Basketball

Results from NBA games on Friday (home team in CAPS):

CHARLOTTE 90 Cleveland 84

ORLANDO 110 New Orleans 90

Philadelphia 109 WASHINGTON 102

ATLANTA 102 Toronto 95

Milwaukee 105 BOSTON 98

MINNESOTA 100 Oklahoma City 81

BROOKLYN 101 Miami 100

HOUSTON 113 Dallas 105

MEMPHIS 111 Detroit 108

Portland 113 DENVER 98

PHOENIX 87 Utah 84

LA Clippers 110 SACRAMENTO 101

San Antonio 91 LA LAKERS 85

Cricket

Pakistan vs South Africa

Pakistan beat South Africa by 66 runs in the second one-day international at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in the United Arab Emirates on Friday.

Scores: Pakistan 209 (Ahmed Shehzad 58; R. McLaren 4-34, M. Morkel 3-38) v South Africa 143 (Mohammad Irfan 3-53, Saeed Ajmal 2-15).

Ice Hockey

Results from sNHL games on Friday (home team in CAPS):

Washington 7 PHILADELPHIA 0

PITTSBURGH 4 Columbus 2

Tampa Bay 3 CAROLINA 0

NY Islanders 5 OTTAWA 4 (SO)

St. Louis 4 FLORIDA 0

MINNESOTA 4 Montreal 3

Colorado 3 DALLAS 2 (OT)

Detroit 4 CALGARY 3

Soccer

Argentine championship

Results of Inicial matches on Friday:

Colon (Santa Fe) 2 Newell's Old Boys 2

Arsenal 1 All Boys 1

Dutch league

Result on Friday:

RKC Waalwijk 3 NAC Breda 0

English Championship

Result on Friday:

Ipswich 1 Barnsley 1

French Ligue 1

Result on Friday:

Paris Saint Germain 4 (Lucas 3, Menez 39, Cavani 43, 81) Lorient 0

W D L Gf Ga Pts

PSG 8 4 0 24 7 28

Monaco 7 4 0 20 8 25

Lille 7 2 2 13 4 23

Nantes 6 1 4 15 9 19

Guingamp 5 2 4 16 12 17

Marseille 5 2 4 15 11 17

Saint-Etienne 5 2 4 17 15 17

Nice 5 2 4 12 11 17

Rennes 4 4 3 15 11 16

Reims 3 6 2 11 10 15

Bastia 4 3 4 12 15 15

Toulouse 4 3 4 9 16 15

Bordeaux 3 5 3 14 13 14

Lyon 3 3 5 15 15 12

Montpellier 2 6 3 14 15 12

Evian/Thonon 3 3 5 12 19 12

Lorient 3 1 8 11 23 10

Ajaccio 1 4 6 7 15 7

Sochaux 1 3 7 10 22 6

Valenciennes 1 2 8 7 18 5

German Budensliga

Result on Friday:

Borussia Dortmund 6 (Papastathopoulos 19, Reuss 22, Lewandowski 54, 56, 72, Aubameyang 81) VfB Stuttgart 1 (Haggui 13)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Borussia Dortmund 9 1 1 31 9 28

Bayern Munich 8 2 0 22 6 26

Bayer Leverkusen 8 1 1 22 10 25

Moenchengladbach 5 1 4 23 15 16

Hertha Berlin 4 3 3 17 12 15

Wolfsburg 5 0 5 14 12 15

Schalke 4 2 4 18 22 14

Hoffenheim 3 4 3 25 23 13

VfB Stuttgart 3 4 4 21 20 13

Hanover 4 1 5 12 16 13

Mainz 4 1 5 15 21 13

Hamburg 3 3 4 23 22 12

Werder Bremen 3 3 4 9 15 12

Eintracht Frankfurt 2 4 4 13 18 10

Augsburg 3 1 6 11 19 10

Nuremberg 0 7 3 11 19 7

Freiburg 0 5 5 9 21 5

Eintracht Braunschweig 1 1 8 7 23 4

Portuguese league

Results on Friday:

Academica Coimbra 0 Benfica 3 (Cardozo 34, Augusto Ferreira Teixeira 37-og, Markovic 86)

Spanish league

Result on Friday:

Barcelona 1 (Sanchez 68) Espanyol 0

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Barcelona 11 1 0 34 7 34

Atletico Madrid 10 0 1 28 8 30

Real Madrid 8 1 2 27 14 25

Villarreal 6 2 3 19 12 20

Athletic Bilbao 6 2 3 18 15 20

Getafe 6 1 4 16 12 19

Levante 4 5 2 12 14 17

Espanyol 4 3 5 12 15 15

Real Sociedad 4 4 3 13 12 14

Elche 3 4 4 12 15 13

Sevilla 3 4 4 20 24 13

Valencia 4 1 6 14 19 13

Valladolid 2 5 4 14 17 11

Granada 3 2 6 7 12 11

Malaga 2 4 5 11 14 10

Osasuna 3 1 7 10 16 10

Celta Vigo 2 3 6 13 16 9

Real Betis 2 3 6 9 17 9

Rayo Vallecano 3 0 8 8 27 9

Almeria 1 3 7 13 24 6

Tennis

Paris Masters

Results on Friday (x denotes seeding):

Quarterfinals

Rafael Nadal (ESP x1) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA x8) 6-4, 6-1; David Ferrer (ESP x3) bt Tomas Berdych (CZE x6) 4-6, 7-5, 6-3; Roger Federer (SUI x5) bt Juan Martin del Potro (ARG x4) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; Novak Djokovic (SRB x2) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x7) 6-1, 6-4.

WTA Tournament of Champions

Results on Friday:

Group Sredets

Elena Vesnina (RUS x5) bt Ana Ivanovic (SRB x2) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (1); Samantha Stosur (AUS x4) bt Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL x8) 6-1, 6-4.

Group Serdika

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS x6) bt Alize Cornet (FRA x7) 6-2, 6-2.

STANDINGS

W L SF SA Pts

Group Serdika

1. Simona Halep 3 0 6 0 6

2. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 2 1 4 2 4

3. Alize Cornet 1 2 1 4 2

4. Maria Kirilenko 0 1 0 1 0

5. Elina Svitolina 0 2 0 4 0

Group Sredets

1. Samantha Stosur 2 1 5 2 4

2. Ana Ivanovic 2 1 5 3 4

3. Elena Vesnina 2 1 4 4 4

4. Tsvetana Pironkova 0 3 1 6 0

(China Daily 11/03/2013 page7)