At the France Open, Djokovic gets 41st victory online

Although Novak Djokovic is man of tennis of the moment, there is a long path, would long to go before it address most of the many achievements of Roger Federer.

For the moment to go really, that it is not useful to talk about.

Yet, there is an area in which, as of Wednesday, the two men are equal: Djokovic was credited with his 41st consecutive victory - corresponding to the best séguedille of the career of Federer - when the second round opponent Victor Hanescu of left Romania Garros due to injury to his left leg.

"I do not think when this record - this incredible record - will end." Therefore I assumes that the mental approach to the right, "said Djokovic seeded second, used to love 6-4, 6-1, 2-3, 30 - when Hanescu decided to stop playing at Court Philippe Chatrier."

It is a much quieter theatre and less ending that what occurred a few hours later, the Court 1. Sabine Lisicki of Germany was disturbed by dizziness, and muscle cramps and was taken on a stretcher, sobbing, after losing a match point and a 5-2 lead in the third set to defeat 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 to Grand Slam finalist Vera Zvonareva Russia twice. Lisicki was treated by a trainer - including a blood pressure check - in changes.

"I hope she feels OK," said the No. 3-seeded Zvonareva. "Anything, I had to continue to do my job.

Also reaching the third round: No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki Denmark, former champions Francesca Schiavone to Italy and Svetlana Kuznetsova Russia, finalist in 2010 Sam Stosur in the Australia and non-seeded Bethanie Mattek-sands in the United States.

Men's winners included no. 3 Federer, no. 7 David Ferrer, the Spain and three French: No. 9 Gael Monfils, no. 13 No. 17 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Richard Gasquet.

Federer has improved its mark of second round of career in the 42 - 0 Grand slam tournaments by beating French wild-card entry Maxime Teixeira 6-3, 6-0, 6-2. Teixeira is classified 181 st and never played a game of Tower-level until victory in the first round Sunday.

Federer, with the French Open 2009 in Grand Slam record 16 titles, knows what it is like to be the inexperienced kid over the net of one of the largest of the game. Back on October 6, 1998, Federer played his sixth career against Andre Agassi in Basel, Switzerland and lost game 6 - 3, 6-2.

You know, on the one hand, that "cannot win", said Federer, who went on a 41-match unbeaten run from August 2006 to March 2007. "And if you win, it's like a miracle."

Against Teixeira, Federer has won 13 matches in a row in one stretch.

"It is when I started to panic,"Said Teixeira."."

Record of 23 consecutive Grand Slam semifinals Federer ended with a loss in quarter-final French Open a year ago. If he makes it to the semi-finals this time, he could meet Djokovic.

"He has had many striations and a lot of files that it has broken." I mean, look, he won the Grand Slam. It is the most successful tennis player ever. "There is not much to say on this," said Djokovic, who beat Federer in the semi-finals in the last two major tournaments. "I mean, it is incredible what he has done throughout his career.

Djokovic asked what he must do to continue his current run, which began with two WINS in Davis Cup in December and includes a 39-0 in 2011 start, responded: "stay focused, dedicated, motivated." I am still only 24. I still have many years to come. It was the best five, six months of my career. And I am very satisfied with the way I play.

King Felix dominates Padres Mariners' 6-1 victory

 Felix Hernandez put a giant exclamation point on a weekend vibrant for the Seattle Mariners.

Hernandez has linked his career with 13 striped and the Mariners completed a sweep of three matches with a 6-1 win over the San Diego Padres, Sunday.

"I felt like he was throw the ball as well as we have seen this year for a good part of the game", said Seattle manager Eric Wedge. "It was kind of to grind through it, the last two rounds."

Hernandez (5-4) allowed one run and six hits without a walk as the Mariners won their fifth straight. They hold an advantage Commander on San Diego in runs (14-2) and (32-14) crashes while substitution of 35 Padres batters in the series.

"I don't like to give credit to the opposing ballot boxes, but these guys threw well this weekend," said Padres Bud Black Manager.

Browsers have allowed two runs or less in their last seven games. They held the Padres to six hits or less in each of the three games.

"This is an incredible from (personal)," catcher Miguel Olivo Seattle said. "We just put a few tracks on the Commission and we were doing and winning games.".

