Aquatics

World championships

Results on Tuesday from swimming world championships (finals only):

Men

200m freestyle: 1. Yannick Agnel (FRA) 1min 44.20sec, 2. Conor Dwyer (USA) 1:45.32, 3. Danila Izotov (RUS) 1:45.59, 4. Ryan Lochte (USA) 1:45.64, 5. Kosuke Hagino (JPN) 1:45.94, 6. Robert Renwick (GBR) 1:46.52, 7. Cameron McEvoy (AUS) 1:46.63, 8. Thomas Fraser-Holmes (AUS) 1:47.11

100m backstroke: 1. Matt Grevers (USA) 52.93sec, 2. David Plummer (USA) 53.12, 3. Jeremy Stravius (FRA) 53.21, 4. Ryosuke Irie (JPN) 53.29, 5. Camille Lacourt (FRA) 53.51, 6. Ashley Delaney (AUS) 53.55, 7. Kosuke Hagino (JPN) 53.93, 8. Gareth Kean (NZL) 54.25

Women

100m backstroke: 1. Missy Franklin (USA) 58.42sec, 2. Emily Seebohm (AUS) 59.06, 3. Aya Terakawa (JPN) 59.23, 4. Elizabeth Pelton (USA) 59.45, 5. Fu Yuanhui (CHN) 59.61, 6. Simona Baumrtova (CZE) 59.84, 7. Daryna Zevina (UKR) 1min 00.16sec, 8. Belinda Hocking (AUS) 1:00.29

1500m freestyle: 1. Katie Ledecky (USA) 15min 36.53sec (world record), 2. Lotte Friis (DEN) 15:38.88, 3. Lauren Boyle (NZL) 15:44.71, 4. Mireia Belmonte Garcia (ESP) 15:58.83, 5. Xu Danlu (CHN) 16:00.44, 6. Kristel Kobrich Schimpl (CHI) 16:01.94, 7. Boglarka Kapas (HUN) 16:06.89, 8. Chloe Sutton (USA) 16:09.65

100m breaststroke: 1. Ruta Meilutyte (LTU) 1min 04.42sec, 2. Yuliya Efimova (RUS) 1:05.02, 3. Jessica Hardy (USA) 1:05.52, 4. Rikke Moller Pedersen (DEN) 1:05.93, 5. Breeja Larson (USA) 1:06.74, 6. Viktoriya Solnceva (UKR) 1:06.81, 7. Marina Garcia Urzainqui (ESP) 1:07.08, 8. Jennie Johansson (SWE) 1:07.41

Baseball

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

Milwaukee 6 CHICAGO CUBS 5 (1st game)

Milwaukee 3 CHICAGO CUBS 2 (2nd game)

PITTSBURGH 2 St. Louis 1 (11 innings), 1st game

PITTSBURGH 6 St. Louis 0, 2nd game

BALTIMORE 4 Houston 3

CLEVELAND 7 Chicago White Sox 4

PHILADELPHIA 7 San Francisco 3

DETROIT 5 Washington 1

ATLANTA 11 Colorado 3

BOSTON 8 Seattle 2

NY Mets 4 MIAMI 2 (10 innings)

TAMPA BAY 5 Arizona 2

TEXAS 14 LA Angels 11 (10 innings)

Kansas City 7 MINNESOTA 2

Toronto 5 OAKLAND 0

LA DODGERS 3 NY Yankees 2

SAN DIEGO 4 Cincinnati 2

Soccer

Champions League

Third qualifying round first legs results on Tuesday:

