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Alcaraz defeats Nadal
in Madrid quarterfinals
S panish teenage sensation
Carlos Alcaraz overcame an
injury to defeat his idol, Rafael
Nadal, 6-2, 1-6, 6-3, in the Madrid
Open quarterfinals Friday.
The 19-year-old Alcaraz
recovered from a bad ankle twist
early in the second set to earn his
first victory in three matches
against the 21-time Grand Slam
champion.
In the semifinals, Alcaraz will
face t op-ranked Novak Djokovic,
who eased past Hubert Hurkacz,
6-3, 6-4.
It was Nadal’s first loss to a
Spaniard since 2016, when he fell
to Fernando Verdasco at the
Australian Open. He had a 138-21
record against his countrymen
entering the match with Alcaraz.
The other semifinal will be
between Stefanos Tsitsipas and
defending champion Alexander
Zverev. The fourth-seeded
Tsitsipas defeated Andrey
Rublev, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, and t he
second-seeded Zverev ended the
day with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over
Felix Auger-Aliassime.
GOLF
In Duluth, Ga., David Toms
ran off three straight birdies after
a rain delay and closed with a
short birdie, giving him a
7 -under-par 65 and a share of the
lead with Ken Duke after one
round of the Mitsubishi Electric
Classic.
Steve Flesch carded a 67. Steve
Stricker, in his second PGA Tour
Champions tournament after
being out six months recovering
from an illness that caused him to
lose 25 pounds, was in the group
at 68.
Duke had five birdies on the
front nine, making his lone bogey
on the 221-yard eighth hole when
he missed the green. Players
could lift, clean and place their
golf balls in the fairway because
of the weather....
In Sutton Coldfield, England,
Hurly Long of Germany was the
halfway leader at the British
Masters by a stroke.
Tournament host Danny
Willett was among seven players
within two strokes of Long.
Long’s 4-under 68 had him at
9 under and one shot ahead of
Scotland’s Richie Ramsay,
Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen
and Sweden’s Marcus Kinhalt.
SOCCER
Lautaro Martínez scored
twice to help defending
champion Inter Milan recover
from two goals down to beat
visiting Empoli, 4-2, and move to
the top of Italy’s Serie A.
Inter was a point above city
rival AC Milan, which plays at
Hellas Verona on Sunday. There
are two rounds remaining after
this weekend....
France midfielder Aurélien
Tchouaméni scored twice as
Monaco won at Lille, 2-1, to notch
an eighth straight win and move
up to second place in the French
league.
Monaco is level on points with
Marseille but leads on goal
differential ahead of Marseille’s
game at Lorient on Sunday.
Second place earns automatic
qualification for next season’s
Champions League, and there are
two rounds remaining after this
weekend....
In the Spanish league, Gonzalo
Melero converted a 90th-minute
penalty kick as host Levante
defeated Real Sociedad, 2-1, in
Valencia to keep alive its chances
of escaping relegation.
The victory lifted Levante out
of l ast place and left it three
points from safety....
Arminia Bielefeld is on the
brink of relegation in the German
Bundesliga a fter conceding a late
goal t o lose, 2-1, a t Bochum.
An own goal by George Bello
in the 89th minute resulted in
Bielefeld’s 10th consecutive
match without a win, including
eight losses....
Arsenal Manager Mikel Arteta
signed a three-year contract
extension to stay with the English
Premier League club through the
2024-25 season.COLLEGES
Hannah Leubecker scored
four goals and Aurora
Cordingley scored twice and
added five assists to spark the
third-ranked Maryland women to
a 14-6 victory over Johns Hopkins
and earn a spot in the Big Ten
lacrosse tournament
championship game for the sixth
year in a row.
Grace Griffin had two goals
and Shannon Smith two for the
top-seeded Terrapins (16-1), who
play for the title Sunday against
Rutgers, which defeated
Northwestern, 13-5, in Friday’s
late semifinal....
A m onth after entering the
transfer portal, former Maryland
basketball star Angel Reese
announced she is transferring to
LSU and joining Hall of Fame
coach Kim Mulkey.
Reese averaged 17.8 points and
10.6 rebounds as a sophomore for
the Terrapins, earning f irst-team
all-Big Ten and third-team
Associated Press all-American
honors....
