GAUFF DEFEATS WANG FOR 2ND CAREER TITLE

American teenager Coco Gauff stormed to her second career singles title as she comfortably dispatched Wang Qiang 6-1, 6-3 at the Emilia-romagna Open in her first clay-court final on Saturday at Parma, Italy.

The 17-year-old Gauff also won the doubles title with Caty Mcnally later Saturday, becoming the youngest player to complete the singles/doubles sweep in nearly 17 years, since Maria Sharapova won both titles in Birmingham in 2004. That was just 92 days after Gauff was born.

“I feel like all week I was just thinking about it (winning both), especially when we got to the semifinals and you’re thinking about it, and you’re like it would be pretty cool to win both the singles and doubles titles. And I’m happy I was able to do that today,” Gauff said.

Gauff and Mcnally beat Darija Jurak and Andreja Klepac 6-3, 6-2.

In the singles final, Gauff needed just 74 minutes to beat her Chinese opponent.

More tennis

Casper Ruud warmed up for the French Open by winning the Geneva Open final, beating Denis Shapovalov 7-6 (6), 6-4.

Golf

Wei-ling Hsu birdied the final hole for a 6-under 65 and a share of the third-round lead with Moriya Jutanugarn in the LPGA Tour’s Pure Silk Championship in Williamsburg, Va. Jutanugarn eagled the par-5 seventh in a 65 to match Hsu at 10-under 203 on Kingsmill Resort’s firm and fast River Course.

Soccer

The San Diego Loyal dropped their fourth match to start the season, all on the road, with a 2-1 loss at Louisville City FC in USL Championship play.

• Felipe Mora scored a pair of second-half goals and the Portland Timbers (3-3-0) defeated the LA Galaxy (4-2-0) 3-0 at home in MLS action.

• When the final whistle blew, Diego Simeone broke out into a broad smile, laughed and breathed a sigh of relief. A few moments later, Luis Suarez was sitting on the field weeping profusely while on a video call. After a seven-year wait — and a dramatic final round —

Atletico Madrid had won the Spanish league title. Fans and players later celebrated together outside the stadium in Valladolid, with more supporters rejoicing back in Madrid. Atletico outlasted secondplace Real Madrid after coming from behind to defeat Valladolid 2-1 and finish two points ahead of its city rival after almost losing a lead that it had held since the ninth round.

• Brentford is one win away from promotion to the Premier League after beating 10-man Bournemouth 3-1 in the second leg of their playoff semifinals to advance 3-2 on aggregate. The west London team advanced to the playoff final and will face Swansea at Wembley Stadium in one week. The Swans drew 1-1 with Barnsley after taking a 1-0 advantage into their second leg.

Local colleges

Despite a 21⁄2-hour weather delay, the San Diego State baseball team (26-15, 18-13 MW) posted a 17-3 victory at Air Force. Due to the delay, the second game was suspended in the eighth inning with the Aztecs leading 11-7. The game will resume today before the regularly scheduled contest with the Falcons.

• The USD baseball team (31-11, 17-7 WCC) gave up six runs in the first two innings and could never recover, dropped a 6-2 decision to Portland at home.

Also

Scotland’s Josh Taylor knocked down Jose Ramirez in the sixth and seventh rounds and unanimously outpointed him to become the undisputed junior welterweight champion at Las Vegas. All three judges scored it 114112.

• Jussi Olkinuora made 29 saves, Iiro Pakarinen and Atte Ohtamaa scored and defending champion Finland beat the United States 2-1 in its opening game in the men’s world hockey championship in Riga, Latvia. The U.S. will face Canada — a 2-0 loser to host Latvia on Friday — today.

• Italian rider Lorenzo Fortunato soloed to victory atop the fearsome Monte Zoncolan as Egan Bernal extended his overall lead to more than a minute after the 14th stage of the Giro d’italia.