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(China Daily)
Updated: 2010-10-29 08:09
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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.

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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]