Tennis

Hewitt breaks through for Newport title — Australian Lleyton Hewitt won in his third time in the final match at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport, Rhode Island, beating second-seeded Ivo Karlovic of Croatia 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3) on Sunday. The 33-year old Hewitt captured his 30th career ATP title in a match that lasted 2 hours, 30 minutes. Like last year, when he had a chance to serve out the match for the title, Hewitt was broken in the second set and then lost to Nicolas Mahut of France.

Cuevas beats Sousa in Swedish Open final — Pablo Cuevas defeated fifth-seeded Joao Sousa of Portugal 6-2, 6-1 in the Swedish Open final on Sunday at the Bastad Tennis Stadium in Sweden. The 28-year-old Uruguayan, who has fought a serious knee injury for the past three years, won his first ATP tournament. He is currently ranked 111th. The 40th-ranked Sousa was chasing his second ATP title.

Halep wins Bucharest Open — Top-seeded Simona Halep of Romania overpowered second-seeded Roberta Vinci to win the Bucharest Open final in Romania 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for her eighth WTA title. Halep, ranked third in the world, was more consistent from the start and easily took the first set. The 31-year-old Vinci lost her serve to trail 4-2 in the second before Halep won the final game to love and clinched the title in under 70 minutes.

Bautista Agut claims in Mercedes Cup victory — Roberto Bautista Agut defeated Lukas Rosol 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 in the Mercedes Cup final on Sunday in Stuttgart, Germany, for his second career title. Third-seeded Bautista Agut saved five of the six break points he faced and converted three of his six chances to win in 1 hour, 42 minutes. World No. 48 Rosol fired 13 aces to Bautista Agut’s two, but the Czech was unable to prevent the 23rd-ranked Spaniard from claiming his second title in as many months.

Petkovic beats Rogers to win Gastein Ladies — Andrea Petkovic took another step toward a return to the top 10 of the WTA rankings by winning her second title of the season at the Gastein Ladies on Sunday in Bad Gastein, Austria. The 20th-ranked German, who played her first clay-court event since reaching the semifinals at last month’s French Open, beat Shelby Rogers of the United States 6-3, 6-3 to follow up on her victory at Charleston in April.

Baseball

Hudson, Simon, Street, Clippard join NL All-Stars — San Francisco’s Tim Hudson, Cincinnati’s Alfredo Simon, San Diego’s Huston Street and Washington’s Tyler Clippard have been added to the roster for Tuesday’s All-Star game at Target Field as the National League changed about one-third of its pitching staff. They replace a quartet of pitchers who started Sunday: the Giants’ Madison Bumgarner, the Reds’ Johnny Cueto, the Padres’ Tyson Ross and the Atlanta Braves’ Julio Teheran. Hudson, a four-time All-Star, is 7-6 with a 2.87 ERA, and Simon is 12-3 with a 2.70 ERA. Street has 24 saves and a 1.09 ERA, and Clippard is 6-2 with a 2.03 ERA in 43 relief appearances.

Ruth’s Boston contract fetches $1M at auction — Babe Ruth’s 1918 contract with the Boston Red Sox has sold for more than $1 million, along with other baseball memorabilia up for auction in Baltimore. The contract was among about three dozen Ruth-related items up for auction Saturday night at the Sports Legends Museum a day after the 100th anniversary of Ruth’s major league debut. A spokesman for Goldin Auctions says a recently discovered Ruth bat from 1916 to 1918 sold for $214,000. But the first ball Ruth hit over the fence at Yankee Stadium did not reach the minimum price to sell.

— From wire reports