Hernandez, AL, reigning Cy Young Award winner, kept the miserly pace. He has given up three singles in the seventh to only run in San Diego, but struck out seven of the nine hitters during part of the second to fourth.

"We made an excellent job and not not only the pitchers," said Hernandez. "We have been brilliant it and works hard."

The he did not walk a batter that he has recovered a skid of two-start. Hernandez improved his record interligue to 11-4 with a 2.75 ERA in 20 career starts.

Seattle Mariners' Mike Wilson connects for a double in the fourth round of a game against the San Diego Padres baseball, May 21, 2011 in San Diego.

"He did great," Olivo said. "" "". It was very compatible with the changeup and the cursor. "He throws all days, but (Sunday), it was more consistent."

Hernandez also struck August 13 last 10 against Oakland. He has whipped up batting of 10 or more 11 times in his career.

"It was good, no doubt about it," said black. "He had all his weapons, and when to stake you a lead, I think it gets stronger.". It is a favorite. ?

Starting Seattle pitchers have undergone at least seven rounds in nine starts straight and 14 of 17 games this month. The last seven games, starters allowed just four runs earned.

"He was outstanding the way these guys have passed the torch to the next guy for the next departure will continue," said Wedge. "Their focus and preparation have been remarkable."

Carlos Peguero and Brendan Ryan had a two-run double to pace the offence of browsers which came into the game with an average of the lowest of AL and trails second-less in the majors.

"I feel like it was one of our best games with respect to obtaining good at - bats", Wedge said. "We left many runners on at the beginning, but it retained heat."

San Diego has lost four of the five on its eight-game homestand. During this stretch, the Padres scored five races on 29 hits with 52 rifled.

Loss dropped by House of San Diego 8-18 record, worst in the NL. The Padres have lost 14 of 17 in Seattle at Petco Park.

Tim Stauffer (0-3) waived three runways and a high season 10 hits, including the Peguero two-run double in the third, over six rounds. The damage could have been worse, but Stauffer stranded nine runners in the first five rounds.

Corey Luebke began the seventh and gave up singles to Adam Kennedy and Olivo. Ryan then greeted analgesic advance Luke Gregerson with a one-out double to drive in two runs and give Seattle a 5 - 0.

Olivo had three of the 15 Seattle hits and scored three runs. Franklin Gutierrez added an RBI single in the ninth.

Only San Diego run came after a leadoff single by Chase Headley in the seventh. With a fate, Cameron Maybin designated and Chris Denorfia designated two-out marked Headley.

NOTES: Hernandez is the fourth player in Mariners history to strike out of 13 years of age without issuing a walk. The last to do so was Randy Johnson in 1997. ... Hernandez allowed two earned runs or less in nine of his 11 starts. ... San Diego frappeurs struck out of 391 times, tops in the majors.

TOMS gatherings to Colonial for 13th career victory

 David Toms started to wonder if he could never win on the PGA Tour again. He now has the most satisfying victory of all.

More than five years after he last won, a week after having lost series and a day after blowing a seven-stroke lead at Colonial to go in the final round behind, the 44-year-old Toms shot a 3-under 67 Sunday to win at Hogan Alley.

"I am not dreaming, am I?". It is actually prepared, right? "TOMS was asked when he entered the interview room wearing plaid championship jacket. "Wow, I knew this day would never come back."

TOMS was recovering the lead for good of Charlie Wi with an eagle with a shot corner of 83 yards on the 11th hole by-5 and completed 15 sub - a coup in advance Wi.

"It is one of the most perfect shots that I never touched," said Toms.

Career of 13 long-elusive of Toms victory took a week after a playoff loss K.J. Choi at The Players Championship, when he missed a putt short on the extra hole for his sixth finalist since the last victory in January 2006 at the Sony Open in Hawaii.

"To win after this time and come back after what happened last week certainly more to means me that any other victory, said Toms, the 2001 PGA Championship winner."

David Toms tees off on the third hole during the final phase in the Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas golf tournament, Sunday, May 22, 2011. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Wi began the final round with a One-Shot lead that rapidly expanded with birdies on the first two holes. He finished with a 69 for his fourth career finalist finish without a victory.

