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Basketball
NBA results on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):
CLEVELAND 95 Boston 87
NEW JERSEY 101 Detroit 98
Miami 97 PHILADELPHIA 87
NY Knicks 98 TORONTO 93
NEW ORLEANS 95 Milwaukee 91
Sacramento 117 MINNESOTA 116
OKLAHOMA CITY 106 Chicago 95
Atlanta 119 MEMPHIS 104
DALLAS 101 Charlotte 86
DENVER 110 Utah 88
SAN ANTONIO 122 Indiana 109
GOLDEN STATE 132 Houston 128
Portland 98 LA CLIPPERS 88
Ice Hockey
NHL results on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):
Atlanta 6 NY RANGERS 4
Washington 3 CAROLINA 0
MONTREAL 5 NY Islanders 3
TAMPA BAY 5 Pittsburgh 3
CHICAGO 3 Los Angeles 1
SAN JOSE 5 New Jersey 2
Soccer
Dutch league
Wednesday's results:
Ajax 3 SC Heerenveen 1
FC Groningen 3 ADO Den Haag 1
De Graafschap 2 AZ Alkmaar 1
Willem II 1 FC Twente 3
Feyenoord 3 VVV-Venlo 0
Vitesse Arnhem 0 PSV Eindhoven 2
FC Utrecht 1 Excelsior 0
English League Cup
Results from English League Cup fourth round matches on Wednesday:
Aston Villa 2 (Heskey 86, Downing 96) Burnley 1 (Carlisle 89) after extra time
Newcastle 0 Arsenal 4 (Krul 45-og, Walcott 53, 88, Bendtner 83)
West Ham 3 (Parker 84, Da Costa 96, Obinna 118) Stoke 1 (Jones 6) aet
French League Cup
French League Cup round of Last 16 results on Wednesday:
Guingamp 0 Marseille 1 (Ayew 43)
Lille 4 (Cabaye 8, 44-pen, Gervinho 52, Hazard 74) Caen 1 (Yatabare 13)
Auxerre 4 (Quercia 9, Sammaritano 25, 79, Hengbart 68) Bastia 0
Lyon 1 (Briand 39) Paris SG 2 (Bodmer 86, Giuly 101) after extra time
German Cup
German Cup second round matches on Wednesday:
Aachen 2 Mainz 1
Hoffenheim 1 Ingolstadt 0
Hallescher 0 Duisburg 3
Eintracht Frankfurt 5 Hamburg 2
Borussia Monchengladbach 1 Bayer Leverkusen 1 after extra time
Moenchegladbach won 5-4 on penalties
Offenbach 0 Borussia Dortmund 0 aet
Offenbach won 4-2 on penalties
Elversberg 0 Nuremberg 3
Chemnitz 1 VfB Stuttgart 3 - aet
Italian Cup
Italian Cup third round results on Wednesday (numerals denote division, Serie A unless stated).
Cesena 1 Novara (II) 3 aet
Brescia 1 Cittadella (II) 0
Cagliari 3 Piacenza (II) 0
Bologna 3 Modena (II) 2
Crotone (II) 0 Albinoleffe (II) 1
Lecce 3 Siena (II) 2
Catania 4 Varese (II) 3 aet
Lazio 3 Portogruaro (II) 0
Atalanta Bergamo (II) 0 Livorno (II) 1
Frosinone (II) 2 Reggina (II) 4 aet
Udinese 4 Padova (II) 0
Vicenza (II) 1 Ascoli (II) 0
King's Cup
King's Cup Last 32 first leg results on Wednesday:
Real Union 0 FC Sevilla 4
Logrones 0 Valencia 3
Xerez 2 Levante 3
Valladolid 0 Espanyol 2
Portugalete 1 Getafe 1
Hercules 0 Malaga 0
Cordoba 2 Racing Santander 0
Polideportivo Ejido 1 Villarreal 1
Real Mallorca 3 Sporting Gijon 1
Real Betis 0 Real Zaragoza 1
Universidad Las Palmas 0 Atletico Madrid 5
Tennis
WTA Championships
DOHA - Results of the WTA tennis championships on Wednesday:
Round robin stage
White group
Kim Clisters (BEL) bt Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 6-2, 6-3; Vera Zvonareva (RUS) bt Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 7-6 (4), 6-4.
Maroon group
Samantha Stosur (AUS) bt Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 6-4, 6-3.
French ATP
MONTPELLIER, France - Results of the ATP Montpellier Grand Prix on Wednesday (x denotes seeding):
1st rd
Gilles Simon (FRA) bt Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 6-4, 6-4; Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) bt Florent Serra (FRA) 6-7 (4), 7-5, 6-1.
2nd rd:
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x2) bt Frederico Gil (POR) 6-3, 6-4; Nikolay Davydenko (RUS x1) bt Mischa Zverev (GER) 7-5, 6-3; John Isner (USA x5) bt Adrian Mannarino (FRA) 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 6-3.
Austrian ATP
VIENNA - Results of the 650,000-euro Austria Tennis Trophy on Wednesday:
1st rd
Bjorn Phau (GER) bt Florian Mayer (GER) 6-2, 6-4
2nd rd
Marin Cilic (CRO x2) bt Jan Hajek (CZE) 7-6 (4), 6-2; Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER x7) bt Tobias Kamke (GER) 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; Jurgen Melzer (AUT x1) bt Lukasz Kubot (POL) 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2).
St. Petersburg Open ATP
SAINT PETERSBURG - Results of the ATP Saint Petersburg Open on Wednesday:
1st rd:
Mikhail Youzhny (RUS x1) bt Daniel Brands (GER) 6-4, 6-1; Lu Yen-Hsun (TPE x4) bt Potito Starace (ITA) 6-2, 6-2; Benjamin Becker (GER) bt Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR x2) 6-4, 5-7, 6-4; Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. (UKR) bt Fabio Fognini (ITA) 7-6 (5), 6-4; Rainer Schuettler (GER) bt Viktor Troicki (SRB x5) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.
2nd rd:
Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) bt Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) 6-3, 6-4; Janko Tipsarevic (SRB x3) bt Michael Russell (USA) 6-2, 7-5.
China Daily
Women's freestyle aerial skier Li Nina, who won siver medals at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games, rides a cycle during a promotion of the National Fitness Program in Ninghai, Zhejiang province, on Thursday. The activity is also part of the National Sports Forum. The forum will be held in Ninghai every year to promote sports in China. [Photo/ sports.sohu.com] |