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The Times of India, New Delhi TIMES SPORT Tuesday,January 7, 2003 17

SPORTING WORLD AT A GLANCE

INTERNATIONAL berto Martin (Spa) 6-3 6-2, Vincent Leading final round scores: 202 Hi- BASKETBALL Spadea (USA) beat Anthony Dupuis (Fra) royuki Fujita (Jpn) 67 68 67, 205 Yusaku National Basketball Association: San 6-3 6-4, Felix Mantilla (Spa) beat 5-Jose Miyazato (Jpn) 68 70 67, Ted Purdy Antonio 94 LA Clippers 86, New Orleans Acasuso (Arg) 6-3 7-5, Fernando Vicente (USA) 65 70 70, 208 Tomohiro Kondo 99 Toronto 84, Portland 92 New York 89, (Spa) beat Luis Horna (Per) 4-6 7-6 (7-5) (Jpn) 66 69 73, (Jpn) 68 Sacramento 96 Miami 70, LA Lakers 109 6-2, Kenneth Carlsen (Den) bt Andre Sa 67 73, 209 Taichi Teshima (Jpn) 69 71 Phoenix 97. (Bra) 6-7 (7-9) 7-5 6-4. 69, James Oh (Kor) 70 67 72, 210 FOOTBALL Sanex WTA Tour Adidas International, (Jpn) 68 68 74, 211 Hide- England’s FA Challenge Cup (third Sydney: 1st round: Elena Bovina (Rus) ki Kase (Jpn) 69 72 70,Akinori Tani (Jpn) round): Fulham 3 Birmingham 1, Man beat 5-Anastasia Myskina (Rus) 6-3 7-5, 72 68 71, Toru Suzuki (Jpn) 70 69 72, City 0 Liverpool 1, Wolverhampton 3 Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha) beat Klara (Jpn) 69 70 72, Unho Newcastle 2. Koukalova (Cze) 6-2 3-6 6-2, Olga Bara- Park (Aus) 69 67 75, Dinesh Chand (Fij) Spanish Primera Liga: Barcelona 3 banschikova (Blr) beat Conchita Martinez 70 66 75, Nozomi Kawahara (Jpn) 71 71 Recreativo Huelva 0, CD Alaves 2 Es- (Spa) 2-6 6-2 6-4, 8-Magdalena Malee- 69, 212 Kenichi Kuboya (Jpn) 70 70 72, panyol 1, Real Madrid 4 Valencia 1, Real va (Bul) beat Silvia Farina Elia (Ita) 3-6 7- Chawalit Plaphol (Tha) 71 70 71, Kat- Sociedad 2 Malaga 2, Sevilla 3 Mallorca 5 6-0. sumune Imai (Jpn) 71 69 72, Wook-soon 0, Villarreal 4 Atletico Madrid 3. Kang (Kor) 72 68 72, Taimur Hussain TENNIS (Pak) 71 69 72, ATP Tour Heineken Open, Auckland Asian PGA Tour, Okinawa Open, (Tha) 70 71 71, Katsuya Nakagawa (1st round): David Ferrer (Spa) beat Al- Southern Links Golf Club, Japan: (Jpn) 71 66 75. Harikrishna is joint second Hastings (England): Though he failed to defend his title, Grandmaster Pentyala Harikrishna had a positive start to the season finishing a creditable tied second in the Premier tour- nament of the Hastings In- ternational Chess Congress. Harikrishna trailed the winner GM Peter Heine Nielsen of Denmark by half a point after a victory against GM Glenn Flear of England in the ninth and final round. Nielsen stamped his au- thority on the category-12 tournament with an easy draw with GM Keith Arkell of England to emerge sole leader with 6 points. Arkell shared the second place with Harikishna on 5.5 points. Results (final round): Keith Arkell (Eng, 5.5) drew Peter Heine Nielsen (Den, 6); P Harikrishna (5.5) beat Glenn Flear (Eng, 4); Sergey Karjakin (Ukr, 5) drew Alexei Barsov (Uzb, 5); Krishnan Sasikiran (4.5) drew Vitaly Tseshkovsky (Rus, 2); Alexandra Kosteniuk (Rus, 3) beat Luke McShane (Eng, 4.5). Final Standings: 1. Nielsen 6; 2-3. Harikrishna, Arkell 5.5 each; 4-5. Barsov, Karjakin 5 each; 6-7. McShane, Sasikiran 4.5 each; 8. Flear 4; 9. Kosteniuk 3; 10. Tseshkovsky 2. PTI

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