Baseball

Result from the MLB Playoffs Wild-Card Playoffs match between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati on Tuesday (home team in CAPS):

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R

PITTSBURGH 0 2 1 2 0 0 1 0 x 6

Cincinnati 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2

Ice Hockey

Results from the NHL games on Tuesday (home team in CAPS):

Toronto 4 MONTREAL 3

CHICAGO 6 Washington 4

Soccer

UEFA Champions League

European Champions League results on Tuesday:

Group E

At Basel, Switzerland

Basel (SUI) 0 Schalke (GER) 1 (Draxler 54)

At Bucharest

Steaua Bucharest (ROM) 0 Chelsea (ENG) 4 (Ramires 20, 55, Georgievski 44-og, Lampard 90)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Schalke 04 2 0 0 4 0 6

Basel 1 0 1 2 2 3

Chelsea 1 0 1 5 2 3

Steaua Bucharest 0 0 2 0 7 0

Group F

At London

Arsenal (ENG) 2 (Ozil 8, Giroud 15) Napoli (ITA) 0

At Dortmund, Germany

Borussia Dortmund (GER) 3 (Lewandowski 19, 80-pen, Reus 52) Marseille (FRA) 0

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Arsenal 2 0 0 4 1 6

Napoli 1 0 1 2 3 3

Bor Dortmund 1 0 1 4 2 3

Marseille 0 0 2 1 5 0

Group G

At Oporto, Portugal

FC Porto (POR) 1 (Martinez 16) Atletico Madrid (ESP) 2 (Godin 58, Turan 86)

At St Petersburg, Russia

Zenit Saint Petersburg (RUS) 0 Austria Vienna (AUT) 0

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Atletico Madrid 2 0 0 5 2 6

FC Porto 1 0 1 2 2 3

Austria Vienna 0 1 1 0 1 1

Zenit St. Petersburg 0 1 1 1 3 1

Group H

At Amsterdam

Ajax (NED) 1 (Denswil 90) AC Milan (ITA) 1 (Balotelli-pen 90+4)

At Glasgow

Celtic (SCO) 0 Barcelona (ESP) 1 (Fabregas 76)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Barcelona 2 0 0 5 0 6

AC Milan 1 1 0 3 1 4

Ajax 0 1 1 1 5 1

Celtic 0 0 2 0 3 0

English Championship

Results on Tuesday:

Barnsley 1 Reading 1

Birmingham 4 Millwall 0

Blackburn 1 Watford 0

Blackpool 0 Bolton 0

Brighton 1 Sheff Wed 1

Charlton 1 Nottm Forest 1

Derby 4 Ipswich 4

Doncaster 0 Burnley 2

Leeds 2 Bournemouth 1

Middlesbrough 1 Huddersfield 1

Yeovil 1 Leicester 2

Brazilian championship

Results on Tuesday:

Ponte Preta 1 Nautico 2

Tennis

ATP Japan Open

Results from the ATP Japan Open in Tokyo on Tuesday (x denotes seeding):

First round:

Kei Nishikori (JPN x4) bt Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 6-7 (4), 7-5, 6-2; Horacio Zeballos (ARG) bt Ryan Harrison (USA) 6-1, 4-6, 6-4; Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt Yuichi Sugita (JPN) 6-3, 6-1; Lukas Lacko (SVK) bt Kevin Anderson (RSA x7) 6-4, 7-6 (2); Juan Martin del Potro (ARG x1) bt Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Feliciano Lopez (ESP) bt Tatsuma Ito (JPN) 4-6, 7-5, 6-3; Carlos Berlocq (ARG) bt Pablo Cuevas (URU) 7-6 (4), 6-2; Janko Tipsarevic (SRB x8) bt Victor Hanescu (ROM) 6-7 (6), 6-1, 6-4; Michal Przysiezny (POL) bt Marcel Granollers (ESP) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) by Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

Early results on Wednesday:

Second round

Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) bt Michal Przysiezny (POL) 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-2; Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x2) 6-4, 7-6 (5); Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG x1) bt Carlos Berlocq (ARG) 6-2, 6-2; Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) bt Janko Tipsarevic (SRB x8) 6-3, 7-6 (2);

First round

Jeremy Chardy (FRA) bt Marco Chiudinelli (SUI) 7-6 (2), 3-6, 7-6 (6); Milos Raonic (CAN x3) bt Go Soeda (JPN) 6-4, 7-6 (0).

China Open

Complete results on Tuesday:

Men's 1st round

Richard Gasquet (FRA x5) bt Florian Mayer (GER) 6-3, 7-6 (2); Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x6) bt Andreas Seppi (ITA) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Fernando Verdasco (ESP) bt Somdev Devvarman (IND) 7-6 (6), 6-3 ; Sam Querrey (USA) bt Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) 7-6 (3), 6-3; Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Lukas Rosol (CZE) 6-0, 6-3; John Isner (USA x8) bt Wu Di (CHN) 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3; Marinko Matosevic (AUS) bt Julien Benneteau (FRA) 7-6 (5), 6-3; Rafael Nadal (ESP x2) bt Santiago Giraldo (COL) 6-2, 6-4; Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) bt Lu Yen-hsun (TPE) 7-6 (3), 6-4; Tomas Berdych (CZE x4) bt Pablo Andujar (ESP) 6-4, 6-1; David Ferrer (ESP x3) bt Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2).

Women's 2nd round

Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 6-4, 7-5; Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP x12) bt Lauren Davis (USA) 6-4, 6-2; Sabine Lisicki (GER x13) bt Venus Williams (USA) 6-1, 6-2; Roberta Vinci (ITA x10) bt Zhang Shuai (CHN) 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Maria Kirilenko (RUS) bt Urszula Radwanska (POL) 6-4, 6-4; Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x6) bt Monica Niculescu (ROM) 6-3, 6-1; Sloane Stephens (USA x11) bt Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 6-1, 1-6, 6-4; Petra Kvitova (CZE x9) bt Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 2-6, 6-2, 6-0; Li Na (CHN x4) bt Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) 6-0, 6-1; Angelique Kerber (GER x7) bt Laura Robson (GBR) 6-1, 6-2.

Early results on Wednesday:

Men's 2nd rd

Fabio Fognini (ITA) bt Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 6-0, 6-2.

Women's 2nd rd

Jelena Jankovic (SRB x8) bt Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 6-3, 5-7, 6-3; Andrea Petkovic (GER) bt Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 4-6, 6-4, 6-1; Polona Hercog (SLO) bt Ana Ivanovic (SRB x14) 6-4, 6-4.

China Daily

(China Daily 10/03/2013 page11)