Rublev rallies to win in Madrid
Andrey Rublev rallied to beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in three sets and win the Madrid Open for the first time.
Rublev won 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 after Auger-Aliassime doublefaulted on the last point of the final at the clay-court tournament in the Spanish capital. It was the second Masters 1000 title for the eighth-ranked Rublev. The 26-year-old Russian also won at Monte Carlo last year. Auger-Aliassime was playing in his first final at this level. Rublev entered Madrid on a four-game losing streak after early exits at Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo and Barcelona.
Taylor Pendrith won his first PGA Tour event in 74 starts, shooting a fourunder 67 in the final round to beat Ben Kohles (66) and win the CJ Cup Byron Nelson Classic by one shot . ...
Brooks Koepka shot a three-under 68 to win the LIV Golf tournament in Singapore, his fourth victory on the circuit. Koepka finished 15-under 201 for the three rounds, two ahead of Australians Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith . ...
Scott Dunlap was declared the 36-hole winner of the Insperity Invitational when rain washed the final round, giving Dunlap his first Champions title in nearly 10 years . ... Adrian Otaegui overcame a five-shot deficit to win the China Open in Shenzhen, the Spanish golfer’s fifth tour title.
Mika Zibanejad had two goals and an assist, Artemi Panarin also scored and the New York Rangers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 in Game 1 of their NHL secondround series.
Rodrigues gave San José the lead in the fifth minute and the Earthquakes never looked back in a 3-1 victory over LAFC at Levi’s Stadium on Saturday night. San José (2-8-1), which ended a five-match unbeaten run, jumped to a 1-0 lead on defender Rodrigues’ second goal of the season. Cristian Espinoza notched his sixth assist on Rodrigues’ header from the center of the box to the bottom right corner of the net off a corner kick. Cristian Olivera scored for LAFC (44-3).
Hometown champion Alexandre Pantoja unanimously outpointed Australian Steve Erceg on Saturday night to retain his flyweight championship at UFC 301 in Rio de Janeiro.
Bob Avellini, a former Chicago quarterback who teamed with Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton to lead the Bears to the 1977 playoffs, died Saturday after a battle with cancer, the team said. He was 70.
It only took Tadej Pogacar until the second day of his Giro d’Italia debut to make a mark on the Italian grand tour. And the Slovenian star did it despite a puncture and a tumble, 11 kilometers (seven miles) from the end of the tricky second stage, on the approach to the final climb.