Andy Murray withstood his toughest test of the tournament, prevailing against Juan Martin Del Potro, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3), 6-1, in the final of the $3 million Rogers Cup at Montreal.

Third-seeded Murray, from Scotland, matched his career best from last season with his fifth tournament win of the year and improved his record to 11-4 against top-10 players this season.

Del Potro, from Argentina, was looking for his second tournament victory in a row after winning in Washington a week earlier. He squandered an opportunity to jump past Andy Roddick into fifth in the world rankings.

The match turned when Del Potro called for the trainer while up, 6-5, in the second set. After the medical timeout, Murray held serve at love and won the tiebreaker.

Serb Jelena Jankovic, who rose to the top of the rankings a year ago, knocked off the current No. 1, Dinara Safina, 6-4, 6-2, to win the $2 million Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Mason, Ohio. It was only her second title of the year, a sign of her hard times. Plus, she was coming off one of the toughest matches of her career, a three-set victory over Elena Dementieva Saturday night, when she was on the heat-baked court for 2 hours, 46 minutes. She couldn't believe she won the semifinal after falling behind, 6-2, in the decisive tiebreaker.

The Captain is back with the New York Rangers. Mark Messier, who in 1994 led the Rangers to their first Stanley Cup title in 54 years, is returning to the club as a special assistant to general manager Glen Sather.

Messier, a six-time Cup champion as a player, has not been shy in recent years about his desire to eventually run a team as GM. This could be the first step in the process that might lead Messier replacing Sather when the current GM's tenure with the Rangers is over.

Janel McCarville scored 19 points, including the victory-clinching three-point play with 9.1 seconds remaining, in the New York Liberty's 60-59 victory against the host Washington Mystics in the WNBA. Shameka Christon scored 14 points for the Liberty (9-15), which lost its two previous meetings with the Mystics this season.

Alana Beard scored 11 of her 18 points in the fourth quarter, including a layup with 23.3 seconds left to put the Mystics (12-12) ahead, 59-57. It was Washington's lowest point total this season.

On the next possession, the Liberty worked the ball around to McCarville, who tossed in a floater from the lane that bounced around before falling into the basket. She was fouled by Crystal Langhorne and then used a shooter's touch on the free throw to give the Liberty a 60-59 lead.

Beard sent a pass to Lindsey Harding on the left wing, but Harding shot an airball on a long jumper as the horn sounded.

The U.S. Olympic Committee postponed plans for its own television network, in deference to the International Olympic Committee's wishes. The negative reaction came mainly from the IOC and TV partner NBC. All of it seemed to be hurting the effort to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago.

Drew Livingston, the 2009 NCAA 1-meter diving champion from Texas, earned his first national title, winning the senior men's platform at the U.S. Summer Diving Championships in Tallahassee, Fla. Livingston entered the final round of competition 0.9 behind nine-time national champion Thomas Finchum. Both attempted the same dive in the final round, a back 2 1/2 somersault with 2 1/2 twists, and Livingston outscored Finchum by 15.2 points for the crown.