• Fish tops Harrison in L.A., gains final: Mardy Fish fought from behind in the third set to advance to his second straight final, beating teenager Ryan Harrison 6-0, 4-6, 7-6 (3) at the Farmers Classic on Saturday in Los Angeles. Fish and Harrison were playing a rematch of their semifinal last week in Atlanta, where Fish won his first title of the season. Fish has won six career titles but has never reached the final at this tournament. He will play Latvian Ernests Gulbis, who defeated Alex Bogomolov Jr., of the U.S., 6-2, 7-6 (7-4).

• Williams, Bartoli reach final: Serena Williams, who needed nearly a year to recover from surgery, is putting her best foot forward again and playing like a champion. Williams moved into the final of the Bank of the West Classic with an impressive 6-1, 6-2 victory over Germany’s Sabine Lisicki on Saturday night in Stanford, Calif. It’s her first appearance in a final since winning the title at Wimbledon last year and her first final on American soil since losing to Victoria Azarenka in Miami in March of 2009. The unseeded and 169th-ranked Williams will meet third-seeded and ninth-ranked Marion Bartoli, of France, who advanced when Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova withdrew from the other semifinal because of a strained abdominal muscle.