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BASEBALL

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

Boston 6 DETROIT 3

TORONTO 1 Chicago White Sox 0

CINCINNATI 5 Chicago Cubs 3

LA Angels 4 KANSAS CITY 0

St. Louis 6 COLORADO 5

Philadelphia 11 ARIZONA 4

LA DODGERS 5 NY Mets 1

SEATTLE 7 Texas 3

OAKLAND 2 Baltimore 1 (10 innings)

Golf

World rankings

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

1. (1) Tiger Woods 21.31 average points

2. (2) Phil Mickelson 9.75

3. (5) Adam Scott (Australia) 6.05

4. (3) Ernie Els (South Africa) 6.04

5. (4) Steve Stricker 5.79

6. (6) Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 5.64

7. (8) Jim Furyk 5.58

8. (7) K.J. Choi (South Korea) 5.51

9. (9) Vijay Singh (Fiji) 5.45

10. (10) Justin Rose (Britain) 5.29

11. (11) Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 5.14

12. (14) Stewart Cink 4.93

13. (12) Rory Sabbatini (South Africa) 4.87

14. (13) Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 4.79

15. (15) Trevor Immelman (South Africa) 4.36

16. (37) Anthony Kim 4.05

17. (16) Aaron Baddeley (Australia) 3.98

18. (17) Sergio Garcia (Spain) 3.85

19. (18) Luke Donald (Britain) 3.79

20. (20) Lee Westwood (Britain) 3.74

2008 PGA Tour money list

NEW YORK: Leading money winners on the 2008 PGA Tour on Monday (US unless stated):

1. Tiger Woods $4,425,000

2. Phil Mickelson $2,614,270

3. Stewart Cink $2,284,712

4. Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) $2,213,960

5. Vijay Singh (Fiji) $2,182,017

6. Anthony Kim $2,062,360

7. K.J. Choi (South Korea) $1,801,432

8. Justin Leonard $1,786,402

9. Boo Weekley $1,784,780

10. Adam Scott (Australia) $1,719,644

11. J.B. Holmes $1,625,795

12. Andres Romero (Argentina) $1,523,528

13. Trevor Immelman (South Africa) $1,518,676

14. Steve Stricker $1,518,039

15. Jim Furyk $1,509,580

16. Sean O'Hair $1,430,500

17. Bart Bryant $1,425,642

18. Ryuji Imada (Japan) $1,322,647

19. Daniel Chopra (Sweden) $1,311,724

20. Robert Allenby (Australia) $1,251,171

European Tour Money List

LONDON: Leading money winners on the 2008 European Tour on Monday (British unless stated):

1. Trevor Immelman (South Africa) 992,958 euros

2. Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 970,156

3. Lee Westwood 790,843

4. Vijay Singh (Fiji) 756,380

5. Graeme McDowell 602,610

6. Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 592,676

7. Damien McGrane (Ireland) 543,209

8. Retief Goosen (South Africa) 536,027

9. Martin Kaymer (Germany) 521,899

10. Adam Scott (Australia) 503,460

11. Jeev Milkha Singh (India) 460,458

12. Peter Lawrie (Ireland) 444,292

13. Darren Clarke 429,007

14. Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 419,672

15. Mark Brown (New Zealand) 415,807

16. Ross Fisher 403,907

17. Robert Karlsson (Sweden) 377,944

18. Ernie Els (South Africa) 340,678

19. Richard Sterne (South Africa) 340,206

20. Oliver Wilson 335,502

2008 FedExCup points table

NEW YORK: PGA Tour's 2008 FedExCup points table on Monday (US unless stated):

1. Tiger Woods 17,745 points

2. Phil Mickelson 10,571

3. Stewart Cink 9,174

4. Anthony Kim 8,687

5. Vijay Singh (Fiji) 8,652

6. Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 8,442

7. K.J. Choi (South Korea) 7,876

8. Boo Weekley 7,809

9. Justin Leonard 7,163

10. Adam Scott (Australia) 6,786

11. Steve Stricker 6,677

12. J.B. Holmes 6,560

13. Sean O'Hair 6,476

14. Bart Bryant 6,072

15. Jim Furyk 6,037

16. Ryuji Imada (Japan) 5,931

17. Andres Romero (Argentina) 5,877

18. D.J Trahan 5,462

19. Trevor Immelman (South Africa) 5,432

20. Robert Allenby (Australia) 5,255

NBA

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

DETROIT 100 Orlando 93

(Detroit leads best-of-seven series 2-0)

NEW ORLEANS 102 San Antonio 84

(New Orleans leads the best-of-seven series 2-0)

SOCCER

English Premier League

LONDON: English Premier League result on Monday: Newcastle 0 Chelsea 2 (Ballack 61, Malouda 82)

