RESULTS WORLDWIDE

BASKETBALL

NBA CHAMPIONSHIP

Houston 148 Los Angeles 142, Los ANgeles 106 Charlotte 98, Boston 108 Brooklyn 105, Washington 114 Chicago 110, Dallas 116 Oklahoma City 113.

TENNIS

AUCKLAND CLASSIC

First round: Petra Martic (Cro) bt Marketa Vondrousova (Cze) 7-6 (7-2), 6-3; Hsieh Su-Wei (Tpe) bt Nao Hibino (Jpn) 6-0, 6-3; Kirsten Flipkens (Bel) bt Donna Vekic (Cro) 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 6-4

Julia Goerges (Ger) bt Monica Puig (Pur) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL

Men

First round: Ryan Harrison (US) bt Leonardo Mayer (Arg) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; Matthew Ebden (Aus) bt Frances Tiafoe (US) 6-3, 6-2; Jared Donaldson (US) bt Jordan Thompson (Aus) 6-2, 6-4; Horacio Zeballos (Arg) bt Ernesto Escobedo (US) 6-3, 6-4.

Women

First round: Kaia Kanepi (Est) bt Daria Kasatkina (Rus) 6-2, 6-2; Elina Svitolina (Ukr) bt Carla Suarez Navarro (Spa) 6-2, 6-4; Sorana Cirstea (Rom) bt Jennifer Brady (US) 7-6 (7/3), 6-1; Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Blr) bt Kristina Mladenovic (Fra) 1-6, 6-3, 7-5; Anett Kontaveit (Est) bt Heather Watson (Bri) 6-0, 6-3; Lesia Tsurenko (Ukr) bt Ashleigh Barty (Aus) 6-3, 6-2.

SHENZHEN OPEN

First round: Maria Sharapova (Rus) bt Mihaela Buzarnescu (Rom) 6-3, 6-0; Simona Halep (Rom) bt Nicole Gibbs (US) 6-4, 6-1; Timea Babos (Hun) bt Wang Xiyu (Chn) 6-1, 6-1.