BRIEFLY : SELES TOPS VICARIO IN JAPAN.With typhoon typhoon: see hurricane. rains leaking through the stadium roof and interrupting play, Monica Seles beat Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 6-1, 6-4 Sunday to win the Nichirei Ladies tennis title in Tokyo. There were a half dozen stoppages while workers dried the courts at Ariake Tennis Park. It was Seles' third Nichirei title in four tries since 1990. Seles, who shares the No. 1 ranking with Steffi Graf Noun 1. Steffi Graf - German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969) Graf, Stephanie Graf , has won five of the 12 tournaments she has played this year. The match against Sanchez Vicario came less than a week before the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. plays Spain for the Fed Cup title - in Atlantic City Atlantic City, city (1990 pop. 37,986), Atlantic co., SE N.J., an Atlantic resort and convention center; settled c.1790, inc. 1854. Situated on Absecon Island, a barrier island 10 mi (16. , N.J., on Saturday and Sunday. France surged into the Davis Cup Davis Cup: see tennis. Davis Cup Trophy awarded to the winning team of an international tennis tournament for men. It was donated in 1900 by Dwight F. final when Cedric Pioline and Arnaud Boetsch won singles matches, rallying the French to a 3-2 victory over Italy at Nantes, France. The French will face Sweden in the final at the end of November, with the Swedes having the choice of venue. In the other semifinal, in Prague, Thomas Enqvist came from behind in a five-setter with the Czech Republic's Daniel Vacek to steer Sweden into its ninth Davis Cup final in 14 years. He won 6-3, 6-7 (7-3), 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 to give his country an unbeatable 3-1 lead. MOTOR SPORTS Jeff Gordon, the defending Winston Cup champion, outdueled teammate and championship rival Terry Labonte to pick up his ninth victory of the season in the Hanes 500 at Martinsville Speedway in Viginia. Jeff Fuller of Concord, N.C., won the Thompson Sunoco 300, edging Mike Stefanik by a car length in the rain-shortened 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. Busch North Series race in Thompson, Conn. Jacques Villeneuve charged past teammate Damon Hill to win the Portuguese Grand Prix This article is about Formula One race. For other uses, see Portuguese Grand Prix (disambiguation). The first Portuguese Grand Prix (Grande Premio de Portugal) was held on the Boavista street course in Porto on 17 June 1951. in Estoril, all but ending Hill's chance to clinch his first Formula One world championship. Fredrik Larsson's hopes to clinch the Barber Dodge Pro Series The Barber Dodge Pro Series was an entry-level open-wheel auto racing series from 1986 to 2003. The series race primarily on road and street courses in North America, although the schedule did sometimes include a few ovals. championship will go down to the wire at the season finale after a third-place finish in Reno, Nev., behind Geoff Boss and Thomas Schie. Boss, of Narraagansett, R.I., averaged 63.949 mph to lead 31 of the 35 laps around the 11-turn, 1.3-mile course set up in the Reno Hilton parking lot. Tommy Kendall drove conservatively to win his third Trans-Am driving championship, Ron Fellows drove hard to win the final race and a broken engine robbed Dorsey Schroeder of a $50,000 bonus. Fellows averaged 63.12 mph in Reno to beat teammate Jamie Galles by 2.08 seconds. Kendall was fourth. Schroeder's engine let go in the 67th of 75 laps, ending his hopes for the Harrah's Road to Reno bonus awarded to any driver who wins at Phoenix, Watkins Glen and Reno. |
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