Standings

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Man Utd 26 6 5 78 22 84

Chelsea 25 9 3 64 25 84

Arsenal 23 11 3 73 31 80

Liverpool 20 13 4 65 28 73

Everton 18 8 11 52 32 62

Aston Villa 16 11 10 69 49 59

Blackburn 15 13 9 49 44 58

Portsmouth 16 9 12 48 39 57

Man City 15 10 12 44 45 55

West Ham 13 9 15 40 48 48

Tottenham 11 13 13 66 59 46

Newcastle 11 10 16 44 62 43

Wigan 10 10 17 34 49 40

Middlesbrough 9 12 16 35 52 39

Sunderland 11 6 20 36 58 39

Bolton 9 9 19 35 53 36

Fulham 7 12 18 37 60 33

Reading 9 6 22 37 66 33

Birmingham 7 11 19 42 61 32

Derby 1 8 28 20 85 11 -- relegated

Tennis

Men's world rankings

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

1. (1) Roger Federer (Switzerland) 6775 points

2. (2) Rafael Nadal (Spain) 5930

3. (3) Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 4750

4. (4) Nikolay Davydenko (Russia) 3440

5. (5) David Ferrer (Spain) 2780

6. (6) Andy Roddick (U.S.) 2260

7. (7) David Nalbandian (Argentina) 2110

8. (8) James Blake (U.S.) 1965

9. (9) Richard Gasquet (France) 1690

10. (10) Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) 1615

11. (15) Fernando Gonzalez (Chile) 1560

12. (11) Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) 1485

13. (14) Carlos Moya (Spain) 1440

14. (16) Juan Monaco (Argentina) 1425

15. (12) Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) 1415

16. (17) Tommy Robredo (Spain) 1400

17. (13) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) 1380

18. (19) Andy Murray (Britain) 1380

19. (20) Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) 1375

20. (18) Paul-Henri Mathieu (France) 1370

Women's world rankings

MIAMI: Women's tennis world rankings on Monday

(previous week's rankings in brackets):

1. (1) Justine Henin (Belgium) 5830 points

2. (2) Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) 4157

3. (3) Maria Sharapova (Russia) 3986

4. (4) Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) 3845

5. (5) Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) 3755

6. (6) Serena Williams (U.S.) 2726

7. (7) Anna Chakvetadze (Russia) 2630

8. (8) Venus Williams (U.S.) 2516

9. (9) Elena Dementieva (Russia) 2440

10. (10) Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia) 2257

11. (11) Marion Bartoli (France) 2198

12. (12) Patty Schnyder (Switzerland) 1965

13. (13) Vera Zvonareva (Russia) 1742

14. (14) Agnes Szavay (Hungary) 1603

15. (15) Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 1483

16. (16) Nicole Vaidisova (Czech Republic) 1433

17. (17) Dinara Safina (Russia) 1412

18. (18) Shahar Peer (Israel) 1245

19. (21) Amelie Mauresmo (France) 1176

20. (22) Francesca Schiavone (Italy) 1166

Rome Masters

ROME: Results in the 2,270,000-euro Rome Masters Series claycourt tournament on Monday (x denotes seeded player):

1st rd

Luis Horna (PER) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA x9) 6-4, 6-1; Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Steve Darcis (BEL) bt Ivan Ljubicic (CRO) 7-5, 7-6 (7/5); Igor Andreev (RUS) bt Lee Hyung-taik (KOR) 6-4, 7-5; Nicolas Mahut (FRA) bt Thomas Fabbiano (ITA) 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, 7-5; Potito Starace (ITA) bt Marin Cilic (CRO) 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; Evgeny Korolev (RUS) bt Robin Soderling (SWE) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Guillermo Canas (ARG) bt Gianluca Naso (ITA) 6-7 (8/10), 6-3, 6-2; Mardy Fish (USA) bt Michael Llodra (FRA) 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (7/2); Andreas Seppi (ITA) bt Fabrice Santoro (FRA) 6-4, 6-2; Nicolas Almagro (ESP) bt Flavio Cipolla (ITA) 6-1, 6-3; Juan Monaco (ARG) bt Pablo Cuevas (URU) 6-0, 6-4; Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) bt Marat Safin (RUS) 6-7 (5/7), 6-2, 6-1; Andy Murray (GBR) bt Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) 5-7, 6-4, 1-0 ab.

German Open

BERLIN: Results of the WTA tournament at the Steffi Graf Stadium on Monday:

1st rd

Kaia Kanepi (EST) bt Karin Knapp (ITA) 6-0, 6-1; Francesca Schiavone (ITA) bt Alize Cornet (FRA) 7-5, 4-6, 6-3; Alona Bonderenko (UKR x 15) bt Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (11/9); Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) bt Tatiana Golovin (FRA) 7-6 (7/4), 6-2; Sabine Lisicki (GER) bt Shahar Peer (ISR x14) 7-5, 6-1; Yung-Jan Chan (TPE) bt Pauline Parmentier (FRA) 7-5, 2-6, 6-4; Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) bt Tamira Paszek (AUT) 6-4, 6-3; Lucie Safarova (CZE) bt Virginie Razzano (FRA) 6-4, 7-5; Agnes Szavay (HUN x10) bt Milagros Sequera (VEN) 6-2, 3-0 retired; Nadia Petrova (RUS x16) bt Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) 7-6, (7/5), 3-6, 7-6 (7/2); Dinara Safina (RUS x13) bt Julia Goerges (GER) 6-3, 6-4; Angelika Bachmann (GER) bt Ekaterina Dzehalevich (BLR) 7-6 (9/7), 3-6, 6-3; Sybille Bammer (AUT) bt Michaella Krajicek (NED) 6-1, 6-2; Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) bt Angelique Kerber (GER) 6-0, 5-3 retired.

(China Daily 05/07/2008 page23)