Wisconsin a dded former
Wofford guard Max Klesmit to
the roster. Klesmit, f rom Neenah,
Wis., averaged 14.9 points per
game for Wofford as a sophomore
this past season and earned third-
team all-Southern Conference
honors.MISC.
In Louisville, Secret Oath
charged from the pack to grab the
lead from Yuugiri and held off
favorite Nest by two lengths in
the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill
Downs, giving 86-year-old trainer
D. Wayne Lukas his fifth Oaks
win and first since 1990.
Nest, the 2-1 favorite, made a
push down the stretch but could
not c atch Secret Oath. The f illy
earned her fifth career win in
eight starts.
Lukas, who last won the Oaks
in 1990 with Seaside Attraction,
also won in 1989, 1984 and 1982.
Ridden by Luis Saez, Secret
Oath covered the 1^1 / 8 miles i n
1:49.44 and paid $10.80, $5.60
and $4.60. She earned $767,250
for the win.
Churchill Downs was back at
full capacity for the first time
since 2019 after two years of
schedule changes with limited
spectators because of the
pandemic....
D utch cyclist Mathieu van der
Poel won the opening stage of the
Giro d’Italia a nd claimed the
race’s first maglia rosa on his
debut in the Italian grand Tour.
Van der Poel edged Eritrea’s
Biniam Girmay at the end of a
chaotic bunch sprint on the
uphill finish to Visegrád in the
first of three stages in Hungary.
Pello Bilbao was third at the
end of the 1 95-kilometer (121-
mile) route from Budapest....
Two Diamond League track
meets scheduled to be held in
China were canceled b ecause of
coronavirus-related restrictions,
and a substitute event in Poland
was added to the calendar.
The m eets were to be in
Shanghai and Shenzhen. The
substitute event will be held in
Chorzow, Poland, on Aug. 6....
John Hunter Nemechek took
the lead with 24 laps to go, then
held off Carson Hocevar in
overtime to win the NASCAR
Truck Series event at Darlington
(S.C.) Raceway.
— From news servicesDIGESTASSOCIATED PRESSBrad Marchand had a goal and
two assists Friday night to help the
Boston Bruins take their first lead
against the Hurricanes all season
— and hold on to it for a 4-2 victory
over visiting Carolina in Game 3 of
their first-round playoff series.
Rookie Jeremy Swayman
stopped 25 shots in his first career
playoff start after Linus Ullmark
allowed eight goals in the first two
games, both Hurricanes victories.
That followed a regular season in
which Carolina swept all three
games, outscoring the Bruins 16-1
and never trailing.
Charlie Coyle scored a short-
handed goal and added an assist
and David Pastrnak had a power-
play goal and an assist for Boston,
which can even the best-of-seven
series when it hosts Game 4 on
Sunday. Taylor Hall added a pow-
er-play goal for the Bruins to make
it 4-1 early in the third period.
Vincent Trocheck and Jaccob
Slavin scored for Carolina, and
backup goalie Pyotr Kochetkov
made 24 saves in his first career
playoff start. He took over in
Game 2 after starter Antti Raanta
was injured in a collision with
Pastrnak.
Trocheck gave the Hurricanes a1-0 lead, swiping in a rebound just
as he was belatedly knocked down
in front of the net. But Coyle tied it
on a give-and-go with Jake De-
Brusk with 2:44 left in the first
period.
Five minutes into the second
period, Marchand fought off the
puck along the boards and headed
for the slot, where he picked up
Patrice Bergeron’s deflected shot
and went high over Kochetkov —
Boston’s first lead over Carolina in
325 minutes 41 seconds this sea-
son.
The Hurricanes took back-to-
back penalties late in the second,
and soon after the five-on-three
became a one-man advantage,
Pastrnak wristed one in from the
left circle to make it 3-1.
The Hurricanes lost forward
Jordan Martinook in the second
period when he got his legs tan-
gled up with Boston’s Taylor Hall.
