Thursday June 21, 2012
Results worldwide
BASKETBALL
NBA Finals
Game Four: Miami 104 Oklahoma City 98 (Miami leads best-of-seven series 3-1)
TENNIS
Eastbourne Open
Men
First round: Steve Darcis (Bel) bt Matthew Ebden (Aus) 6-2, 6-4; Denis Istomin (Uzb) bt Michael Llodra (Fra) 6-4, 6-3; Lu Yen-Hsun (Tpe) bt Julien Benneteau (Fra) 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (7/4); Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger) bt Go Soeda (Jpn) 6-4, 7-5; Andy Roddick (US) bt Sam Querrey (US) 5-2 (ret).
Second round: Marinko Matosevic (Aus) bt Richard Gasquet (Fra) 1-6, 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/3).
Women
First round: Ekaterina Makarova (Rus) bt Petra Kvitova (Cze) 7-5, 6-4; Klara Zakopalova (Cze) bt Zheng Jie (Chn) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Rus) bt Su-Wei Hsieh (Tpe) 6-2, 3-0 (ret); Angelique Kerber (Ger) bt Elena Vesnina (Rus) 3-6, 6-0, 7-5; Tsvetana Pironkova (Bul) bt Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) 6-2, 6-4; Marion Bartoli (Fra) bt Sorona Cirstea (Rom) 6-2, 6-2; Laura Robson (Gbr) bt Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (Spa) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; Christina Mchale (US) bt Caroline Wozniacki (Den) 6-1, 6-7 (7/9), 6-4; Heather Watson (Gbr) bt Greta Arn (Ger) 6-3, 6-4; Lucie Safarova (Cze) bt Tmea Babos (Hun) 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8/6); Petra Cetkovska (Cze) bt Andrea Hlavackova (Cze) 3-6, 6-2, 6-1; Heather Watson (Gbr) bt Greta Arn (Hun) 6-3, 6-4; Stephanie Dubois (Can) bt Carla Suarez Navarro (Spa) 6-4, 6-4.
S-Hertogenbosch Open
Men
First round: David Ferrer (Spa) bt Pierre-Ludovic Duclos (Can) 6-4, 6-4; Lukasz Kubot (Pol) bt Dudi Sela (Isr) 6-1, 6-2; Edouard RoGer-Vasselin (Fra) bt Alex Bogomolov Jr. (Rus) 6-4, 6-4; Flavio CiPolla (Ita) bt Potito Starace (Ita) 4-2 (ret); Xavier Malisse (Bel) bt Viktor Troicki (Srb) 7-6 (7/4), 6-2.
Women
First round: Daria Gavrilova (Rus) bt Yanina Wickmayer (Bel) 6-1, 6-2; Sofia Arvidsson (Swe) bt Jelena Jankovic (Srb) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4.
Second round: Dominika Cibulkova (Svk) bt Shahar Peer (Isr) 6-2, 7-6 (7/5); Nadia Petrova (Rus) bt AnaBel Medina Garrigues (Spa) 7-5, 6-3; Urszula Radwanska (Pol) bt Flavia Pennetta (Ita) 6-1, 6-1; Kim Clijsters (Bel) bt Kateryna Bondarenko (Ukr) 6-2, 6-1.
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