"It's great to finish second on the PGA Tour at any time, but it's a little bitter," said Wi. "I had a three-shot lead after the first two holes and think that I have had a fairly good handle on myself, in the control.". ... I certainly did it give him. He was certainly him won. ?

After this loss of playoffs at TPC Sawgrass, Toms had an opening 62 at Colonial for his best round score in 429 - since a 61 career-best during his victory in Hawaii. TOMS followed with another 62 bogey free to match the PGA Tour marking record for the first 36 holes of a tournament (124) and opened the third round with another birdie.

17 As 37 holes and control apparently, Toms had rather three bogies in the next five holes. There was later a three to seven feet for double bogey putt and Wi took the lead with a birdie from 32 feet by-3 Saturday 16.

WI, aged 39, who made his 100th cut on the PGA Tour this weekend, the South Korean was the opening of two birdies Sunday while playing partner Toms missed two Greens but pars managed.

TOMS finally caught up to 13 under after Wi missed the green with his approach to the tenth by-4 and two row of 13 feet for a bogey.

"The momentum I think started (change) on 10, because I was a blow ahead of him and I was in the middle of the channel" said Wi. "The killer was my poor player on 12".

The Toms tire entered the longest Colonial, the 635-yard 11th hole.

After laying up to a place perfect short green and the ball of the Wi sat in a front bunker, corner of Toms shot 83 yards bounced arrives once, just behind the PIN and then restored in Cup.

"When something like that happens, it is as it is supposed to me," said Toms.

TOMS Pompée his arms over his head with a broad smile on his face before Wi blown 4? feet for a birdie putt that still had a shot behind.

Vettel wins fourth F1 victory in five races this year.

Barcelona, Spain - formula 1 Chief Sebastian Vettel held off the coast of Lewis Hamilton to win the Grand Prize of Spain Sunday before his nearest championship competitor to capture his fourth victory in five races this season.

The Red Bull Driver took the lead for good after the second round of pit stops Hamilton defeated by 0.6 second and extend his lead in the standings with 41 points on his McLaren rival.

The German lost the use of its power boost KERS and Hamilton nestled in behind him, but Vettel cling in advance on the final dozen towers, becoming the fifth winner 21 races on the Circuit de Catalunya, which did not start on the pole and the first in the last 11 events.

Alvaro BarrientosSebastian Vettel won his first Spanish Grand Prix Sunday for his fourth victory in five F1 races.

"Many people, said today would be a race - this is why I am even more pleased, we did," Vettel said. "" "". The last 10 tours, I felt tires go and I was praying. At the top of that sometimes KERS on, sometimes off KERS. This is not an easy race.

"But it was a great result and confirmation, we are very strong."

Teammate Red Bull Mark Webber started on the pole, but finished fourth behind Jenson Button McLaren, then that Fernando Alonso to Ferrari led during the first 18 rounds before settling in hot conditions in the fifth.

Principal of Team Red Bull Christian Horner called the "courageous" ing performance

"It was a show of World Championship today," said Horner.

First Spanish victory of Vettel him 118 points after five races, while Hamilton remains with 77's nearest rival his and Webber is third with 67. Alonso remained fifth in the standings with 51 points - 10 behind fourth place button - despite a gutsy from his public start.

Alonso steamed up the inside past three main for lead in the first turn, with concern Webber on Spanish for Vettel to everything the world outside to keep the second.

Alonso took his advance to the second round of stops, when Ferrari driver reappeared behind Vettel and Hamilton and Webber, who hired Alonso in a number of overtaking swaps, but could not go ahead until after the final round of the cases.

"Fernando was two Red Bulls up so I could keep with them," said Hamilton, only other race winner this season. "We can't be disappointed with today."

Button remained off as the leaders went in to change a tire third and better adhesion of the McLaren driver allowed him to obtain the last Webber and Alonso third by Midway. Button, the winner of 2009 here, built enough of a benefit and was the only car among the five top not to go on a three-stop strategy.

"My first round was an unmitigated disaster," said Button, who dropped 11 of the early fifth. "But I managed to pass the with a fantastic strategy."

Hamilton began to make gains when Vettel lost his KERS, but he could not cross despite the blow of an additional inch of exceedance and the adjustable rear wing also offering additional boost.

