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BASEBALL
NEW YORK: Results of the Major League Baseball games on Wednesday (home teams in CAPS):
Seattle 2 TORONTO 1
LA ANGELS 4 Tampa Bay 2
BOSTON 6 Baltimore 3
Minnesota 8 CLEVELAND 5
DETROIT 5 Chicago White Sox 1
PITTSBURGH 3 Washington 1
FLORIDA 6 Philadelphia 2
St. Louis 10 CINCINNATI 0
CHICAGO CUBS 7 Atlanta 2
NY METS 5 Arizona 3 (13 innings)
Milwaukee 10 HOUSTON 6
Texas 11 KANSAS CITY 5
COLORADO 1 San Francisco 0
OAKLAND 8 NY Yankees 4
SAN DIEGO 4 LA Dodgers 1
Standings
American League
Eastern Division
W L PCT GB
Boston 41 27 .603 --
Tampa Bay 38 28 .576 2
Toronto 34 34 .500 7
NY Yankees 33 33 .500 7
Baltimore 32 32 .500 7
Central Division
Chi White Sox 37 28 .569 --
Minnesota 32 34 .485 5 1/2
Cleveland 30 36 .455 7 1/2
Detroit 28 37 .431 9
Kansas City 25 41 .379 12 1/2
Western Division
LA Angels 41 26 .612 --
Oakland 35 30 .538 5
Texas 34 33 .507 7
Seattle 24 42 .364 16 1/2
National League
Eastern Division
Philadelphia 39 28 .582 --
Florida 36 29 .554 2
Atlanta 32 34 .485 6 1/2
New York 31 33 .484 6 1/2
Washington 26 41 .388 13
Central Division
Chicago 42 24 .636 --
St. Louis 40 27 .597 2 1/2
Milwaukee 34 31 .523 7 1/2
Houston 33 33 .500 9
Pittsburgh 32 34 .485 10
Cincinnati 31 36 .463 11 1/2
Western Division
Arizona 35 31 .530 --
Los Angeles 31 34 .477 3 1/2
San Francisco 29 37 .439 6
San Diego 29 38 .433 6 1/2
Colorado 26 39 .400 8 1/2
Thursday's games
Washington at Pittsburgh
Arizona at NY Mets
Milwaukee at Houston
Atlanta at Chicago Cubs
San Francisco at Colorado
LA Dodgers at San Diego
Philadelphia at Florida
St. Louis at Cincinnati
Chicago White Sox at Detroit
Texas at Kansas City
Baltimore at Boston
Minnesota at Cleveland
NY Yankees at Oakland
SOCCER
Euro 2008
ZURICH: Euro 2008 Group A results and standings on Wednesday:
Results
At St Jakob Park, Basel: Switzerland 1 Turkey 2
Scorers:
Switzerland: Hakan Yakin 32
Turkey: Semih Senturk 57, Arda Turan 90+2
At Stade de Geneve, Geneva: Czech Republic 1 Portugal 3
Scorers
Czech Republic: Libor Sionko 17
Portugal: Deco 8, Cristiano Ronaldo 63, Ricardo Quaresma 90+1
Standings
W D L Gf Ga Pts
Portugal 2 0 0 5 1 6
Czech Rep 1 0 1 2 3 3
Turkey 1 0 1 2 3 3
Switzerland 0 0 2 1 3 0
Previous matches
Saturday June 7
Switzerland 0 Czech Republic 1
Portugal 2 Turkey 0
Final group matches
Sunday June 15 (GMT)
Switzerland v Portugal, St Jakob Park, Basel, 1845
Turkey v Czech Republic, Stade de Geneve, Geneva 1845
Euro 2008 scorers after Wednesday's matches
3 David Villa (Spain)
2 Lukas Podolski (Germany)
1 Arda Turan (Turkey)
Semih Senturk (Turkey)
Hakan Yakin (Switzerland)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden)
Petter Hansson (Sweden)
Cesc Fabregas (Spain)
Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russia)
Giovanni van Bronckhorst (Netherlands)
Ruud van Nistelrooy (Netherlands)
Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands)
Luka Modric (Croatia)
Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)
Deco (Portugal)
Pepe (Portugal)
Raul Meireles (Portugal)
Libor Sionko (Czech Republic)
Vaclav Sverkos (Czech Republic)
Tennis
Queen's Club
