Eighth seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus overwhelmed Russian fifth seed Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-1 in Sunday's WTA tournament final here to win her first title of the season. A day after her 21st birthday, Azarenka broke the Russian three times in the first set then took advantage of 16 unforced errors in the second set by Sharapova while committing only one to win the 700,000-dollar hardcourt event. “I haven't lost a match yet since I turned 21,” Azarenka said. “It's great. I can have cake now.” In the semifinals, Sharapova shook off a first-set loss to beat Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska 1-6, 6-2, 6-2 and Azarenka celebrated her 21st birthday with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over top-seeded Samantha Stosur. Querrey-Murray final Sam Querrey defeated Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 6-7 (7), 7-6 (7), 6-4 Saturday to reach the Farmers Classic final for the second consecutive year. The American will try to defend his title in Sunday's final against top-seeded Andy Murray, who defeated No. 4 seed Feliciano Lopez of Spain 6-0, 1-6, 6-4. It's the first time since 1999 and fifth time ever that the top two seeds reached the final here. Querrey needed 2 hours and 47 minutes to beat Tipsarevic at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on the UCLA campus. “That was an awesome match, a lot of fun, a lot of drama,” Querrey said. There were missed chances on both sides. Querrey lost the first set after holding five set points in the 12th game. Tipsarevic failed to convert a match point in the 10th game of the second set, then blew a 5-1 lead in the tiebreaker. Querrey reeled off six straight points, helped by a few big serves, to win the tiebreaker when Tipsarevic netted a backhand. Top-seeded Bob and Mike Bryan advanced to their 100th career ATP Tour final, putting them on course to win their record 62nd doubles title in their hometown tournament. The Bryans are tied with Hall of Famers Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde with 61 titles. The twin brothers defeated Rohan Bopanna of India and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan 6-2, 6-4 for their 15th consecutive win in Los Angeles, where they have won five titles. Almagro wins Swiss Open Spain's Nicolas Almagro won the Swiss Open on Sunday with a comprehensive straight sets defeat of Frenchman Richard Gasquet. Almagro's 7-5, 6-1 win means he lifts the seventh trophy of his career on the ATP circuit and thus hands Spain their first Swiss Open crown since Alex Corretja in 2002. All of Almagro's victories have been won on clay courts, with the previous just two weeks ago at Sweden's Bastad. Almagro raced to a 5-3 lead in the first set only for Gasquet to battle back to 5-5. The Spaniard then dug deep, producing two timely aces to seal the set. In the second the Spaniard gave no quarter to Gasquet, who had missed Wimbledon because of a back injury, and the Frenchman struggled to win just one game as Almagro raced ahead to seal the match. Ferrero coasts to win Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero coasted to victory in the ATP Croatia Open on Sunday with a straight sets win over Italy's Potito Starace. The fourth seed came through 6-4, 6-4 against the 64th-ranked Italian to make up for the disappointment of last year when he finished runner-up to Russia's Nikolay Davydenko. The 2003 French Open champion claimed his third claycourt trophy of the year after Costa do Sauipe and Buenos Aires. Pavlyuchenkova bags cup Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova has beaten Elena Vesnina 5-7, 7-5, 6-4 in the Istanbul Cup final to claim her second WTA singles title. Pavlyuchenkova's serve was broken seven times Sunday, while Vesnina lost serve eight times. Both players survived tough three-set matches in Saturday's semifinals.
