D2 EZ M2 THE WASHINGTON POST.SUNDAY, APRIL 10 , 2022
TELEVISION AND RADIO
MLB
1 p.m. Baltimore at Tampa Bay » M ASN2, WIYY (97.9 FM)
1:30 p.m. New York Mets at Washington » M ASN, WJFK (106.7 FM)
1:30 p.m. Texas at Toronto » M LB Network
4:30 p.m. Houston at Los Angeles Angels » M LB Network
7 p.m. Boston at New York Yankees » E SPN
HOCKEY
1:30 p.m. NHL: Boston at Washington » T NT, WTEM (980 AM)
4 p.m. NHL: Nashville at Pittsburgh » T NT
4 p.m. American Hockey League: Cleveland at Chicago » N HL Network
PRO BASKETBALL
3:30 p.m. NBA: Washington at Charlotte » N BC Sports Washington, WDCH (99.1 FM)
3:30 p.m. NBA: Indiana at Brooklyn » E SPN
7 p.m. NBA: Boston at Memphis » T NT
7 p.m. NBA G League playoffs, Eastern Conference final: Raptors 905
vs. Delaware/Motor City » ESPNU
9:30 p.m. NBA: Golden State at New Orleans » T NT
GOLF
2 p.m. The Masters, final round » W USA (Ch. 9), WJZ (Ch. 13)
MOTORSPORTS
1:30 p.m. MotoGP: Grand Prix of the Americas » W RC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11)
3:30 p.m. IndyCar Series: Grand Prix of Long Beach » W RC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11)
SOCCER
9 a.m. English Premier League: Burnley at Norwich City » U SA Network
9 a.m. French Ligue 1: Lille at Angers » b eIN Sports
11 a.m. French Ligue 1: Nice at Lens » b eIN Sports
11:30 a.m. English Premier League: Liverpool at Manchester City » U SA Network
1:30 p.m. MLS: Atlanta at Charlotte » W JLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2)
1:30 p.m. Turkish Super Lig: Galatasaray at Fenerbahce » b eIN Sports
3 p.m. French Ligue 1: Montpellier at Marseille » b eIN Sports
7:30 p.m. MLS: Minnesota United at Austin » F ox Sports 1
TENNIS
7 a.m. ATP: Monte Carlo Masters, early rounds » Tennis Channel
11 a.m. WTA: Charleston Open, doubles final » T ennis Channel
1:30 p.m. WTA: Charleston Open, singles final » T ennis Channel
RUGBY
7 p.m. Major League Rugby: Rugby New York at Los Angeles » F ox Sports 2
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Noon Georgia at South Carolina » S EC Network
1 p.m. TCU at Texas » E SPNU
2 p.m. Maryland at Minnesota » B ig Ten Network
2 p.m. Florida State at Georgia Tech » A CC Network
3 p.m. Alabama at Mississippi » S EC Network
4 p.m. Washington at California » P ac-12 Network
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Noon Virginia Tech at Florida State » A CC Network
Noon Maryland at Purdue » B ig Ten Network
1:30 p.m. Tennessee at Georgia » E SPN2
2 p.m. Arizona at Oregon State » Pa c-12 Network
3 p.m. Arizona State at Oregon » E SPNews
4 p.m. Alabama at Florida » E SPN2
MEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE
1 p.m. Bucknell at Lehigh » C BS Sports Network
7 p.m. Rutgers at Maryland » B ig Ten Network, WTEM (980 AM)
AUTO RACING
Herta sets track mark
to win IndyCar p ole
Colton Herta broke the Long
Beach track record in Saturday
qualifying, and the California
native will start from the pole for
his home IndyCar race.
Herta turned a lap at 1 minute
05.3095 seconds on the
temporary street course set up
through downtown Long Beach
to earn his eighth career pole and
the right to lead the field to green
Sunday. The previous track
record was 1:06.2254 set by Helio
Castroneves i n 2017.
Herta, f rom nearby Valencia, is
the defending race winner and
hoping to give Andretti Autosport
its fourth consecutive victory in
the most famous street course
race in the country.
“As a young kid, I always
trained to be an IndyCar driver,
and that’s because of this race,”
Herta said.
Josef Newgarden of Team
Penske will start second, and
reigning IndyCar champion Álex
Palou qualified third for Chip
Ganassi Racing....
F errari driver Charles Leclerc
claimed his second pole position
of the year with a blistering final
lap in qualifying for Sunday’s
Formula One Australian Grand
Prix in Melbourne.
Leclerc, who won the season-
opening race in Bahrain in
March, posted a time of 1:17.868
to edge Red Bull driver and
defending series champion Max
Verstappen by 0.286 seconds.
Red Bull driver Sergio Perez
qualified t hird. Lewis Hamilton,
who had claimed the pole
position in the six previous Grand
Prix races held in Melbourne,
qualified fifth.
TENNIS
T all, big-hitting Americans
John Isner and Reilly Opelka
will face each other in the final of
the U.S. Men’s Clay Court
Championship in Houston.
