Cape Argus Sport

Latest results - July 17, 2008

Published

Cycling

Tour de France

Foix

Stage 11 (167km, Lannemezan - Foix): 1 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor/Team CSC) 3h 58m 13 sec, 2 Martin Elmiger (Sui/AG2R) same time, 3 Alessandro Ballan (Ita/Lampre) same time, 4 Koos Moerenhout (Ned/Rabobank) +2 sec, 5 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus/Credit Agricole) +11 sec, 6 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra/Bouygues Telecom) +14 sec, 7 Filippo Pozzato (Ita/Liquigas) same time, 8 Benoit Vaugrenard (Fra/Francaise des Jeux) same time, 9 Fabian Wegmann (Ger/Gerolsteiner) same time, 10 Marco Velo (Ita/Milram) same time, 11 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz/Credit Agricole) same time, 12 Amael Moinard (Fra/Cofidis) +29 sec,

Overall standings: 1 Cadel Evans (Aus/Silence - Lotto) 46h 42m 13 sec, 2 Frank Schleck (Lux/Team CSC) +1ec, 3 Christian Vande Velde (US/Garmin - Chipotle) +38 sec, 4 Bernhard Kohl (Aut/Gerolsteiner) +46 sec, 5 Denis Menchov (Rus/Rabobank) +57 sec, 6 Carlos Sastre (Esp/Team CSC) +1:28 sec, 7 Kim Kirchen (Lux/Columbia) +1:56 sec, 8 Juan Jose Cobo (Esp/Saunier Duval) +2:10 sec, 9 Riccardo Ricco (Ita/Saunier Duval) +2:29 sec, 10 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus/AG2R) +2:32 sec

Sprinter standings: 1 Oscar Freire (Esp/Rabobank) 138 points, 2 Kim Kirchen (LuxColumbia) 128, 3 Thor Hushovd (Nor/Credit Agricole) 117, 4 Erik Zabel (Ger/Milram) 99, 5 Alejandro Valverde (Esp/Caisse d'Epargne) 96, 6 Mark Cavendish (Gbr/Columbia) 86, 7 Riccardo Ricco (Ita/Saunier Duval) 85, 8 Robert Hunter (SA/Barloworld) 82, 9 Leonardo Duque (Col/Cofidis) 70, 10 Cadel Evans (Aus/Silence - Lotto) 70

King of the mountains standings: 1 Riccardo Ricco (Ita/Saunier Duval) 77 points, 2 David De la Fuente (Esp/Saunier Duval) 65, 3 Sebastian Lang (Ger/Gerolsteiner) 57, 4 Bernhard Kohl (Aut/Gerolsteiner) 56, 5 Frank Schleck (Lux/Team CSC) 46, 6 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita/Saunier Duval) 41, 7 Juan Jose Cobo (Esp/Saunier Duval) 36, 8 Luis Leon Sanchez (Esp/Caisse d'Epargne) 31, 9 Cadel Evans (Aus/Silence - Lotto) 30, 10 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Liquigas) 30

Golf

British Open tee-off times (selected)

Southport, England

(Times are GMT + 1)

07:03 - Darren Fichardt (SA), Jerry Kelly (US), Damian McGrane (Irl)

07:58 - Padraig Harrington (Irl), Retief Goosen (SA), Justin Leonard (US)

08:09 - Richard Sterne (SA), Henrik Stenson (Swe), Jeff Quinney (US)

08:31 - Martin Kaymer (Ger), Scott Verplank (US), Ernie Els (SA)

09:20 - Phil Mickelson (US), Hideto Tanihara (Jpn), Paul Casey (Eng)

09:53 - Simon Khan (Eng), David Duval (US), David Frost (SA)

10:59 - Adam Blyth (Aus), Jamie Howarth (Eng), Joshua Cunliffe (SA)

11:10 - Gary Boyd (Eng), Thomas Aiken (SA), Bradley Lamb (Aus)

12:03 - Paul Waring (Eng), Hennie Otto (SA), Kevin Stadler (US)

