Bryans win Davis Cup doubles

Bob and Mike Bryan beat Dominic Inglot and Colin Fleming, 6-2, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, in doubles to cut the U.S. Davis Cup deficit to 2-1 against Britain in the first-round, best-of-five competition on a red clay court at Petco Park in San Diego. In the final two singles Sunday, it will be Andy Murray of Britain against Sam Querrey, and James Ward of Britain against Donald Young.

Top-seeded Maria Sharapova lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, in an all-Russian semifinal of the Open GDF Suez at Paris. Pavlyuchenkova will play third-seeded Sara Errani of Italy in the final. Errani outlasted Alize Cornet of France, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-6 (5).

WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (29-0, 26 knockouts) beat Osumanu Adama (22-4) by technical knockout in the seventh round at Monaco. Golovkin floored Adama three times.

Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia ran to a women’s world indoor 1,500-meter record, finishing in 3 minutes 55.17 seconds at Karlsruhe, Germany. Dibaba beat the record of 3:58.28 set by Russia’s Elena Soboleva in 2006 at Moscow.

Luis Aragones, the former Spain coach who guided his team to the 2008 European Championship, died in Madrid. He was 75.

Two-time champion Chad Reed held off rookie Ken Roczen to win the supercross race at Angel Stadium. It was Reed’s second win of this off-road motorcycle racing season. Villopoto finished third.

— Jim Peltz

Renan Barao made quick work of Urijah Faber, winning by a technical knockout at 3:22 of the first round while retaining his 135-pound title in the main event of UFC 169 at Newark, N.J.

Libya, coached by former Spain boss Javier Clemente, beat West African power Ghana, 4-3, on penalties in the African Nations Championship soccer final at Cape Town, South Africa.