Croatia beats Hungary to win water polo gold

Croatia ended host nation Hungary’s hopes of a fourth world title in men’s water polo with an 8-6 victory in the final on Saturday in Budapest.

Captain Sandro Sukno scored a hat trick for Croatia, which claimed its second world title and first since 2007, when it also defeated Hungary in the final.

Serbia defeated Greece 11-8 for the bronze medal. Hungary’s silver was the country’s seventh.

Tennis: Second-seeded John Isner beat third-seeded Gilles Muller 6-4, 6-2 to reach the Atlanta Open final for the fifth straight year and the seventh time in eight years.

Isner will face fourth-seeded Ryan Harrison in an all-American final Sunday.

“I certainly will be ready to go tomorrow,” Isner said. “I feel great physically, maybe the best I have felt in quite some time. More importantly than that, I am pretty confident as well.”

Caroline Wozniacki was taken to three sets by unseeded Elise Mertens before winning 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 to advance to her second Swedish Open final in Bastad. Seventh-seeded Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic saved 88 percent of her breakpoints to beat Caroline Garcia 6-2, 7-5 in the other semifinal.

Horse racing: Good Samaritan stormed to the lead in the stretch and won the Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., a stunning victory in what was billed as a showdown between the winners of the first two legs of thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown.

Good Samaritan, who had never raced on dirt, beat Giuseppe the Great by 43⁄4 lengths as the two long shots in the race finished in front. Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming was third, Pavel fourth, and Preakness winner Cloud Computing finished last in the five-horse field in the Grade II $600,000 race.