Former champion Robby Ginepri and 2008 runner- up Prakash Amritraj posted first-round wins, while fourth-seeded German Benjamin Becker came up a loser Monday at the $500,000 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.

INDIANAPOLIS Michael Phelps has a sense of how his transformation from greatest middle-distance swimmer to sprinter is going. He'll have to prove it at the U.S. national championships, where there's more at stake than just titles.

Roger Federer's wait was only 12 months, while Serena Williams returned to the Wimbledon winner's circle for the first time in six years this past weekend.

FC Dallas forward Jeff Cunningham was voted Major League Soccer's Player of the Week for Week 16, it was announced on Monday.

NEWPORT, R.I. Prakash Amritraj of India and Taylor Dent of the United States won their opening matches at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships on Monday.

INDIANAPOLIS Harvey Glance of Alabama and Chandra Cheeseborough of Tennessee State will coach the U.S. track and field team at the world championships in Berlin next month.

BUDAPEST, Hungary Sixth-seeded Alona Bondarenko of Ukraine has beaten Karolina Sprem of Croatia 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 in the first round of the GDF Suez Grand Prix in Budapest.

Fifth-seeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea and sixth-seeded Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova were among Monday's first-round winners at the inaugural $220,000 Swedish Open.

Sixth-seeded Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko highlighted Monday's opening-round winners at the $220,000 GDF Suez Grand Prix tennis tournament.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Andre Agassi is coming back to the U.S. Open.

NEWPORT, R.I. Top-seeded Mardy Fish has withdrawn from the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships after replacing Andy Roddick on the United States Davis Cup team.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland Usain Bolt is ready to chase more records.

LA GRANDE-MOTTE, France If age is Lance Armstrong's enemy, then experience is his friend.

LA GRANDE MOTTE, France Lance Armstrong will be fined for failing to sign in before Monday's third stage of the Tour de France.

Wimbledon runner-up Andy Roddick pulled out of this week's Davis Cup quarterfinal against host Croatia, citing a hip injury.

WIMBLEDON, England Roger Federer certainly is not ready to stop at a record 15 Grand Slam titles.

LONDON Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt plans to run in the 400-meter relay at the London Grand Prix, where he'd already committed to race in the 100.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand Howard Thompkins III scored 22 points and the United States stayed perfect with an 85-69 win over Greece in a second-round game at the FIBA under-19 world championships Monday.

WIMBLEDON, England Roger Federer is back at No. 1.