Tsitsipas advances to Monte Carlo final

Defending champion Stefanos Tsitispas

breezed into the Monte Carlo Masters final after dispatching second-seeded Alexander Zverev

6-4, 6-2 on Saturday at Monaco.

Tsitsipas lined up the first big final of the claycourt season against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, the Spaniard who knocked out Novak Djokovic in the second round.

Davidovich Fokina reached his first ATP final by beating Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 6-4, 6-7 (2-7), 6-3.

Tsitsipas dominated Zverev on clay like the

Greek never had previously. Zverev recovered from a break down twice in the first set that Tsitsipas took with a third break in the 10th game.

Elsewhere: New No. 1 Iga Swiatek powered Poland into the Billie Jean King Cup Finals for the first time and they were joined by other newcomers Italy and Kazakhstan.

The United States and Canada were on the brink of advancing with 2-0 leads in the best-of-five qualifiers. The finals are in November at a venue yet to be decided.

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College basketball: Louisville basketball coach Kenny Payne has hired former Kansas great Danny

AManning as an assistant, a month after he completed an interim stint at Maryland. The 55-year-old Manning guided the Terrapins to a 15-17 finish after taking over for Mark Turgeon in December. Manning was 78-111 as Wake Forest’s coach from 201420 and 38-29 with Tulsa from 2012-14 after working as a Kansas assistant the previous six seasons.

Soccer Cristiano Ronaldo capped his hat trick with a stunning free kick in the 76th minute to give Manchester United a 3-2 win over Norwich and boost the team’s hopes of securing a Champions League spot. United moved past Arsenal into fifth place, three points behind Tottenham in the

AEnglish Premier League. ... Leandro Trossard’s 90th-minute goal gave Brighton a 1-0 victory at Tottenham to halt the north London club’s resurgence and push for Champions League qualification. ... Striker Erling Haaland scored twice as Borussia Dortmund routed Wolfsburg 6-1 to maintain its slim chances of winning the German league. ... A spectacular overhead kick from Alvaro Morata led to a stoppage-time equalizer for Juventus to draw with nine-man Bologna 1-1 in Serie A. Morata’s acrobatic effort was going wide until Dusan Vlahovic met it with a header at the far post that found the target to salvage a point for the Bianconeri.