seeded Nikolay Davydenko beat defending champion Juan Monaco 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 Saturday to win the Hypo Group International for a third time. It was Davydenko's 13th ATP title overall and second of the season after winning the Masters Series event in Miami, Florida last month. The fourth-ranked Russian - who also won this tournament in 2005 and 2006 - was in command of the first set after breaking Monaco in the opening game. In the semifinals, Davydenko beat his Russian compatriot Igor Kunitsyn 6-3, 6-2, and second-seeded Monaco saved three match points before beating Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia 6-4, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4). Radwanska triumphs Polish second seed Agnieszka Radwanska warmed up for the French Open by beating top-seed and defending champion Elena Dementieva 6-3, 6-2 to win the final of the 200,000-dollar WTA Istanbul tournament on Saturday. The 19-year-old, ranked 15th in the world, had a shaky start and lost the first two games, but broke Dementieva's serve in the third game to surge through and dominate the match. “I was nervous in the beginning, but I woke up and tried to play my game,” Radwanska said after her morale-boosting victory just ahead of the French Open which begins Sunday. “It was a very good match,” she added. In the semifinals on Friday, Dementieva beat sixth-seeded Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan, 6-2, 6-4, and Radwanska defeated Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria 7-6 (1), 3-6, 6-1 on Friday. Medina Garrigues wins In Paris, Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain battled through the rain to beat Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia 4-6, 7-6, 6-0 in the Strasbourg International final on Saturday. Fifth-seeded Srebotnik was one set and 2-1 up when the match was suspended due to the weather after one hour and 14 minutes. After the restart, sixth-seeded Garrigues clawed her way back into the game, winning the second-set tiebreak 7-4 before wrapping up the third set 6-0 after two hours and 31 minutes. Simon wins Casablanca In Casablanca, France's Gilles Simon won the Casablanca ATP tournament on Saturday with a 7-5, 6-2 victory over Julien Benneteau before quickly flying back to Paris for the French Open. Simon and Benneteau took the same plane home back to Paris a day before the tournament at Roland Garros starts. The 35th world-ranked Simon made the most of unforced errors from Benneteau in the second set to claim victory. Simon, who entered the tournament too late to be seeded and had to play in the qualifying rounds, was better technically and physically throughout the match. – Agencies Sweden wins World Team event DUSSELDORF – Sweden beat Russia 2-1 in the final to win the World Team Championships on the clay courts here on Saturday for its fourth title after 1988, 1991 and 1995. The 44th world-ranked Robin Soderling took part in both winning rubbers, first beating 16th-ranked Mikhail Youzhny 6-3, 6-1 before teaming up with Robert Lindstedt to beat Mikhail Youzhny and Dimitry Tursunov 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), 11-9 in the doubles. In the other singles match, Igor Andreev got a consolation victory for Russia by beating Thomas Johasson 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 but it did not stop Russia falling to their fourth losing final after 2000, 2001 and 2002. The winner received $457,600, and the losing finalist $300,000.
