The Indiana Fever fired coach Christie Sides on Sunday, the organization announced.

Sides went 33-47 in her two seasons with the squad, including going 20-20 this season. The Fever made the playoffs as the sixth seed and were swept in the first round by the Connecticut Sun.

Indiana is the sixth team to make a coaching change this offseason, joining Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington and the Sparks. All of the coaches let go had three years or less experience.

Whoever takes over the Fever will have a strong young core to work with, led by Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston. The pair have won the last two WNBA Rookie of the Year awards.

“We are incredibly thankful to coach Sides for embracing the challenge of leading us through an integral transition period over the last two seasons, while also positioning us well for future growth,” Fever president of basketball operations Kelly Krauskopf said.

“While decisions like these are never easy, it is also imperative that we remain bold and assertive in the pursuit of our goals, which includes maximizing our talent and bringing another WNBA championship back to Indiana. Coach Sides was an incredible representative of the Fever and our community, and we wish her nothing but success in the future.”

Krauskopf came back to the Fever earlier this month after spending time with Indiana Pacers.

Sides was a longtime assistant in the league, spending time with Chicago (2011-16), the Fever (2017-19) and Atlanta (2022) before getting the head coaching job. She replaced Marianne Stanley and her interim successor, Carlos Knox, who coached in the 2022 season.

Sides had two years left on her contract.

HORSE RACING

Watchtower and Diego Herrera rallied to beat odds-on Medoro by a nose in the $100,000, Grade III Autumn Miss Stakes at Santa Anita on Sunday, giving the 20-year-old jockey his first thoroughbred graded stakes victory.

The win at 8-1 odds for trainer Richard Baltas in the 1-mile turf race for 3-year-old fillies was Herrera’s sixth in 44 starts at the Santa Anita fall meet that ended Sunday, lifting him into the top 10 of the jockey standings.

Juan Hernandez wrapped up his second Santa Anita fall meet title in a row with 25 race victories, 10 more than Umberto Rispoli.

Bob Baffert won the training title with 14 victories, one more than Phil D’Amato and two more than George Papaprodromou.

— Kevin Modesti

TENNIS

Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard completed a perfect week on serve by upsetting American Ben Shelton to win the Swiss Indoors on Sunday.

The French player, who is ranked No. 50, prevailed 6-4, 7-6 (4) against the sixth-seeded Shelton to become the lowest-ranked champion since the tournament became a tour-level event in 1975.

Mpetshi Perricard did not drop serve all week in Basel, winning all 60 of his service games and having to fend off just three break points — all in his quarterfinal match against Denis Shapovalov.

He also served up 22 aces against Shelton on his way to taking his first ATP 500 trophy.

“It’s amazing to win a tournament like that. A 500 for the first time for me,” Mpetshi Perricard said. “I just can be happy with myself, with what I did today and the past five days.

“It’s amazing to win here ... (before this) it was a tough month for me, but it’s always good when the victories are there.”

Mpetshi Perricard started the year ranked 200, won several challenger titles and his first ATP-level title in Lyon in May.

Jack Draper overcame a second-set wobble against Karen Khachanov to win the final of the Erste Bank Open 6-4, 7-5 for his second ATP title.

The 22-year-old Briton won the opening set in Vienna and led 4-0 in the second before Khachanov took five games in a row.

“I was playing so good, and then the momentum shifted,” the seventh-seeded Draper said. “I just missed a few balls and made some wrong decisions, and Karen picked up his level. That’s a testament to how good he is, he’s a fighter and he’s in great form. It got really tight there, but I stayed solid and in a good mental frame.”

Draper won his first ATP title in Stuttgart in June and reached the U.S. Open semifinals last month.

Top-seeded Zheng Qinwen of China claimed the Toray Pan Pacific Open title with a 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over American wild card Sofia Kenin and clinched her place in the WTA finals next month.

The No. 7-ranked Zheng, who won gold at the Paris Olympics, fired 16 aces and only faced a single break point throughout the 1 hour, 52 minute victory in Tokyo over the 2020 Australian Open champion.

SOCCER

Lynn Williams and Lindsey Horan scored minutes apart in the second half and the United States rallied to beat Iceland 3-1 on Sunday in Nashville, Tennessee.

Forward Emma Sears made her debut for the United States as a second-half substitute and scored in stoppage time. She also had an assist, becoming the first player with a goal and an assist in her first national team game.

The United States also defeated Iceland 3-1 on Thursday in Austin in the first of the three matches on home soil. The Americans play Argentina on Wednesday in Louisville, Kentucky.

The matches are the first for the United States since the team won the gold medal at the Paris Olympics this past summer.

Karolína Lea Vilhjalmsdottir scored on a corner kick to give Iceland the lead in the 31st minute. U.S. goalkeeper Casey Murphy leaped to get her fingertips on the ball, but it got past her and bounced into the goal after hitting the far post.

It was the first time the U.S. had trailed in 12 games under coach Emma Hayes.

Brazilian authorities said a Cruzeiro soccer fan has died after a roadside ambush by rival supporters in São Paulo state on Sunday morning.

The fan was confirmed dead at a hospital in the city of Mairipora, 46 kilometers (28 miles) north of Sao Paulo. Local media reports said at least 12 fans were injured in the same attack.

The Cruzeiro fans were traveling back to Belo Horizonte by bus after their team’s 3-0 loss at Athletico Paranaense in the top-tier Brazilian league on Saturday.

Brazil’s federal road police told journalists the victim was a 30-year-old man, but did not provide more details. São Paulo’s public security secretariat said the attack was carried out by ultra supporters of rival Palmeiras.

Footage on Brazilian TV showed a bus on fire and several Cruzeiro fans lying on the sidewalk as Palmeiras supporters punched them and hit them with sticks.

Cruzeiro said on its social media channels that it “deeply regrets yet another incident of fan violence” in Brazil.

The club also said “several fans were wounded.”

Sao Paulo-based Palmeiras has not commented so far.