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AUTO RACING GLANCE

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NASCAR CUP SERIES AdventHeal­th 400

Site: Kansas City, Kansas. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 5:05 p.m., and qualifying, 5:50 p.m.; Sunday, race, 3 p.m. (FS1).

Track: Kansas Speedway.

Race distance: 267 laps, 400.5 miles. Last year: Denny Hamlin won after starting eighth.

Last race: Hamlin held off a hard-charging Kyle Larson over the final, thrilling laps and wiggled through lapped traffic to win by about a quarter of a second Sunday at Dover.

Fast facts: The victory was the third of this season for Hamlin, tying William Byron for the most this year, and fourth if you count the exhibition race in Los Angeles . ... Hamlin led 136 of the 400 laps but remains just fourth in points, trailing Kyle Larson of Hendrick Motorsport­s by 49, Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr. by 18 and Hendrick’s Chase Elliott by 16 . ... Byron is sixth, 62 points behind Larson . ... Larson was second, followed by Truex., Kyle Busch and Elliott . ... Hendrick drivers (five) and Gibbs drivers (four) have won nine of 11 races thus far. Ford remains winless through 11 races. Next race: May 12, Darlington, South Carolina.

NASCAR XFINITY SERIES

Last race: Ryan Truex won at Dover for the second straight year, giving the younger brother of Martin Truex Jr. the only NASCAR victories of his career. He now has two wins in 194 career starts over the three national series.

Next race: May 11, Darlington, South Carolina. (FS1).

Track: Kansas Speedway.

Race distance: 134 laps, 201 miles. Last year: Grant Enfinger won after starting 11th.

Last race: Kyle Busch overcame a series of late restarts and led 112 of 167 laps to win for the sixth time in the truck series at Texas and the 20th time overall on the 1.5mile layout.

Fast facts: Points leader Christian Eckes and non-title contender Kyle Busch are the lone multiple race winners through seven events. ... Eckes leads Corey Heim by two points and Ty Majeski by 12 in the points race . ... Heim is the only driver to have finished in the Top 10 in all seven races. He also leads with five top-five finishes.

Next race: May 10, Darlington, South Carolina.

FORMULA ONE Miami Grand Prix

Site: Miami Gardens, Florida. Schedule: Friday, practice, 12:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, Sprint, 4 p.m., and qualifying, 4 p.m.; Sunday, race 4 p.m. (ESPN). Track: Miami Internatio­nal Autodrome. Race distance: 57 laps, 191.584 miles. Last year: Max Verstappen won after starting ninth.

Last race: Verstappen, the three-time defending champion, started from pole for his fourth victory in five races this season and his 23rd in the last 27 extending through last season.

Fast facts: Verstappen has started on the pole in all five races this year . ... He’s led 202 of the 219 laps he’s raced.

INDYCAR

Last race: Scott McLaughlin won his second straight race at Barber Motorsport­s Park, giving Team Penske a much-needed triumph just days after IndyCar erased Josef Newgarden’s victory and disqualifi­ed McLaughlin from the season opener.

Next race: May 11, Indianapol­is, Indiana.

Wednesday

At Tennis Club J.A Saint-Malo Saint-Malo, France Purse: $100,000 Surface: Red clay Women’s Singles Round of 16

Celine Naef, Switzerlan­d, def. Daria Saville (5), Australia, 6-2, 6-2.

Clara Burel (1), France, def. Zeynep Sonmez, Turkiye, 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-3. Women’s Doubles Round of 16

Women’s Singles

Quarterfin­als

Elena Rybakina (4), Kazakhstan, def. Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5. Aryna Sabalenka (2), Belarus, def. Mirra Andreeva, Russia, 6-1, 6-4.

Men’s Doubles

Round of 16

Ariel Behar, Uruguay, and Adam Pavlasek, Czech Republic, def. Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury (3), Britain, 6-4, 3-6, 12-10. Jack Withrow and Nathaniel Lammons (15), United States, def. Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz (6), Germany, 7-5, 6-4. Michael Venus, New Zealand, and Jamie Murray (11), Britain, def. Benjamin Hassan, Germany, and Abdullah Shelbayh, Jordan,

Jessika Ponchet, France, and Sofya Lansere, Russia, def. Margaux Rouvroy and Astrid Lew Yan Foon, France, walkover. Chloe Paquet and Elsa Jacquemot, France, def. Maria Paulina Perez Garcia, Colombia, and Renata Zarazua, Mexico, 6-3, 7-5. Camilla Rosatello and Angelica Moratelli (3), Italy, def. Lois Boisson and Selena Janicijevi­c, France, 6-4, 7-6 (6).

Olivia Nicholls, Britain, and Olivia Gadecki (2), Australia, def. Eden Silva, Britain, and Anastasia Tikhonova, Russia, 7-5, 5-7, 10-8.

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