Overtime

Tennis

Roddick holds off Ljubicic to advance

In Indianapolis, top seed Andy Roddick fell into a big deficit and faced three match points before coming back to beat Ivan Ljubicic, 1-6, 7-6 (10), 7-6 (3) in the RCA Championships semifinals.

Roddick, who improved to 14-1 in tiebreakers since the French Open, will face Nicolas Kiefer or Gregory Carraz in today's final. The second-ranked American is trying to become the tournament's first repeat champion since Pete Sampras in 1991-92.

"He outplayed me for two sets, plain and simple," Roddick said. "I was a little luckier than he was. I'd like to take credit for today, but I don't know."

It was their first match since Ljubicic railed against Roddick after losing to him at the U.S. Open last year. The Croatian said then Roddick was too loud and was unliked by other players.

Davenport led 7-5, 2-0 in the JPMorgan Chase Open semifinals when Williams retired because of a right wrist injury. Williams said she tweaked it while pushing off her arms to get up after tying her shoe two hours before the match.

A doctor diagnosed it as a sprain and advised her to rest until Monday, when she will be re-evaluated.

Davenport advanced to today's final for the eighth time in nine years, having won three times. She will play either top-seeded Serena Williams or No. 4 Elena Dementieva, who met in an evening semifinal.

College Basketball

Clemons applies to Livingstone College

Former Missouri basketball player Ricky Clemons has applied for admission to Livingstone College in North Carolina.

Sports information director Adrian Ferguson confirmed Clemons' application and said he has not yet been accepted for enrollment.

Ferguson said the university probably would not be able to offer Clemons an athletic scholarship because no basketball scholarships were currently available.

Clemons' claims that he was paid by former coaches at Missouri are at the center of a still-unresolved NCAA investigation.

Clemons was released from the Missouri program after serving 60 days in a Boone County jail for assault and false imprisonment. His probation transferred to North Carolina in January.

Horse Racing

Jockey fractures ribs, vertabra in fall

In Del Mar, Calif., jockey Alex Solis, who was leading riders in North America in winnings this year, fractured three ribs and a vertebra in his back in a one-horse spill.

Solis was injured Friday when filly Golden K K fell while attempting to turn into the stretch in the third race, Solis' agent, Scott McClellan, said in a statement released by Del Mar .

Solis was hospitalized at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla. The hospital declined to release his condition.

The horse was not injured, the track said.

The Panama-born Solis had won $11.5 million so far this year.

Gymnastics

German gymnast out of intensive care

In Berlin, paralyzed gymnast Ronny Ziesmer was released from intensive care, two weeks after the German Olympic hopeful broke his neck during a fall in practice.

Ziesmer, who will turn 25 on Monday, broke a neck vertebra and damaged his spinal cord while executing a double somersault on the rings July 12. His arms and legs have been paralyzed since.

His club, SC Cottbus, said he has been moved to the regular clinic at the Berlin trauma hospital, which also treated Alex Zanardi, the CART driver who lost both his legs in a crash in Germany.

Walter Schaffartzik, chief of the clinic, said the spinal cord injuries are irreversible.