Hewitt Upsets Enqvist at Adelaide

Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt, ranked No. 22 in the world, won the AAPT championships for the second time in three years Sunday, beating top-seeded Thomas Enqvist of Sweden, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, at Adelaide, Australia.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling,” said Hewitt, 18, who was seeded sixth in his hometown event.

Enqvist, who beat Hewitt in the 1999 final, is ranked fourth in the world.

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Fabrice Santoro of France won the Qatar Open at Doha, Qatar, when defending champion Rainer Schuttler of Germany retired after the third game in the third set with leg cramps. “It was not just the cramp. It was the stomach muscles and everything else,” Schuttler said.

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Fourth-seeded Gerome Golmard of France outlasted unseeded Marcus Hantschk of Germany, 6-3, 6-7 (8-6), 6-3, to win the Gold Flake Open at Madras, India. . . . In the Tasmanian International, Kim Clijsters of Belgium upset No. 2-seeded Ruxandra Dragomir of Romania, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, at Hobart, Australia. Top-seeded Amy Frazier defeated Tatiana Panova of Russia, 6-4, 6-4.

Winter Sports

Angelo Weiss of Italy won his first World Cup title, denying Norway’s Kjetil Andre Aamodt a chance at one of skiing’s most distinctive marks.

Leading after the opening run, Aamodt appeared on the brink of his first slalom win. That would have made him only the fourth skier in World Cup history to win all five alpine events.

But the Norwegian was unable to hold his 0.25-second lead. Weiss, rallying from seventh place in the opening leg, produced the day’s fastest run down the Kandahar course at Chamonix, France, to win with a total time of 2 minutes 1.27 seconds.

Aamodt finished second in 2:01.71.

A victory would have given Aamodt a five-discipline sweep, joining Luxembourg’s Marc Girardelli, Switzerland’s Pirmin Zurbriggen and Austria’s Guenther Mader.

With a loyal crowd cheering wildly for the U.S. jumpers, hometown hero Joe Pack soared to the men’s aerials title on the World Cup freestyle tour at Park City, Utah.

Pack, a former Park City High School football player, nailed a quadruple-twisting, triple-flip on his last attempt. Pack led going into the final round and his high-flying effort cemented the victory with a combined score of 253.94. Alexei Grichin of Belarus retained his World Cup standings lead with a second-place finish at 248.96.

Germany’s Martin Schmitt won his second 120-kilometer World Cup ski jumping event in as many days at Engelberg, Switzerland.

Schmitt, who easily took Saturday’s victory, posted the day’s two longest jumps for a total score of 247.3 points. He jumped 122 meters in his first effort and 124.0 in his second.

Slovenia’s Spela Pretnar put together two near perfect runs at Berchtesgaden, Germany, to win her second slalom title of the season.

Pretnar mastered the tight curves at the bottom of a flat icy Groetchen slope better than anyone for the overall slalom title, finishing her two runs in 1 minute 33.31 seconds.

France’s Christel Saioni finished second, 0.47 of a second back at 1:34.23.

Olympic double medalist Chris Witty swept all four races for the second consecutive year and Nick Pearson won his first men’s title in the U.S. Sprint Speedskating Championship at West Allis, Wis.

Miscellany

Diego Maradona, who tested positive for cocaine last week after being hospitalized in Uruguay, returned to Argentina for more treatments of a severe heart condition.

Germany’s Jutta Kleinschmidt became the first woman to win a stage of the Paris-Dakar Rally, with her Mitsubishi car finishing just ahead of Jean-Louis Schlesser of France. Kenjiro Shinozuka of Japan maintained the overall lead.

Jose Silva of Brazil sprinted past two-time defending champion Santiago de Araujo in the 23rd mile to win the 2000 Walt Disney World Marathon in 2 hours 25 minutes 40 seconds at Lake Buena Vista, Fla.