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Rafael Nadal defeated Dominic Thiem 6-4, 6-1 to win his 10th Barcelona Open title Sunday. Thiem had upset top-ranked Andy Murray in the semifinals. It was the second consecutive week Nadal had won a tournament for the 10th time.
The Spaniard had become the first men’s tennis player in the Open era to win the same title 10 times at the Monte Carlo Masters last week. It was Nadal’s second title of the season and 71st of his career. Nadal, 30, has won 10 consecutive matches and is 21-1 in his past 22 sets.
Later this month, Nadal will try to win a 10th French Open title. The last of his 14 Grand Slams was three years ago in Roland Garros. Laura Siegemund defeated Kristina Mladenovic 6-1, 2-6, 7-6 (5) to win the title in her hometown of Stuttgart, Germany. Siegemund, 29, won her second career title.
Gordon Hayward scored 26 points and the Utah Jazz easily eliminated the host Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday with a 104-91 victory, winning the first-round playoff series 4-3.
George Hill and Derrick Favors added 17 points apiece in Utah’s first postseason victory since 2010. “We’ve been through some pretty hard downs,” said Hayward, a seventh-year veteran. “It definitely feels really good to go from 25 wins to where we were this year making the playoffs, winning a series.”
The Jazz advanced to face top-seeded Golden State in the Western Conference semifinals. The Warriors swept Portland 4-0 and have been waiting since Wednesday to find out their next opponent.
Game 1 is Tuesday night in Oakland, Calif.
The Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan had 24 points and 17 rebounds for his seventh double-double of the series. Jamal Crawford added 20 points off the bench.
Chris Paul had 13 points for the Clippers, who were sent packing in the first round for the second straight year. Last season, they lost to Portland after Paul and Blake Griffin went down with injuries. This time, they didn’t have Griffin again after he was lost in Game 3 with a bigtoe injury.
In the most closely contested series of the first round — and the only to go seven games — the Clippers came up strangely flat with their
SUNDAY’S GAMES
Celtics 123, Wizards 111 (Boston leads 1-0) Jazz 104, Clippers 91 (Utah wins 4-3)
TODAY’S GAMES
Raptors at Cavaliers, TNT (series opener) Rockets at Spurs, TNT (series opener) season on the line. J.J. Redick didn’t hit his first 3-pointer until the game’s final 31/2 minutes, drawing the Clippers within eight.
Paul couldn’t muster any of his fourth-quarter magic, either. He went scoreless with three assists in the period.
(At) Celtics 123, Wizards 111:
Isaiah Thomas had 33 points and nine assists, and Boston made 19 3-pointers to beat Washington Wizards to take a 1-0 lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal series.
Thomas played just a day after attending the funeral for his sister, who died in a car accident in April outside of Tacoma, Wash.
“I got in at 4 a.m.,” Thomas said of his second flight to Washington in two weeks. “It’s tough, but it’s the playoffs so there are no excuses. I decided to play and I just tried to give it all for my team.”
Thomas flew to the funeral with Boston president of basketball operations Danny Ainge and assistant coach Jerome Allen.
Al Horford added 21 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists. Jae Crowder scored 24 points.
Bradley Beal led Washington with 27 points.
The Wizards were more energetic at the outset, jumping out to a 16-0 advantage and leading by as many as 17 points. But the Celtics rallied in the second quarter with Thomas briefly sidelined after getting one of his two front teeth knocked out.
Kevin Kisner chipped in for eagle on the 18th hole as darkness fell Sunday night at the Zurich Classic in Avondale, La., lifting himself and teammate Scott Brown into a playoff today with Jonas Blixt and Cameron Smith.
Kisner’s chip-in — which skipped on a wet green, hit the pin and dropped in from nearly 95 feet — forced the 23-year-old Smith to make a 11/2-foot birdie putt to remain in contention for his first PGA Tour victory.
Kisner and Brown shot a 12-under 60 in best-ball play, and Blixt and Smith had a 64 to finish at 27 under at the TPC Louisiana in the PGA Tour’s first team event in 36 years.
Blixt, a Swede, and Smith, an Australian, haven’t bogeyed a hole yet, and appeared to have the victory wrapped up before Kisner’s chip-in, which whipped the crowd around the final green into a frenzy while Kisner waved both arms in celebration.
The round finished in barely playable darkness because of a more than sixhour delay caused by thunderstorms.
Each player on the winning team will take home $1.02 million and earn 400 FedExCup points..
Hara Nomura two-putted for birdie on the sixth playoff hole for her third LPGA Tour victory after Cristie Kerr briefly took the lead on the 72nd hole in the windy Volunteers of America Texas Shootout in Irving.
Nomura, the 24-yearold from Japan who lives in Hawaii, also birdied the par-5 18th hole at the end of regulation to force the playoff after giving up the lead for the first time with a double bogey at No. 17.
Kerr and Nomura finished regulation at 3-under 281, then played the 518-yard 18th six more times. There were five matching pars before Nomura finally won nearly 71/2 hours after starting her round, almost making an eagle before her tap-in and then the wait while Kerr’s 12-foot birdie chance slid left of the cup.
Kerr was trying to win consecutive tournaments. The 39-year-old American won in Hawaii two weeks ago, her 19th career victory coming nearly five months after knee surgery.
Nomura shot a 5-over 76. Kerr made the only birdie all day at the par-3 17th, and was leading by a stroke when she tapped in a par putt on 18 for a 74.
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France’s Alexander Levy beat Dylan Frittelli in a playoff to win the China Open in Beijing.
The 2014 champion began the final round seven shots behind overnight leader Frittelli.
Levy birdied the par-5 18th for 67 to finish on 17-under 271 and force a playoff with the South African.
Frittelli sent his second shot on the last hole over the hospitality tent and had to settle for par in a 2-over 74 and a trip back up the 18th.
Levy then found the fairway off the tee while Frittelli sent his drive into a bunker.
But after the Frenchman ended in sand with his second, both men were left with birdie putts.
Frittelli missed his attempt and Levy rolled home from 15 feet to claim victory.
Matt Atkins won the El Bosque Mexico Championship in Leon, Mexico, for his first Web .com Tour title, closing with a 4-under 68 for a three-stroke victory.
Atkins finished at 17-under 271 at El Bosque Country Club and earned $117,000.
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