Carlos Alcaraz defeated an injury-striken Lorenzo Musetti 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 to win the Monte Carlo final on Sunday and secure his sixth Masters 1000 career title.

Alcaraz cruised to his first Monte Carlo trophy and his 18th tour-level victory. The 21-year-old Spaniard will reach No. 2 in the world rankings following the triumph in Monaco.

Musetti started showing signs of a right-leg injury in the third set and received treatment at 0-3. Playing in his first Masters 1000 final, the Italian had trouble keeping up with Alcaraz at the end of the match.

It was Alcaraz’s third consecutive clay-court final after winning the French Open and finishing with a silver medal at the Paris Olympics.

Hailey Baptiste and Bernarda Pera had straight-set wins to give the United States a spot in the Billie Jean King Cup Finals with a 2-1 victory over host Slovakia in Bratislava.

Baptiste beat Renata Jamrichova 6-3, 6-4 and Pera overcame Slovakian No. 1 Rebecca Sramkova 7-6 (2), 7-5 in the Group C match.

The U.S., which beat Denmark 3-0 on Saturday, topped Group C.

Ena Shibahara and Shuko Aoyama defeated Canadians Kayla Cross and Rebecca Marino 6-3, 5-7 6-2 in the decisive doubles match in Group A to secure Japan a spot in the finals.

Canada had taken a 1-0 lead when Victoria Mboko beat Shibahara 6-4, 6-7 (8), 7-5. Japan evened the math with Moyuka Uchijima beating Marina Stakusic 6-3, 6-3 in the second singles.

HOCKEY

The United States downed defending champion Canada 2-1 at the women’s hockey world championship in a matchup of the game’s global powers in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.

Lee Stecklein and Megan Keller scored for the Americans who made it three wins in as many games in Group A. U.S. goalie Aerin Frankel made 18 saves.

Laura Stacey got the lone goal for Canada and captain Marie-Philip Poulin recorded her fifth assist in the tournament to top the scoring table with six points.

The U.S. previously routed Finland 7-1 and shut out the Czechs 4-0. Canada had recorded two shutout wins, blanking Finland 5-0 and Switzerland 4-0.

The U.S. completes the preliminary round against Switzerland on Tuesday, Canada plays host Czech Republic today.

TRACK AND FIELD

Mykolas Alekna surpassed his world record in the discus twice in Ramona, Okla.

The Lithuanian star threw a discus 247 feet, 9 inches (75.56 meters) at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational. In his first attempt, he also had a record-breaking throw of 245-7 (74.89 meters).

The record is subject to ratification.

SWIMMING

Olympic champion Lukas Martens of Germany broke the men’s 400-meter freestyle record at the Swim Open Stockholm.

Martens became the first swimmer to break the 3 minute, 40 seconds barrier, finishing the race with a time of 3:39.96.

That was 0.11 seconds better than the previous record set by fellow German Paul Biedermann in 2009, according to Olympics.com. Biedermann’s mark had been set wearing the drag-reducing “super suits” that were eventually banned in 2010.

COMBAT SPORTS

Jaron Ennis crowned himself the best in the 147-pound division when he stopped Eimantas Stanionis after six rounds and claimed three shares of the welterweight division crown with a decisive win late Saturday night in boxing’s return to Atlantic City, N.J.

Ennis ran his record to 34-0 when the fight was waved off once Stanionis was unable to continue after the sixth round.

Ennis, out of northwest Philadelphia and a rising star in the sport, was already the IBF welterweight champion and he took the WBA and Ring Magazine away from Stanionis (15-1). Ennis said in the ring it was too early to decide if he would move up in weight class.

Alexander Volkanovski reclaimed the featherweight championship early Sunday morning, defeating Diego Lopes by unanimous decision at UFC 314 in Miami.

Two judges scored the fight 49-46 and the other had it 48-47.

Volkanovski (27-4) had successfully defended his belt four times before losing to Israel Makhachev on Feb. 11, 2023. Now he has it back.

SOCCER

Alyssa Thompson and Riley Tiernan each had a goal and an assist as Angel City won 3-1 at Houston.

Macey Hodge also scored for Angel City (2-0-2). Tiernan’s goal made it 2-0 near the half-hour mark.

After Barbara Olivieri pulled one back for Houston (1-2-1) in the 61st minute. Thompson scored her third of the season in the 84th minute.

RUNNING

Kenyan Benard Biwott and Ethiopian Bedatu Hirpa won the men’s and women’s Paris Marathon.

Biwott won the race in his debut and clocked 2 hours, 5 minutes and 25 seconds — 8 seconds faster than last year’s winner, Mulugeta Uma.

Hirpa’s race was far closer as she overtook countrywoman Dera Dida in the final meters, and beat her by just 4 seconds. Hirpa finished with a winning time of 2:20.45.

Both winners earned his/her second marathon victory.

DEATHS

Former LSU receiver Kyren Lacy died at age 24 in an apparent suicide in his car while being pursued by authorities in Houston, according to a Harrison County sheriff’s report.

Lacy already was facing criminal charges stemming from a fatal car accident in Louisiana last December that had clouded his NFL prospects.

Harris County authorities say a pursuit of Lacy late Saturday night ended when Lacy crashed. When officers approached the vehicle to extract Lacy, they say he had died in an apparent suicide, the report said.

Lacy was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency responders.

Lacy, who led LSU in touchdowns receiving with nine last season, had declared for this month’s NFL draft. But his draft stock plummeted after his alleged involvement in an accident in that killed a 78-year-old man in Lafourche Parish, La.

Lacy, who was from Thibodaux, La., allegedly was driving recklessly when a motorist who was swerving to avoid Lacy’s car crashed head-on into another vehicle.

Herman Hall of Thibodaux, who was involved in a head-on crash, died after being transported to a hospital, a state police report said.

Authorities in Gray, La., said Lacy fled the scene of the accident without calling for help. Lacy was booked with negligent homicide, felony hit-and-run and reckless operation of a vehicle.

Lacy played in 12 games for LSU last season and was second on the team in catches with 58 and yards receiving with 866.

A private plane that crashed in upstate New York on Saturday was carrying a close-knit family of physicians and distinguished student athletes, bound for a trip to the Catskills to mark a 25th birthday and the Passover holiday.

Shortly after noon, the twin-engine aircraft, a Mitsubishi MU-2B, went down in a muddy field in Copake, N.Y., near the Massachusetts line, killing all six people aboard, according to authorities and a family member who spoke to The AP.

The victims included Karenna Groff, a former MIT soccer player recently named the NCAA Woman of Year; her father, a neuroscientist, Dr. Michael Groff; her mother, Dr. Joy Saini, a urogynecologist and Karenna Groff’s boyfriend, James Santoro, another recent MIT graduate, according to James’ father, John Santoro. Karenna Groff’s brother and his girlfriend were also believed to be aboard, Santoro said.