Canada unbeaten at mixed doubles curling
Kadriana Lott and Colton Lott finished off a dominant Sunday with an 11-0 victory over the Netherlands' Vanessa Tonoli and Wouter Goesgens at the world mixed doubles curling championship in Sweden.
The Canadians had earned an 8-3 win over Czechia's Zuzana Paulova and Tomas Paul earlier Sunday. Canada improved to 3-0 to sit atop Group B.
The Lotts strung together three straight deuces, followed by a three-point fourth end to take a 9-0 edge. After a pair of singles extended their lead, the Dutch pairing conceded the game after six ends.
The Canadians got off to a hot start before the Czechs also conceded with two ends remaining. Up 2-1 after the second end, Canada scored four in the third to take a sizable edge.
Czechia picked up a single in each of the following two ends to trim the deficit to three, but a deuce from the Canadians in the sixth sealed the contest.
Round robin play ends on Thursday, with medal games slated for Saturday.
Jan-Lennard Struff won his first
title at the age of 33 with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Taylor Fritz in the BMW Open final on Sunday in Munich.
“To do it on home soil is just incredible,” Struff said. “I waited so long. I'm 33 years old and played so long on tour. It's just an amazing feeling to do it here in Germany.”
The 28th-ranked German player had lost on his previous three appearances in finals, but he converted five of 11 break points he earned against Fritz to win in 1 hour, 19 minutes.
The ATP website said Struff became the third-oldest first-time champion, at 33 years and 11 months, since the tour was established in 1990.
Struff beat defending champion Holger Rune 6-2, 6-0 in the semifinals.
Fritz was playing his first tour-level final on clay. The American was looking for his second trophy of the season after winning at Delray Beach.
Elena Rybakina easily won her
third tennis title of the season Sunday with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk in the final of the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany.
Rybakina, the world No. 4-ranked player who ousted top-ranked Iga Swiatek in the semifinals, saved the three break points she faced and took four from six opportunities to win in 1 hour, 9 minutes.
It's Rybakina's tour-leading 26th win of the year. The Stuttgart title came after wins in Adelaide and Abu Dhabi earlier this season. The Kazakh player's previous clay court wins were in Rome in 2023 and Bucharest in 2019.
The 27th-ranked Kostyuk was under pressure from the start as Rybakina broke her serve and sealed the first set in just 30 minutes.
It was Kostyuk's third final. She won her maiden title in Austin last year, and was runner-up in San Diego last month.