LONDON-- Mixing the top eight players in London for the ATP's grand finale should be a recipe for thrilling fare but a large crowd were again left short-changed on Monday with Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka the biggest disappointment.
  Wawrinka, who produced arguably the year's standout performance when he beat Novak Djokovic in the French Open final, appeared at times to be going through the motions against Rafa Nadal in the night session at the ATP World Tour Finals.
  Rushing through points and spraying 35 unforced errors, world number four Wawrinka, who lost an epic semi-final here last year to Roger Federer, collapsed to a 6-3 6-2 defeat.
  In the day's earlier Ilie Nastase Group match, home favourite and world number two Andy Murray was at least made to scrap for his 6-4 6-4 win over dogged Spaniard David Ferrer.
  With Djokovic hammering Japan's Kei Nishikori on Sunday and Federer cruising past Tomas Berdych it means 14 of the last 16 group matches at the prestigious and much-hyped season finale, have been won in straight sets.
  "I don't know. Was just a really bad day at the office. Many little things that weren't good today," 30-year-old Wawrinka, who is guaranteed $167,000 just for showing up, told reporters when asked about his performance.
  "It's a really bad match. Bad behaviour in the second set. Things weren't too great about myself."
  "Just disappointed in general. Everything went wrong. Just everything went the wrong way. Simple."
  While Wawrinka was poor, it was another positive step for Nadal as he tries to rediscover the kind of form that delivered 14 grand slam titles and the world number one ranking.
  Things did not start well when he lost his opening service game to love, but he replied immediately in similar fashion and moved 5-3 ahead when his opponent blazed a forehand wide.
  He failed to convert any of the seven break points a rattled Wawrinka offered up at the start of the second set and then saved two himself in the next game, one with a stunning lob.
  Wawrinka then crumbled.
  "Every day for me now is an opportunity to enjoy on court, enjoy the competition, something that I missed for moments this year," Nadal, who fell to 10th in the rankings during a miserable summer, said.
  With Murray up next on Wednesday, however, Nadal played down expectations that he could yet end a below-par year with his first ATP Tour Finals title, having twice been runner-up.
  "I won the first match, that's all. I cannot think about that, seriously."
  Murray, despite having one eye on next week's Davis Cup final in Belgium, definitely looks capable of claiming the title and complete the hat-trick of Wimbledon, Olympic gold and Tour Finals in his home city.
  The 28-year-old's preparations have been geared towards a claycourt in Ghent rather than the indoor surface at the O2 Arena, but he still toyed with Ferrer at times.
  Murray, who already boasted a career-best 68 wins this season coming into the tournament, saved a break point in the opening game and then settled into his groove.
  He could not capitalise on three break points in the eighth game but was gifted the opening set with a Ferrer double fault -- one of eight the Spaniard produced.
  One lapse, when he was broken to love in the first game of the second set, was quickly corrected as he broke back twice to beat Ferrer for the 12th time in 18 meetings.
  Should he beat Nadal on Wednesday Murray will be guaranteed to finish the year as world number two.
  "It would be obviously nice to finish number two because I haven't done it before, but it's not a goal that I'd set for myself at the beginning of this year," Murray said.
  More important will be helping Britain win the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936