Button and Webber completed in the second 50 Vettel, while Alonso and the rest of the field have been thrust by the top two.

Alonso said failure of Ferrari to use a rear wing that could have found illegal hurt chances of the Italian team, but double champion of the world was always satisfied despite a gap growing with Red Bull as teammate Felipe Massa has not yet finished after sliding off.

"We have suffered a real lack of support, but the Red Bull gap is more or less the same year it was last in Monaco and we were competitive here may be that we can be again," said Alonso. "See this is happening because there is still time - Championship can change in a matter of race, as we saw last year."

Michael Schumacher won sixth for his best result of the season from his teammate Nico Rosberg Mercedes, while Nick Heidfeld finished eighth after from last in the Renault garage. Rookie Sergio Perez driver and Kamui Kobayashi rounded out the top 10 for Sauber.

Finishing in ninth place of Perez made him the first driver Mexican to finish in the points in 30 years.

The next race is the Grand Prix of Monaco next Sunday.

Kenseth takes away late at Dover a second victory

DOVER,.-first idea of Matt Kenseth was to jump the pit road, take a chance that he could begin on a reboot first and hang a victory.

Then, he had another idea. Why not just take two tires on the road to the sky instead of four?

Matt Kenseth tamed the Monster Mile in improbable fashion, Sunday, using a pari pit-stop on the segment to deny the most dominant drivers of 400 of FedEx - Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards. With his No. 17 Ford on jack, Kenseth called the audible and said team Chief Jimmy Fennig that he wanted two.

"Two tires! Two tires! "Fennig said.

His crew has the switch before they abandoned the car and that was the perfect strategy Kenseth needed to win the Sprint Cup at Dover International Speedway Sunday race.

Kenseth led the final 32 towers to win for the second time this season. Also, he won in Texas and became the third driver to win twice this season.

Altered pursuant to rules of the NASCAR qualifying for the hunt for the Championship to focus on wins, Kenseth has strengthened its bid for the field with his second victory.

"My mind is to be there and try to carry out these points in the Chase and try to hunt as a Championship," said Kenseth. "We do not want to drag out victories." We want to go out there and as each race this week. ?

Mark Martin was second and third Marcos Ambrose. Kyle Busch and Brian Vickers rounded out the top five. Busch was forced to start at the back of the field due to a change of engine.

Russ Hamilton Sr.Matt Kenseth celebrates after winning the Sprint Cup race at Dover for his second victory of the season.

Kenseth made debut at Dover Cup in 1998 as a fill in for Bill Elliott. He won for the second time in the Cup on the road series concrete high-turns, 1 mile.

"It is one of these tracks is a challenge to bypass the Rapids, if you are an individual races or not", said Kenseth.

The 400 mile race was dominated by long periods of green flag racing. Jimmie Johnson and Edwards this transformed into a battle of two cars for first for the majority of the race. Edwards led 117 rounds before falling to seventh place. Johnson led a race high 207 towers and finished ninth.

Kenseth and crew, team leader Bob Osborne Edwards made a call for four tires on the last restart which he passed to ninth and spoiled his chance at victory.

"I had no choice," really, Edwards said. "It is for the guys in the box." It is too difficult to make a choice to make here and I don't blame not one bit of Bob Osborne. ?

Regan Smith was 34th week after it shocked the sport with his first victory of career at Darlington Raceway.

Busch, Kevin Harvick had no incidents after that a clash of road pit at Darlington their deplaned in probation. Harvick was 10th.

Martin stayed on the trail of old tires to take the lead when the caution flag comes out with 39 towers on the left. Kenseth made a stop faster and opted for two tires instead of four, the correct number for him to get old Martin on the restart and then remove for victory.

Matt Kenseth later fired the rest of the field late to win his second race of the season.

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"We were going to make four, we obtained in the stall and decided to make two. It was the key, "said Kenseth.

Kenseth overthrown team leader Jimmy Fennig and made the call for two tires.

"When I was on the jack, I asked if he was sure that we didn't try two and he said to two pants," said Kenseth. "It was really calling Jimmy and a good suggestion by me."

Kenseth said that it was difficult during the race green flag because the rubber which built on the fact way slick concrete - an obstacle for a car loose.

When the short runs has started coming, Kenseth has found a way cleaner and clean air was enough to raise his race.

