In his final tuneup for the PGA Championship in two weeks, the 28-year-old from nearby Dallas finished 72 holes on 31-under par 253 at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas. "I feel like my game is trending in a good direction," Scheffler said. "I'm excited to start the rest of the season." He matched the lowest total strokes over four rounds in a PGA Tour event, a mark shared by Sweden's Ludvig Aberg from the 2023 RSM Classic and American Justin Thomas at the 2017 Sony Open. Japan's Hideki Matsuyama... Читать дальше...
Australian Piastri finished 4.6 seconds ahead of British team-mate Lando Norris with George Russell of Mercedes finishing third but 37.6 seconds behind. The victory was the third in a row for Piastri after his wins in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and his fourth in the six races so far this season. Four-time world champion Max Verstappen, who started on pole, finished in fourth place with Alex Albon of Williams fifth and 18-year-old Italian Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes in sixth. "I was aware enough to avoid Max in turn one... Читать дальше...
The 26-year-old from Tulsa, the 200m runner-up at the Tokyo and Paris Olympics, defeated Britain's Zharnel Hughes by 0.29 of a second with Jamaica's Oblique Seville third, also in 20.13. Bednarek, also a 200m runner-up at the 2022 world championships on home soil in Eugene, captured the Miami men's 100 title on Saturday in a wind-aided 9.79 seconds. American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won the 400m in 49.69 seconds, beating fellow American Anna Hall by 1.99 seconds. Two-time reigning Olympic 400m... Читать дальше...
The Norwegian, a three-time Grand Slam runner-up, earned his first Masters 1000 triumph with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 victory over the Briton in a two-and-a-half hour tussle at the Manolo Santana stadium. Rising star Draper, who will move fifth in the world rankings on Monday above Novak Djokovic, was hoping to add to his Indian Wells title in March but Ruud outlasted him in his third Masters final. "This was my seventh big final if you count them all, so seven is a lucky number, I guess," laughed Ruud. Читать дальше...
After the Catalans scraped a comeback win at Valladolid on Saturday, Madrid survived a late Celta fightback to maintain the four-point gap ahead of next Sunday's Clasico. Defending champions Madrid, second, took a three-goal lead but were left clinging on at the Santiago Bernabeu against a Celta side seventh and hoping to qualify for European football next season. "The game seemed finished... you have to remember we're without six defenders and we're not always capable of solving these things," said Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti. Читать дальше...