Alcaraz sweeps Norrie to capture crown
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Topseeded Carlos Alcaraz won his first title since his milestone U.S. Open triumph by beating Cameron Norrie in straight sets at the Argentina Open.
The world No. 2 overcame No. 12 Norrie 6-3, 7-5 in the clay-court final.
Alcaraz, 19, dropped only one set — to Serbia’s Laslo Djere — in his first tournament of the year.
Norrie lost his second final of the year after Auckland in January.
Medvedev tops Sinner for 16th title
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — Sixth-seeded Daniil Medvedev rallied past Jannik Sinner at the Rotterdam Open to win his 16th title.
Medvedev prevailed 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 in the indoor hard-court final against the Italian, who was looking for back-toback titles following his victory at Montpellier, France.
Medvedev will return to the top 10 next week, moving up to the No. 9 spot in the ATP rankings.
Bol breaks 40-year record in 400
APELDOORN, Netherlands — Femke Bol broke a 40-year-old world indoor mark in the women’s 400, covering the distance in 49.26 seconds.
Bol was running in front of a home crowd at the Dutch Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
The previous record of 49.59 was set by Jarmila Kratochvilova in 1982.
The 22-year-old Bol won bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the 400 hurdles. She also ran a world indoor 500-meter best of 1:05.63 in Boston in her first race of this season.
Swanson scores again for U.S.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Mallory Swanson scored in the 45th minute, and the U.S. edged Japan 1-0 to remain undefeated in the Shebelieves Cup.
Swanson got the ball on a pass from Alex Morgan and outraced the defender before beating goalie Ayaka Yamashita from the center of the box with a shot off her right foot to the far corner.
The forward in her team-best fourth start this year leads the U.S. in scoring.
Swanson now has six goals in four games and is one off her career-high for a season. This goal was the 31st of her national team career.
She also set a career-high scoring in her fifth straight international game dating back to Nov. 13. That tied the longest scoring streak by a U.S. women’s player since Christen Press had a six-game scoring streak between November 2019 and February 2020.
Goalkeeper Casey Murphy preserved the shutout with a couple big saves, her first off a shot by Yui Hasegawa’s right foot right in front of the box in the 81st minute. Murphy made another big save early in the four minutes of stoppage time, smothering a left-footed shot by Jun Endo.
Rashford scores twice for Man U
MANCHESTER, England — In this kind of form, Marcus Rashford might just fire Manchester United to the Premier League title and more.
The striker scored twice to set up a 3-0 win against Leicester as Erik ten Hag’s team closed in on second-place Manchester City and kept the pressure on table-topping Arsenal.
That’s 16 goals in 17 games for Rashford since returning from the World Cup in a run that has prompted fans to label him the best player in the world.
Third-place Manchester United is now five points behind leader Arsenal.
Mbappe, Messi power PSG to rally
PARIS — French league leader Paris Saint-germain gave away a two-goal lead then trailed by one goal with four minutes left before Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi turned things around and helped PSG to a 4-3 win against Lille.
Mbappe snatched a late equalizer in the 86th minute. Messi slotted home the winner deep in added time from a free kick, with a lethal left-footed shot.