Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 2,138,078 euros

2. Justin Rose 1,811,595

3. Ernie Els (South Africa) 1,799,378

4. Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 1,770,296

5. Niclas Fasth (Sweden) 1,616,476

6. Andres Romero (Argentina) 1,543,748

7. Retief Goosen (South Africa) 1,364,936

8. Angel Cabrera (Argentina) 1,356,687

9. Colin Montgomerie 1,248,312

10. Richard Sterne (South Africa) 1,242,496

11. Paul Casey 1,175,739

12. Sergio Garcia (Spain) 1,168,417

13. Soren Hansen (Denmark) 1,115,039

14. Graeme Storm 1,114,084

15. Gregory Havret (France) 1,102,214

16. Richard Green (Australia) 1,028,918

17. Anders Hansen (Denmark) 990,625

18. Raphael Jacquelin (France) 944,262

19. Bradley Dredge 873,637

20. Wang Yong-eun (South Korea) 846,336

PGA Tour FedExCup points table

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

1. Tiger Woods 112,733 points

2. Steve Stricker 109,600

3. Phil Mickelson 108,613

4. Rory Sabbatini (South Africa) 103,588

5. KJ Choi (South Korea) 103,100

6. Aaron Baddeley 102,800

7. Adam Scott (Australia) 100,227

8. Jim Furyk 99,838

9. Vijay Singh (Fiji) 99,214

10. Sergio Garcia (Spain) 98,277

11. Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 98,063

12. Zach Johnson 97,823

13. Charles Howell III 97,631

14. Ernie Els (South Africa) 97,575

15. Brandt Snedeker 97,505

16. Justin Rose (Britain) 97,250

17. Woody Austin 97,223

18. Mark Calcavecchia 97,019

19. Scott Verplank 96,632

20. Hunter Mahan 96,516

NFL

NEW YORK: Results of the National Football League games on Monday (home team in CAPS):

CINCINNATI 27 Baltimore 20

SAN FRANCISCO 20 Arizona 17

TENNIS

ATP rankings

PARIS: US Open semi-finalist David Ferrer has broken into the top 10 for the first time in the latest ATP rankings released on Monday.

The Spaniard from Valencia has climbed seven places to eighth behind Roger Feederer after his Flushing Meadows exploits where he knocked out Rafael Nadal on his way to the last four.

Roger Federer, who clinched his fourth straight US Open title, heads the standings with 7605 points from Nadal and beaten US finalist Novak Djokovic.

1. Roger Federer (SUI) 7605 pts

2. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 5385

3. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 4295

4. Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 3255

5. Andy Roddick (USA) 2540

6. James Blake (USA) 2290

7. Fernando Gonzales (CHI) 2185

8. David Ferrer (ESP) 1940 (+7)

9. Tomas Berdych (CZE) 1925

10. Tommy Haas (GER) 1880

11. Tommy Robredo (ESP) 1875 (-3)

12. Ivan Ljubicic (CRO) 1850

13. Guillermo Canas (ARG) 1653 (+1)

14. Richard Gasquet (FRA) 1625 (-1)

15. Carlos Moya (ESP) 1620 (+2)

16. Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG) 1465 (+6)

17. Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) 1465 (-6)

18. Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) 1410

19. Andy Murray (GBR) 1345

20. Juan Monaco (ARG) 1320 (+3)

WTA world rankings

NEW YORK: The latest WTA world rankings released on Monday after the US Open won by Justine Henin:

1. Justine Henin (BEL) 5200

2. Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 3780 (+2)

3. Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 3365

4. Maria Sharapova (RUS) 3235 (-2)

5. Anna Chakvetadze (RUS) 2940 (+1)

6. Ana Ivanovic (SRB) 2925 (-1)

7. Serena Williams (USA) 2391 (+2)

8. Nadia Petrova (RUS) 2266

9. Venus Williams (USA) 2215 (+5)

10. Marion Bartoli (FRA) 2067

11. Amelie Mauresmo (FRA) 2062 (-4)

12. Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) 1932 (-1)

13. Patty Schnyder (SUI) 1768 (-1)

14. Nicole Vaidisova (CZE) 1736 (-1)

15. Elena Dementieva (RUS) 1686 (-2)

16. Shahar Peer (ISR) 1678 (+3)

17. Dinara Safina (RUS) 1674 (-1)

18. Martina Hingis (SUI) 1673 (-1)

19. Tatiana Golovin (FRA) 1414 (-1)

20. Sybille Bammer (AUT) 1298

Bali International

NUSA DUA, Indonesia,: First-round results of the WTA Bali International on Monday:

Youlina Fedossova (FRA) bt Hsieh Su-wei (TPE) 6-0, 6-0; Edina Gallovits (RUS) bt Jarmila Gajdosova (SVK) 6-1, 6-0; Elise Tamaela (NED) bt Jill Craybas (USA) 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2

Qualifying for 1st round

Julie Ditty (USA) bt Lavinia Tananta (INA) 6-4, 6-3; Sorana Cirstea (ROU) bt Alina Jidkova (RUS) 6-2, 6-4; Ayumi Morita (JPN) bt Andreja Klepac (SLO) 6-1, 1-6, 6-1; Yuan Meng (CHN) bt Anne Keothavong (GBR) 6-1, 7-5.

ATP tournament Bucharest

BUCHAREST: First-round results of the ATP tennis tournament on Monday:

Martin Vassalo Arguello (ARG) bt Verner Eschauer (AUT) 6-4, 6-4; Gilles Simon (FRA x6) bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 7-6 (7/3), 6-4; Albert Montanes (ESP x8) bt Nicolas Devilder (FRA) 6-3, 6-1; Ivan Navarro Pastor (ESP) bt Chris Guccione (AUS) 6-4, 7-6 (7/4); Andreas Seppi (ITA) bt Jurgen Melzer (AUT x4) 4-6, 7-5, 6-4; Evgeny Korolev (RUS) bt Florent Serra (FRA) 4-6, 6-5 ret; Igor Andreev (RUS x5) bt Perter Luczak (AUS) 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

(China Daily 09/12/2007 page23)