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NEW YORK: Thursday's Major League Baseball playoff results: (home team in CAPS)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R

LA Dodgers 0 5 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 10

CHICAGO CUBS 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 3

(LA Dodgers leads best-of-five series 2-0)

PHILADELPHIA 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 x 5

Milwaukee 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2

(Philadelphia leads best-of-five series 2-0)

TAMPA BAY 0 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 x 6

Chicago White Sox 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 4

(Tampa Bay leads best-of-five series 1-0)

SOCCER

UEFA Cup

PARIS: UEFA Cup first round second leg results on Thursday (* denotes after extra time)

Valencia (Spain) 2 Maritimo (Portugal) 1

Valencia win 3-1 on aggregate.

Deportivo Coruna (Spain) 2 Brann Bergen (Norway) 0

Deportivo Coruna win 3-2 on penalties after 2-2 on aggregate.

Udinese (Italy) 0 Borussia Dortmund (Germany) 2

Udinese win 4-3 on penalties after 2-2 on aggregate.

Benfica (Portugal) 2 Napoli (Italy) 0

Benfica win 4-3 on aggregate.

Aston Villa (England) 1 Litex Lovech (Bulgaria) 1

Aston Villa win 4-2 on aggregate.

Paris St Germain (France) 0 Kayserispor (Turkey) 0

Paris St Germain win 2-1 on aggregate.

Club Bruges (Belgium) 2 Young Boys (Switzerland) 0

Club Bruges win 4-2 on aggregate.

FC Copenhagen (Denmark) 1 FK Moscow (Russia) 1

FC Copenhagen win 3-2 on aggregate.

Manchester City (England) 2 Omonia Nicosia (Cyprus) 1

Manchester City win 4-2 on aggregate.

Motherwell (Scotland) 0 AS Nancy (France) 2

AS Nancy win 3-0 on aggregate.

Olympiakos Piraeus (Greece) 5 Nordsjaelland (Denmark) 0

Olympiakos Piraeus win 7-0 on aggregate.

Ajax Amsterdam (Netherlands) 2 Borac Cacak (Serbia) 0

Ajax Amsterdam win 6-1 on aggregate.

Salzburg (Austria) 0 Sevilla (Spain) 2

Sevilla win 4-0 on aggregate.

Artmedia Petrzalka (Slovakia) 0 Braga (Portugal) 2

Braga win 6-0 on aggregate.

FC Zurich (Switzerland) 0 AC Milan (Italy) 1

AC Milan win 4-1 on aggregate.

Sparta Prague (Czech Republic) 3 Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) 3

Dinamo Zagreb win on away goals after 3-3 on aggregate.

Twente Enschede (Netherlands) 1 Stade Rennes (France) 0

Twente Enschede win on away goals after 2-2 on aggregate.

Heerenveen (Netherlands) 5 Vitoria Setubal (Portugal)2

Heerenveen win 6-3 on aggregate.

Standard Liege (Belgium) 2 Everton (England) 1

Standard Liege win 4-3 on aggregate.

Vaslui (Romania) 1 Slavia Prague (Czech Republic) 1

Slavia Prague win on away goals after 1-1 on aggregate.

Dinamo Bucharest (Romania) 0 NEC Nijmegen (Netherlands) 0

NEC Nijmegen win 1-0 on aggregate.

Galatasaray (Turkey) 2 AC Bellinzona (Switzerland)1

Galatasaray win 6-4 on aggregate.

Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine) 4 Besiktas (Turkey) 1

Metalist Kharkiv win 4-2 on aggregate.

Partizan Belgrade (Serbia) 1 FC Timisoara (Romania) 0

Partizan Belgrade win 3-1 on aggregate.

St Etienne (France) 2 Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israel) 1

St Etienne win 4-2 on aggregate.

Rosenborg Trondheim (Norway) 3 Brondby (Denmark) 2

Rosenborg Trondheim win 5-3 on aggregate.

Lech Poznan (Poland) 4 Austria Vienna (Austria) 2*

Lech Poznan win 5-4 on aggregate.

FC Honka (Finland) 0 Racing Santander (Spain) 1

Racing Santander win 2-0 on aggregate.

