Massialas wins gold at Cairo World Cup

Alexander Massialas, competing for Team USA, won the men's Foil gold medal at the Cairo World Cup on Saturday. After winning gold at the Paris World Cup in January, Massialas has now won gold medals in back-to-back months.

The San Francisco native and Stanford alum won it in style, too, battling back from a 14-12 deficit in the gold medal bout to defeat world No. 1 Tommaso Marini of Italy.

Tennis: Top-ranked Iga Swiatek was upset by Barbora Krejcikova 6-4, 6-2 in the final of the Dubai Championships.

Krejcikova closed the tournament by beating the top three players in the WTA rankings: No. 3 Jessica Pegula in the quarterfinals, No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals, then Swiatek. No. 8 Daria Kasaktina was also overcome in the second round.

The Czech is the fifth woman in the Open era to beat the world's top three at the same event.

Also Saturday, Daniil Medvedev won the Qatar Open when he defeated Andy Murray 6-4, 6-4 in a final matchup of former No. 1s.

Medvedev converted fast starts in each set. He reached 4-1 in the first and 3-1 in the second.

Murray fought but was too far back, and Medvedev won his 17th singles title.

College basketball: Eric Dixon scored 18 of his 31 points in the first half, Cam Whitmore added 17 and Villanova defeated No. 19 Creighton 79-67 in Philadelphia.

Also in the Top 25, Jordan Hawkins scored 20 points to lead No. 18 Connecticut past St. Johns on the road 95-86 . ... Oklahoma upset No. 23 Iowa State 61-50 in Ames, Iowa . ... Mike Miles, Jr. scored 24 points to lead No. 24 TCU past Texas Tech 83-82 in Lubbock, Texas.

Auto racing: NASCAR canceled practice and qualifying sessions for the weekend races at Fontana because of ongoing heavy rains.

Both the Cup Series and Xfinity Series drivers will race without practice on the track east of Los Angeles, with the starting orders determined by the metric used to set the qualifying order.

Christopher Bell will be on the pole for Sunday's Cup race, with Daytona 500 champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. joining him on the front row.

This is the final race weekend on the famously weathered asphalt of the 2-mile track at Auto Club Speedway. A half-mile track will be built on the site over the next two years, which means NASCAR won't race in Southern California next year.

In Formula 1, Red Bull driver Sergio Perez moved up the leaderboard as the sun went down to lead the third and final day of testing.

It underlined how strong Red Bull looks heading into next weekend's season-opening race on the same Sakhir desert circuit in Bahrain. Defending world champion Max Verstappen led the first test day.

Golf: Yannik Paul's lead at the Hero Indian Open was trimmed from five shots to one after the third round of the European tour event.

Paul, who shot a 1-under 71 to move to 11 under overall, is one ahead of fellow German Marcel Siem.

Siem birdied his last two holes for a 67 that put him in the final group on Sunday as he goes in search of his fifth European tour title — and first since 2014.

College football: Wisconsin has promoted Nate Letton from quality control coach to tight ends coach, enabling him to have the same role he filled on Luke Fickell's Cincinnati staff last season.

Fickell, now the Wisconsin head coach, originally selected former Cincinnati offensive coordinator Gino Guidugli as his tight ends coach.

Winter sports: A downhill race in the women's World Cup was canceled Saturday after initially being delayed for two hours because of fog over the course in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

The downhill is now set for Sunday, taking the place of a super-G which was scheduled, race organizers said.