BRIEFLY : DAVENPORT OUTLASTS WILLIAMS.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Ann Davenport (born June 8 1976 in Palos Verdes, California) is a former World No. 1 American professional female tennis champion. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments: the 1998 U.S. Open, 1999 Wimbledon, and the 2000 Australian Open. outlasted an injured and erratic Venus Williams Venus Ebone Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980 in Lynwood, California) is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked the world's No. 1 female tennis player. As of July 2007, she is the reigning Wimbledon ladies' singles champion. in three sets to win Sunday's sweltering swel·ter·ing adj. 1. Oppressively hot and humid; sultry. 2. Suffering from oppressive heat. swel final of the Bank of the West tournament at Stanford. Playing in temperatures of more than 90 degrees that forced a 10-minute break before the third set, the top-seeded Davenport won 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 to capture the $79,000 first prize. The third-seeded Williams, who served 12 aces in her semifinal victory Saturday night over Monica Seles, had 14 aces against Davenport - but also had eight double faults. Williams took two injury timeouts during the second set and spent the last half of the match with her left leg and knee wrapped in bandages. Spain's Albert Costa Albert Costa Casals (born June 25 1975, in Lleida) is a professional tennis player from Spain. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at the French Open in 2002. Costa began playing tennis at the age of five. needed nearly three hours to beat Andrea Gaudenzi Andrea Gaudenzi (born July 30, 1973) is a former tennis player from Italy, who turned professional in 1990. Gaudenzi was born in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. A righthander, he represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in of Italy and win the Generali Open for the second time. Costa, the 1995 champion and ranked 14th in the world, won his eighth career title by defeating Gaudenzi 6-2, 1-6, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 in the $535,000 tournament in Kitzbuehel, Austria. Seventh-seed Bohdan Ulihrach of the Czech Republic beat sixth-seeded Magnus Norman of Sweden 6-3, 7-6 (7-0) to win the Croatia Open in Umag. BASKETBALL: The starless United States team got 20 points from former Syracuse player Wendell Alexis and beat Argentina 87-74 in the World Basketball Championships in Athens. The Americans (3-1) got scoring from all 12 players. BASEBALL: The Cuban national team claimed its 22nd gold medal at the World Baseball Championships in Rome, beating South Korea 7-1 and extending its winning streak at the event to 41 games since 1986. MOTOR SPORTS: Andy Houston passed fellow rookie Greg Biffle on the final lap in the Pennzoil 200 at Loudon, N.H., to win for the first time in the NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. Craftsman Truck series. Mika Hakkinen of Finland overcame late engine problems and won the German Grand Prix This article is about Formula One race. For other uses, see German Grand Prix (disambiguation). The German Grand Prix (Großer Preis von Deutschland) is an annual automobile race. , moving closer to his first Formula One championship. SURFING: Andy Irons, the Hawaiian surfer who last weekend celebrated his 20th birthday with a victory in the U.S. Open of Surfing, added $15,000 to his bank account with a win at the 17th Annual Op Pro Surfing Championship in Huntington Beach. |
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