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NWSL roundup: Barbra Banda’s two goals power Pride
Barbra Banda scored her seventh and eighth goals of the season to power the host Orlando Pride to a 2-1 victory over the Portland Thorns on Friday night.,Banda notched her second brace in as many matches by scoring in the 30th and 40th minutes for the Pride (8-0-3, 27 points), owners of the best rec...
WTA roundup: Danielle Collins, Madison Keys to meet in Strasbourg final
Red-hot Danielle Collins continued her torrid run with a semifinal victory Friday and will face fellow American Madison Keys in the championship match of the Internationaux de Strasbourg in France on Saturday.,The third-seeded Collins had 31 winners while cruising to a 7-6 (3), 6-2 victory in 99 min...
WTA roundup: Two Americans reach Strasbourg semifinals
Americans Danielle Collins and Madison Keys are on to the semifinals of the Internationaux de Strasbourg after matching 6-1, 6-3 victories on Thursday in France.,Collins, the No. 3 seed, eased past France's Clara Burel in 63 minutes by winning a tidy 22 of her 29 first-service points (75.9 percent)....
ATP roundup: Novak Djokovic, Casper Ruud on Geneva collision course
No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia and No. 2 seed Casper Ruud of Norway both reached the semifinals of the Gonet Geneva Open with victories Thursday in Switzerland.,At the tune-up for Roland-Garros, Djokovic remained on a roll by saving all seven break points he faced during a 7-5, 6-1 win over No....
ATP roundup: Novak Djokovic marks birthday with 1,100th win
Novak Djokovic celebrated his 37th birthday Wednesday with his 1,100th tour-level victory, becoming just the third player in the Open Era to reach the milestone.,The top-seeded Serbian defeated Germany's Yannick Hanfmann 6-3, 6-3 to advance to the quarterfinals of the Gonet Geneva Open in Switzerlan...
WTA roundup: Top seeds advance in Strasbourg
Top seed Marketa Vondrousova dropped the first set but recovered to squash qualifier Magdalena Frech 5-7, 6-1, 6-0 at the Internationaux de Strasbourg in France on Wednesday.,Frech, from Poland, was striving for her first win ever over a Top-10 player, but the Czech prevailed in two hours, 13 minute...
WTA roundup: Sara Sorribes Tormo endures marathon in Rabat
No. 3 seed Sara Sorribes Tormo of Spain advanced to her first quarterfinal of the year when she defeated Argentina's Nadia Podoroska 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 at the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem on Tuesday in Rabat, Morocco.,In a match that lasted just shy of three hours, Sorribes Tormo broke her op...
ATP roundup: Frances Tiafoe ends slide with Lyon victory
No. 5 seed Frances Tiafoe got off the schneid by finishing a 7-6 (5), 6-4 win over Spaniard Jaume Munar in the first round of the Open Parc on Tuesday in Lyon, France.,Tiafoe was on a three-match tour-level losing streak, dropping his openers in Madrid and Rome after losing the final of the U.S. Men...
WTA roundup: Top two seeds go down in Rabat
Italian qualifier Camilla Rosatello dug deep to pull out an upset of No. 1 seed Yue Yuan of China, winning 7-6 (7), 1-6, 6-4 in the first round of the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem on Monday in Rabat, Morocco.,Rosatello trailed 5-3, 40-30 in the first set before saving 12 set points acros...
ATP roundup: Alexander Shevchenko earns upset in Geneva
Alexander Shevchenko of Kazakhstan eliminated No. 7 seed Fabian Marozsan of Hungary 6-4, 7-6 (4) in opening-round action at the Gonet Geneva Open on Monday in Switzerland.,Shevchenko led the second set 5-2 when Marozsan charged back. The Hungarian saved a match point in the 10th game before tying th...
MLB roundup: Padres rout Braves as Yu Darvish earns 200th pro win
Yu Darvish pitched seven shutout innings, extending his scoreless streak to 25 innings, and earned his 200th professional victory on Sunday as the visiting San Diego Padres hammered the Atlanta Braves 9-1.,he 107th win in the major leagues for Darvish, who won 93 times in Japan. Hiroki Huroda (203) ...
UFL roundup: Battlehawks score late to hold off Defenders
Wayne Gallman II scored the go-ahead touchdown from 1 yard out with two minutes to play and the host St. Louis Battlehawks fended off the DC Defenders 26-21 on Sunday.,Gallman rushed for 35 yards and two scores while quarterback Manny Wilkins led St. Louis (6-2) with 79 rushing yards to go with 126 ...
Battlehawks score late to hold off Defenders
Wayne Gallman II scored the go-ahead touchdown from 1 yard out with two minutes to play and the host St. Louis Battlehawks fended off the DC Defenders 26-21 on Sunday.,Gallman rushed for 35 yards and two scores while quarterback Manny Wilkins led St. Louis (6-2) with 79 rushing yards to go with 126 ...
WTA roundup: Anhelina Kalinina scores upset in Strasbourg
Anhelina Kalinina of Ukraine upset No. 8 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 on the first day of the Internationaux de Strasbourg on Sunday in France.,Kalinina won 65.5 percent of her first-service points (38 of 58) and nearly half her first-return points (27 of 55) in the two-hour...
MLB roundup: Marlins score 4 in 9th, sink Mets in 10th
After scoring four runs in the ninth inning to tie the score, the host Miami Marlins defeated the New York Mets 10-9 on Otto Lopez's walk-off RBI single in the 10th on Saturday. ,Trailing 9-5 entering the ninth against two-time All-Star closer Edwin Diaz, the Marlins got an RBI single from Jazz Chis...
MLB roundup: Paul Skenes strikes out 11 in Pirates' win
Paul Skenes fanned 11 across six no-hit innings as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the host Chicago Cubs 9-3 on Friday afternoon.,Skenes (1-0) earned his first career win while making his second major league start. He struck out the first seven batters he faced and was perfect until walking Michael Busc...
MLB roundup: Elly De La Cruz leads Reds past Dodgers
Elly De La Cruz stole a career-high four bases and matched a career best with four hits as the visiting Cincinnati Reds rolled to a 7-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday in the opener of a four-game series.,Will Benson hit a leadoff home run and seven pitchers combined to give up two ...
MLB roundup: Yankees finish sweep of Twins
Clarke Schmidt did not allow a run over a career-high eight innings and the New York Yankees scored three times in the first inning to complete a three-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins with a 5-0 victory on Thursday in Minneapolis.,New York won for the fourth straight outing and the 10th time in 12...
MLB roundup: Phillies' Aaron Nola blanks Mets
Aaron Nola retired the first 15 batters he faced on his way to a dominant four-hitter, leading the Philadelphia Phillies to a 4-0 win over the host New York Mets on Tuesday.,The Phillies won for the 22nd time in 27 games and became the first team in the majors to reach 30 victories this season. Nola...
MLB roundup: Guardians blank slumping Rangers
Jose Ramirez went 2-for-3 with four RBIs and five Cleveland pitchers combined for a four-hitter as the Guardians handed the slumping Texas Rangers a fourth straight loss, prevailing 7-0 on Monday night in Arlington, Texas.,Ramirez had a pair of two-run singles, walked twice and stole two bases, and ...