golf » England's Ross Fisher beat Masters champion Angel Cabrera on the 39th hole Saturday to set up a World Match Play Championship final against American Anthony Kim , a 5-and-4 winner over Australia's Robert Allenby .

Fisher won after Cabrera took five shots to reach the green on the final hole. Fisher hit his second shot from 244 yards to 5 feet at Finca Cortesin in Casares, Spain.

Kim, who beat Allenby 5 and 3 in the Presidents Cup, overcame an early two-hole deficit, pulling away at the 27th hole when he holed an approach from 101 yards.

The winnertoday will earn $1.1 million.

» PGA Tour officials canceled the weather-stricken Viking Classic because of unplayable course conditions.

There will be no makeup date and players will move on to the final event of the season, the Children's Miracle Network Classic on Nov. 12-15 in Florida.

» John Cook took a six-stroke lead in a bid for his second Champions Tour victory in three weeks, shooting a 5-under 67 in the third round of the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

Cook, the Administaff Small Business Classic winner two weeks ago in Texas, had a 19-under 197 total on the Sonoma Golf Club course, the best 54-hole score in a 72-hole tournament since Jack Nicklaus also had a 197 total in the 1990 Senior Players Championship. Cook shot a tournament-record 62 on

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Russ Cochran (68) was second at 13 under, and Tom Watson (71) and Brad Bryant (69) were 12 under. Season points leader Loren Roberts (66) was 7 under. Third-place Bernhard Langer (70) was 9 under, 2008 points champ Jay Haas (70) was tied with Roberts at 7 under. The points winner will receive a $1 million annuity.

 

Williams sisters in Sony final

Tennis » The Williams sisters will end their season with another title matchup.

Venus Williams defeated Jelena Jankovic 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 Saturday in one semifinal at the Sony Ericsson Championships at Doha, Qatar. Serena Williams won the other when Caroline Wozniacki quit because of an abdominal injury while trailing 6-4, 0-1.

Serena, who secured the year-end No. 1 ranking this week, is returning to the final of the WTA Tour's season-ending championships for the first time since 2004. She was knocked out in the group stage the last two years, but was the only player to go undefeated through the round-robin rounds this time.

Serena won the event in 2001 and has been runner-up twice. On Sunday, Venus will defend her title from last year. Serena beat Venus in this year's Wimbledon final.

From wire reports