RESULTS WORLDWIDE
BASKETBALL
NBA CHAMPIONSHIP
Detroit 115 Brooklyn 106, Phoenix 81 San Antonio 129, Cleveland 140 Minnesota 138 (OT), Miami 101 Houston 109, Memphis 88 Utah 92.
CYCLING
DUBAI TOUR
Stage Two: 1. Elia Viviani (Ita/Qst) 4’34:31, 2. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned/Tlj) same time, 3. Riccardo Minali (Ita/Ast), 4. Mark Cavendish (Bri/Dod), 5. John Degenkolb (Ger/Tfs) s.t. Leading overall standings: 1. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned/
Tlj) 8’25:50, 2. Elia Viviani (Ita/Qst) at 2sec, 3. Nathan Van Hooydonk (Bel/Bmc) 9, 4. Magnus Cort Nielsen (Dan/Ast) 10, 5. Riccado Minali (Ita/Ast) 12.
GOLF
WORLD SUPER 6 PERTH
First round (Aus unless stated): 64: Brett Rumford; 66: Lee Westwood (Eng), James Nitties; 67: Jason Scrivener, Sebastien Gros (Fra), Prom Meesawat ( Tha) , Daisuke Kataoka (Jpn) , Nicholas Fung ( Mas), Wade Ormsby, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Tha), Chang Yi-keun (Kor), Gareth Paddison (Nzl) ; 68: David Lipsky (US), Zander Lombard (Rsa), Seung-Su Han (US), Jens Fahrbring (Swe), Marcus Fraser, Lucas Herbert, Jazz Janewattananond (Tha), Sam Horsfield (Eng); 69: Daniel Fox, Stephen Leaney, -a-Min Woo Lee, Austin Connelly (Can), Charlie Ford (Eng), Mark Brown (Nzl, Jarryd Felton, Taylor Macdonald, Grant Forrest (Sco), Richard Green, Brad Kennedy, Dimitrios Papadatos.
TENNIS
ECUADOR OPEN
First round: Ivo Karlovic (Cro) bt Ernesto Escobedo (US) 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 7-6 (7-4); Nicolas Jarry (Chi) bt Facundo Bagnis (Arg) 6-7 (4-7), 6-2, 7-6 (7-5); Alessandro Giannessi (Ita) bt Peter Polansky (Can) 6-3, 6-4; Gerald Melzer (Aut) bt Marco Cecchinato (Ita) 6-4, 6-2; Roberto Quiroz (Ecu) bt Yannick Hanfmann (Ger) 7-6 (7-5), 6-3.
MONTPELLIER ATP
First round: Ruben Bemelmans (Bel) bt Calvin Hemery (Fra) 6-1, 6-2; Pierre-Hugues Herbert (Fra) bt Kenny De Schepper (Fra) 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (5-7), 6-4; Richard Gasquet (Fra) bt Daniil Medvedev (Rus) 6-0, 6-3; Nicolas Mahut (Fra) bt Dustin Brown (Ger) 6-7 (2-7), 2-5 rtd; John Millman (Aus) bt Yuichi Sugita (Jpn) 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
Second round: David Goffin (Bel) bt Gilles Simon (Fra) 6-4, 6-2; Andrey Rublev (Rus) bt Jeremy Chardy (Fra) 6-2, 6-1.
SOFIA OPEN
First round: Maximilian Marterer (Ger) bt Malek Jaziri (Tun) 7-6 (7-3), 6-4; Marius Copil (Rom) bt Robin Haase (Ned) 7-6 (7-5), 6-4; Blaz Kavcic (Slo) bt Laslo Djere (Srb) 6-4, 6-4; Andreas Seppi (Ita) bt Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) 6-3, 6-4; Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) bt Salvatore Caruso (Ita) 7-6 (7-4), 6-3. Second round: Mirza Basic (Bih) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger) 7-5, 7-6 (7-5); Jozef Kovalk (Svk) bt Lukas Lacko (Svk) 4-6, 6-2, 7-5.