INCHEON, South Korea — Top-ranked Yani Tseng won the LPGA Hana Bank Championship on Sunday for her sixth LPGA Tour victory of the season and ninth overall title of the year, shooting a 5-under-par 67 to edge Na Yeon Choi (68) by a stroke.
The 22-year-old Taiwanese star, winner of the LPGA Championship and Women’s British Open, finished at 14-under 202 and earned $270,000 to push her tour-leading total to $2,396,838. She has 11 victories in four full seasons on the LPGA Tour.
Brittany Lincicome (66), Jamin Jang (68) and second-round leader Soo-Jin Yang (71) tied for third.
• Rickie Fowler won the Korea Open in Cheonan for his first professional title, closing with a 3-under 68 for a six-stroke victory over U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy.
The 22-year-old Fowler, the 2010 PGA Tour rookie of the year, finished at 16-under. McIlroy shot a final-round 64.
• Brad Faxon won the Insperity Championship without hitting a shot when heavy rain washed out the final round of the Champions Tour’s event in The Woodlands, Texas.
• Lee Slattery of England held on to win the Madrid Masters, his double bogey on the final hole good enough for a one-stroke victory that gave him his first title in seven years on the European Tour.
Vettel wins Formula One title
SUZUKA, Japan — Sebastian Vettel added his name to a select list, finishing third at the Japanese Grand Prix to become the youngest of the nine drivers who have won consecutive Formula One titles.
Jenson Button won the race on the Suzuka circuit for his third victory of the season, finishing 1.16 seconds ahead of Fernando Alonso after starting on the front row alongside polesitter Vettel.
Vettel needed just one point to wrap up the title or for Button not to win the race. The 15 points the German earned for third were more than enough to make him the sport’s youngest two-title winner at age 24.
Murray beats Nadal in three sets
TOKYO — Andy Murray rallied to beat Rafael Nadal 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 in the Japan Open final for his second straight ATP tour victory.
Murray, coming off a victory last week in Bangkok, broke his Spanish opponent in the fourth game of the second set, then won 11 of the next 12 games.
• Tomas Berdych beat Marin Cilic 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 to win the China Open in Beijing, and Agnieszka Radwanska topped Andrea Petkovic 7-5, 0-6, 6-4 to claim the women’s title, her second in as many weeks.
Footnotes.
Aruna posted a 1 1/2-length victory over Pachattack in the $500,000 Spinster Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., and earned an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic.
• Kenya’s Moses Mosop set a course record (2 hours, 5 minutes, 37 second) in winning the Chicago Marathon, and Russia’s Liliya Shobukhova claimed the women’s title to become the race’s first three-peat champion.
• Minnesota Wild forward Pierre-Marc Bouchard was suspended for two games for high-sticking Columbus’ Matt Calvert in the face Saturday night.
The Associated Press
