Stanford’s Megha Ganne set the Augusta National Women’s Amateur record on Wednesday with a 9-under 63 at Champions Retreat, giving her a two-shot lead over defending champion Lottie Woad, who did her best to track down Ganne.

The scoring was lower than usual at Champions Retreat, where the opening two rounds are held before the top 30 who make the cut play the final round at Augusta National, which hosts the Masters next week.

The weather was warm and turf was still relatively soft, and Ganne took advantage with a bogey-free round. Playing early and starting on the back, the Stanford junior ran off three straight birdies early and saved par with an 18-foot putt on No. 5.

The only disappointment was a three-putt par on the par-5 ninth hole.

“Believe it or not, I had a dream last night that I shot 61,” Ganne said on Golf Channel. “I didn’t tell anyone. I didn’t want to set bad omens in the air.”

Her 63 broke by two shots the mark previous held by Rose Zhang, her former Stanford teammate who won the ANWA two years ago.

Tennis

Swiatek, Raducanu out of King Cup qualifiers >> Iga Swiatek and Emma Raducanu have pulled out of next week’s Billie Jean King Cup qualifiers for their respective teams.

Poland is hosting Switzerland and Ukraine in the round-robin qualifier but No. 2 ranked Swiatek said she made a “difficult decision” to skip it.

Swiatek lost to wild card Alexandra Eala in the Miami Open quarterfinals last week.

Britain, which will be without Raducanu, plays Germany and the Netherlands.

Agassi to be part of French Open TV coverage >> Andre Agassi, whose eight Grand Slam titles include the 1999 French Open, will be a studio analyst for TNT Sports during the semifinals and finals at Roland Garros this year.

The French Open will be the first under a new 10-year deal that averages $65 million per year and moves the major from NBC.

NHL

Ovechkin scores 892nd career goal >> Alex Ovechkin moved three goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record after scoring the 892nd of his career in the Washington Capitals’ game at the Carolina Hurricanes.

Ovechkin beat Frederik Andersen on a 5-on-3 power-play with 34.5 seconds left in the second period. The 39-year-old Russian entered with nine goals in 12 career games against Andersen, 52 overall in the 91 games he has faced Carolina and 31 in 45 games in Raleigh, which is the most of any visiting player.

Commissioner Gary Bettman, Capitals owner Ted Leonsis and Ovechkin’s wife, Nastya, were in attendance for No. 892, sitting together in a suite.