Igor Andreev earned Russia a consolation point by crushing doubles specialist Bob Bryan in the first reverse singles match before American No 2 James Blake beat Dmitry Tursunov in the final rubber.
Kyrie Irving and Carmelo Anthony set aside the unrest with their respective teams and put on a dazzling show that vaulted the Eastern Conference to a 163-155 comeback win over the West in the highest scoring NBA All Star game ever on Sunday.
Roger Federer opens his title defence while Tim Henman starts another year of hope at Wimbledon on Monday.
The Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon, will host the November 30 - December 2 match.
The United States won 4-1 and will host defending champions Russia in the final.
Strong winds have been pushing several sudden and destructive wildfires across the hills and towns north of Los Angeles, burning thousands of acres and hundreds of structures and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes.
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Three-time winners Sweden won a place in the final of the World Team Cup on Thursday after forging an unassailable 2-0 lead in their Red Group tie against the United States.
Roger Federer raced to a 6-1, 6-4 victory over American James Blake to win the Cincinnati Masters.
Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra kept France alive in their Davis Cup quarter-final against the United States on Saturday with an impressive 6-7, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 win over Bob and Mike Bryan. The Americans will go into Sunday's reverse singles with a 2-1 lead but will be disappointed their top-ranked doubles duo did not close out the tie on day two of the tie.
They are yet to play a match in the men's doubles event at the Rome Masters.
Teenager Kei Nishikori became the first Japanese to reach an ATP final at the Delray Beach International.
Reaction to Gatlin's win and Bolt's surprise defeat:
Former Australian Open finalists Kim Clijsters and Marcos Baghdatis signalled their intentions ahead of next week's first grand slam of the year by winning their matches at the Sydney International on Wednesday.
With the amendment, firms like EY and Deloitte can work as resolution professionals instead of only their partners enrolling as insolvency professionals.
Sweden fought back to level their Davis Cup semi-final with United States 1-1 on Friday when Thomas Johansson defeated James Blake for the first time in his career.
The world number one Federer lost just five of the 97 matches he played in 2006 and four of those were to Rafael Nadal.
Swede Jonas Bjorkman and his Belarussian partner Max Mirnyi won the Masters Cup doubles title with a 6-2 6-4 victory over on Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor on Sunday.
India went down fighting 1-3 to Australia via the penalty shoot-out in the final of the Champions Trophy hockey tournament, in Breda, the Netherlands, on Sunday.
The world number one battled back from a break down in the final set to fend off the Aussie and reach the final of the Cincinnati Masters.
The United States will take on Chile in the Davis Cup quarter-final on grass courts.
Japan Warriors did not have to break much sweat in getting past Philippine Marvericks 29-15 but it was a tough day out for UAE Royals, who edged out hosts Singapore Slammers 27-23 in their IPTL match, riding on Roger Federer's win in the deciding men's singles, in Singapore on Friday.
'As the Indian economy continues to grow, we expect that India will be an ever more important partner and that the already strong people-to-people ties between our two countries will continue to prosper.'
The fifth seed became the first major casualty at the Cincinnati Masters, losing in the opening round.
David Nalbandian lost 6-1, 6-2 to Italian Davide Sanguinetti in the first round of Toronto Masters.
Li Na upset Svetlana Kuznetsova 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 to become the first Chinese player to reach the singles fourth round at Wimbledon
The U.S. took a winning 3-0 lead over Spain in their Davis Cup world group quarter-final tie on Saturday when Bob and Mike Bryan beat Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco 7-5 6-3 3-6 7-6.
Kim Clijsters began her farewell appearance in Miami by beating Akiko Morigami 4-6, 6-0, 6-0 in the second round.
While the deal would help reduce debt at Jindal Steel, it would also be a boon for State Bank of India, which has been trying to broker an agreement between the companies
The former world number one beat Austrian Juergen Melzer for his first tournament victory in eight months.
India went down fighting 1-2 to Belgium in a thrilling final of the first-leg of the Four-Nation Invitational tournament at the Blake Park, in Tauranga, New Zealand, on Sunday.
The US on Friday announced 100,000 dollars for humanitarian relief for the victims of the flood in the wake of the heavy monsoon rains in Gujarat, Maharashtra and other affected states.\n\n
Sebastien Grosjean upset sixth seed Guillermo Coria while Tommy Robredo beat James Blake
Russia's interior ministry has confirmed that athletes at the Winter Olympics will be arrested if they breach Russia's controversial gay propaganda laws.
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