Enqvist Stops Agassi in Final

Andre Agassi’s surge back toward the top of the tennis rankings was slowed Sunday when he was defeated on clay in three sets by Thomas Enqvist in the BMW Open final at Munich, Germany.

Enqvist, also on a comeback after a series of injuries, won, 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (8-6), 6-3, in a match that easily could have gone Agassi’s way.

“I’ve never played so well on clay before,” Enqvist said.

Agassi, tuning his game for this month’s French Open, was seeking his first tournament victory on European clay in 10 years and his third title of the year.

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Martina Hingis defeated Jana Novotna, 6-3, 7-5, to win the German Grand Prix at Hamburg.

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Brazil’s Fernando Meligeni defeated home-crowd favorite Slava Dosedel, 6-1, 6-4, in the finals of the Czech Open men’s tournament at Prague.

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Mirjana Lucic, a 16-year-old Croatian, defended her title at the Bol Ladies Open by defeating Corina Morariu of the United States, 6-2, 6-4, at Bol, Croatia.

Track and Field

Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey won the 100-meter dash at the Grand Prix track and field competition at Rio De Janeiro with a time of 10.19 seconds.

Kenyan runners took the men’s and women’s titles in the Lilac Bloomsday 12-kilometer race at Spokane, Wash with Hezron Otwori winning the men’s division in 34 minutes and 23 seconds and Jane Omoro capturing the women’s race in 40:14.

Keith Brantly won the United States men’s championship and a $100,000 bonus--one of the largest in the sport--for setting the course record by an American in the City of Pittsburgh marathon.

Brantly, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., covered the course in 2 hours, 12 minutes and 31 seconds.

John Mwai beat Kenyan compatriot Daniel Kihara for his second victory in a row in the 10-mile Broad Street Run at Philadelphia. Mwai won in 48:44. Another Kenyan, Teresa Wanjiku, won the women’s title in 57:13.

Richard Lagocki, 45 of Philadelphia, who collapsed while running the race and was pronounced dead at Allegheny University Hospital. The cause of death has not been determined, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Joseph Kahugu of Kenya won the men’s race and Tatiana Pozdniakova of Ukraine was the women’s champion in the CVS Cleveland Marathon. Both runners set event records.

Kahugu’s time of 2:11:30 beat the mark of 2:11:39 set by Don Janicki in 1993. Pozdniakova finished in 2:30:15, surpassing the old standard of 2:32:14 run by Alevtina Naoumova in 1996.

Soccer

Diego Sonora scored his first goal of the season, and the New York-New Jersey MetroStars defeated the Tampa Bay Mutiny, 1-0, in a Major League Soccer game at Tampa, Fla.

Dutchmen Richard Goulooze and Edwin Gorter scored goals to lead the visiting New England Revolution (3-3) to a 3-1 MLS victory over the San Jose Clash (2-6).

Miscellany

British boxer Spencer Oliver, 22, was in critical but stable condition after undergoing brain surgery following his knockout in a European bantamweight title defense at London , local media said.

Former British soccer star Justin Fashanu, wanted in the United States on charges of sexually assaulting a teenager in Maryland, was found dead of a suspected suicide in a garage in London, police said.

Defending champion Canada averted an upset at the World Ice Hockey Championships as Keith Primeau’s late goal tied Slovakia, 2-2, at Zurich, Switzerland.

Joe Amato, Ron Capps and Mike Edwards claimed victories at the second-annual Castrol Lone Star Nationals at Ennis, Texas.

Mike Stefanik became the first two-time winner this season in the NASCAR Featherlite series by defending his championship in the Carquest Auto Parts Spring Sizzler at Stafford Springs, Conn.

Kent Steffes and Jose Loiola defeated Dax Holdren and Todd Rogers 7-10, 11-3, 5-2 in the Sunkist Open at Dallas to win their third consecutive tournament of the season on the Miller Lite/AVP Tour.