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Canada’s Wozniak wins Bank of the West

Qualifier Aleksandra Wozniak became the first Canadian to win a WTA Tour singles title in 20 years, beating France’s Marion Bartoli to win the Bank of the West Classic 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday in Stanford, Calif.

Wozniak, 20, needed to win eight matches – including three qualifiers – in nine days to become the first Canadian since Jill Hetherington at Wellington in February 1988 to win a women’s singles title. Wozniak was only 5 months old at the time.

Wozniak also became the third qualifier to win a tournament this year and the first to do it in a Tier II tournament – one with more than $600,000 in prize money.

•France’s Gilles Simon won his first ATP title on American soil, beating Dmitry Tursunov 6-4, 6-4 at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships.

Simon, seeded second and ranked 25th in the world, had not reached an ATP semifinal in the United States before this week.

Tursunov, ranked 32nd, was hoping to join Americans Pete Sampras and Andy Roddick as the only players to win back-to-back singles titles in Indianapolis since 1981. The Russian beat Frank Dancvic in last year’s final.

•Spain’s Fernando Verdasco captured his second ATP title, beating Russia’s Igor Andreev, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4) for the ATP Croatia Open title in Umag, Croatia.

•Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro won his second straight ATP title by defeating Austria’s Jurgen Melzer 6-2, 6-1 in the last Austrian Open in Kitzbuehel, Austria. This was the 63rd edition of the tournament, which is not on the ATP calendar next year.

•Albert Montanes of Spain won his first ATP singles title, capturing the Dutch Open with a 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory over defending champion Steve Darcis of Belgium in Amersfoort, Netherlands.

•Pauline Parmentier of France won the Gastein Ladies final, beating Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4 in Bad Gastein, Austria.

Miscellany

Stolis Winner wins

Stolis Winner won the $625,000 Rainbow Futurity, the 400-yard second leg of the triple crown of quarter horse racing, at Ruidoso Downs in Ruidoso, N.M.

Stolis Winner clocked 19.470 seconds with jockey Rodrigo Vallejo to beat R.D. and Shaun Hubbard’s PB And Crackers by a half-length.

•A 32-year-old man died during the New York City triathlon, the first death in the eight year history of the event.

Race director Bill Burke said other competitors alerted medical personnel to the man during the 1,500-meter swim in the Hudson River, and he was unconscious when he was pulled from the water just before 8 a.m.

From wire reports