San Francisco Chronicle

Nishikori, Nadal win at Rogers Cup

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Kei Nishikori beat Pablo Andujar 6-3, 6-3 in the ATP Tour’s Rogers Cup in Montreal.

Seventh-seeded Rafael Nadal, coming off a victory on clay at Hamburg two weeks ago, got his tournament started with a 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory over Sergiy Stakhovsky.

Second-seeded Andy Murray beat Tommy Robredo 6-4, 7-5 in a rain-delayed match that started Tuesday night.

Wednesday’s other winners include Jack Sock, Donald Young, John Isner and defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

At the WTA Tour’s Rogers Cup in Toronto, Ukrainian qualifier Lesia Tsurenko upset Wimbledon finalist Garbine Muguruza 7-5, 6-1.

Muguruza, 21, has risen to No. 9 after her run to the final at Wimbledon, where she lost to Serena Williams.

Simona Halep, Victoria Azarenka and Agnieszka Radwanska also won Wednesday.

Williams will play her thirdround match Thursday night. Golf: USF sophomore Vanessa Ha won her first match-play test at the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Portland (Ore.) Golf Club, upsetting Jennifer Hahn, a 21-year-old Vanderbilt player from Henderson, Nev., 4 and 3.

Hahn was a co-medalist of the stroke-play rounds. Ha survived a playoff Wednesday morning to reach match play. Ha, of Plano, Texas, won four straight holes on the front nine to take a 4-up lead. Hahn twice cut the margin to three holes before falling with a halve on the 15th.

Also, Elizabeth Wang of San Marino (Los Angeles County) beat Stanford senior Mariah Stackhouse 1 up. Diving: Olympian Kristian Ipsen, a De La Salle High and Stanford alum, won the men’s 3-meter title and Florida teenager Brooke Schultz topped the women’s 1-meter field at the USA Diving national championsh­ips in Orlando. Basketball: Frankie Ferrari, who played for Riordan and Burlingame high schools and USF, had 32 points and Angelo Caloiaro had 29 to lead South Bay to a 105-104 overtime win over Bay Pride in the S.F. Bay Area Pro-Am championsh­ip series, which is tied 1-1. The deciding game is at 8 p.m. Friday at Kezar Pavilion.

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