SKIING

Vonn fails to finish slalom, loses ground in Cup overall

Marlies Schild of Austria won her fourth World Cup slalom of the season while Lindsey Vonn slid off course Tuesday in foggy conditions during the opening run at Zagreb, Croatia.

Schild had a flawless second run to finish in a combined time of 2 minutes, 1.80 seconds. Olympic champion Maria Riesch of Germany was 0.75 seconds back and extended her lead over Vonn in the overall World Cup standings to 186 points. Manuela Moelgg of Italy was third.

American Sarah Schleper finished eighth. She said Vonn might be lacking confidence in the technical races.

• The International Ski Federation said a World Cup women’s super-G race that twice has been postponed will be run at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, on Jan. 21.

The federation chose the venue after the race was abandoned because of strong winds at St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Dec. 11 and called off six days later after heavy snowfall at Val d’Isere, France.

TENNIS

CHENNAI OPEN: Top-seeded Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic cruised to a 6-0, 6-1 win over Frederico Gil of Portugal to move into the second round at Chennai, India.

QATAR OPEN: Roger Federer of Switzerland hit a between-the-legs winner on the way to defeating qualifier Thomas Schoorel of the Netherlands 7-6 (3), 6-3 at Doha, Qatar, in his first official match of the season.

HOPMAN CUP: Novak Djokovic defeated Lleyton Hewitt 6-2, 6-4 to help Serbia remain unbeaten with a 2-0 victory over Australia at Perth, Australia.

BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL: Top-seeded Samamtha Stosur was upset by Jarmila Groth 6-2, 6-4, and second-seeded Shahar Peer lost to Lucie Safarova 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 at Brisbane, Australia.

HOCKEY

QMJHL: Matt Bissonnette had one goal and three assists as the Lewiston Maineiacs scored three first-period goals and cruised to a 7-0 victory over the Drummondville Voltigeurs at Lewiston.

Francis Beauvillier scored a pair of goals for the Maineiacs and Olivier Dame-Malka collected three assists.

Lewiston goalie Nicholas Champion made 19 saves for his first shutout.

SWIMMING

U.S. SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS: Rebekah Bradford won the women’s 500 and 1,000 at Kearns, Utah.

She finished the 500 in 38.48 seconds, .63 ahead of Lauren Cholewinski, and took the 1,000 in 1 minutes, 16.79 seconds. Brittany Bowe was runner-up in the 1,000 in 1:17.73.

Shani Davis won the men’s 1,000 in 1:08.18, beating Jonathon Kuck’s personal-best time of 1:09.25.

AUTO RACING

NASCAR: Former NASCAR crew chief Ray Evernham signed on as a consultant for one of Rick Hendrick’s companies.

Evernham won three championships in the 1990s as crew chief for Jeff Gordon with Hendrick Motorsports. His company, Ray Evernham Enterprises, will consult on special projects for Hendrick Companies. Evernham’s role will be to help with the development of the Hendrick Performance retail brand of high-performance parts, vehicles, products and related services.