LAS VEGAS: Felix Trinidad of Puerto Rico, with a burst of activity in the last three rounds, squeezed out a majority decision over Mexican-American Oscar de la Hoya to add the World Boxing Council welterweight title to his International Boxing Federation crown.

The decision stunned many ringsiders, who said they thought de la Hoya had built a substantial lead with hard jabs that appeared to keep Trinidad from getting inside for most of the 12-round battle of 26-year-old, 147-pound (66.6 kg) fighters.

US lead Russia 2-0 in Fed Cup final

STANFORD: Lindsay Davenport and Venus Williams put US Open disappointments behind them and won their opening singles to give the United States a 2-0 lead over Russia in the Fed Cup tennis championship final.

Venus opened the best-of-five match tie with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Russian No 1 Elena Likhovtseva. Davenport defeated 17-year-old Russian Elena Dementieva 6-4, 6-0.

247-run victory for Australia

COLOMBO:Australia geared themselves up for the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka with a convincing 247-run victory over a Board XI team minutes before tea on the final day of their three-day tour match.

BRIEF SCORES

Australia 226 & 296-5 decl (M Slater 119, M Waugh 43, S Katich 36 not out) bt Board XI 185 & 90 (Prasanna Jayawardhane 40; D Fleming 3-25, Scott Muller 2-24).

Barada falls to England's Johnson

CAIRO: Egypt's Ahmed Barada, who was soundly beaten in Thursday's World Open singles championship, went down to another demoralising defeat when he was felled by Englishman Paul Johnson in the world team championship -- England, the reigning champions, won the tie 2-1. The English left-hander, ranked fourth in the world and competing in his first World Team championships, beat Barada, who had been beaten by Scotland's Peter Nicol in Thursday's singles final, 9-0, 5-9, 9-2, 9-3.