SHANGHAI — Nikolay Davydenko upset top-seeded Rafael Nadal 7-6 (3), 6-3 on Sunday to win the Shanghai Masters for his fourth title of the year.
The sixth-seeded Davydenko broke decisively in the sixth game of the second set to collect his 18th career title. His flat groundstrokes and angled winners denied the Spaniard a sixth title for this year and his first since the Rome Masters in May.
“I think I was a little bit lucky, but mostly I was playing very well today. I did a good job in three weeks in Asia,” said Davydenko, who won in Kuala Lumpur two weeks ago.
• Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium won her second career WTA Tour title, defeating Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic 6-3, 6-4 in the Generali Ladies final in Linz, Austria.
• Australia’s Samantha Stosur won the Japan Women’s Open in Osaka for her first WTA singles title, beating Italy’s Francesca Schiavone 7-5, 6-1.
Brazil officials vow a peaceful Olympics after gang shootout
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian officials pledged to host a violence- free 2016 Olympics despite bloody drug gang shootouts that left 14 people dead and had at least 2,000 police officers patrolling the coastal city.
An hours-long firefight between rival gangs Saturday in one of the city’s slums killed at least 12 people, injured six and saw a police helicopter shot down and eight buses set on fire. Police said Sunday that they killed two other suspected drug traffickers in overnight clashes near the Morro dos Macacos (“Monkey Hill”) slum where the gangs fought for territory.
Authorities said the violence only toughened their resolve to improve security ahead of the Olympics and before 2014, when Brazil will host the World Cup soccer tournament with key games in Rio.
Footnotes.
Kim Ng interviewed for the San Diego Padres’ vacant general manager’s job, according to a person familiar with the process. Ng, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ assistant general manager, would become the first female GM in major-league history.
• The Minnesota Wild acquired right wing Chuck Kobasew from Boston in a deal that sent right wings Craig Weller and Alexander Fallstrom to the Bruins. The Wild also sent the rights to its second-round pick in the 2011 draft.
• The Los Angeles Galaxy and the host Houston Dynamo played to a scoreless draw.
• Former Arizona swimmer Lacey Nymeyer was honored as the NCAA woman of the year. Nymeyer earned a silver medal in the 400-meter freestyle relay at the 2008 Olympics and helped lead Arizona to the 2008 NCAA Division I women’s swimming and diving team championship.
• Jockey Kyle Kaenel, 21, has retired because of extensive injuries. Kaenel is the son of former jockey “Cowboy” Jack Kaenel, who became the youngest rider to win a Triple Crown race when he rode Aloma’s Ruler at age 16 in the 1982 Preakness Stakes.
• Santa Clara center Scott Thompson will miss the basketball season because of a heart condition. The Associated Press
