Baseball

NEW YORK: Baseball results on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):

Seattle 4 TEXAS 3 (12 innings)

BALTIMORE 6 Boston 3

CLEVELAND 2 Oakland 0

Atlanta 8 PHILADELPHIA 6

NY Yankees 2 TAMPA BAY 1

Washington 5 NY METS 3

CINCINNATI 7 Florida 6 (10 innings)

CHICAGO CUBS 8 San Diego 5

LA Dodgers 6 MILWAUKEE 4

KANSAS CITY 2 Detroit 0

Toronto 6 MINNESOTA 5

ST. LOUIS 5 Pittsburgh 1

ARIZONA 4 Colorado 3

Chicago White Sox 6 LA ANGELS 1

Houston 6 SAN FRANCISCO 3

NBA

NEW YORK: NBA playoff second-round result on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):

LA LAKERS 111 Utah 104

(LA Lakers leads best-of-seven series 3-2)

BOSTON 96 Cleveland 89

(Boston leads best-of-seven series 3-2)

NHL

NEW YORK: NHL playoffs final result on Wednesday (home team in CAPS):

1 2 3 T

DALLAS 0 1 2 3

Detroit 0 0 1 1

(Detroit leads best-of-seven series 3-1)

SOCCER

UEFA Cup final

MANCHESTER, England: Result of UEFA Cup final played on Wednesday:

Rangers (SCO) 0 Zenit St Petersburg (RUS) 2 (Denisov 72, Zyrianov 90+4)

English Championship play-off

LONDON: English Championship semifinal second leg play-off result on Wednesday:

Hull 4 Watford 1

Hull win 6-1 on aggregate

Played Tuesday

Bristol City 2 Crystal Palace 1 (after extra time)

Bristol City win 4-2 on aggregate

Play-off final

May 24, Wembley:

Bristol City v Hull

Tennis

Hamburg ATP

HAMBURG, Germany: Results on the third day of the ATP tournament on Wednesday (x denotes seeding):

2nd rd

Roger Federer (SUI x1) bt Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) 6-1, 6-3; Rafael Nadal (ESP x2) bt Potito Starace (ITA) 6-4, 7-6 (8/6); Novak Djokovic (SRB x3) bt Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG) 6-3, 6-1; Robin Soderling (SWE) bt Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x14) 6-2, 7-5; Nicolas Kiefer (GER) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) 7-5, 7-5; Juan Monaco (ARG x12) bt Simone Bolelli (ITA) 6-2, 6-1; Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) bt James Blake (USA x7) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3; Albert Montanes (ESP) bt Jose Acasuso (ARG) 7-6 (7/3), 6-3; Ivo Karlovic (CRO x13) bt Tommy Robredo (ESP) 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7/3); Marat Safin (RUS) bt Thomas Berdych (CZE x9) 7-5, 6-4; Carlos Moya (ESP x11) bt Olivier Rochus (BEL) 7-5, 6-3; Andy Murray (GBR x15) bt Gilles Simon (FRA) 6-3, 6-3.

Rome WTA International

ROME: Results at the $1.34-million WTA Rome International on Wednesday:

1st rd

Maria Kirilenko (RUS) bt Nadia Petrova (RUS x18) 3-6, 7-5, 6-4; Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) bt Nicole Vaidisova (CZE x13) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2; Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) bt Tathiana Garbin (ITA) 7-5, 6-4; Flavia Pennetta (ITA) bt Olga Savchuk (UKR) 6-7 (9/11), 6-3, 6-1; Alize Cornet (FRA) bt Vera Dushevina (RUS) 6-1, 6-3; Patty Schnyder (SUI x9) bt Mariya Koryttseva (UKR) 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 .

2nd rd

Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x12) bt Roberta Vinci (ITA) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; Sara Errani (ITA) bt Agnes Szavay (HUN x11) 6-0, 6-3; Vera Zvonareva (RUS x10) bt Iveta Benesova (CZE) 7-5, 4-6, 7-5; Venus Williams (USA x7) bt Samantha Stosur (AUS) 6-4, 6-1; Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) bt Ana Ivanovic (SRB x1) 6-4, 5-7, 6-2; Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) bt Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 6-3, 6-4 ; Victoria Azarenka (BLR) bt Monica Niculescu (ROM) 6-3, 6-2; Serena Williams (USA x5) bt Alona Bondarenko (UKR) 6-2, 6-0; Maria Kirilenko (RUS) bt Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) 6-3, 5-7, 6-2; Patty Schnyder (SUI x9) bt Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP) 6-1, 6-0; Marion Bartoli (FRA x8) bt Virginie Razzano (FRA) 6-4, 7-5 ; Anna Chakvetadze (RUS x6) bt Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) 3-6, 7-6 (7/1), 6-0; Jelena Jankovic (SRB x4) bt Flavia Pennetta (ITA) 6-1, 6-4; Alize Cornet (FRA) bt Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 6-3, 6-2; Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x3) Olga Govorotsova (BLR) 6-2, 6-0; Maria Sharapova (RUS x2) Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4.

(China Daily 05/16/2008 page23)