Kenseth, 2003 series champion, won his 20th career Cup race.

Martin received his first top five of the season.

"Today, we have finally achieved a finish," he said. "It seemed that was going to get 15 with a race car again very soon." We had a race car that much this year good. But it seems that for one reason or another, we find ourselves on the back of the rear. ?

Kenseth dominated when he won in Texas to end a series 76-race winless. He has been strong this year and has four top fives of the page, which gives him the confidence that another victory was on the horizon. He began the 24 and roared back to win.

"The whole organization has been the better construction, the fastest race cars," said Kenseth.

Glover takes Wells Fargo end drought without a victory to put

CHARLOTTE, N.C - Figures Lucas Glover, he played more than 100 tours with Jonathan Byrd, golf junior when they were adolescents to their years together at Clemson and almost a decade on the PGA Tour.

The stakes have never were also high that they were Sunday in the Championship of Wells Fargo.

Glover has never been better.

Clinging to a One-Shot, Glover lead closed with three gutsy pars of the brutal finishing section, at Quail Hollow slamming his fist when he made the last time of 7 feet for a 3-under 69 and what appeared to be a sure win. Then came a Byrd, with two major pars on his own initiative, followed by a shooting in 15 feet he did birdie the 18th for a 72 to force a playoff.

Glover wound up a winner with equal on the first extra hole, ending a drought of 41 tournaments that stretched nearly to two years to his US Open win to Bethpage Black in 2009.

It is the eighth game this year on the PGA Tour and the third in a row.

"I am pleased," said Glover. "Any any time you win, you are happy." This means that beat you all the world. You did that you set for Thursday morning when the range of bell. Against this field and on this golf course and a tournament of this magnitude, I am very pleased. ?

And against one of his best friends?

Who could help. Glover, in his first game of PGA Tour, felt a sense of calm play against Byrd, who had won his last two tournaments in extra holes. And it showed.

In the regulations, Glover hooked his tee shot until this left he settled by a spectator. He was given a drop, then watched the ball roll down from the Bank towards the stream as it is ready to strike. Because never, he founded his club - which has been his plan, given the lie on one side of a steep hill - he played the next time without penalty.

"Better off, worse lie," he said.

He managed a 6-iron just over the Green, hit more difficult chip he had all day to 7 feet and escapes with another. In the playoffs, however, Glover struck his tee shot in the middle and two row of 25 feet.

Byrd, who passed a fairway bunker to danger left Green - just below the stream - struck a difficult chip 25 through the hole and wound up with a bogey.

Scott Halleran/Getty ImagesLucas Glover got his first victory since the US Open 2009 after having beaten Jonathan Byrd on the first hole of the playoff at the Wells Fargo Championship.

"I am just disappointed because you're here to win", said Byrd. "You love to do competition, especially when you get a series. You birdie the last, you feel like, "Hey, this is just going to work.".

"If I couldn't win, I couldn't choose someone else that I do not want to win other than Lucas, so I am very pleased for him."

Glover, who finished 15 - under 273, becomes the first player in the history of nine years of the tournament to display all of the four towers in the 1960s. He would have seen this entry.

He was going through a divorce for several months-"I'll probably leave that there, if it is all right," he said, refused to comment on his personal life - and had only one top 10 last year. He missed the cut in his last three events and had little confidence when it is presented in the quail hollow.

But he figured out Tuesday on the beach that the club was not square, he found better Wednesday in the pro-am and offshore, he went. This was not the US Open, although the way it has been tested in the last hour of a wild day, it was equally difficult.

Rory Sabbatini, who closed with a 65 and 13-under 131 weekend, only wound up third and moves in the top 50 of the world. There now remain for two weeks more to be exempted from the US Open.

Bill Haas had a 70 to finish alone in fourth. Pat Perez, who set a record for the tournament with 26 birdies, had a chance from the outside to win until the closing with three straight bogies to tie for sixth.

1 * Glover-(15)
2 Byrd-(15)
3 Sabbatini (-14)
4 Haas (-13)
5. Na-(12)
* a won the first hole of the play-off

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"It just proves that I cannot close, so I am fairly confident on this" Perez said, blunt as ever. "You will never win if you play as I did today." It's just terrible. "Embarrassing".

