Federer will regain top spot

Roger Federer sealed a return to the top of the tennis world rankings for the first time in more than five years by winning his quarterfinal at the ABN AMRO World Tournament on Friday in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Beating leading Dutch player Robin Haase, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1, means the 36-year-old Federer becomes the oldest man to top the world rankings, surpassing Andre Agassi, who held the record at age 33.

Federer will leapfrog 31-year-old Rafael Nadal to No. 1 when the rankings are updated Monday.

Also a record will be the five-years-plus that have elapsed since Federer was last No. 1.

On Monday, he will extend his record of 302 weeks at No 1 since the rankings began in 1973.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Natisha Hiedeman scored a season-high 26 points as the Marquette women’s team routed Villanova, 90-69, Friday at the Al McGuire Center.

Erika Davenport had 16 points for the Golden Eagles (18-8, 12-3 Big East).

BASEBALL

Noah McGowan drove in six runs to lead Ohio State to an 11-7 victory over UW-Milwaukee in the Snowbird Baseball Classic in Port Charlotte, Fla.

The Buckeyes scored five runs in the eighth to put away the Panthers (0-1).

HOCKEY

Claudia Kepler scored the tiebreaking goal with 5 minutes 58 seconds to play and the top-ranked Wisconsin women’s team rallied to beat No. 7 Minnesota, 4-3, at the LaBahn Arena in Madison.

Kepler tallied twice in the final period for the Badgers (28-3-2, 19-2-2-2 WCHA).

LACROSSE

Grace Gabriel tied a career high with six goals and the Marquette women’s team turned back Central Michigan, 19-7, at Valley Fields.

The Golden Eagles (1-2) won 24 of 28 draws and fell one goal shy of the single-game record.

SOFTBALL

Freshman Taylor Johnson broke the game open with a two-run double in the fifth and Wisconsin beat Pittsburgh, 5-1, in the Big Ten / ACC Challenge in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Pitcher Kaitlyn Menz recorded eight strikeouts for the Badgers (3-2).

COLLEGE ATHLETICS

The University of Wisconsin athletic board approved a $3 price increase for student football tickets, to $27, for the 2018 season.

The board also passed a spending authority of $143,546,390 for UW athletics for the 2018-’19 academic year.

That figure is an increase of more than $11 million from the current year ($132,441,623).