Iga Swiatek avenged her loss in last year’s final to Aryna Sabalenka and won the Madrid Open on Saturday after a third-set tiebreaker.

The top-ranked Swiatek beat No. 2 Sabalenka 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (7) for her third title of the season. The 22-year-old Polish player became the youngest player to reach 20 titles since Caroline Wozniacki in 2012.

Swiatek faced two match points when she was struggling with her serve at 5-6 in the third set. But she held on to force the tiebreaker, where she saved a third match point.

Swiatek collapsed on the red clay after Sabalenka hit long to end a match that lasted 3 hours, 11 minutes, the longest WTA final so far in 2024. Each player broke serve five times.

Baseball

Saints win second straight over Bats with 7-run first

A quick start thanks to a seven-run first inning helped the St. Paul Saints beat the Louisville Bats 9-6 on Saturday, giving St. Paul back-to-back wins for the first time since April 5-6.

Diego A. Castillo had three hits for the Saints, and DaShawn Keirsey Jr., Matt Wallner and Michael Helman each had two hits. Castillo fell a homer shy of the cycle, while Wallner hit his fourth homer of the season for St. Paul.

Randy Dobnak (2-3) gave up four runs in five innings, but just one of the runs were earned. He struck out seven. Diego Castillo pitched a scoreless inning for his third save.

They got all of the offensive support they’d need in the first when Wallner opened the scoring with a sacrifice fly to plate Keirsey. Yunior Severino, Chris Williams and Diego A. Castillo each walked with the bases loaded. Another run scored on a wild pitch and Keirsey had an RBI single to finish the scoring in the first.

Phillies’ Turner to miss at least six weeks

Trea Turner will miss at least six weeks with a left hamstring strain after being injured in the fourth inning of Philadelphia’s 4-3 win over the San Francisco Giants on Friday.

The Phillies placed the two-time All-Star shortstop on the 10-day injured list on Saturday, but Turner said he’ll need more time.

Turner has started all 30 games this season, helping the Phillies (22-11) enter Saturday with the most wins in baseball. He is hitting .343 with two homers, 10 doubles, nine RBIs and 10 stolen bases.

Hockey

USA beats Slovakia; to face Canada in IIHF finals

Max Plante, from Hermantown, Minn. scored twice and had two assists as the U.S. Under-18 men’s national team beat Slovakia 7-2 on Saturday to advance to the championship of the IIHF U-18 world championship in Espoo, Finland.

The U.S. will face Canada, which beat Sweden 5-4 in the semifinals. The championship game is scheduled for 10 a.m. today.

Cole Eiserman also scored twice for Team USA. Defenseman Will Skahan, from Woodbury, Teddy Stiga, Cole Hutson also scored. Logan Hensler, from Woodbury, had an assist.

Goaltender Nicholas Kempf made 16 saves in goal for the U.S.

Golf

Pendrith leads seeking first PGA Tour victory

Taylor Pendrith has been here before — holding or sharing a lead after three rounds on the PGA Tour.

The Canadian was one of six among the top 10 on the leaderboard seeking a first tour victory at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson.

Pendrith chipped in twice for consecutive eagles to kick-start an 8-under 63 on Saturday for a one-shot lead over second-round leader Jake Knapp.

Ben Kohles (65) and first-round leader Matt Wallace (67) were two shots off the lead, one stroke ahead of Alex Noren and Kelly Kraft, playing near his Dallas home at the TPC Craig Ranch.

Koepka shoots 64 to lead LIV Singapore

Brooks Koepka, looking for his fourth victory on the LIV Golf circuit, shot a 7-under 64 on Saturday to lead by three strokes after the second round in Singapore.

Rain delayed the start of play by several hours in steamy Singapore with the round finishing near dusk.

Koepka was at 12-under overall at the Sentosa Golf Club.

Four players were three strokes behind: Abraham Ancer (67), Matthew Wolff (65), Thomas Pieters (67) and Adrian Meronk (66). Four more were just four strokes behind Koepka heading into Sunday’s closing round.

basketball

Reese, Cardoso debuts watched on fan’s stream

The WNBA debuts of Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso were widely watched on a social media livestream from a fan who stepped in when the league’s app couldn’t broadcast the game.

Reese and Cardoso played in their first preseason game for the Chicago Sky on Friday night in a 92-81 loss to the Minnesota Lynx.

The WNBA’s app had incorrectly listed the game as available to watch, leading to confusion from fans before the league clarified that only Caitlin Clark’s debut with the Indiana Fever was being broadcast.

That’s when @heyheyitsalli stepped in on X.

“Would y’all want me to try and stream the game on here??” the X user asked, “no promises on the quality but i can try.”

Viewership numbers on the livestream varied, but on Saturday the video showed about 434,000 total views. The X user previously posted a screenshot showing that the stream peaked at 173,381 live viewers.

Briefly

Motorsports >> Christopher Bell posted the fastest time in qualifying at Kansas Speedway to earn the pole for the third time in his last five NASCAR Cup Series visits to the track.

Motorsports >> Max Verstappen, the three-time reigning F1 champion won his seventh consecutive pole, tying him with Alain Prost in opening the season with six consecutive poles.

soccer >> Real Madrid clinched the Spanish league title by beating relegation-threatened Cadiz 3-0.

Soccer >> Ipswich will play in the Premier League for the first time since 2002 after securing the second automatic promotion spot from the second-tier Championship on Saturday.

— From news services