IN BRIEF

BOXING

Pacquiao-Hatton fight to take place at MGM

The MGM Grand Garden will host the May 2 junior welterweight title fight between Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton.

Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions, which is co-promoting the fight, chose the MGM over the combined efforts of Planet Hollywood and Wynn Las Vegas.

Tickets, priced from $150 to $1,000, will go on sale Jan. 30 at the Grand Garden box office and at Ticketmaster outlets as well as on-line at ticketmaster.com. The fight will be televised on pay per view.

Also: Former world champion Marco Antonio Barrera of Mexico will fight British lightweight Amir Khan on March 14 in London.

TENNIS

Major champion Seles makes Hall of Fame

Monica Seles has been elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

The nine-time major champion will be inducted July 11.

Joining her in the hall’s 2009 class are 1972 French Open champion Andres Gimeno, ATP co-founder Donald Dell and the late Robert Johnson, who pioneered the integration of tennis at the junior level.

Also: Stanislas Wawrinka held off Fernando Gonzalez 7-6 (3), 6-7 (1), 6-4 and will face Davis Cup teammate Roger Federer in the final of the Australian Open tuneup tournament at Kooyong.

David Nalbandian reached his 20th ATP Tour final with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Frenchman Richard Gasquet in the Sydney International semifinals.

MISCELLANEOUS

Maruyama overtakes Ogilvy for Sony lead

Shigeki Maruyama took a step back from obscurity on the PGA Tour with a 5-under-par 65 in the wind and occasional rain for a one-shot lead after the first round of the Sony Open in Honolulu.

Maruyama, who failed to keep his tour card last year for the first time this decade, took the outright lead with a 5-foot birdie on the par-3 17th.

That knocked Geoff Ogilvy off the top of the leaderboard for the first time this year. The Sony Open is the second tournament this year, but Ogilvy is coming off a wire-to-wire victory in the Mercedes-Benz Championship last week. He had a 66 Thursday.

Also: Three-time major champion Vijay Singh had surgery on his right knee and is expected to miss the next three weeks on the PGA Tour.

UNLV’s Daniel Cruz became the third Rebel to be drafted by Major League Soccer in school history, as the Houston Dynamo made him the 11th selection in the third round and 41st overall at the MLS SuperDraft in St. Louis.

The expansion Seattle Sounders FC took Steve Zakuani out of Akron with the first pick in the MLS SuperDraft. He led the nation with 20 goals and 27 points this season as a sophomore.

Giving in to the young-and-younger movement in college basketball recruiting, the NCAA has decreed that seventh-graders are now officially classified as prospects. The organization voted to change the definition of a prospect from ninth grade to seventh grade — for men’s basketball only.