Johnson wins rain-shortened Pebble Beach
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- PGA officials called off Monday's weather-delayed final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, giving Dustin Johnson the tournament victory.
Sunday's round was also lost to weather. Officials delayed the start of Monday's play once but then called off the event when heavy rains drenched greens and rain filled the forecasts.
Johnson shot a 5-under-par 67 on Saturday to take the 54-hole lead. He finished at 15-under 201, four strokes ahead of runner-up Mike Weir. Retief Goosen was third at 10-under and Bob Estes and Mark Calcavecchia tied for fourth at 9-under.
The win was the second for the 24-year-old Johnson. He also won last year's Turning Stone Resort Championship.
Weather Sunday caused six hours of delays before play was suspended and a Monday finish called for. But rain continued, with four greens determined to be unplayable, and more was forecast through the day.
A. Radwanska upset by U. Radwanska
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Ninth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska was upset by her sister, Urszula Radwanska, in first-round play Monday at the $2 million Dubai Tennis Championships.
Urszula Radwanska defeated her sister, who is ranked No. 10 in the world, 6-4, 6-3 in the first on-court meeting since Urszula turned pro. Agnieszka Radwanska managed to break her younger sister's serve just once in the match.
While most of the action Monday was in the first round, seventh-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova was ousted 6-4, 3-6, 6-0 by Elena Vesnina and eighth-seeded Ana Ivanovic defeated Alisa Kleybanova 7-5, 6-4 in second-round matches.
In another first-round upset, Ayumi Morita beat 15th-seeded Anna Chakvetadze 7-5, 6-2. No 10-seeded Alize Cornet stopped Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-4, 6-1, while 11th-seeded Marion Bartoli edged Ai Sugiyama 6-0, 4-6, 7-6 (8-6), No. 12-seeded Dominika Cibulkova breezed past Sorana Cirstea 6-4, 6-2 and 14th-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues ousted Andreja Klepac 6-3, 6-1 in first-round matches.
Also winning Monday were: Daniela Hantuchova, Virginie Razzano, Camille Pin, Samantha Stosur, Alona Bondarenko, Sania Mirza, Monica Niculescu and Francesca Schiavone.
A total of 14 second-round matches are set for Tuesday, including appearances by another pair of sisters, top-seeded Serena Williams and sixth-seeded Venus Williams.
NBA's Suns fire Porter
PHOENIX, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The Phoenix Suns fired Coach Terry Porter and replaced him with assistant coach Alvin Gentry, the NBA team said Monday.
Porter was in his first season as coach of the Suns, who entered the All-Star break with a 28-23 record. That is ninth place in the Western Conference.
"I hired Terry because I believed he would be able to provide the balance our team needed in order to perform at a very high level," said Suns General Manager Steve Kerr.
"Unfortunately the transition from last season to this one proved to be very difficult, and we have not played to our potential. It's imperative that we move forward and do what's best for our team. Alvin has been an integral part of our successes the previous four years and knows our talent as well as anyone."
Gentry, who joined the Phoenix staff in 2004, has 20 years of NBA coaching experience, including stints as head coach with Miami, Detroit and the Los Angeles Clippers. His overall record is 177-226.
The Suns are the eighth NBA team this season to replace their head coach.
Stanford's win moves her to No. 6 ranking
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Angela Stanford improved two spots to sixth in the latest Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings released Monday.
Stanford went from eighth to sixth with her victory at the weekend SBS Open, beating Michelle Wie by three strokes.
The SBS Open kicked off the LPGA's 2009 schedule.
Wie, who won her LPGA card in qualifying school in December, jumped 149 spots in the rankings to 87th in the world with her runner-up finish.
Lorena Ochoa remained the world's top-ranked women's golfer, followed by, in order, Yani Tseng, Paula Creamer, Suzann Pettersen and Jiyai Shin.
Stanford's move to sixth pushed Helen Alfredsson and Cristie Kerr down one spot each to seventh and eighth, respectively. Karrie Webb, ranked ninth, and No. 10 Lee Seon-hwa held on to their previous rankings.
Implants derail model's Olympic dreams
LONDON, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- A model attempting to compete in Olympic boxing cannot take part in competitive bouts due to her breast implants, a boxing group says.
The Amateur Boxing Association of England ruled 25-year-old Sarah Blewden's breast implants represent an increased health risk in regards to competitive boxing matches, The Daily Telegraph said Monday.
"International rules forbid anyone with breast implants continuing to box because of risk of damage to the breast tissue," ABAE Chairman Tony Attwood said.
"The natural breast tissue is pushed forward in front of the implant and it is this that is more at risk."
Blewden has criticized the boxing association's ruling that will significantly hinder her dreams of boxing for Britain in the Olympics.
"My surgeon said they make me no more vulnerable than any other woman," she told the Telegraph of her 32C breasts. "They are not enormous ones -- they are in proportion. They are gel implants and not liquid so they won't burst."
Women's boxing isn't an Olympic sport but an effort is under way to add the event to future Olympic Games.
