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China Daily | Updated: 2008-04-23 06:48

Baseball

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

BOSTON 8 Texas 3

Detroit 5 TORONTO 1

ATLANTA 7 Washington 3

CHICAGO CUBS 7 NY Mets 1

Florida 10 PITTSBURGH 4

LA Dodgers 9 CINCINNATI 3

HOUSTON 10 San Diego 3

St. Louis 4 MILWAUKEE 3

Philadelphia 9 COLORADO 5

ARIZONA 4 San Francisco 2

NBA

NEW YORK: NBA playoff results on Monday (home team in CAPS):

CLEVELAND 116 Washington 86

(Cleveland lead the best-of-seven series 2-0)

Utah 90 HOUSTON 84

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

NHL

NEW YORK: NHL Eastern Conference quarter-final results on Monday (home team in CAPS):

MONTREAL 5 Boston 0

(Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4-3)

Washington 4 PHILADELPHIA 2

(Best-of-seven series tied at 3-3)

Snooker

World championship

SHEFFIELD, England: World championship results on Monday (best of 19 frames):

1st rd

Peter Ebdon (ENG) bt Jamie Cope (ENG) 10-9

Ali Carter (ENG) bt Barry Hawkins (ENG) 10-9

Joe Swail (NIR) bt Stephen Lee (ENG) 10-4

Neil Robertson (AUS) bt Nigel Bond (ENG) 10-4

Tennis

Monte Carlo Masters

MONTE CARLO: Results on the first day of the $3.6 million Monte Carlo Masters Series claycourt tournament at the Monte Carlo Country Club on Monday (x denotes seeded player):

1st rd

Mario Ancic (CRO) bt Ivo Minar (CZE) 6-3, 6-4; Kristof Vliegen (BEL) bt Fabrice Santoro (FRA) 7-6 (7/4), 6-1; Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP x13) bt Michael Llodra (FRA) 6-7 (5/7), 6-1, 6-1; Olivier Rochus (BEL) bt Tommy Haas (GER) 6-1, 3-0 - retired shoulder injury; Filippo Volandri (ITA) bt Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 6-2, 6-3; Andy Murray (GBR x14) bt Feliciano Lopez (ESP) 7-6 (7/5), 6-4; Robin Soderling (SWE) bt Radek Stepanek (CZE) 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 6-3; Sam Querrey (USA) bt Carlos Moya (ESP x10) 6-3, 1-6, 6-3; Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) bt Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA x9) 6-4, 2-6, 6-3; Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER x16) bt Jose Acasuso (ARG) 7-6 (7/4), 6-3; Nicolas Lapentti (ECU) bt Potito Starace (ITA) 7-6 (7/3), 6-7 (2/7), 6-4; Ivan Ljubicic (CRO) bt Gustavo Kuerten (BRA) 6-1, 6-2; Gael Monfils (FRA) bt Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 7-5, 6-4.

ATP rankings

NEW YORK: Men's tennis world rankings on Monday (previous week's rankings in brackets):

1. (1) Roger Federer (SUI) 6425 points

2. (2) Rafael Nadal (SPA) 5455

3. (3) Novak Djokovic (SER) 4725

4. (4) Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 3290

5. (5) David Ferrer (SPA) 2620

6. (6) Andy Roddick (US) 2320

7. (7) David Nalbandian (ARG) 2035

8. (8) James Blake (USA) 2020

9. (10) Richard Gasquet (FRA) 1755

10. (9) Tomas Berdych (CZE) 1690