Juan Monaco of Argentina returns a shot against Ivan Dodig of Croatia during their Men’s Singles Tennis match on Day 1 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon on July 28, 2012 in London, England.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Juan Monaco of Argentina beat Julien Benneteau of France 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 on Sunday to win the Malaysian Open, his fourth title this season.

The 11th-ranked Monaco needed just over three hours to edge out Benneteau in the tournament’s longest match this year for his first hard-court title.

It was the first meeting between Monaco, a clay-court specialist, and the 34th-ranked Benneteau, who beat top-seeded David Ferrer of Spain in the semifinals.

Gasquet beats Simon to win Thailand Open

BANGKOK (AP) — Second-seeded Richard Gasquet won his first tournament of the year when he beat Gilles Simon 6-2, 6-1 in an all-French final of the Thailand Open on Sunday.

The 14th-ranked Gasquet routed the 2009 champion in 68 minutes for his seventh career victory.

Playing with a right knee injury, Simon was up an early break in each set, but Gasquet dominated the rest of the match with more accurate groundstrokes.

Trailing 5-1, Simon saved two match points, but Gasquet hit a backhand crosscourt winner to wrap up the victory.

Petrova beats Radwanska to win Pan Pacific title

TOKYO (AP) — Russia’s Nadia Petrova beat defending champion Agnieska Radwanska 6-0, 1-6, 6-3 on Saturday to win the Pan Pacific Open.

Radwanska double faulted twice in the eighth game of the last set when Petrova broke her to go ahead 5-3 before winning the match in the next game with a smash to the corner.

Petrova won her 12th career title and for the first time in her career beat three top-10 players in the same week: No. 7 Sara Errani, No. 9 Samantha Stosur and No. 3 Radwanska.

The 17th-seeded Russian had a sore back at the start of the tournament but got stronger and stronger with each win.

“To be honest with you, I don’t know where I found the strength and the willpower to fight in the third set,” Petrova said. “This is the biggest tournament I’ve ever won. This is a great accomplishment.”

Radwanska was bidding to become the first player here to win back-to-back titles since Lindsay Davenport in 2003-04.

Petrova got off to a good start, breaking Radwanska in the first game of the match after being down 30-love. She would break her opponent two more times in the first set and looked set for an easy win.

But Radwanska bounced back in the second set, winning the first five games while breaking Petrova twice.

The two players traded games in the final set before Radwanska’s serving problems in the eighth game led to the only break of the set.

“I think I was just trying to do too much,” Radwanska said. “For sure, I shouldn’t do that at that point in the match but there is nothing I can do about it now. ”

It was Petrova’s second title of the season. She won a title earlier this year at `s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.