Roddick Beats Grosjean, Wins Queen’s Club Title

Andy Roddick won his second consecutive Queen’s Club title with a 7-6 (4), 6-4 victory over Sebastien Grosjean on Sunday at London.

The 21-year-old American, the top-seeded player at this Wimbledon warmup event, also beat Grosjean in straight sets in last year’s final.

“I served very well today,” said Roddick, who had 11 aces. “I was a little lucky in that first set. Sebastien had a good look there and let me off, and I’m happy to be through.”

Roddick, a semifinalist at Wimbledon last year, closed out the match when the fifth-seeded Grosjean hit a backhand wide.

It was the third title this year for Roddick, who is ranked second in the world behind Roger Federer of Switzerland.

“He serves bigger, he doesn’t miss from the baseline, and he comes to the net more than he used to,” Grosjean said of Roddick.

Roddick won the first set in 48 minutes, clinching the tiebreaker with his 10th ace.

He saved two set points in the previous game, the first with a service winner and the second when Grosjean hit a forehand wide.

In the second set, Grosjean broke Roddick’s serve to win the opening game but lost the next one. Both players then held serve until the 10th game, when Roddick broke to win the match.

In the last set, Roddick hit a 152-mph serve, just below his record of 153 mph, achieved in an earlier round.

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Federer, the defending Wimbledon champion, beat Mardy Fish, 6-0, 6-3, at Halle, Germany, to retain his Gerry Weber Open title and run his winning streak on grass to 17 matches.

Federer took only 57 minutes to beat the hard-serving American in the final and win his fifth title this year.

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Third-seeded Maria Sharapova of Russia won her first singles title this year, beating fellow teenager Tatiana Golovin of France, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, in the final of the grass-court DFS Classic at Birmingham, England.

Sharapova had four double-faults and was broken twice in the first set. She won the second set by breaking twice, then took the unseeded Golovin’s serve three more times in the last set.

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Kim Clijsters of Belgium, the No. 2-ranked women’s player, had surgery Saturday to remove a cyst from her left wrist and is expected to be sidelined for three months, according to a statement on her website.

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Martina Navratilova said she might not play at Wimbledon this month because of a bad knee and an ankle that gave out during a 6-4, 6-2 loss to Elena Likhovtseva of Russia in the Eastbourne tournament in London, a warmup for Wimbledon.

Navratilova, 47, last week received a wild card for the event, raising the prospect of her first appearance in the singles competition since losing in the 1994 final.

Boxing

Felix Sturm, who lost his World Boxing Organization middleweight title by unanimous decision to Oscar De La Hoya on June 5, has filed a protest with the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

All three judges -- Michael Glienna, Dave Moretti and Paul Smith -- scored the fight 115-113 for De La Hoya.

Sturm’s promoter, Klaus-Peter Kohl, said that almost every boxing expert in Germany and in the United States disagreed with the result.

However, the scorecards of many ringside observers had the fight a draw or gave De La Hoya the decision.

The Nevada commission will not take any action on the protest, Executive Director Marc Ratner said, “unless there is proof presented of either collusion or that the numbers on the judges’ scorecards were improperly added.”

Jurisprudence

A trial for USC offensive lineman Winston Justice is scheduled to begin today in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Justice, 19, has pleaded not guilty to three misdemeanor counts of exhibition of a replica firearm.

Justice has been suspended from school and will not play next season for the Trojans.

Miscellany

Sherdrick Bonner threw a touchdown pass to Siaha Burley with 17 seconds left to send the Arizona Rattlers to the ArenaBowl with a 45-41 win over the Colorado Crush at Phoenix.

The Rattlers will play the San Jose SaberCats at home June 27.

Chamique Holdsclaw made a jump shot with 2.4 seconds left and the Washington Mystics defeated the New York Liberty, 62-60, in a WNBA game at College Park, Md.

Hall of Fame member Paul Hornung told the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune he wouldn’t return to Notre Dame football radio broadcasts, because of a flap over his comments that the school should lower its academic standards to recruit black athletes.

Black Bart, the 13-10 favorite, made it six wins in eight starts since being claimed for $16,000 on Dec. 19 with a two-length victory over Remonte and four others in the $76,800 Quicken Tree at Hollywood Park.

Alex Solis rode Black Bart, who finished the 1 1/2 miles in 2:28.05.