Shakhter Karagandy (KAZ) 3 Sknderbeu (ALB) 0

Austria Vienna (AUT) 1 Hafnarfjrdur (ISL) 0

Nomme Kalju (EST) 0 Viktoria Plzen (CZE) 4

Dynamo Tbilisi (GEO) 0 Steaua Bucharest (ROM) 2

Basel (SUI) 1 Maccabi Tel Aviv (ISR) 0

Nordsjaelland (DEN) 0 Zenit Saint-Petersburg (RUS) 1

PAOK Salonika (GRE) 0 Metalist Kharkiv (UKR) 2

PSV Eindhoven (NED) 2 Zulte Waregem (BEL) 0

Dynamo Zagreb (CRO) 1 Sheriff (MDA) 0

Lyon (FRA) 1 Grasshoppers Zurich (SUI) 0

Tennis

ATP/WTA Washington

Results on Tuesday (x denotes seeding):

Women's 1st rd:

Alize Cornet (FRA x4) bt Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 6-1, 6-3; Mona Barthel (GER x6) bt Stefanie Voegele (SUI) 6-2, 6-2; Angelique Kerber (GER x1) bt Irina Falconi (USA) 6-2, 6-3; Monica Niculescu (ROM) bt Taylor Townsend (USA) 6-3, 6-0; Heather Watson (GBR) bt Alexandra Mueller (USA) 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3; Sorana Cirstea (ROM x5) bt Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) 7-5, 1-1 retired, right thigh injury; Caroline Garcia (FRA) bt Anna Tatishvili (GEO) 0-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4; Madison Keys (USA x8) bt Michelle Larcher de Brito (POR) 7-5, 6-3; Alison Riske (USA) bt Vania King (USA) 6-3, 7-5; Ekaterina Makarova (RUS x3) bt Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 6-4, 6-2.

Men's 1st rd:

Jack Sock (USA) bt Igor Sijsling (NED) 6-4, 6-2; Alex Kuznetsov (USA) bt Alex Bogomolov (RUS) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3; James Duckworth (AUS) bt Yuichi Sugita (JPN) 6-2, 6-2; Tim Smyczek (USA) bt Grega Zemlja (SLO) 6-1, 6-7 (8), 6-1; Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) bt Jesse Levine (CAN) 7-6 (5), 7-5; Ryan Harrison (USA) bt Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 6-3, 7-5.

Men's 2nd rd:

Somdev Devvarman (IND) bt Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR x9) 6-3, 7-6 (4); Bernard Tomic (AUS x14) bt David Goffin (BEL) 6-1, 6-3; Milos Raonic (CAN x4) bt Samuel Groth (AUS) 7-5, 6-4; Marinko Matosevic (AUS) bt Nikolay Davydenko (RUS x15) 6-4, 7-5; Sam Querrey (USA x6) bt Denis Istomin (UZB) 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (9); Grigor Dimitrov (BuUL x11) bt Xavier Malisse (BEL) 7-6 (4), 6-4.

ATP Kitzbuhel

Results on Tuesday:

2nd round

Leonardo Mayer (ARG) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER x1) 6-4, 7-6 (4); Marcel Granollers (ESP x8) bt Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 6-0, 2-0 retired injured.

1st round

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) bt Thomaz Belluci (BRA) 6-7 (1), 6-3, 7-6 (4); Robin Haase (NED) bt Guillaume Rufin (FRA) 6-4, 7-6 (4); Daniel Brands (GER) bt Carlos Berlocq (ARG x5) 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2; Victor Hanescu (ROM) bt Aljaz Bedene (SLO) 6-2, 6-1; Jan Hajek (CZE) bt Aldin Setkic (BIH) 6-2, 6-1; Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT) bt Dennis Novak (AUT) 6-4, 6-4.

WTA Carlsbad

First-round results on Tuesday:

Coco Vandeweghe (USA) bt Alexandra Kiick (USA) 6-1, 6-2; Carla Suarez (ESP x8) bt Sachie Ishizu (JPN) 6-4, 6-3; Urszula Radwanska (POL) bt Marina Erakovic (NZL) 7-6 (3), 6-4; Sesil Karatantcheva (KAZ) bt Julia Goerges (GER) 6-3, 7-5; Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) bt Tamira Paszek (AUT) 6-0, 6-0; Laura Robson (GBR) bt Ayumi Morita (JPN) 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.

China Daily

(China Daily 08/01/2013 page23)