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Ronaldo strike sinks Porto

Author: Rose Young
Date: 16/04/2009

Cristiano Ronaldo's stunning 40-yard strike helped tournament betting favourites Manchester United book their place in the last four of the Champions League as they secured a 1-0 quarter-final second leg victory over FC Porto.

The result meant Sir Alex Ferguson's side secured a 3-2 aggregate victory and will now play Arsenal in the semi-finals after the Gunners eased to an emphatic 3-0 victory over Villarreal in the second leg of their last-eight encounter.

Theo Walcott, Emmanuel Adebayor and Robin van Persie all found the net at the Emirates Stadium as the Gunners cruised to a 4-1 aggregate success.

In tennis, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer secured comfortable second-round victories at the Monte Carlo Masters 1000.

Federer came through 6-4 6-4 against Andreas Seppi while Nadal thrashed Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela 6-2 6-3.

Fifth seed Juan Martin Del Potro surprisingly lost 4-6 6-1 6-4 to Croatian Ivan Ljubicic but number six seed Nikolay Davydenko eased past another Croatian, Ivo Karlovic, 6-4 6-3.

Andy Murray will play Fabio Fognini in the last 16 after the Italian thrashed Marin Cilic 6-2 6-0.

Seventh seed Fernando Verdasco defeated Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3 6-4, while 11th seed Nikolay Davydenko beat Ivo Karlovic 6-4 6-3.

Argentina's David Nalbandian came back from a set down to defeat Spaniard Marcel Granollers 4-6 6-3 6-1, while David Ferrer crushed Marc Gicquel 6-1 6-0.

On the first day of cricket's County Championship season, Ian Bell was the star of the show at Taunton, hitting 13 fours in an unbeaten 84 as Warwickshire reached 189-3 at the close against Somerset.

Meanwhile, Dominic Cork took four wickets on his Hampshire debut as Worcestershire were dismissed for 132 at the Rose Bowl.

Kabir Ali picked up two early wickets as Hampshire were reduced to 10-3 in reply but they recovered to reach 76-4 at the close thanks mainly to Jimmy Adams, who made an unbeaten 33.

South African Andrew Hall made 95 not out as Northamptonshire reached 297-6 at Grace Road against Leicestershire in Division Two.

Hall added 163 runs for the sixth wicket with David Willey, who made a half-century on his Northants debut.

Kadeer Ali (90) Hamish Marshall (76) and Alex Gidman (69) helped Gloucestershire make 321-8 at the close of play against Surrey.

Finally, Derbyshire made a solid start to their game against Essex, reaching 306-7 by the close of the first day's play at Chelmsford.

Finally, Ireland are through to the 2011 World Cup after beating the Netherlands by six wickets in Wednesday's qualifier in Pretoria.

Alex Cusack and Boyd Rankin both took three wickets as the Dutch were restricted to 222 before captain William Porterfield (78) and Eoin Morgan (76) guided the Irish to victory.

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