1st Fed Cup win for U.S. since 2000

A 17-year championship drought came to an end for the United States when the Kathy Rinaldi-captained team beat host Belarus 3-2 to take its 18th Fed Cup title.

CoCo Vandeweghe and Shelby Rogers defeated Aryna Sabalenka and Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-3, 7-6 (3) in the deciding doubles of the 2017 final. It was the first Fed Cup title for the U.S. since Billie Jean King’s team in 2000.

“It feels perfectly believable and unbelievable,” Vandeweghe said. “I’m ready for a vacation.”

Sasnovich had kept Belarus alive by beating Sloane Stephens 4-6, 6-1, 8-6 to leave the final level at 2-2 on the indoor hard courts. Vandeweghe earlier beat Sabalenka 7-6 (5), 6-1 to give the U.S. a 2-1 lead.

Roger Federer beat Jack Sock 6-4, 7-6 (4) to open the seasonending ATP Finals in London. In the late match, Alexander Zverev beat Wimbledon runner-up Marin Cilic 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. College football: Stanford moved back into the AP Top 25 at No. 20 after Friday’s 30-22 upset of then-No. 9 Washington, which dropped to 16th.

Tennessee fired head coach Butch Jones with two games left in the season. Jones went 34-27 (14-24 in the SEC) in five seasons. The Vols (4-6, 0-6 SEC) have lost five of their past six games, including 50-17 to Missouri on Saturday. Golf: Patton Kizzire won his first PGA Tour title by beating Rickie Fowler over 36 holes on the last day of the rain-delayed OHL Classic at Mayakoba in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Kizzire closed with rounds of 66-67 for a 1-shot win at 19-under-par 265. Fowler shot 67-67.

Kevin Sutherland finally had a breakthrough on the PGA Tour Champions, taking the seasonending Charles Schwab Cup Championship and topping the yearlong competition, too. Sutherland closed with a 5-under 66 for a one-stroke win over Vijay Singh in Phoenix.

Branden Grace won the Nedbank Golf Challenge by a shot at 11-under. He is the first South African winner at Sun City in a decade. Soccer: Switzerland earned a World Cup spot with a 0-0 draw against Northern Ireland in Basel in a second-leg match that was saved by a goal-line clearance in stoppage time, giving the Swiss a 1-0 aggregate win . ... Croatia qualified with a 0-0 draw in the second leg against Greece in Athens, winning the aggregate 4-1. Baseball: Infielder Jae-gyun Hwang, who hit .154 in 18 games with the Giants this year, signed a four-year, $7.9 million deal with the KT Wiz in South Korea.