Glover was four strokes behind when he made his move by chipping for birdie on the eighth and categories of an Eagle from 30 feet on the 10th that gave the outright lead it never lost the rest of the road.

Next comes a wild ride - bogey-birdie-bogey-birdie - which brought him to the treacherous finishing. He rescued from well behind the 16th green. It has two row of slightly less than 100 17 feet, hand 6 footer, escaped no. 18 with the greatest of all.

"With a One-Shot lead, these three holes, you do not have to run," Glover said. "" "". A fact I am running the full swing? Who wants to say? But I signed my short game, and I had my wraps. ?

Byrd was on the tee when he heard the roar of peer Glover, knowing that he needed birdie.

Glover predicted all but that he would.

They had joked before the third round that they would be paired Sunday afternoon. They probably did not have this end in mind.

"I said, ' why do we plan on seeing the other tomorrow about 2 - and it is 6," says Glover. "" "". I think that this is perhaps why I knew that he was going to birdie on 18. ?

Sabbatini was among five players at the top of the rankings in a wacky final round, and the action is relentless.

It all started with the South African bold, who had only spoken this week about his argument filled with profanity with Sean O'Hair week last in New Orleans which could lead to a suspension. Sabbatini posted 14-under 274 and it seemed that it might be sufficient for a game as the Glover, Byrd, Haas and kept Perez find disorder and the last five holes.

Byrd seemed to be in control until the closure of nine front with back-to-back bogies, and then do another 14, while his shooting raw right also found the water. But he followed with a birdie on the 15th, then handguns of the trees on 16 and hit his shot of 167 yards to 2 feet for an improbable by and closed with a dramatic birdie.

"I am just disappointed the way I played the rest of the 15 holes earlier in the day," said Byrd.

 

Grizzlies push Spurs, complete stunning victory

Over the last 15 seasons, there have now been 218 series played. Of the 218 winners of series-clinching games, only four times has a team won by making just a single FG from beyond the three-point line. Memphis, welcome to the club. The other three to do it? The net in 2004, the Knicks in 1999 and the Lakers in 1997.

From Elias: The Grizzlies are only the 4th team to sweep the Spurs at home in both the regular and postseason in the Tim Duncan era. 2 of the other 3 teams advanced to the NBA final.

MEMPHIS, Tenn.. -These Memphis Grizzlies just keep making NBA history - and believers.

Zach Randolph had 31 points and 11 rebounds and the Grizzlies advanced to their first Western Conference semifinals and made NBA history in knocking off the top-seeded San Antonio Spurs 99-91 on Friday night.

Memphis had been the best known franchise for empty seats and the unenviable NBA mark for playoff futility at 0-12 after being swept in its first three appearances. This time, a third straight sellout crowd cheered every basket with a couple of signs begging the Grizzlies to "Finish them" in a town desperately needing a hero.

The Grizzlies needed 10 seasons in Memphis, but they have become just that as only the second No.. 8 seed to upset a no.. 1 seed since the NBA expanded the opening to a best-of-seven series.

Now Memphis coach Lionel Hollins sees a great opportunity for the Grizzlies to do something really special.

"Not a lot of people knew about us coming in, but we certainly have made some noise and turned some heads and got some attention that probably wouldn't can't have been given to us if we'd lost this series," Hollins said. "We'd just be another eight seed losing to the No.." "1 seed."

They will open the second round in Oklahoma City on Sunday.

Marc Gasol had 12 points and 13 rebounds for Memphis. Tony Allen added 11 points, and rookie Greivis Vasquez had 11 off the bench playing 24 minutes with Mike Conley in foul trouble most of the game.

Tony Parker led San Antonio with 23 points, Manu Ginobili had 16, Tim Duncan 12 and Antonio McDyess 10.

The Spurs led only twice at 2-0 and again at 80-79 when McDyess hit a 15-footer with 4: 41 left.

That's when Randolph, the man cast off and unwanted before he arrived in Memphis in the summer of 2009, took over and scored 17 of the Grizzlies' 29 points in the fourth quarter.

"From a pick-me-up perspective, we just got on his back, and we rode him like he was an English warhorse," Hollins said. "He was really carrying us, We were just hanging on."

