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Baseball
NEW YORK: Major League Baseball results on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):
TEXAS 14 Oakland 4
Tampa Bay 11 BALTIMORE 6
BOSTON 5 Cleveland 4
Kansas City 10 DETROIT 4
Atlanta 10 PHILADELPHIA 4
NY Yankees 6 TORONTO 2 (10 innings)
Florida 9 WASHINGTON 4
MILWAUKEE 4 Pittsburgh 2
MINNESOTA 3 Chicago White Sox 2
ST. LOUIS 4 Arizona 2
Chicago Cubs 9 NY METS 6 (10 innings)
HOUSTON 5 Cincinnati 0
LA DODGERS 12 San Diego 4
LA Angels 6 SEATTLE 5
Colorado 15 SAN FRANCISCO 6
SOCCER
English League Cup
LONDON: English League Cup results on Wednesday:
Second round
Brighton 2 (Murray 89, Anyinsah 95) Manchester City 2 (Fernandes 63, Ireland 108) -- after extra time
Brighton win 5-3 on penalties
Third round
Aston Villa 0 QPR 1 (Stewart 58)
Blackburn 1 (Olsson 10) Everton 0
Ipswich 1 (Walters 61) Wigan 4 (Cattermole 52, Kapo 64, Scharner 70, Camara 90)
Newcastle 1 (Owen 90) Tottenham 2 (Pavlyuchenko 62, O'Hara 66)
Portsmouth 0 Chelsea 4 (Lampard 36-pen, 49, Malouda 45, Kalou 64)
Dutch Cup
AMSTERDAM: Dutch Cup second round results on Wednesday (Top division unless stated, numeral denotes division, * denotes after extra time)
Feyenoord 3 TOP Oss (II) 0*
Ajax (Ama.) (III) 0 Vitesse Arnhem 2
Capelle (III) 2 Roda JC Kerkrade 4
De Treffers (III) 3 Graafschap Doetinchem 4*
GVVV (III) 1 NAC Breda 3
HSC'21 Carparc (III) 1 Sparta Rotterdam 2
Kozakken Boys (III) 1 WKE (III) 2*
MVV Maastricht (II) 0 Heerenveen 3
Quick Boys 2 0 FC Eindhoven (II) 3
Spakenburg (III) 0 Telstar (II) 1
Sparta Nijkerk (III) 1 FC Lienden (III) 2*
VVV-Venlo (II) 2 FC Volendam 3*
FC Emmen (II) 0 Twente Enschede 5
De Bataven (III) 0 Excelsior (II) 1
French League Cup
PARIS: French League Cup round of 32 collated results on Wednesday:
Monaco 0 Paris Saint Germain 1
Montpellier 2 Lille 2 - aet
Montpellier win 4-2 on penalties
Metz 3 Troyes 1
Grenoble 2 Nancy 3 - aet
Guingamp 4 St-Etienne 1
Le Havre 3 Caen 1 - aet
Lorient 0 Lens 3
Rennes 2 Le Mans 2 - aet
Sochaux 1 Marseille 0
3rd rd
Vannes 3 Valenciennes 3 - aet
Vannes win 5-4 on penalties
Boulogne-sur-Mer 1 Nice 3
Bastia 0 Chateauroux 1
Creteil 1 Nantes 0
Auxerre 1 Toulouse 1 - aet
Auxerre win 6-5 on penalties
German Cup
BERLIN: Results of the German Cup second round ties on Wednesday:
Kickers Offenbach 0 Karlsruhe 2 (Iashvili 45, Porcello 58)
Oberneuland 0 VfL Wolfsburg 7 (Dzeko 15, 20, 57, 75, Schaefer 26, Dejagah 67, Caiuby 89)
SV Wehen Wiesbaden 1 (Koenig 72) Alemannia Aachen 0
Borussia Dortmund 2 (Frei 7-pen, Klimowicz 104) Hertha Berlin 1 (Pantelic 22) - aet
Hamburg 2 (Petric 9, 90) VfL Bochum 0
Carl Zeis Jena 1 (N Petersen 25) FSV Frankfurt 0
VfB Stuttgart 2 (Cacau 17, Marica 65) Arminia Bielfeld 0
SC Freiburg 3 (Schwaab 68-pen, Tuerker 84, Idrissou 89-pen) Hoffenheim 1 (Salihovic 36-pen)
Bayern Munich 2 (Klose 7, Borowski 69) Nuremberg 0
Italian Serie A
ROME: Italian Serie A results on Wednesday:
Atalanta 1 (Floccari 79) Cagliari 0
Bologna 0 Udinese 3 (D'Agostino 13-pen, Floro Flores 20, Pepe 73)
Chievo 1 (Marcolini 50) Torino 1 (Bianchi 40-pen)
Genoa 3 (Sculli 4, Milito 61, 88) AS Roma 1 (De Rossi 28)
Inter Milan 1 (Cruz 79) Lecce 0
Juventus 1 (Amauri 16) Catania 1 (Plasmati 68)
Lazio 3 (Mauri 51, Pandev 55, Siviglia 59) Fiorentina 0
Napoli 2 (Hamsik 14, Zalayeta 75) Palermo 1 (Miccoli 83-pen)
Reggina 1 (Corradi 59) AC Milan 2 (Borriello 24, Pato 73)
Siena 0 Sampdoria 0
Scottish League Cup
GLASGOW: Scottish League Cup third-round results on Wednesday:
