Score board

NBA

NEW YORK: Results from Tuesday's NBA games (home team in CAPS):

SAN ANTONIO 106 Portland 97

Houston 95 LA LAKERS 93

Utah 117 GOLDEN STATE 96

NHL

NEW YORK: NHL results on Tuesday (home team in CAPS):

Pittsburgh 4 MINNESOTA 2

Atlanta 3 MONTREAL 2 (o.p.)

Phoenix 2 St Louis 1

Detroit 2 EDMONTON 1

CALGARY 5 Nashville 1

*SO denotes shootout win

SOCCER

Dutch Cup

AMSTERDAM: Dutch Cup third round results on Tuesday (numerals denote division, top division unstated)

Roda JC Kerkrade 3 Graafschap Doetinchem 2 after extra time, 2-2 after 90 mins)

FC Eindhoven (II) 1 HFC Haarlem (II) 3 after extra time, 1-1 after 90 mins)

FC Zwolle (II) 1 Go Ahead Eagles Deventer (II) 0

Fortuna Sittard (II) 1 Den Bosch (II) 3

Heracles Almelo 3 FC Omniworld (II) 0

HHC (III) 0 AGOVV Apeldoorn (II) 1

MVV Maastricht (II) 1 FC Dordrecht (II) 3

SC Cambuur-Leeuwarden (II) 1 Excelsior 2

English League Cup

LONDON: English League Cup result fourth round result on Tuesday: Coventry City 1 (Tabb 67) West Ham 2 (Hall 71-og, Cole 90).

French League Cup

PARIS: French League Cup results on Tuesday:

Last 16

Auxerre 6 (Pedretti 6, Oliech 90+2, 110, Maoulida 105, 118, Jelen 115) Nice 2 (Ederson 17-pen, Job 85)

Nancy 1 (Zerka 14-pen) Amiens 0

Marseille 2 (Niang 94, Cisse 105) Metz 2 (Mo N'Diaye 97, Balde 120) after extra-time

Marseille won 5-4 on penalties.

German Cup

BERLIN: German Cup football results on Tuesday:

Werder Bremen II 2 Sankt Pauli 2 (aet) - Bremen won 4-2 on penalties

Wuppertal 2 Hertha Berlin 0

Aix-la-Chapelle 3 Bochum 2

Hansa Rostock 6 Offenbach 0

1860 Munich 2 Mainz 1

Karlsruhe 0 Wolfsburg 1

Hoffenheim 2 Furth 1

Schalke 04 2 Hanover 0 (aet)

Tennis

Paris Masters

PARIS: Results of the third day of the Paris Masters on Tuesday (x denotes seeding):

1st rd

Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) bt Juan Monaco (ARG) 6-4, 6-4; Nicolas Mahut (FRA) bt Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) 6-4, 7-6 (7/4); Fabrice Santoro (FRA) bt Albert Montanes (ESP) 7-6 (7/4), 6-2; Filippo Volandri (ITA) bt Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 6-0, 6-3; Jo-Wilfred Tsonga (FRA) bt Sebastien Grosjean (FRA) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Ivo Karlovic (CRO) bt Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

2nd rd

Tommy Haas (GER x9) bt Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 6-3, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3; Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) bt Fernando Gonzalez (CHI x7) 3-6, 6-3, 6-3; Guillermo Canas (ARG x11) bt Andreas Seppi (ITA) 6-3, 7-6 (7/5); David Ferrer (ESP x5) bt Mardy Fish (USA) 6-1, 7-6 (7/4); Tommy Robredo (ESP x8) bt Gilles Simon (FRA) 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; Tomas Berdych (CZE x12) bt Mario Ancic (CRO) 6-3, 6-3.

Quebec WTA

QUEBEC CITY, Canada: Results here on Tuesday in a $175,000 WTA tennis tournament (x denotes seeded player):

1st rd

Olga Poutchkova (RUS x8) bt Marina Erakovic (NZL) 6-1, 6-2; Vania King (USA) bt Anne Kremer (LUX) 6-2, 6-1; Stephanie Foretz (FRA) bt Yaroslava Shvedova (RUS) 6-3, 6-4; Severine Bremond (FRA) bt Marie-Eve Pelletier (CAN) 6-2, 6-3; Jill Craybas (USA) bt Lilia Osterloh (USA) 6-4, 2-6, 6-2; Alina Jidkova (RUS) bt Sunitha Rao (IND) 6-4, 5-7 6-4; Stephanie Dubois (Can) bt Abigail Spears (USA) 6-1 6-4; Lindsay Davenport (USA) bt Angelique Kerber (Ger) 6-3 6-3.

(China Daily 11/01/2007 page22)