12:14 - Rocco Mediate (US), Paul Lawrie (Sco), Angel Cabrera (Arg)

12:36 - Rory Sabbatini (SA), Graeme McDowell (NIR), Todd Hamilton (US)

13:31 - Gregory Havret (Fra), Tim Clark (SA), Stewart Cink (US)

13:53 - Soren Hansen (Den), Trevor Immelman (SA), Anthony Kim (US)

14:31 - Sergio Garcia (Spa), Ryuji Imada (Jpn), Sean O'Hair (US)

15:04 - Simon Wakefield (Eng), Jay Williamson (US), James Kingston (SA)

16:10 - Martin Wiegele (Aus), Angelo Que (Phi), Douglas McGuigan (SA)

Tennis

Indianapolis championship

Indiana, United States

Men's singles

First round: 4-Sam Querrey (US) bt Go Soeda (Jpn) 6-4, 6-4; Vince Spadea (US) bt Donald Young (US) 6-2, 6-4; 1-James Blake (US) bt Dudi Sela (Isr) 7-6(2), 6-2; Jun Woong-Sun (S.Kor) bt Chris Guccione (Aus) 6-4, 7-6(4); Jun Woong-Sun (S.Kor) bt Chris Guccione (Aus) 6-4, 7-6(4); 5-Tommy Haas (Ger) bt Jesse Levine (US) 7-6(4), 6-2; John Isner (US) bt Robert Kendrick (US) 7-5, 6-4; Rajeev Ram (US) bt 6-Fabrice Santoro (Fra) 7-6(6), 6-4; Alejandro Falla (Col) bt 8-Thomaz Bellucci (Bra) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1; Bobby Reynolds (US) bt Frank Dancevic (Can) 6-7(6), 6-3, 6-2; Wayne Odesnik (US) bt Aisam Qureshi (Pak) 6-4, 7-5

Dutch open

Amersfoot, Netherlands

Second round: Christophe Rochus (Bel) bt Philipp Petzschner (Ger) 6-3, 6-4; 3-Steve Darcis (Bel) beat Alberto Martin (Esp) 6-1, 7-6(5); 1-Marc Gicquel (Fra) bt Thiemo de Bakker (Ned) 7-6(6), 6-3; Teimuraz Gabashvili (Rus) bt 7-Martin Vassallo Argueello (Arg) 6-4, 6-0

Croatian open

Umag

Second round: 1-Fernando Verdasco (Esp) bt Mathieu Montcourt (Fra) 7-6(5), 6-1

Stranford classic

California, United States

Women's singles

First round: Anne Keothavong (Gbr) bt Sania Mirza (Ind) 7-6(4), 6-1; Aleksandra Wozniak (Can) bt 8-Francesca Schiavone (Ita) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; Shahar Peer (Isr) bt Melinda Czink (Hun) 7-5, 6-0; Michelle Larcher de Brito (Por) bt Gisela Dulko (Arg) 7-5, 7-6(1); Dominika Cibulkova (Svk) bt 7-Nadia Petrova (Rus) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Samantha Stosur (Aus) bt Anastasia Rodionova (Rus) 6-3, 6-1

Austrian open

Bad Gastein

First round: Rossana De Los Rios (Par) bt 2-Alize Cornet (Fra) 2-6, 6-2, 3-2 (Cornet retired); Karolina Sprem (Cro) bt 8-Vera Dushevina (Rus) 6-3, 6-4; 5-Timea Bacsinszky (Sui) bt Liana Ungur (Rom) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Patricia Mayr (Aut) bt Martina Mueller (Ger) 6-3, 6-3; Mariya Koryttseva (Ukr) bt Tzipora Obziler (Isr) 6-2, 6-1; Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Ger) bt Julia Vakulenko (Ukr) 6-1, 6-1; Lucie Hradecka (Cze) bt Zhang Shuai (Chn) 6-3, 6-0; 3-Caroline Wozniacki (Den) bt Hsieh Su-Wei (Tai) 6-1, 6-1