Kalmar (Sweden) 1 Feyenoord (Netherlands) 2

Feyenoord win on away goals after 2-2 on aggregate.

Levski Sofia (Bulgaria) 0 Zilina (Slovakia) 1

Zilina win 2-1 on aggregate.

Schalke 04 (Germany) 1 APOEL Nicosia (Cyprus) 1

Schalke 04 win 5-2 on aggregate.

VfB Stuttgart (Germany) 2 Cherno More Varna (Bulgaria) 2

VfB Stuttgart win 4-3 on aggregate.

FBK Kaunas (Lithuania) 1 Sampdoria (Italy) 2

Sampdoria win 7-1 on aggregate.

Spartak Moscow (Russia) 1 Banik Ostrava (Czech Republic) 1

Spartak Moscow win 2-1 on aggregate.

Unirea Urziceni (Romania) 0 Hamburg SV (Germany) 2

Hamburg SV win 2-0 on aggregate.

Rapid Bucharest (Romania) 1 VfL Wolfsburg (Germany) 1

VfL Wolfsburg win 2-1 on aggregate.

Wisla Krakow (Poland) 1 Tottenham Hotspur (England) 1

Tottenham Hotspur win 3-2 on aggregate.

Vitoria Guimaraes (Portugal) 2 Portsmouth (England) 2 (AET)

Portsmouth win 4-2 on aggregate.

Played on Tuesday

CSKA Moscow (Russia) 1 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica (Croatia) 0

CSKA Moscow win 3-1 on aggregate.

St. Patrick's Athletic (Ireland) 0 Hertha Berlin (Germany) 0

Hertha Berlin win 2-0 on aggregate.

TENNIS

Stuggart Grand prix

STUTTGART: Stuttgart Grand Prix women's singles second round results on Thursday:

Jelena Jankovic (SEB x2) bt Alona Bondarenko (UKR) 6-2, 6-0; Venus Williams (USA) bt Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) 6-4, 6-2; Dinara Safina (RUS x3) bt Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 6-1, 7-6(6); Nadia Petrova (RUS) bt Patty Schnyder (SUI) 6-4, 6-1; Vera Zvonareva (RUS x7) bt Marion Bartoli (FRA) 6-2, 6-0.

Metz Open

METZ: Metz Open men's singles second round results on Thursday (x denoting seeds):

Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA x4) bt Romain Jouan (FRA) 6-3, 6-3; Marc Gicquel (FRA) bt Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 6-3, 7-6(4); Radek Stepanek (CZE x7) bt Michael Llodra (FRA) 6-7(5), 6-1, 7-6(0); Adrian Mannarino (FRA) bt Rik De Voest (RSA) 6-4, 7-5; Eduardo Schwank (ARG) bt Victor Hanescu (ROM) 7-6(6), 6-7(5), 6-3.

Japan Open

TOKYO: Japan Open women's and men's singles quarterfinal results in Tokyo on Friday (x denoting seeds):

Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN x8) bt Samantha Stosur (AUS) 7-5, 6-3; Kaia Kanepi (EST x5) bt Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 7-6(4), 7-6(1); Jarmila Gajdosova (SVK) bt Klara Zakopalova (CZE) 7-5, 7-5; Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x1) bt Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA x7) 6-4, 6-1.

Men's singles quarterfinals

Tomas Berdych (CZE x9) bt Fernando Gonzalez (CHI x3) 6-0, 6-4; Andy Roddick (USA x2) bt Viktor Troicki (SEB) 6-3, 6-4; Richard Gasquet (FRA x4) bt Rainer Schuettler (GER x12) 6-3, 6-2; Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG x5) bt David Ferrer (ESP x1) 6-1, 7-5.

Tashkent Open

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan: Results on Friday from the Tashkent Open

Peng Shuai (CHN x1) bt Monica Niculescu (ROM x6) 6-7 (6), 6-2, 6-4; Sorana Cirstea (ROM x3) bt Michelle Larcher de Brito (POR) 6-2, 7-6 (5); Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK x5) bt Ioana Raluca Olaru (ROM) 6-1, 6-2; Sabina Lisicki (GER x4) bt Urszula Radwanska (POL) 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (4).

(China Daily 10/04/2008 page11)