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China Daily | Updated: 2008-05-14 07:43

Baseball

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

PITTSBURGH 5 Atlanta 0

CLEVELAND 3 Toronto 0

Atlanta 8 PITTSBURGH 1

MINNESOTA 7 Boston 3

Toronto 3 CLEVELAND 0 (10 innings)

TAMPA BAY 7 NY Yankees 1

Washington 10 NY METS 4

CINCINNATI 8 Florida 7

Standings

American league

Eastern division

W L PCT GB

Boston 24 17 .585 -

Tampa Bay 22 16 .579 0 1/2

Baltimore 19 19 .500 3 1/2

NY Yankees 19 20 .487 4

Toronto 18 22 .450 5 1/2

Central division

Minnesota 20 17 .541 -

Cleveland 19 19 .500 1 1/2

White Sox 18 19 .486 2

Kansas City 16 21 .432 4

Detroit 16 22 .421 4 1/2

Western division

Oakland 23 16 .590 -

LA Angels 23 17 .575 0 1/2

Texas 19 21 .475 4 1/2

Seattle 15 25 .375 8 1/2

National league

Eastern division

Florida 23 15 .605 -

Philadelphia 21 18 .538 2 1/2

NY Mets 19 17 .528 3

Atlanta 19 18 .514 3 1/2

Washington 16 23 .410 7 1/2

Central division

Chicago Cubs 23 15 .605 -

St. Louis 23 17 .575 1

Houston 22 17 .564 1 1/2

Milwaukee 19 19 .500 4

Pittsburgh 18 20 .474 5

Cincinnati 16 23 .410 7 1/2

Western division

Arizona 23 15 .605 -

LA Dodgers 19 18 .514 3 1/2

San Francisco 16 23 .410 7 1/2

Colorado 15 23 .395 8

San Diego 14 25 .359 9 1/2

Cycling

MILAZZO, Italy: Results from the third stage of the Giro d'Italia, held over 221km between Catania and here on Monday:

1. Daniele Bennati (ITA/LIQ) 5hr 37min 01sec, 2. Erik Zabel (GER/MRM) at s.t., 3. Danilo Hondo (GER/SDA) s.t., 4. Thomas Fothen (GER/GST) s.t., 5. Alberto Loddo (ITA/TCS) s.t., 6. Koldo Fernandez (ESP/EUS) s.t., 7. Tiziano Dall'Antonia (ITA/CSF) s.t., 8. Marlon Perez (COL/GCE) s.t., 9. Mark Cavendish (GBR/THR) s.t., 10. Oscar Gatto (ITA/GST) s.t., 11. Luciano Pagliarini (BRA/SDV) s.t., 12. Robert F?rster (GER/GST) s.t., 13. Yauheni Hutarovich (BLR/FDJ) s.t., 14. Alexander Serov (RUS/TCS) s.t., 15. Mickael Cherel (FRA/FDJ) s.t.

Overall standings

1. Franco Pellizotti (ITA/LIQ) 11hr 52min 17sec, 2. Christian Vande Velde (USA/TSL) at 0:01, 3. Danilo Di Luca (ITA/LPR) 0:07, 4. Morris Possoni (ITA/THR) 0:08, 5. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/LIQ) 0:08, 6. Nicki S?rensen (DEN/CSC) 0:17, 7. Kanstantsin Siutsou (BLR/THR) 0:18, 8. Paolo Savoldelli (ITA/LPR) 0:19, 9. Andrea Noe (ITA/LIQ) 0:22, 10. Enrico Gasparotto (ITA/BAR) 0:25, 11. Francesco Bellotti (ITA/BAR) 0:25, 12. Gustav Larsson (SWE/CSC) 0:28, 13. Andreas Kloden (GER/AST) 0:28, 14. Christian Pfannberger (AUT/BAR) 0:28, 15. Marco Pinotti (ITA/THR) 0:29,

