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Carlos Moya won his second straight Chennai Open title by rallying from a 5-2 deficit in the third set to beat Paradorn Srichaphan 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5) Sunday in a rematch of last year’s final in Madras, Spain.
Moya donated his winner’s check of $52,000 to relief efforts for the Dec. 26 tsunami-earthquake catastrophe that killed more than 150,000 in Asia.
The fifth-ranked Moya is the first player to win the hard-court tuneup for the Australian Open in consecutive years. Paradorn reached his fourth straight final at the tournament, but his lone championship came in 2003.
“I was extremely lucky to win today,” Moya said. “It’s a great way to start the year.”
Moya, the 1998 French Open champion, twice broke Paradorn when the Thai player served for the match in the last set.
Paradorn, who’s ranked 27th but was seeded second behind Moya, is now 0-3 against the Spaniard.
“I had a chance, but just couldn’t make it,” Paradorn said. “But making the final again was great.”
Johansson wins Adelaide final
Second-seeded Joachim Johansson won his second career title, beating American Taylor Dent 7-5, 6-3 in the final of the Australian men’s hardcourt championships in Adelaide, Australia.
Johansson’s first tournament victory was at Memphis, Tenn., in 2004, a breakthrough year in which he also made the semifinals of the U.S. Open and moved from 113th in the rankings to No. 11.
“I kept telling myself, ’just make him play, make him play, he might give you a game,’ but he wasn’t missing any balls,” the fifth-seeded Dent said.
Dent fought off three break points in the fifth game of the match but managed to keep the first set on serve until 5-5 when Johansson gained the first break.
Johansson earned a break-point chance with a backhand return winner. He followed that with another crosscourt, backhand winner to take a 6-5 lead. He double-faulted on set point, but rebounded with an ace to take the opening set.
Johansson broke Dent’s serve again in the third game of the second set. Up 5-3, he completed the victory by again breaking serve, blazing a forehand winner on his fourth match point.
Despite the victory, the Swede acknowledged he’ll have to play better if he wants to win the Australian Open, which begins Jan. 17.
“I think I’ve got to improve my serve if I’m going to go all the way in Melbourne,” he said.
Johansson, 22, is the boyfriend of Jaslyn Hewitt, Lleyton Hewitt’s sister. Johansson spent several weeks leading up to the tournament in Adelaide, with Lleyton Hewitt as a practice partner.
Hewitt was upset by Dent in the quarterfinals.
The United States completed a 5-0 rout of Switzerland in the Davis Cup on Sunday, with 19-year-old Ryan Harrison and John Isner winning closing singles matches.
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Jeremy Lin hit a free throw with 4.9 seconds left to overcome a dreadful second half and lift the New York Knicks to their fifth straight victory, 100-98, over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night.
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