Randolph scored 10 of the next 14 for Memphis, with his hook putting Memphis ahead to stay at 81-80. Conley added a jumper, then Randolph hit a fallaway jumper, two free throws and another fallaway jumper for an 89-82 lead with 1: 55 left. Randolph went to the bench to a huge cheer with 3.4 seconds left.

"Emotion is high, not just for the Memphis Grizzlies goal for the whole city of Memphis and the fans," Randolph said. "It's something." It's a great accomplishment. We've got to be happy. We should be happy. But it's a quick turnaround. "We've got a game Sunday, and we have to get ready."

The Spurs, winners of 61 games in the regular season and the dynasty with four NBA titles with Duncan, turned the ball over three straight times while Randolph was putting away this franchise's biggest win. One desperate pass from Ginobili went right off Parker's hands.

"we played well all season long," Parker said. "As you know, it doesn't 't mean anything if you don' t play well in the playoffs, and overall Memphis played better than us Have to give them credit." Had a chance at the end, up one, 5 minutes to go. "We didn't make the plays we needed to play."

San Antonio had gotten a reprieve with Gary Neal's clutch 3 getting the Spurs to overtime as they staved off elimination Wednesday night. But the Spurs talked of how lucky they were to pull out a game when they had their bags packed for the offseason.

"We were hoping at some point that they would fold under the pressure, make some mistakes through that pressure and they didn't," Duncan said. "They did the exact opposite." "they made every play they needed to make, they took care of the ball, they got the shots they wanted to get, and their guys made the shots when they needed to."

Ginobili also had a big shot to help the Spurs stay alive. This game, he had an even more amazing shot, beating the buzzer at the end of the third quarter as he tossed up the ball from short half off balance and trying to beat the clock. He had been 3 of 10 from the floor before that lucky attempt pulled the Spurs to 70-66.

Forward Shane Battier called it a perfect team effort by the Grizzlies against a team in the Spurs that never quit.

"those guys are like vampires." We're trying to kill them, but they kept getting up. "we kept missing the heart," Battier said. "When (Matt) Bonner is hitting bank 3 s and Ginobili is hitting a halfcourt shot at halftime, 'you' re saying, ' Gosh, go away." "please go away."

It just wasn't enough for a team that couldn't beat the Grizzlies in Memphis during the regular season and the postseason gold. The Spurs ended this season dropping nine of the last 10 on the road and 16 of the last 19 in the postseason away from San Antonio.

Asked if this was a big upset, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich defended the strength of the Western Conference.

"It doesn't matter what your seeding is in the West." "As has been evidenced year after year, we all know that everybody's basically as good as everybody else," Popovich said.

The Grizzlies were criticized for ending the regular season with two losses. Hollins rested Randolph and Allen with critics accusing them of trying to avoid the Lakers and draw the Spurs.

Popovich credited Memphis' athleticism with really hurt a team that had been the NBA's best 3-point shooters. The Spurs shot only 31 percent through the first five games and were just 5-of-22 Friday night.

"They closed out really well, sagged in the paint and were still able to close out on shooter, and it's a credit to them," Popovich said.

Parker opened the game with a pair of free throws, then the Grizzlies took over. Allen scored on a floater in the lane, Randolph tipped in the ball as the start of 10 straight points by the Grizzlies. That prompted Popovich to scream at a referee for a timeout. But Vasquez and Allen scored for a 14-0 spurt before Parker finally answered with a layup.

For Memphis, it was almost as dominant as the third quarter of Game 4 when the Grizzlies outscored the Spurs 30-15. This time, the Spurs didn't score from the floor for the first five minutes as the Grizzlies opened with a 28-16 lead after the first 12 minutes and led by as much as 14. The Spurs had six turnovers in the period.

Duncan, who turned 35 on Monday, looked every bit of those early years as he almost stumbled trying to drive to the basket. He later added an empathic dunk that pulled the Spurs within 46-43 at halftime.

Game notes
Memphis hadn't haven't scored more than 44 points in the paint in the series until Friday night. The Grizzlies outscored San Antonio 62-38 in the paint and outrebounded them 43-32. ... The Grizzlies even had a big edge at the free throw line, 22 of 30, compared to 12 of 14 for the Spurs.