The fourth-seeded Isner, who
won the Houston title in 2013, hit
17 aces in eliminating defending
champion Cristian Garin, 4-6, 6-
3, 6-4 in the semifinals. The third-
seeded Opelka had 21 aces while
beating Nick Kyrgios, 6-3, 7-5.
Sunday’s f inal w ill be the sixth
career meeting between the 6-
foot-11 O pelka, 24, a nd t he 6-11
Isner, 36.
Opelka leads 4-1 head-to-head,
with four victories in a row....
Fourth-seeded Ons Jabeur
continued her run of success the
past two years at the Charleston
Open, overcoming Amanda
Anisimova, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4, t o reach
the final.
The Tunisian f aces Olympic
gold medalist Belinda Bencic of
Switzerland, a 6-4, 6-3 winner
over Ekaterina Alexandrova.
J abeur reached the semifinals
of this event last year. A week
later in a second tournament at
the facility, Jabeur got a step
further before losing in the final.COLLEGE LACROSSE
Gibson Smith broke the
program record for caused
turnovers and Graham Bundy Jr.
reached 100 career points in the
second-ranked Georgetown men’s
15-5 victory over Providence in
Providence, R.I.
With his 80th caused turnover,
Smith eclipsed Chris Nourse’s
mark of 79 set in 2013. Bundy led
the Hoyas (9-1, 2-0 Big East) with
six goals and added an assist.
Connor Morin added three goals
and an assist for Georgetown.
T he Friars are 5-6 overall and
0-2 in the Big East....
In Charlottesville, Payton
Cormier n etted four goals and
Griffin Schutz, Evan Zinn and
Jeff Conner c ontributed two
apiece to pace the No. 7 Virginia
men to an 11-4 win over No. 16
North Carolina.
The Cavaliers (8-2, 4-0 ACC)
scored five goals in the second
quarter and four in the fourth.
Chris Gray scored three goals for
the Tar Heels (7-4, 0-3)....
Reagan Roelofs s cored five
goals and Leelee Denton had
three to spark the No. 24 Navy
women (11-2, 5-0 Patriot League)
to a 16-6 victory over Boston
University (1-12, 0-6) in
Annapolis.MISC.
The Baltimore Ravens agreed
to terms with defensive lineman
Calais Campbell o n a two-year
deal.
C ampbell, 35, played the past
two seasons with Baltimore,
starting 14 games this past
season. He has 93^1 / 2 sacks in 14
seasons with Arizona,
Jacksonville and Baltimore....
Gennady Golovkin became
the unified world middleweight
boxing champion with a ninth-
round stoppage of Japanese
fighter Ryota Murata in Saitama,
Japan.
Kazakh boxer Golovkin, who
turned 40 on Friday, sent his
opponent to the canvas with a big
right hand, and Murata’s corner
threw in the towel.
Golovkin (42-1-1 with 37
knockouts) added Murata’s World
Boxing Association t itle to his
International Boxing Federation
and International Boxing
Organization belts. Murata, 36, is
16-3-0 with 13 KOs....
Daniel Martínez of Colombia
won the six-day Basque Country
Tour cycling race in Spain after he
snatched the lead from Remco
Evenepoel i n the final stage.
Evenepoel held a two-second
lead, b ut the Belgian struggled on
the final climb of the race.
Martínez finished the 143-
kilometer (89-mile) stage from
Eibar to Arrate fourth, just
behind stage winner Ion Izagirre,
who was runner-up in the race, 11
seconds behind Martínez.
— From news services
and staff reportsDIGESTERIK S LESSER/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK
Tiger Woods experienced a troubling day on the greens at the Masters on Saturday with four three-putts and an uncharacteristic four-putt.BY CHUCK CULPEPPERaugusta, ga. — Mother Nature
and Father Time messed with
Tiger Woods on Saturday, the cold
and the pain helping wreak a 78
that became his most human
score in the three rounds in his
Masters comeback from a fright-
ening car accident in February
2021.
It left him at 7 1-74-78, 7 over par
for the tournament, tied for 41st
place, and it crawled with unusu-
al sights: four three-putts plus a
four-putt on the dreaded par-4
No. 5.
“I mean, it’s just like I hit a
thousand putts out there on the
greens today,” he said.
It might have seemed like a
thousand on No. 5 alone, whenWoods began at 65 feet with a
long-shot chance at birdie, knock-
ing that one up a ridge and game-
ly to six feet. His six-footer slid by
on the left to three feet. His three-
footer lipped out, jerked from the
cup to the right and snarled.
The 15-time major winner and
five-time Masters winner would
give a detailed description of his
attempt to function at age 46 after
a grueling rehabilitation tucked
amid a 17-month layoff.
“I just could not get a feel for
getting comfortable with the
ball,” he said. “Posture, feel, my
right hand, my release, I just
couldn’t find it. Trying different
things, trying to find it, trying to
get something, taking practice
strokes and just trying to feel the
swing and the putter head, trying
to get anything, and nothing
seemed to work. Even as many
putts as I had, you’d think I’d have
figured it out somewhere along
the line, but it just didn’t happen.”