LONDON: Results from the 675,847 euros ($1 million) Queen's Club Championships on Wednesday (x denotes seeding):
2nd rd
Andy Roddick (USA x3) bt Robby Ginepri (USA) 6-7 (6), 6-1, 6-1; Richard Gasquet (FRA x5) bt Simone Bolelli (ITA) 6-3, 6-3; Kei Nishikori (JPN) bt Olivier Patience (FRA) 7-6 (8), 6-3; Lleyton Hewitt (AUS x11) bt Xavier Malisse (BEL) 6-3, 6-2; Ernests Gulbis (LAT) bt Andreas Seppi (ITA x12) 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-3; Rafael Nadal (ESP x1) bt Jonas Bjorkman (SWE) 6-2, 6-2; Mardy Fish (USA x15) bt Chris Guccione (AUS) 4-6, 7-6 (0), 6-4; Novak Djokovic (SRB x2) bt Roko Karanusic (CRO) 6-2, 7-6 (7); Fernando Gonzalez (CHI x10) bt Marat Safin (RUS) 6-3, 7-6 (3); Janko Tipsarevic (SRB x13) bt Ivo Minar (CZE) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Nicolas Mahut (FRA) bt John Isner (USA) 7-5, 6-4; David Nalbandian (ARG x4) bt Viktor Troicki (SRB) 6-4, 7-6 (4).
Barcelona WTA
BARCELONA: Results in the 92,200-euro ($142,000) Barcelona WTA clay-court tournament on Wednesday:
2nd rd
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP) bt Pauline Parmentier (FRA x5) 6-2, 6-4; Sara Errani (ITA x6) bt Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 6-4, 7-5; Nuria Llagostera Vives (ESP) bt Eloisa Compostizo de Andres (ESP) 6-3, 6-0; Stephanie Cohen-Aloro (FRA) bt Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 7-6 (3), 6-0.
Birmingham WTA
BIRMINGHAM, England: Results in the WTA event on Wednesday:
2nd rd
Petra Cetkovska (CZE) bt Marion Bartoli (FRA x1) 5-7, 6-4, 6-0; Nicole Vaidisova (CZE x3) bt Nathalie Dechy (FRA) 6-1, 6-3; Alona Bondarenko (UKR x5) bt Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP) 7-6 (4), 3-6, 7-5; Marina Erakovic (NZL) bt Sania Mirza (IND x6) 6-3, 6-0; Melinda Czink (HUN) bt Olga Govortsova (BLR x7) 6-3, 7-6 (6); Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) bt Casey Dellacqua (AUS) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) bt Samantha Stosur (AUS) 6-3, 6-2; Aiko Nakamura (JPN) bt Sorana Cirstea (ROM) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; Camille Pin (FRA) bt Marta Domachowska (POL) 6-4, 6-2; Yaroslava Shvedova (RUS) bt Katie O'Brien (GBR) 7-5, 1-6, 7-5; Sunitha Rao (IND) bt Naomi Cavaday (GBR) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Polish ATP
WARSAW: Results in the 425,250-euro Warsaw ATP tournament on Wednesday:
2nd rd
Nikolai Davydenko (RUS x1) bt Jiri Vanek (CZE) 4-6, 7-5, 6-1; Juan Monaco (ARG x3) bt Florent Serra (FRA) 7-5, 6-3; Evgeny Korolev (RUS) bt Potito Starace (ITA x6) 7-5, 4-0 retired; Marcel Granollers (ESP x7) bt Marcos Daniel (BRA) 6-2, 6-4.
Halle ATP
BERLIN: Results in the ATP grass-court tournament at Halle, Germany, on Wednesday:
1st rd
Roger Federer (SUI x1) bt Michael Berrer (GER) 6-4, 6-2
2nd rd
Robin Soderling (SWE) bt Tomas Berdych (CZE x3) 6-2, 7-5; Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) bt Tommy Haas (GER) 7-5, 5-7, 7-6 (5); Andreas Beck (GER) bt Mischa Zverev (GER) 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 6-1; James Blake (USA x2) bt Benjamin Becker (GER) 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.
(China Daily 06/13/2008 page23)
