UNHERALDED ROGERS IN FRENCH QUARTERS
paris» When Shelby Rogers finished last season ranked No. 146, she set a modest goal for 2016: boosting her ranking enough to gain direct entry into Grand Slam tennis tournaments so she wouldn’t need to go through qualifying rounds.
She managed to accomplish that for the French Open — but barely. At No. 108, the 23-year-old American was the last player admitted to the field at the time of the rankings cutoff last month. Maybe it’s time to aim higher. By beating a seeded player at Roland Garros for the third time in a week, Rogers reached the first major quarterfinal of her nascent career with a 6-3, 6-4 sweep of No. 25 IrinaCamelia Begu of Romania on Sunday. In the last 30 years, only five women ranked lower than Rogers have made it to the French Open quarterfinals.
“I keep reminding myself to play one point at a time and that this is just another tennis match. But that’s getting a little bit harder to do,” said Rogers, from South Carolina. “I have nothing to lose. I have no pressure.”
• Defending men’s champion Stan Wawrinka advanced to the quarterfinals with a 7-6 (5), 6-7 (7), 6-3, 6-2 victory over Viktor Troicki. Secondseeded Andy Murray also advanced, posting a rain-interrupted 7-6 (9), 6-4, 6-3 victory over big-serving American John Isner.
Spieth’s closing 65 worth a win
B fort worth, texas» Closing with a 5-under-par 65 at Colonial, 22-yearold Texan Jordan Spieth won the PGA Tour’s Dean & Deluca Invitational. At 17-under 263, Spieth birdied his last three holes and finished three strokes ahead of runner-up Harris English, who closed with a 66.
Including his first-place check of $1.2 million, Spieth has earned more than $24 million on the PGA Tour. Sunday’s win was the eighth of his career. That includes two majors.
• Ariya Jutanugarn, a 20-year-old Thai player, stretched her winning streak to three consecutive LPGA Tour events, closing with a 5-under 67 for a five-stroke victory at the Volvik Championship in Ann Arbor, Mich. Christina Kim placed second.
• Playing in Benton Harbor, Mich., 53-year-old Rocco Mediate holed out from a greenside bunker for a birdie on the par-3 17th to wrap up a recordsetting, wire-to-wire victory in the Senior PGA Championship.
He closed with a 5-under 66 and finished at 19-under 265, breaking the tournament record of 268 set by Sam Snead at PGA National in 1973.
Orlando City, New York City tie
B new york» Kevin Molino scored in extra time, giving Orlando City a 2-2 tie with New York City FC, which blew a 2-0 lead in the MLS match.
Molino put away a header from the center of the box in the 94th minute to extend Orlando City’s unbeaten streak to three matches.
• Goals from Jonas (second minute) and Gabriel (73rd) gave Brazil a 2-0 victory over Panama in a friendly at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City. Jonas, a 32-year-old striker, scored in an international match for the first time since November 2011.
• Federal and state forces in Mexico mounted an operation to find Mexican soccer star Alan Pulido, who was abducted Sunday in the northern border state of Tamaulipas.
Pulido, 25, is a forward for Olympiakos of Greece and was part of Mexico’s 2014 World Cup team, though he wasn’t called up for the Copa America tournament that starts this week.
He was kidnapped after leaving a party near his hometown of Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas, a state with battles between major drug gangs.
Footnotes.
Lewis Hamilton won the Monaco Grand Prix, getting his Formula One championship bid back on track after a dismal run of eight races without a win. Daniel Ricciardo started from the pole position and finished second . ... Riding a pink bicycle, Vincenzo Nibali clinched his second Giro d’Italia victory and fourth Grand Tour title on the Giro’s final 101-mile stage that was completed in Turin.