Woods played for the first time
alongside Kevin Kisner, the 38-
year-old tour mainstay with fourcareer PGA wins, and they grap-
pled with the day together.
“ I didn’t ask him much about
his leg,” Kisner said of the limb
that was shattered in the crash.
“We were trying to keep it pretty
light out there. I’m sure his leg is
hurting. I mean, I’m hurting and
I’m healthy, so I hope he can get
back out here and play a couple
more events with us soon.”
Woods’s back, t he s ubject of
five surgeries, also didn’t help
him. “It’s not as limber and as
loose as it normally is, that’s for
sure,” he said.
With Woods subdued after
quite some flight, the spotlight
turned more brightly to the top of
the board and the three men
presumed in contention: T exan
Scottie Scheffler at 9 under, A us-
tralian Cameron Smith at 6 under
and Korean Sungjae Im at 4 un-
der.
Reminded that Australians
would wake in the wee hours of
Monday to watch him in the final
group Sunday, Smith said: “Yeah,
that’s pretty cool. I’ve been watch-ing this tournament since I can
remember. Hopefully everyone
gets up early and I can make some
birdies.”
With his masterful short game
especially, he won the Players
against its ever-great field last
month and has risen to No. 6 in
the world, but this will be a first
crack at something this heavy.
“ I don’t know [how the mind
will go], to be honest,” he said. “I
think I’ll just try to keep it as
simple as I can, try and keep it the
same.”
And a mere 24, Im already has
forged a glowing Masters record.
He finished tied for second be-
hind Dustin Johnson at the au-
tumn Masters of 2020, when he
said, “I watched the Masters so
many times growing up that I feel
like I’m used to playing this
course, even though this is my
first time.”
Now, after missing the cut last
year, and after leading this Mas-
ters after the first round, he be-
gins a Sunday alone up in the
rafters of third place.Woods can’t get a grip on the greens
Five-time champ dogged
by putting struggles
during third-round 78BY GLYNN A. HILLU.S. figure skater Alysa Liu, 16,
announced her retirement from
the sport Saturday, concluding a
dazzling career that saw the 2022
Olympian become a two-time U.S.
champion and a world bronze
medalist.
“I started skating when I was 5
so that’s about 11 years on the ice
and it’s been an insane 11 years. A
lot of good and a lot of bad but [you
know] that’s just how it is,” she
wrote in an Instagram post. “I’ve
made so many friends, and so so
sooo many good memories that I’ll
have for the rest of my life. I hon-
estly never thought I would’ve ac-
complished as much as I did
LMAOO I’m so happy. I feel so
satisfied with how my skating ca-
reer has gone. Now that I’m finally
done with my goals in skating I’m
going to be moving on with my
life.”
Liu’s announcement followed
an eventful 2022 season that start-
ed with her testing positive for the
coronavirus and having to with-
draw midway through the U.S.
championships in early January.
She was Team USA’s top female
skater, but she resigned herself tothe idea that she would not live her
childhood dream of skating in the
Olympics.
That changed when she re-
ceived a text from a U.S. skatingofficial telling her she had made
the team following a successful
petition to compete in Beijing in
February. There, a joyful Liu fin-
ished seventh in a women’s figureskating competition that was
marred by a doping controversy
involving Russian teenage star
Kamila Valieva.
For Liu, the drama was just
beginning. On March 17, the Asso-
ciated Press reported that Liu and
her father, a former political refu-
gee, were among those targeted in
a spying operation that the Justice
Department alleged was ordered
by the Chinese government. Per
the report, Liu told her father that
she was approached by a stranger
who followed her and asked her to
come to his apartment late one
night after the Olympic free skate
event in Beijing.
A week after the report, Liu
became the first American woman
in six years to win a world champi-
onship medal during the 2022
competition in Montpellier,
France. Liu’s stellar free skate per-
formance lifted her two places to
the bronze — three weeks after
Russian athletes were banned
from international ice skating
competition following the coun-
try’s invasion of Ukraine. Liu end-
ed her routine in tears.
“I feel astonished at this point.
I’m still in shock,” Liu told Golden
Skate. “I think I did really good.
I’m really proud of myself. I didn’t
think I could do better than the
Olympics, and I was like, ‘It’s going
to be hard to do it again at worlds
so soon after,’ but I’m so happy. I
took a week off after the Olympics
and trained really hard for the
little time I had, and it paid off.”Two-time U.S. champion Liu hangs up her skates
SYLVAIN THOMAS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
“Now that I’m finally done with my goals in skating I’m going to be
moving on with my life,” Alysa Liu wrote in an Instagram post.16-year-old retires after
capping eventful season
with bronze at worldsS0141 4x2Stay one step ahead of the weather with theCapital Weather Gangsweater or tank top?@capitalweatherwashingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang