CHINA DAILY SPORTS MONDAY APRIL 2, 200711 Lucky pants help Dott to title SCOREBOARD CRICKET Calgary 3 VANCOUVER 2 Scot claims Open crown World Cup NBA BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Results and table in the Super NEWYORK: Results from Saturday’s games (home team after 9-5 victory over Eights of the 2007 World Cup on Saturday: in CAPS) At St John’s, Antigua Cleveland 112 CHICAGO 108 (OT) By Zhao Rui Australia bt Bangladesh by 10 wkts (D/L) is a signifi cantly better player NEW JERSEY 86 Philadelphia 82 Super Eights standings (played, won, lost, tied, no-result, N.O./ OKLAHOMA CITY 103 NY Knicks 94 (OT) now than he was a few years run-rate, points): LA Clippers 99 PORTLAND 86 ago. Australia 3 3 0 0 0 +2.01 6.0 In his fi rst match in China he In 2004, he got so sick of his New Zealand 2 2 0 0 0 +0.98 4.0 SOCCER forgot to put on his underpants poor form that he tried to smash Sri Lanka 2 1 1 0 0 +1.97 2.0 English Premiership and crashed to defeat, but last his cue at a motorway service 2 1 1 0 0 +0.05 2.0 LONDON: English Premiership results on Saturday: night banished his station – and it took him three South Africa 2 1 1 0 0 -0.71 2.0 Liverpool 4 (Crouch 4, 35, 81, Agger 60) Arsenal 1 (Gal- West Indies 3 1 2 0 0 -0.78 2.0 las 73) demons with a performance attempts to snap it. Ireland 2 0 2 0 0 -1.02 0.0 right out of the top drawer. “I am obviously a much better Bolton 1 (Davies 80) Sheffi eld United 0 Bangladesh 2 0 2 0 0 -3.78 0.0 Charlton 1 (Bent 86-pen) Wigan Athletic 0 The 29-year-old Scot beat player than I used to be, I had Note: - Teams who defeated fellow qualifi ers in the fi rst Newcastle 0 Manchester City 1 (Mpenza 80) Jamie Cope 9-5 in the China a lot of lows in my career and I round carry forward the two points from that match as Fulham 1 (Pearce 90+2) Portsmouth 1 (Kranjcar 4) Open fi nal at Beijing Univer- also had some moments when well as the run-rate. West Ham 2 (Zamora 2, Tevez 45) Middlesbrough 0 sity Students Gymnasium and I want to get rid of ,” - Teams who played each other in fi rst round do not meet Manchester United 4 (Scholes 61, Carrick 73, Park Ji- moved ahead of in said Dott. “But I’ve changed my in the Super Eights sung 83, Solskjaer 90) Blackburn 1 (Derbyshire 29) the race to be crowned world form. I come into all the events - Top four qualify for the semi-fi nals Watford 0 Chelsea 1 (Kalou 90) number one. willing to win and I’ve got a lot GOLF French League Cup The title triumph was a far of patience and luck.” Kraft Nabisco Championship PARIS:Result of the French League Cup fi nal on Saturday: cry from his performance fi ve Cope, appearing in only his RANCHO MIRAGE, California: Leading third-round Bordeaux 1 (Henrique 90) Lyon 0 years ago at the Shanghai second ranking-event final, scores on Saturday from the two million-dollar Kraft French league Invitational, when struggling was forced to settle for second Nabisco Championship, fi rst women’s golf major of 2007 PARIS: French league result on Saturday: with jetlag he overslept and due to an excessive number of (USA unless noted): Lorient 2 (Saifi 60, Le Pen 74) Marseille 1 (Cisse 80-pen) was forced to rush to the arena errors. But the highest-break 212 - Se Ri Pak (KOR) 72-70-70, (NOR) German league 72-69-71 BERLIN: German football league results on Saturday: far from fully-dressed. award for his 145 against 213 - 73-67-73, Meaghan Francella 72-72-69 “I had my pants tonight so former world champion Shaun Borussia M’gladbach 1 (Insua 89) Eintracht Frankfurt 1 214 - Brittany Lincicome 72-71-71 (Kyrgiakos 11) I won the tournament here,” Murphy on Friday gave him 215 - Shi Hyun Ahn (KOR) 68-73-74, (SWE) VfB Stuttgart 3 (Streller 29, Lauth 75, Cacau 84) Aleman- joked Dott, who then looked some consolidation. 70-73-72, (GBR) 70-73-72 nia Aachen 1 (Sichone 59) 216 - Sarah Lee (KOR) 72-74-70, down to check the state of his “I think I played OK,” said Bayern Munich 2 (Makaay 3, Salihamidzic 78) Schalke 04 0 76-70-70, 74-72-70 attire at the post-match press Cope. “I am really pleased to Nuremberg 2 (Galasek 5, Engelhardt 60) Hertha Berlin 1 217 - 71-73-73, (MEX) 69-71-77 conference. “You want to know get my fi rst ranking fi nal in (Gimenez 69) the color? It’s...black, I think it’s China but unfortunately I had 218 - Jee Young Lee (KOR) 70-77-71, Ai Miyazato (JPN) 76-73-69 Mainz 05 1 (Zidan 75) Bayer Leverkusen 3 (Barbarez 41, my lucky color.” too many mistakes.” 