■ FRANCE
Bordeaux leapfrog Toulouse
Yoann Gourcuff scored one goal and set up another on Saturday to lead Bordeaux to a 2-1 victory that snapped Toulouse’s four-match winning streak in Ligue 1. The France playmaker skipped past defenders Mauro Cetto and Mohamed Fofana with a clever back-heel move, before scoring from close range in the 29th minute. David Bellion doubled the lead for Bordeaux in the 40th minute after receiving Gourcuff’s headed pass and dribbling past Cetto to unleash a diagonal strike. Etienne Capoue pulled a goal back for Toulouse in injury time, taking advantage of a mistake by goalkeeper Mathieu Valverde. Bordeaux leapfrogged Toulouse into second place on goal difference, with 17 points after nine rounds. Also on Saturday, it was Caen 2, Grenoble 2; Monaco 1, Nice 2; Paris Saint-Germain 3, Lorient 2; Nantes 1, Saint-Etienne 0; Sochaux 1, Le Havre 1; and Lyon 2, Lille 2.
■ NETHERLANDS
NAC Breda beat PSV, go top
NAC Breda beat defending champions PSV Eindhoven 2-1 on Saturday to go top of the Dutch league. PSV captain Timmy Simons scored an own-goal to put NAC in front in the 14th minute and Ghana forward Matthew Amoah doubled the advantage with his league-leading ninth goal of the season in the 87th minute. PSV, who host Marseille in the Champions League on Wednesday, scored through Ibrahim Afellay in the 90th minute. NAC have 15 points after six rounds. FC Groningen, who lost 1-0 to Ajax to end their five-game winning streak, dropped to second with 13 points. PSV stayed third with 12 points. Ajax have 10 points. In Amsterdam, Jan Vertonghen set up Oleguer for the game’s only goal in the 37th minute. Also on Saturday, Boldizsar Bodor and Sekou Cisse scored to help Roja JC to a 2-2 home draw with SC Heerenveen. Christian Grindheim and Arnar Smarason scored in the 38th minute and 87th minute for Heerenveen. Marko Arnautovic and Eljero Elia scored in FC Twente’s 2-0 win over Heracles Almelo.
■ ARGENTINA
San Lorenzo win again
San Lorenzo won their sixth match in a row on Saturday when they beat promoted San Martin-Tucuman 1-0 to stay top of the Argentine Apertura championship. Forward Andres Silvera scored the winner in the 25th minute after a mistake by defender Juan Monge, who had been close to giving the visitors the lead three minutes earlier. San Lorenzo, whose coach Miguel Angel Russo is among the favorites to take over the Argentina national team following Alfio Basile’s resignation on Thursday, have 25 points from 10 games. Tigre stayed five points behind in second place with a 3-0 win over Lanus, Martin Morel scoring twice after Leonel Altobelli had put them ahead. Independiente gave Miguel Angel Santoro a winning start to his sixth stint in charge by winning 2-1 at Colon, with two first-half goals from Leonel Nunez.
■ AFRICA
Al Ahli, Coton Sport in final
Egypt’s Al Ahli will meet Coton Sport of Cameroon in the African Champions League final after both sides won their semi-final, second-leg matches on Saturday. A 26th minute goal from Angola international Flavio, from a trademark cross by compatriot Gilberto, handed Al Ahli a 1-0 win over Enyimba in Cairo after a goalless first leg. Ahli are only the second team to reach four successive African Champions League finals. Coton Sport will play in their first Champions League final after a 4-0 win over Dynamos of Zimbabwe in Garoua, Cameroon. Coton Sport are the first side from Cameroon to reach the final since 1980.
Carlos Alcaraz on Monday powered into the French Open second round with a resounding win to start his title defense, while world No. 1 Jannik Sinner and three-time defending women’s champion Iga Swiatek also progressed at Roland Garros. Four-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz struck 31 winners in a 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Italian qualifier Giulio Zeppieri and is to face Hungary’s Fabian Marozsan in round two. Alcaraz is now on an eight-match winning streak at the French Open and also took Olympic silver at Roland Garros last year, losing the final to Novak Djokovic. “The first round is never
FRUSTRATION: Alcaraz made several unforced errors over four sets against Bosnian Damir Dzumhur, who had never made it past the third round in a major competition Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz reached the fourth round of the French Open after laboring past Damir Dzumhur 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the Friday night session. The second-seeded Spaniard had never before played Dzumhur, a 33-year-old Bosnian who had never been past the third round at any major tournament. “I suffered quite a lot today,” Alcaraz said. “The first two sets was under control, then he started to play more deeply and more aggressively. It was really difficult for me.” Dzumhur hurt his left knee in a fall in the second round, and had treatment on Friday on his right leg during the
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The horn sounded on Wednesday night to signal a third straight trip to the Stanley Cup Final, as the Florida Panthers celebrated merely by hopping over the boards and several heading over to congratulate goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky. It was a subdued celebration seemingly more befitting a regular-season win for the reigning Cup champs. “I remember a few years ago, it felt like such an accomplishment from where we were at one point,” forward Matthew Tkachuk said, adding: “It’s all business and we’ve got a bigger goal in mind.” The Panthers closed out the Carolina Hurricanes in five games, with a 5-3 victory in
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