Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez beat top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki, 7-5, 6-4, to win the Swedish Open at Bastad for her second WTA Tour title. The unseeded Spaniard rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the second set. . . . Top-seeded Patty Schnyder and No. 4 Agnes Szavay advanced to the final of the Budapest Grand Prix in Hungary. Schnyder beat Edina Gallovits, 6-2, 6-4 in one semifinal, and Szavay defeated sixth-seeded Alona Bondarenko, 6-1, 6-2, in the other.
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Thousands mourn McNair
Thousands turned out in Tennessee to say goodbye to Steve McNair, and people in his native state were doing the same to give the former NFL quarterback one of the biggest funerals in recent Mississippi history.
"We're going to have church this morning, and we're going to praise God for Steve's life," said gospel singer Dottie Peoples, a close friend of McNair's mother, Lucille.
At least 4,500 turned out, though organizers anticipated a capacity crowd of 8,000 at Reed Green Coliseum on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. Most of McNair's hometown of Mount Olive also arrived thanks to buses rented by the McNairs, and hundreds came out Friday night for a visitation. A private burial was to follow in Mount Olive.
Brett Favre, who had a home near McNair's in Hattiesburg, sat a few rows behind the McNair family. Titans Coach Jeff Fisher and quarterback Vince Young, Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis and Chicago quarterback Jay Cutler also attended. Doug Williams, the first black quarterback to win the Super Bowl, also was on hand.
McNair was shot and killed on July 4 by Sahel Kazemi, a 20-year-old girlfriend who then shot herself in the head.
Felix Sturm retained his World Boxing Assn. middleweight title, beating Khoren Gevor in a unanimous decision at the Ring Arena in Nuerburg, Germany.
Sturm relied on clean, strong shots that stunned Gevor several times throughout the 12-round fight. All three judges called the fight for Sturm, 115-113 on two cards and 117-111 on the other.
The Buffalo Sabres have signed free-agent defenseman Joe DiPenta, who won the Stanley Cup with the Ducks in 2007. DiPenta, 30, played in the Swedish Elite League last season. The Sabres signed him to a one-year deal.
Swedish soccer club Hammarby has agreed to sell American striker Charlie Davies to FC Sochaux of the French league. Davies, who played for the U.S. team that lost to Brazil in the Confederations Cup final in South Africa last month, signed with Hammarby at age 20 in 2007.