SAO PAULO-- Nico Rosberg won the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix for the second year in a row on Sunday and denied Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton a first success in the homeland of his late hero Ayrton Senna.
  Triple champion Hamilton, who has now failed in nine attempts to win in Brazil, finished 7.756 seconds behind for Mercedes's 11th one-two in 18 races so far this season.
  Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel finished third for his 79th podium finish.
  "Yeah guys, awesome," whooped Rosberg after controlling the race from pole to chequered flag.
  He and Hamilton had been separated by less than a second for 10 laps after the first pitstop but the gap then widened.
  "It was a good challenge from Lewis but I was able to control the pace," added the German, who refrained from too much exuberance on the podium out of respect for the victims of Friday's Paris attacks.
  "We saw Lewis dropping off a lot with degradation and that confirmed it was important to take care of the tyres."
  The victory in the season's penultimate race was Rosberg's fifth of the year, second in a row and 13th of his career, and secured the German second place in a championship already won by his British rival.
  "I had good pace, it's just you can't overtake here," said Hamilton, who started on the front row alongside Rosberg but could not find a way past his team mate into the opening corner despite trying hard.
  "I just killed my tyres. It's such a great track but you can't get close enough to race," he added after his planned two stops turned into three.
  The Briton, who clinched his third championship in Texas last month, has spoken much of his wish to emulate triple champion Senna -- who took eight attempts to win his home race -- but he will have to wait another year.
  The harder he tried, the more he suffered from tyre degradation even if he at least set the fastest lap as a consolation.
  Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen finished fourth with compatriot Valtteri Bottas fifth for Williams and securing that team's third place overall for the second year in a row.
  Force India's Nico Hulkenberg was sixth with Red Bull's Russian Daniil Kvyat seventh.
  Brazilian Felipe Massa, who took his last grand prix win at Interlagos in 2008, finished eighth for Williams but was then excluded by stewards for having an overheated rear tyre before the start.
  That lifted Frence's Romain Grosjean up a place, with Max Verstappen ninth for Toro Rosso after some standout overtaking moves by the 18-year-old Dutch rookie in a race short on excitement.
  Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado was 10th for Lotus, despite collecting a five second penalty for banging into Sauber's Marcus Ericsson as he tried to pass on lap 32 of 71.
  Verstappen's team mate Carlos Sainz started from the pitlane after his car broke down on the way to the grid and he then retired on the opening lap.
  McLaren had another miserable afternoon, with little to laugh about after Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso made a joking visit to the podium on Saturday, with the pair 14th and 15th respectively after Massa's exclusion.

 DENVER--Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning delivered the latest milestone of his Hall of Fame career when he passed Brett Favre to become the National Football League's all-time passing yards leader on Sunday.
  Manning, who started Sunday's game versus the Kansas City Chiefs three yards shy of the all-time mark of 71,838 yards, broke the record after completing a four-yard pass to Ronnie Hillman in the first quarter.
  The game was briefly stopped to recognize the achievement and the Broncos also showed a video tribute to the 39-year-old quarterback, who acknowledged the ovation from the home crowd and tossed the Hall of Fame-bound ball to the Denver sideline.
  He and Favre, who retired following the NFL's 2010 season, are the only two quarterbacks to have thrown for more than 70,000 yards in a career.
  Manning, who has led Denver to a Super Bowl berth and three division titles since joining the team in 2012, already owns a slew of NFL records and could have added another one to the list with a victory on Sunday as it would move him ahead of Favre's 186. Chiefs won 29-13.
  He spent the first 14 years of his career in Indianapolis, where he tossed for 54,828 yards.

CARDIFF-- Netherlands enjoyed a 3-2 friendly win away to a weakened Wales on Friday with Arjen Robben proving the match-winner with two goals from his lethal left foot as they put their failure to reach Euro 2016 to one side.
  Robben twice re-established the visitors' lead in the second half, after a battling Wales -- who have reached their first major tournament since 1958 with a place in France -- had manfully stayed in the encounter despite being outplayed.
  Bas Dost headed the Dutch in front after 32 minutes before Joe Ledley equalised and Wales's Emyr Huws then pulled the hosts level again after Robben had danced into the area to score.
  Robben then struck the winner in the 81st minute after racing clear to slot calmly into the net.
  The Netherlands came into the game still reeling from missing out on next year's European Championship having finished fourth in Group A with four wins from 10 games.
  The contrast in mood with Friday's opponents could not have been starker as Wales celebrated their achievement in qualifying for the finals before an enthusiastic Cardiff crowd.
  The home fervour was dampened, however, after 32 minutes when Daryl Janmaat lofted a cross to the far post and the towering VfL Wolfsburg striker Dost rose high to direct a downward header past Wales keeper Wayne Hennessey.
  At that point it looked like it could be a long evening for Wales, deprived of star turns Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey, as the Dutch piled forward with plenty of attacking firepower.
  Hennessey was forced to turn a shot from Quincy Promes over the bar as the Netherlands turned the screw, until Wales were handed a route back into the match with a penalty when Terence Kongolo was penalised for handball in first-half stoppage time.
  Joe Allen's spot kick was parried but Ledley followed up to steer the rebound into the far corner.
  The Dutch were back in front within 10 minutes of the restart, however, as Robben produced his trademark finish, dashing up the right flank before cutting on to his favoured left foot and curling the ball powerfully into the net.
  Huws typified the battling spirit Wales showed in their Euro qualifying campaign to grab another equaliser after 70 minutes, directing a header past keeper Jasper Cillessen.
  Robben, however, had the final word when he ran through a static Welsh defence to finish low past Hennessey.