Alijah Arenas, the USC basketball recruit who was involved in a fiery vehicle accident, is out of an induced coma, his family said in a statement Friday.

Arenas, 18, remains intubated, his family told ESPN, but has “shown significant signs of progress within the last 24 hours.”

The Los Angeles Police Department said officers responded shortly before 5 a.m. Thursday to a single-vehicle collision in the Reseda area of the San Fernando Valley. The L.A. Fire Department further said the vehicle was a Tesla Cybertruck that crashed into a tree and a fire hydrant with fire involved.

The family said Arenas remembered the smoke from the crash and wrote to ask, “Did anyone get hurt?”

No cause of the crash has been released.

The family expressed its gratitude to those who have helped Arenas and said further updates would be shared “as Alijah continues to heal.”

Arenas is a son of former NBA player Gilbert Arenas. He attends Chatsworth High School, where he became the first prep boys player to score 3,000 career points.

GOLF

Yan Liu had an albatross to offset three front-nine bogeys and rebounded from a late bogey for an even-par 72 and a one-stroke lead over four players in the Chevron Championship, the first women’s major tournament of the year.

Top-ranked Nelly Korda rallied late in the afternoon to make the cut in her title defense, following an opening 77 with a 68. She won last year at The Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas, for the last of her record-tying five straight wins.

Fog delayed the start of play, with nine players unable to finish the round because of darkness.

Hyo Joo Kim (71) was a stroke back with Lindy Duncan (66), Sarah Schmelzel (68) and Mao Saigo (68). Kim won the Ford Championship a month ago in Arizona for her seventh LPGA Tour title, while the other four players at the top of the leaderboard are winless.

Liu holed her 175-yard second shot on the 505-yard, downwind par-5 eighth with a 7-iron for the albatross.

“I saw the ball how to go in, so that’s really cool thing,” Liu said.

Liu then bogeyed No. 9 and opened the back nine with seven pars. She dropped into a six-way tied for the lead with a bogey on the par-3 17th.

She got the stroke back with a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th, finishing about an hour before sunset.

PGA Tour rookies Isaiah Salinda and Kevin Velo shot a 3-under 69 in alternate-shot play to remain atop the leaderboard in the Zurich Classic, and leave defending champions Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry six strokes back.

Salinda and Velo had a 17-under 127 at the breezy TPC of Louisiana in suburban New Orleans after breaking the tournament better-ball record with a 58 on Thursday in the tour’s only team event. Andrew Novak and Ben Griffin were a stroke back after a 66.

SOCCER

Mary Alice Vignola scored an own goal in second-half stoppage time as the Pride rallied from two goals down to beat Angel City, 3-2, in a National Women’s Soccer League match in Orlando, Fla.

Riley Tiernan opened the scoring for Angel City when she cut in from the left wing and sliced a shot past the near post of goalkeeper Anna Moorehouse in the ninth minute.

Moments before halftime, Katie Zelem scored her first goal of the season to give Angel City a 2-0 lead. Orlando failed to clear its lines from a corner kick and Zelem scored from 10 yards out.

Marta ignited the comeback for the hosts in the 71st minute. Barbra Banda got the equalizer in the 76th minute.

TENNIS

Top seeds Alexander Zverev and Aryna Sabalenka scored comfortable victories in their opening matches at the Madrid Open.

Zverev cruised past home favorite Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 6-2, while Sabalenka triumphed against qualifier Anna Blinkova 6-3, 6-4.

Zverev, the Madrid champion in 2018 and 2021, extended his winning streak to six matches. The German player moved to No. 2 in the world after capturing the Munich title last weekend.

“A good match, I knew I had to focus against Roberto,” said Zverev, who improved to 24-5 in Madrid. “This is my favourite center court in the world, I only lost twice here in my entire life. I hope that stays the way throughout the next 10 days and that I can continue playing good tennis.”

Sabalenka, the Madrid winner in 2021 and 2023 and last year’s runner-up to Iga Swiatek, converted three of her seven break opportunities to defeat the 76th-ranked Blinkova.

The top-ranked Sabalenka will face No. 28 seed Elise Mertens in the third round.

Anastasia Potapova upset eighth-seeded Qinwen Zheng, while 15th-seeded Amanda Anisimova lost to fellow American Peyton Stearns 6-2, 2-6, 7-5. Sixth-seeded Jasmine Paolini eased past Katie Boulter 6-1, 6-2.

Third-seeded Jessica Pegula reached the third round by defeating Eva Lys 6-2, 6-2. Pegula reached the Madrid final in 2022, losing to Ons Jabeur.

Pegula, who has a tour-leading 27 wins, will next face Moyuka Uchijima, who beat Jabeur in three sets.

In other action on the men’s side, fourth-ranked Taylor Fritz of the U.S. — who returned from an abdominal injury that kept him sidelined since Miami — routed Christopher O’Connell of Britain 6-1, 6-4, and Casper Ruud beat Arthur Rinderknech 6-3, 6-4.

Fellow American Ben Shelton rallied past Mariano Navone 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3. The 85th-ranked Navone served for the match at 5-4 in the third set.

Juan Manuel Cerundolo beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in straight sets, while Daniil Medvedev advanced after Laslo Djere withdrew because of a shoulder injury.

Gael Monfils, who on Wednesday became the oldest winner in the tournament’s history, withdrew from his meeting with defending champion Andrey Rublev because of an illness.

Holger, who beat Carlos Alcaraz in the Barcelona final last weekend, retired because of a thigh injury with Flavio Cobolli leading 6-2 in the first set.

BOXING

Heavyweight boxing looks to be getting another fight for the undisputed championship, with Oleksandr Usyk set to meet Daniel Dubois in a rematch in July.

The fight will take place on July 19 in London’s Wembley Stadium as reported by The Ring Magazine, a publication owned by Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the Saudi General Entertainment Authority and the organizer of boxing events for the kingdom.

The bout hasn’t been officially confirmed by either of the Usyk or Dubois camps.

Usyk, 38, who holds the WBA, WBC and WBO belts and is undefeated as a pro, stopped Dubois in the ninth round of a controversial first fight between them in Poland in August 2023.