Kilmarnock 4 (Sammon 2, 33, Fernandez 12, Taouil 17-pen) Aberdeen 2 (McDonald 6, Miller 26-pen)
Motherwell 1 (Murphy 66) Hamilton 2 (Graham 53, Ettien 95) -- after extra time
Partick 1 (McKeown 36) Rangers 2 (Boyd 25, Mendes 116) -- after extra time
Spanish league
MADRID: Spanish league results on Wednesday:
Barcelona 3 (Eto'o 17, 22, Gudjohnsen 80) Real Betis 2 (Monzon 59, Jose Mari 67)
Villarreal 2 (Capdevila 28, Llorente 32) Racing Santander 0
Osasuna 0 Deportivo La Coruna 0
Getafe 1 (Albin 75) Atletico de Madrid 2 (Pongolle 29, Cortes 82-og)
Real Madrid 7 (Van der Vaart 18, 33, 47, Higuain 36, Robben 51, Raul 58, 64) Sporting Gijon 1 (Mateo 53)
Sevilla 2 (Maresca 56, Chevanton 85) Espanyol 0
Tennis
China Open
BEIJING: Results from the ATP/WTA China Open on Wednesday (x denotes seeding):
Men's 1st round
Dudi Sela (ISR) bt Nicolas Devilder (FRA) 6-4, 6-3; Ivo Minar (CZE) bt Lee Hyung-Taik (KOR) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2; Jean-Claude Scherrer (SUI) bt Sun Peng (CHN) 6-4, 7-6 (9-7); Sam Querrey (USA x8) bt Jesse Levine (USA) 1-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7-4); Brendan Evans (USA) bt Roko Karanusic (CRO) 7-6 (7-5), 1-6, 7-6 (12-10)l Go Soeda (JPN) bt Bai Yan (CHN) 6-4, 7-5; Fernando Verdasco (ESP x5) bt Bobby Reynolds (USA) 6-3, 6-3.
Women's 1st round
Zheng Jie (CHN) bt Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) 6-2, 6-3.
2nd round
Daniela Hantuchova (SVK x7) bt Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) 6-1, 0-6, 7-5; Jelena Jankovic (SRB x1) bt Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) 6-3, 7-5.
Yesterday's matches
Men's 2nd round
Dudi Sela (ISR) bt David Ferrer (ESP x1) 6-3, 6-3; Andy Roddick (USA x2) bt Brendan Evans (USA) 6-4, 6-3; Tommy Robredo (ESP x6) bt Ivo Minar (CZE) 6-2, 6-3; Rainer Schuettler (GER x7) bt Jean-Claude Scherrer (SUI) 6-1, 6-4; Bjorn Phau (GER) bt Sam Querrey (USA x8) 5-7, 6-3, 6-4; Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) bt Fernando Verdasco (ESP x5) 7-5, 6-4
Women's 2nd round
Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x4) bt Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 6-2, 6-3; Zheng Jie (CHN) by Ai Sugiyama (JPN) 6-1, 6-2; Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) bt Anna Chakvetadze (RUS x8) 6-3, 6-2; Vera Zvonareva (RUS x5) bt Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 7-6 (7/5), 6-2; Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) bt Agnes Szavay (HUN) 6-2, 6-2; Ana Ivanovic (SRB x2) bt Alize Cornet (FRA) 6-1, 7-6 (7/1)
Thailand Open
BANGKOK: Results from the second day of the Thailand Open on Wednesday:
First round
Viktor Troicki (SRB) bt Fabrice Santoro (FRA) 7-6 (7/4), 6-2; Simone Bolelli (ITA) bt Tomaz Bellucci (BRA) 6-3, 6-3; Jarkko Nieminen (FIN x5) bt Marko Djokovic (SRB) 6-2, 6-0; Mischa Zverev (GER) bt Robert Smeets (AUS) 6-4, 6-4; Jurgen Melzer (AUT x8) bt Donald Young (USA) 6-3, 6-3
Second round
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x2) bt Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) 7-6 (11/9), 3-6, 7-6 (7/1); Gael Monfils (FRA x4) bt Robert Kendrick (USA) 6-4, 7-6 (7/4).
Korea Open
SEOUL: Results from the WTA Korea Open on Wednesday: 2nd rd: Shahar Peer (ISR x2) bt Ayumi Morita (JPN) 6-4, 7-5; Jill Craybas (USA) bt Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB) 7-6 (7/1), 6-2; Samantha Stosur (AUS) bt Sabine Lisicki (GER) 6-4, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3; Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) bt Klara Zakopalova (CZE) 6-3, 6-2.
(China Daily 09/26/2008 page23)
