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TENNIS
Fish beats Isner for Atlanta title
Mardy Fish beat John Isner in the final for the second straight year at the Atlanta Tennis Championships, earning a 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2 victory Sunday. Fish, ranked No. 9 in the world, held off two straight match points in the second set to rally from a 5-1 deficit in the tiebreaker.
SOCCER
Uruguay wins Copa America
Diego Forlan scored twice and Uruguay won the Copa America for a record 15th time, 3-0 over Paraguay. Uruguay followed up a semifinal appearance at the 2010 World Cup by winning South America's championship for the first time since 1995. At roughly 3.5 million people -- about the population of Connecticut -- Paraguay has the lowest population of teams in the tournament.
AUTO RACING
Will Power drove to victory at the Edmonton Indy, taking a bite out of the points lead of reigning series champ Dario Franchitti, who finished in third place. Power, the 30-year-old Australian who drives for Team Penske, overtook leader Takuma Sato a quarter of the way through and held off teammate Helio Castroneves to win by eight-tenths of a second.
SWIMMING
Americans strong at worlds
Americans Dana Vollmer and Caitlin Leverenz were the fastest qualifiers in their events at the world championships in Shanghai, with swimmers yet to produce a world record since high-tech suits were banned 1 1/2 years ago. Vollmer's time of 56.97 seconds was the fastest qualifying time in the 100-meter butterfly.
Leverenz's 2:11.01 in the 200 individual medley was tops. Two years ago in Rome, 43 world records were set during the height of the high-tech suit frenzy, but there have been no long-course marks lowered since textile suits were reinstated in January 2010.
-- AP
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