Golf

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

1. (1) Tiger Woods 20.95 average points

2. (2) Phil Mickelson 9.50

3. (4) Ernie Els (RSA) 6.17

4. (3) Adam Scott (AUS) 5.96

5. (5) Steve Stricker 5.58

6. (6) Geoff Ogilvy (AUS) 5.56

7. (7) Jim Furyk 5.53

8. (8) K.J. Choi (KOR) 5.42

9. (9) Vijay Singh (FIJ) 5.35

10. (18) Sergio Garcia (ESP) 5.31

11. (10) Justin Rose (GBR) 5.20

12. (11) Padraig Harrington (IRE) 5.04

13. (14) Henrik Stenson (SWE) 4.89

14. (13) Rory Sabbatini (RSA) 4.86

15. (12) Stewart Cink 4.86

16. (15) Trevor Immelman (RSA) 4.37

17. (16) Anthony Kim 3.98

18. (17) Aaron Baddeley (AUS) 3.91

19. (19) Luke Donald (CBR) 3.79

20. (20) Lee Westwood (GBR) 3.68

NBA

NEW YORK: NBA playoffs second-round result on Monday (home team in CAPS)

1 2 3 4 T

CLEVELAND 23 22 23 20 88

Boston 21 22 22 12 77

(The best-of-seven series is level at 2-2)

NHL

NEW YORK: NHL playoffs final result on Monday (home team in CAPS)

1 2 3 T

Detroit 2 1 2 5

DALLAS 1 1 0 2

(Detroit leads best-of-seven series 3-0)

Tennis

Rome International

ROME: Results of the first day at the Rome International here on Monday (x denotes seeding):

1st rd

Vera Zvonareva (RUS x10) bt Ai Sugiyama (JPN) 6-3, 6-3; Virginie Razzano (FRA) bt Julia Vakulenko (UKR) 6-1, 6-2; Samantha Stosur (AUS) bt Michaela Krajicek (NED) 6-3, 6-2; Agnes Szavay (HUN x11) bt Zi Yan (CHN) 6-1, 6-1; Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP) bt Anastasia Rodionova (RUS) 6-1, 6-3; Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) bt Tamira Paszek (AUT) 6-3, 6-0; Monica Niculescu (ROM) bt Jill Craybas (USA) 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Francesca Schiavone (ITA x17) bt Lucie Safarova (CZE) 6-4, 7-5; Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) bt Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) 6-1, 7-5; Iveta Benesova (CZE) bt Elena Vesnina (RUS) 6-3, 7-5; Alona Bondarenko (UKR) bt Mara Santangelo (ITA) 6-2, 6-2; Olga Govortsova (BLR) bt Karin Knapp (ITA) 4-6, 6-1, 6-2; Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x12) bt Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB) 6-3, 6-0; Sara Errani (ITA) bt Peng Shuai (CHN) 6-4, 1-6, 6-3

Hamburg ATP

HAMBURG, Germany: Results of the ATP tournament here on Monday (x denotes seeding):

1st rd

Fernando Verdasco (ESP) bt Mikhail Youzhny (RUS x10) 6-3, 6-2; Ivo Minar (CZE) bt Feliciano Lopez (ESP) 6-3, 6-4; Juan Monaco (ARG x12) bt Filippo Volandri (ITA) 6-1, 4-0 - retired; Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x14) bt Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 0-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-2; Michael Llodra (FRA) bt Guillermo Canas (ARG) 7-6 (9/7), 6-2; Albert Montanes (ESP) bt Mardy Fish (USA) 6-1, 6-3; Simone Bolelli (ITA) bt Marcel Granollers (ESP) 7-5, 6-2; Olivier Rochus (GER) bt Gianluca Naso (ITA) 7-6 (13/11), 2-6, 6-4; Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG) bt Jose Antonio Sanchezde Luna (ESP) 6-3, 6-3; Andy Murray (GBR x15) bt Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 6-4, 6-1; Marat Safin (RUS) bt Marin Cilic (CRO) 7-5, 6-2; Andreas Seppi (ITA) bt Michael Berrer (GER) 6-3, 6-0; Nicholas Kiefer (GER) bt Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA x16) 6-4, 6-4;

World rankings

Men's:

1. (1) Roger Federer (SUI) 6825 points

2. (2) Rafael Nadal (SPA) 5435

3. (3) Novak Djokovic (SER) 5125

4. (4) Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 3290

5. (5) David Ferrer (ESP) 2780

6. (6) Andy Roddick (USA) 2410

7. (7) David Nalbandian (ARG) 2115

8. (8) James Blake (USA) 2005

9. (9) Richard Gasquet (FRA) 1690

10. (24) Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) 1545