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CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Sam Stosur won the Southern California Open on Sunday for her first title in nearly two years, beating top-seeded Victoria Azarenka 6-2, 6-3. The fifth-seeded Stosur of Australia had lost all of her previous eight matches against Azarenka, winning only two sets. The win was Stosurs fourth career singles title and the first since she won her only major, the 2011 U.S. Open. "I think this is a huge boost for me," said Stosur. "I havent had great results for really all year, so to be able to bounce back and come away with this is really exciting and a good boost going into the last slam of the year." Later Sunday, Azarenka withdrew from Rogers Cup in Toronto because of a lower back injury. "Im so disappointed that I cant make it to Toronto as I added it to my schedule knowing what an important event it is," Azarenka said. "I am sorry to all my Canadian fans and I will work hard to get healthy and back on the courts as soon as possible." Azarenka, the two-time Australian Open champion, played another loose match, committing 32 unforced errors including seven double faults, and had only 11 winners. "I think I was taking too many wrong kind of decisions or too risky decisions when there was no need to be risky," she said. "I didnt try to sometimes stay in the rally. I just wanted to make what sometimes I can make with eyes closed. (Sunday) I didnt do it with open eyes." Stosur, playing in her first final since October, hit 20 winners compared to 29 unforced errors, but played the key points well, including saving 11 of 12 break points. "That was a really big part of the match," Stosur said. "That first set, she did have lots of opportunities. I think nearly all of them except one I hit a really good first serve in and she didnt make the ball into play." Stosur, ranked No. 13, requested and was granted a wild-card into the event after she lost her opening-round match last week at Stanford in the Bank of the West Classic. Stosur had victories over No. 4-ranked Agnieszka Radwanska and the third-ranked Azarenka, the first time she has defeated two top-five players in an event since the 2011 WTA Championships. "You can practice all you want, but at some point, you got to put it into play in matches," Stosur said. "That was the reasoning behind coming here. You got to put yourself under that pressure of playing matches. Thats why I came, and obviously now, very, very pleased with that decision." Azarenka, who will move into the No. 2 ranking ahead of Maria Sharapova on Monday, was playing her first tournament since withdrawing from Wimbledon with a right knee injury before her second-round match. Azarenka set the tone early when she didnt win a point on her first service game of the match, including consecutive double faults to give Stosur a 2-0 lead. She then scored her only break of the match on Stosurs serve in the next game before the Aussie broke back for a 3-1 lead. 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In reply, WAPDAs openers Adnan Raees and Salman Butt, the captain, saw off five overs to take them to 23 for no loss.Asif set the tone for HBLs early wobble with a wicket in his very first over by having Fakhar Zaman bowled, getting the ball to cut back in to the left-hander and go through the gate before crashing into middle stump. Asif then got one to move the other way when Imam-ul-Haq edged an awayswinger on a length to second slip. Two deliveries later, Imran Farhat was trapped in front of middle and leg and HBLs score read 19 for 3.By then, Butt had already taken out opening bowler Waqas Maqsood after just three overs and replaced him with Irfan, who struck in his third over when Ahmed Shehzad top-edged a pull shot to mid-on. Irfan then got a double-strike in his next over, getting Jamal Anwar tto edge to first slip before trapping Mohammad Waqas lbw.dddddddddddd Aziz then joined hands with Fahim Ashraf to begin the repair job.Aziz made a slow start, scoring just 4 off the first 31 balls he faced before unleashing a cover drive off Maqsood. Aziz and Ashraf shared a seventh-wicket partnership of 84 that pushed the score past 100. The two batted out 26.5 overs before Ashraf lobbed a return catch to Khalid Usman, the left-arm spinner. Usman appeared to have hastened the slide by ending Amad Butts entertaining 21 when the batsman gave the charge and lost his stumps trying to force the ball across the line.Aziz, however, hung around and forged the second decisive partnership of the innings, putting on 99 for the ninth wicket with Abdur Rehman, the HBL captain. Rehman hit six fours en route to his 53 off 92 balls before Maqsood bowled him for his only wicket. One over later, Aziz miscued a pull shot to mid-on to fall 10 short of a century and give Asif his fourth wicket.While Asif and Irfan inflicted the bulk of the damage, they found support from Usman (2 for 40) and Maqsood (1 for 56).Butt got off to a brisk start in WAPDAs reply, cracking three boundaries in his unbeaten 16 (17 balls). Raees was more sedate, playing out 15 balls and giving him company on 3. ' ' '