Sports in brief

Published 12:00 am Saturday, June 23, 2018

FOOTBALL

49ers sign OL Tomlinson to 3-year extension — The San Francisco 49ers have signed offensive lineman Laken Tomlinson to a three-year contract extension through the 2021 season. The 6-foot-3, 315-pound Tomlinson started 15 games for the 49ers at left guard last season. He was acquired from the Lions last summer. Detroit made Tomlinson the 28th overall selection in the 2015 draft. In all, he has appeared in 47 NFL games. “Laken is a very talented player who has improved consistently since joining the team one week before last year’s season opener,” 49ers general manager John Lynch said. “This offseason, his hard work and dedication paid off as he continued to progress and performed at a high level. We were confident we could work out a contract extension with Laken and we are fired up to get that done before training camp.” The 26-year-old Tomlinson was a 2014 All-America lineman at Duke.

TENNIS

Landmark win as Djokovic reaches Queen’s semis — Novak Djokovic became the 10th man to register 800 victories since the Open Era began in 1968 when he beat France’s Adrian Mannarino 7-5 6-1 on Friday in London to reach the Queen’s Club semifinals. Djokovic, a 12-time Grand Slam champion, follows in the footsteps of Jimmy Connors (1,256), Roger Federer (1,156), Ivan Lendl (1,068), Guillermo Vilas (949), Rafael Nadal (903), John McEnroe (881), Andre Agassi (870), Ilie Nastase (846) and Stefan Edberg (801). Djokovic, through to the semifinals for only the second time since last year’s Eastbourne International, next meets France’s Jeremy Chardy after he defeated American Frances Tiafoe 6-4 6-4. Top-seeded Marin Cilic also advanced with a 7-6 (3) 6-2 win over 2010 champion Sam Querrey. Cilic now faces Nick Kyrgios, who eliminated defending champion Feliciano Lopez 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3).

Federer advances to Halle semifinals — Roger Federer defeated Matthew Ebden 7-6 (2), 7-5 to reach the semifinals of the Gerry Weber Open grasscourt event on Friday in Halle, Germany. The defending champion was made to work hard by Ebden, who saved five of the eight break points he faced and led 5-3 in the second set. Federer, who saved two match points against Benoit Paire the day before, recovered to go 6-5 up and then broke serve to set up a meeting with American qualifier Denis Kudla, who beat Japan’s Yuichi Sugita 6-2, 7-5. Roberto Bautista Agut will play Borna Coric in the other semifinal. Bautista Agut defeated Karen Khachanov 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-3, while Coric prevailed 7-5, 6-3 against Andreas Seppi. Federer, who claimed his 18th grasscourt title in Stuttgart on Sunday, is three wins from matching Jimmy Connors’s all-time record of 174 victories on grass.

OLYMPICS

Chuck Vinci, champion weight lifter, dies at 85 — Chuck Vinci, a former shoeshine boy from Cleveland whose gold medals in weight lifting at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics were the last to be won by an American man, died June 13 in Westlake, Ohio. He was 85. His son Curt said the cause was congestive heart failure. Vinci (pronounced VIN-see) achieved far more than glory in Ohio. He is considered one of the greatest weightlifters of all time. He was also one of the smallest: At just under 5 feet, he competed in the 123-pound class. One of his nicknames was the Mighty Mite. Vinci’s Olympic performances came at the end of a dominating era for U.S. weightlifters. U.S. men won four gold medals apiece in the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Summer Games. In 1960, he was the only gold medalist among U.S. weightlifters.

— From wire reports

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