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China Daily | Updated: 2010-10-07 08:29

Soccer

AFC Champions League

AFC Champions League semifinal, first leg result on Tuesday:

Al Shabab (KSA) 4 (Olivera 15, 83, Al Shamrani 57, Bin Sultan 89) Seongnam Ilhwa (KOR) 3 (Molina 4, 69, Jo 26)

Playing Wednesday:

Zobahan (IRI) v Al Hilal (KSA)

Golf

World golf rankings

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

1. (1) Tiger Woods 8.86 average points

2. (3) Lee Westwood (Britain) 8.55

3. (2) Phil Mickelson 8.43

4. (4) Steve Stricker 7.70

5. (5) Jim Furyk 7.49

6. (6) Martin Kaymer (Germany) 7.15

7. (7) Paul Casey (Britain) 6.28

8. (8) Luke Donald (Britain) 5.84

9. (9) Rory McIlroy (Britain) 5.68

10. (10) Ernie Els (South Africa) 5.49

11. (11) Matt Kuchar 5.30

12. (12) Dustin Johnson 5.02

13. (13) Graeme McDowell (Britain) 4.88

14. (15) Edoardo Molinari (Italy) 4.78

15. (16) Ian Poulter (Britain) 4.74

16. (14) Hunter Mahan 4.70

17. (17) Retief Goosen (South Africa) 4.61

18. (18) Anthony Kim 4.20

19. (20) Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa) 4.13

20. (19) Zach Johnson 4.11

Tennis

WTA world rankings

WTA Tour rankings on Monday (last week's rankings in brackets):

1. (1) Serena Williams (US) 6995 points

2. (2) Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 6685

3. (3) Venus Williams (US) 5795

4. (4) Vera Zvonareva (Russia) 5715

5. (5) Kim Clijsters (Belgium) 5325

6. (8) Francesca Schiavone (Italy) 5005

7. (6) Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) 4780

8. (7) Samantha Stosur (Australia) 4772

9. (10) Elena Dementieva (Russia) 4445

10. (11) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 3910

11. (9) Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 3870

12. (13) Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) 3585

13. (16) Justine Henin (Belgium) 3415

14. (14) Marion Bartoli (France) 3380

15. (12) Li Na (China) 3230

16. (18) Aravane Rezai (France) 3100

17. (17) Nadia Petrova (Russia) 3071

18. (19) Shahar Peer (Israel) 2985

19. (20) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) 2765

20. (21) Yanina Wickmayer (Belgium) 2690

ATP world rankings

ATP World Tour rankings on Monday (last week's rankings in brackets):

1. (1) Rafa Nadal (Spain) 12070 points

2. (2) Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 7145

3. (3) Roger Federer (Switzerland) 6735

4. (4) Andy Murray (Britain) 5035

5. (5) Robin Soderling (Sweden) 4910

6. (6) Nikolay Davydenko (Russia) 3945

7. (7) Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) 3760

8. (9) Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) 3500

9. (8) Fernando Verdasco (Spain) 3330

10. (10) Andy Roddick (US) 3180

11. (11) David Ferrer (Spain) 3135

12. (12) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) 2850

13. (13) Jurgen Melzer (Austria) 2560

14. (14) Marin Cilic (Croatia) 2540

15. (15) Gael Monfils (France) 2160

16. (16) Nicolas Almagro (Spain) 2150

17. (17) Ivan Ljubicic (Croatia) 2120

18. (18) Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) 2030

19. (19) Mardy Fish (US) 1946

20. (20) Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) 1855

Tennis

Japan Open

Wednesday's results (x denotes seeds):

Singles 2nd rd

Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt Marco Chiudinelli (SUI) 5-7, 7-6 (7), 4-1, retired; Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) bt Feliciano Lopez (ESP x6) 7-6 (5), 6-4; Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA) 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-4; Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) bt Daniel Gimeno-Traver (ESP) 6-3, 7-6 (8).

(China Daily 10/07/2010 page11)