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Friday October 9, 2009

Results worldwide

GOLF

Indian Open

Leading first round scores: 64: Adam Blyth (Aus); 65: Lee Sung (Kor); 66: C. Muniyappa (Ind), Jason King (Aus); 67: Unho Park (Aus), Daniel Chopra (Swe), Keith Horne (Rsa); 68: Digvijay Singh (Ind), Harinder Gupta (Ind), Arjun Singh (Ind), Kwanchai Tanin (Tha); 69: Raju Ali (Ind), Rahul Ganapathy (Ind), Arshdeep Tiwana (Ind), Pijit Petchkasem (Tha), Panuwat Muenlek (Tha), Antonio Lascuna (Phi), Marcus Both (Aus), Scott Hend (Aus), Darren Beck (Aus), James Kamte (Rsa).

SNOOKER

British Grand Prix

Second round: Mark Allen (NIrl) bt Jamie Cope (Eng) 5-3; John Higgins (Sco) bt Ronnie O’Sullivan (Eng) 5-4;

Neil Robertson (Aus) bt Ken Doherty (Irl) 5-2; Joe Perry (Eng) bt Barry Pinches (Eng) 5-2.

TENNIS

China Open

Men’s second round: Marat Safin (Rus) bt Fernando Gonzalez (Chi) 6-3, 6-4; Rafael Nadal (Spa) bt James Blake (USA) 7-5, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3; Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) bt Lukasz Kubot (Pol) 7-6 (8-6), 4-6, 6-4;

Novak Djokovic (Srb) bt Viktor Troicki (Srb) 6-3, 6-0; Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger) 6-1, 6-0; Fernando Verdasco (Spa) bt Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spa) 7-5, 6-4; Marin Cilic (Cro) bt Julien Benneteau (Fra) 6-2, 2-6, 6-0.

Women’s third round: Nadia Petrova (Rus) bt Serena Williams (USA) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5); Marion Bartoli (Fra) bt Zhang Shuai (Chn) 6-1, 6-4; Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) bt Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (Spa) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2

Japan Open

Second round: Ernests Gulbis (Lat) bt Juan Monaco (Arg) 6-3, 4-1 retired; Tomas Berdych (Cze) bt Andreas Beck (Ger) 6-4, 6-1; Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fra) bt Richard Gasquet (Fra) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) bt Fabrice Santoro (Fra) 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Edouard Roger-Vasselin (Fra) bt Jurgen Melzer (Aut) 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) bt Simon Greul (Ger) 6-3, 6-2; Gael Monfils (Fra) bt Marco Chiudinelli (Swi) 7-6 (7-5), 6-3.

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