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MELBOURNE, Australia - MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Top-seeded Juan Martin del Potro outclassed defending champion Bernard Tomic 6-3, 6-1 Saturday in a 53-minute final of the Sydney International. Nike Zoom Pegasus 31 Mens Blue . Del Potro finished the match with his eighth ace and made only four unforced errors in securing his 18th career title and first in Sydney. He lost only six points on his serve, and Tomic appeared dispirited after being broken to fall behind 4-1 in the second set. And its about to get more difficult for Tomic. His next match is against top-seeded Rafael Nadal in the first round of the Australian Open. Del Potro will also play his first-round match Tuesday — against a qualifier. In Auckland, New Zealand, John Isner had 23 aces in a match which had no service breaks to beat Lu Yen-hsun of Taiwan 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7) in the final of the Heineken Open. Isner, ranked No. 14, won his eighth career singles title and took the title in New Zealand for the second time after his victory in 2010. The third-seeded Isner, playing with a right ankle injury he picked up at the Hopman Cup the previous week, took a crucial minibreak to open the first set tiebreaker. In the second tiebreaker, he rallied from 3-0 down and closed with an ace on his third championship point. "This match was very tight as every match Ive played this week was very tight," Isner said. "I needed every bit of it to come out on top." Isner heads into the Australian Open with a question mark hanging over his fitness because of his injured ankle. He has drawn a qualifier in the first round. In the final of the Kooyong Classic exhibition event, Japans Kei Nishikori joined his coach Michael Chang as a tournament champion with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Tomas Berdych. Nishikori, seeded No. 16 at the Australian Open, was watched in the stands by Chang, a former French Open champion and a three-time winner at the Melbourne venue in 1995-97. Nishikori is drawn to face Australias Marinko Matosevic in the first round of the Australian Open. "It wont be an easy first match, and its not easy to play an Australian," Nishikori said. "But if I can play like I did today, I have a big chance to win." In the WTA event at Hobart, Spanish qualifier Garbine Muguruza defeated Klara Zakapalova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-0 to claim her first singles title. The 20-year-old Muguzura, who did not drop a set from the qualifiers to the final, joins 2012 champion Mona Barthel as the only qualifiers to win the Hobart event. Muguruza, ranked 58th, beat second-seeded and Wimbledon semifinalist Kirsten Flipkens in the quarterfinals, while Zakapalova defeated top-seeded and former U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur in the semis. 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The Games in southern Russia, which run from Feb. 7-23, are being staged amid unprecedented security and under global warnings of danger.MOSCOW -- CSKA Moscow equalized from the last kick of the match when Pontus Wernbloom scrambled the ball into the net, giving the Russian club a 1-1 draw against Real Madrid in the last 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday. The Swedish midfielders debut game for CSKA ended with him poking the ball home in the third minute of stoppage time in the first leg at Luzhniki Stadium. Madrid had won all previous six matches in the competition this season and it was the first away goal conceded this campaign. Wernblooms goal came after CSKA missed several opportunities following Cristiano Ronaldos 28th-minute goal, which appeared to have the put the visitors on course for victory in a match played in subzero temperatures and on artificial turf. Ronaldo scored his 36th goal of the season after CSKA had failed to clear Fabio Coentraos cross from the left, the ball bouncing for the Portugal forward to strike a left-footed shot into the net. "Our opponents were tough and the match was hard," Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said. "Our opponents did very little to score but got their goal. They were very happy to get that. We had our chances, especially in the second half, but we didnt convert them. In the end ... Im satisfied with the result." The return leg at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid is on March 14. Initially, CSKA goalkeeper Sergei Chepchugov kept his side in the contest with Madrids poor finishing ruining a number of chances. It was the hosts first competitive match this year with the Russian league starting on March 3, and their lack of fluency showed compared to the familiarity displayed by Madrids playerss. Buy Nike Zoom Pegasus 31 Black. Madrid had to be patient to begin with, CSKA midfielder Alan Dzagoev volleying Georgi Schennikovs cross wide in the seventh minute. Madrid lost Karim Benzema to injury on the quarter-hour mark, the France striker giving way to Gonzalo Higuain. The Argentina forwards first shot was saved two minutes later and Chepchugov rose from the ground to stop Sami Khediras follow-up attempt. Madrids defence snuffed out many of CSKAs attacks, and the visitors went down the other end to score when Coentrao found Ronaldo and a failed headed clearance allowed the Portugal striker to smash a shot under Chepchugov. CSKA striker Seydou Doumbia headed a good chance wide just before the break, and while the hosts continued to create after the restart, it was Madrid that looked closer to scoring. Playing because Angel di Maria was injured, Madrid winger Jose Callejon fired wildly wide in a clear chance before Chepchugov saved his point-blank attempt in the 52nd. CSKA had its share of chances. CSKA winger Ahmed Musa broke away in the 62nd but his poor effort was easily held by goalkeeper Iker Casillas, while Dzagoev then missed Sekou Olisehs well-placed cross. But Madrid paid for its failure to put the game away. Chepchugov saved Sergio Ramos header in the 76th, before an unmarked Ronaldo inside the area rolled his shot just wide of the post with the goalkeeper beaten. "It was great to get the injury-time goal and it really gives us a chance going into the second leg," CSKA coach Leonid Slutsky said. "Wernbloom is the hero with the goal, of course. But he played a good defensive game on the whole." cheap nfl jerseys cheap jerseys cheap jerseys cheap jerseys cheap nfl jerseys wholesale jerseys ' ' '