West held out of James-O'Neal debut

Maria Sharapova won her first tournament since returning from a 10-month injury layoff when Jelena Jankovic retired because of an arm injury in the first set of the Toray Pan Pacific final in Tokyo. Sharapova was up, 5-2, when Jankovic, the seventh seed, took a timeout to have her arm examined by a trainer. Jankovic returned and lost the first two points of the eighth game before retiring . . . Viktor Troicki upset defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3, to reach the Thailand Open final in Bangkok. The fourth-seeded Troicki will face Gilles Simon, who beat Jurgen Melzer, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3) . . . Ana Ivanovic withdrew from the China Open because of an upper respiratory infection.

Summer Bird outdueled Quality Road in the stretch to win the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park for his third straight Grade 1 victory. Under Kent Desormeaux, Summer Bird took the lead when the field of seven turned for home on a sloppy track, and then held off a determined Quality Road by a neck to stake his claim as the top 3-year-old male horse . . . Bold Chieftain won the $200,000 California Cup Classic after wagering favorite Grazen sustained a career-ending injury while leading in the stretch at Santa Anita. Grazen led all the way in the 1 1/8-mile race until jockey Garrett Gomez pulled the 3-year-old gray colt up past the eighth pole, allowing Bold Chieftain to come from behind and win by 1 1/2 lengths. Grazen injured his right front tendon, with trainer Mike Mitchell saying it appeared he tore it. Blackbriar, a 50-1 shot, broke the sesamoid bone in his right front leg and was euthanized.

Tom Watson took a four-stroke lead at the Senior Players Championship in Timonium, Md., shooting a bogey-free 6-under-par 64 at Baltimore Country Club. Watson was at 12-under 198, four shots better than Loren Roberts, John Cook and Mark Wiebe . . . Defending champion Lorena Ochoa shot a 6-under 66 (16-under 200) in Prattville, Ala., to take a three-stroke lead in the Navistar LPGA Classic, leaving 14-year-old Alexis Thompson eight strokes behind. . . . Scott Piercy had a 6-under 66 for a share of the lead with Matt Kuchar after the third round of the Turning Stone Resort Championship in Verona, N.Y. Kuchar’s 67 matched Piercy’s 14-under 202.

David Beckham is in talks with the Galaxy about going to AC Milan on another loan and then returning to Los Angeles. “That deal I think hasn’t been fully finalized yet, but I know he is interested in going to Milan and he’s in conversation with the LA Galaxy about doing a loan again and discussing coming back,’’ Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber said. . . The United States Under-20 World Cup team was eliminated when Costa Rica lost to the Czech Republic, 3-2, but reached the knockout stage on goal difference, scoring one more than the United States . . . Defenseman Rostislav Klesla, the Blue Jackets’ first draft pick in 2000, signed a four-year extension through the 2013-14 season . . . Browns rookie running back James Davis was placed on injured reserve and will miss the rest of the season with a shoulder injury.