Briefs: Roddick's win ties U.S. 1-1 in Davis Cup

Tennis

U.S., Chile tied at 1: Andy Roddick beat Nicolas Massu in straight sets Friday to even the United States' Davis Cup quarterfinal against Chile at 1-1.

Roddick beat Massu 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-5) to square the best-of-five competition in Rancho Mirage, Calif., after Chile's Fernando Gonzalez outlasted James Blake 6-7 (5-7), 0-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, 10-8 in a 4-hour, 20-minute marathon opening match.

Massu and Gonzalez, the 2004 Olympic doubles champions, are slated to team against twins Bob and Mike Bryan in today's lone match.

Roddick used his big serves — one clocked at 150 mph — to beat Massu on the grass at Mission Hills Country Club.

"I was excited I could have James' back today," Roddick said. "When he went down, I really wanted to go out there and get it for him."

In other results, Russia leads France 2-0, Australia took an insurmountable 3-0 lead over Belarus, and Croatia and Argentina are tied 1-1.

Petrova rolls: Top-seeded Nadia Petrova easily advanced to the semifinals of the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Fla., while second-seeded Patty Schnyder fell.

Petrova, No. 7 in the world, beat Spain's Virginia Ruano Pascual 6-3, 6-0, in the clay-court event, and fifth-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia routed Schnyder 6-3, 6-1.

Williams sisters withdraw: Venus and Serena Williams have pulled out of next week's WTA event in Charleston, S.C., citing fitness problems. Venus's withdrawal follows a right elbow sprain, while Serena has not yet fully recovered from the left knee injury that has sidelined her for much of 2006.

Soccer

U.S. women to play in Japan: The U.S. women's soccer team will play a pair of exhibition games in Japan next month. It will meet Japan on May 7 in Kumamoto and on May 9 in Osaka.

Swimming

Two world record set: American Ryan Lochte set a world record in the men's 200-meter individual medley at the FINA world championships in Shanghai, China, while Australia smashed the old mark in the women's 400 medley relay.

Lochte finished in 1 minute, 53.31 seconds, beating the mark of 1:53.46 set by Laszlo Cseh of Hungary last December.

The Australian relay powered in at 3:51.84 to knock more than three seconds off the old mark of 3:54.95 set by Australia at the 2004 worlds.

Horse racing

Long shot wins Transylvania Stakes: Chin High, a 68-to-1 shot, shocked the field to win the Transylvania Stakes, the feature race on the first day of Keeneland's spring meet in Lexington, Ky.

It was the second win in five career starts for Chin High, who won $93,000 of the $150,000 purse for the 1-mile Grade III turf race for 3-year-olds.

Boxing

Ramirez beats Jones: Jairo Ramirez (20-2) of San Diego won a unanimous decision over Russell Jones of Denver in a 10-round super-lightweight fight in Las Vegas.

College gymnastics

Oklahoma wins again: Jonathan Horton had the best scores of his career on the parallel bars (9.525) and the high bar (9.8) to win the all-around title and lead host Oklahoma to its second straight NCAA men's championship.

Oklahoma, which completed an undefeated season, has won four of the last five national championships.

College football

Player sentenced in beating death: A second former Central Michigan football player has been sentenced for his role in the beating death of a man outside a bar.

Demond Petty, 21, was sentenced to between four and 15 years in prison. He had pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter last month.

Prosecutors said former CMU star James King initiated the June 2004 beating of 26-year-old DeMarcus Graham, who died 19 days later. They said Petty, a defensive tackle who had eight tackles in the 2003 season, escalated the attack into a mob scene.

Petty's sentencing came two days after another former player, Michael L. Thomas, was sentenced to between 40 months and 15 years in prison for his role in the beating.

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