219 - Brittany Lang 71-73-75, Ji-Yai Shin (KOR) 76-72-71, 44, Schneider 52) The victory comes at the per- Dott pocketed breaks of 72, 71-78-70 Energie Cottbus 0 Werder Bremen 0 fect time for Dott as he prepares 60, 70 and 95 to earn himself a Portugal Open Italian Serie A the defence of his 888.com healthy four-frame advantage ESTORIL, Portugal: Leading scores after the third round ROME: Italian league results on Saturday: World Snooker Championship ahead of the fi nal session, with of the Portugal Open here on Friday (GBR and IRL unless Reggina 0 Siena 1 (Bertotto 45) title, which begins on April 21. Cope on target with runs of 65 stated. Par 71, (x) denotes amateur): Roma 1 (Mexes 4) AC Milan 1 (Gilardino 62) He will also take a handy and 97. 207 - Alex Noren (SWE) 71 68 68 Scottish Premier League lead of 1975 points over Ken Cope started the evening ses- 208 - Ross McGowan 68 68 72 : Scottish Premier League results on Saturday: Doherty to Sheffield as he sion in solid fashion, his breaks 209 - Pablo Martin (ESP x) 73 70 66, Graeme Storm 72 67 70 Dundee Utd 1 (Daly 90) Celtic 1 (Nakamura 48) aims to take the offi cial world of 90 and 77 winning the open- 210 - Taichi Teshima (JPN) 71 69 70 Falkirk 2 (Moutinho 20, O’Donnell 40) St Mirren 0 No 1 ranking for the fi rst time ing two frames, before he won 211 - Jamie Spence 72 73 66, Andrew Oldcorn 76 69 66, Kilmarnock 1 (Naismith 86-pen) Aberdeen 2 (Fowler Paul Lawrie 72 72 67, Alastair Forsyth 73 69 69, Michael 59-og, Anderson 69) in his career. the 11th frame on points 71-57 Jonzon (SWE) 71 71 69, Raphael Jacquelin (FRA) 70 69 72 Motherwell 2 (McDonald 51-pen, 62) Dunfermline 0 Dott led 6-2 in the best-of-17 to be one frame adrift. 212 - Soren Hansen (DEN) 73 72 67, Charl Schwartzel Rangers 1 (Adam 15) Inverness CT 1 (Dargo 82) However, Dott raised his clash after the afternoon ses- (RSA) 74 71 67, Sven Struver (GER) 70 70 72, Stephen Spanish football league sion, but when Cope won three game, won a crucial 12th Gallacher 68 71 73 MADRID: Collated Spanish football results on Saturday: frames in a row it appeared frame with a superb 124 break 213 - David Griffi ths 76 69 68, Tom Whitehouse 74 71 68, Real Betis 3 (Fernando 9, Edu 71, Juanito 90) Villarreal 3 Pelle Edberg (SWE) 71 71 71, Euan Little 72 69 72, Luis the Scot was going to throw and then made it back-to-back (Forlan 1, 46, Pires 77) Claverie (ESP) 72 68 73, Nick Dougherty 69 69 75 the victory away. However he centuries with a cool 126 clear- Real Sociedad 1 (Antsoegui 37) Levante 0 found his range again, and ance to edge within one frame NHL Valencia 3 (Villa 12, Vicente 25, Angulo 59) Espanyol 2 claimed his second ranking- of his second title. NEWYORK: Results from Saturday’s NHL games (home (Riera 14, Luis Garcia 63) event title. And that title came when he team in CAPS) Barcelona 2 (Messi 45, Eto’o 51) Deportivo La Coruna 1 “The title came in time,” pinched a scrappy 14th and de- Atlanta 3 BOSTON 2 (Adrian 69) he said. “It brought me great ciding frame on points 71-40. COLORADO 2 Minnesota 1 NY Rangers 6 PHILADELPHIA 4 TENNIS confi dence to play at the World It was the fi rst tournament Ottawa 5 NY ISLANDERS 2 ATP/WTA Miami Championships, it’s a good of a new fi ve-year deal between MONTREAL 4 Buffalo 3 MIAMI: Results here Saturday from the 10th day of the timing.” World Snooker and the Chinese TORONTO 5 Pittsburgh 4 (OT) 6.9 million-dollar WTA and ATP Series hard- Dott, who failed to win a ti- Billiards and Snooker Associa- ’s Graeme Dott lifts the champion’s plate after defeat- TAMPA BAY 5 Washington 2 court tournament (x denotes seed): tle in the fi rst eight years of his tion and its promoter Interna- ing England’s Jamie Cope 9-5 in the fi nal yesterday Anaheim 3 ST LOUIS 2 (OT) Women’s Final: Serena Williams (USA x13) bt Justine professional career, believes he tional Sports Limited. in Beijing. Yang Shizhong Dallas 4 NASHVILLE 2 Henin (BEL x2) 0-6, 7-5, 6-3.