Martinook got back on his skates
but could not put any weight on
his right ankle. He left the game
and did n ot return.
l MAPLE LEAFS 5, LIGHT-
NING 2: Jack Cambell had
32 saves — including three to pro-
tect the lead on a late power play —
and Toronto b eat Tampa Bay in
Tampa i n Game 3 of their first-
round playoff series.
Ilya Mikheyer scored two emp-
ty-net goals in the final two min-
utes and Morgan Rielly, Colin
Blackwell and David Kampf also
scored to help Toronto take a 2-1lead in the best-of-seven Eastern
Conference matchup.
Ross Colton and Ondrej Palat
scored for Tampa Bay, and Andrei
Vasilevskiy had 31 saves.
Game 4 in Sunday night in Tam-
pa.
The Lightning is 16-0 in games
following a playoff loss over the
past three postseasons, includ-
ing a 5-3 win in Game 2 of this
series.
The two-time defending Stan-
ley Cup champions were unable to
build on the momentum of that
victory, though, yielding goals to
Rielly and Blackwell in the open-
ing 10 minutes before falling be-
hind 3-0 when Toronto took ad-
vantage of a turnover with
Kampf’s wrist shot from in front of
Vasilevskiy.
Colton’s power-play goal at
11:03 of the second period gave
Tampa Bay hope for comeback,
and Palat’s 38th career playoff
goal trimmed Toronto’s lead to 3-2
with just over 14 minutes remain-
ing in the third.
Campbell never flinched,
though, standing tall on Tampa
Bay’s final power-play opportu-
nity and making another big stop
down the stretch to thwart
Brayden Point’s attempt to tie the
score.
Vasilevskiy was pulled for an
extra attacker with 2:20 left.
Mikheyer put the Maple Leafs up
4-2 at 18:20 of the period, and his
second empty-netter came withfive seconds remaining.
Toronto, which has not won a
playoff series since 2004, won the
opening game of the series at
home, 5-0.DeSmith is out after surgery
The rest of the Pittsburgh Pen-
guins’ playoff run will n ot include
goaltender Casey DeSmith.
Coach Mike Sullivan said De-
Smith underwent core surgery
Friday morning and will miss the
rest of the postseason.
The surgery comes three days
after DeSmith exited in the second
overtime of Pittsburgh’s 4-3 triple-
overtime victory over the New
York Rangers in Game 1 of their
first-round series. DeSmith en-
tered the playoffs as Pittsburgh’s
top goaltender with all-star
Tristan Jarry sidelined with a low-
er-body injury.
DeSmith’s injury leaves Louis
Domingue as the starter as the
best-of-seven series shifts to Pitts-
burgh for Game 3 on Saturday
night.
Domingue picked up the victo-
ry in Game 1 when the Penguins
won 5:58 into the third extra peri-
od. The well-traveled, 30-year-old
Domingue made 35 saves in a 5-2
loss in Game 2.
Alex D’Orio is Pittsburgh’s
backup goalie, but Sullivan has
not ruled out Jarry’s return at
some point in the series. Jarry has
not played since he injured his
foot April 15.STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS ROUNDUPBoston finally has breakthrough against CarolinaBRUINS 4,
HURRICANES 2was the first of three straight for
the Panthers en route to a victory
that knotted the series at a game
apiece.
“That was kind of tough, actual-
ly, mentally,” Backstrom said of
Florida’s third goal. “After that,
after the second period, in the
third, they had a 5-1 lead. Nothing
to say about that. That being said,
we’ve got a tight series going back
to Washington. Looking forward
to playing in front of our fans.”
Vanecek can’t shoulder the
blame for all five goals, with his
defense breaking down on several
occasions. However, as has been
the case all season, his inability to
make routine stops precipitated
his downfall.
Game 3 is Saturday afternoon at
Capital One Arena following a day
off for the team, and Coach Peter
Laviolette probably will not reveal
his starting goaltender until a cou-
ple of hours before puck drop. Lavi-
olette said Friday morning that
Washington will have to “evaluate
everything” from Game 2, includ-
ing a possible change in net.
Vanecek, who made 30 saves in
Washington’s Game 1 win Tuesday,
could very well be the starter Sat-
urday despite being pulled in
Game 2. He allowed five goals on
18 shots in two periods but still
seems to provide a more consis-
tent option in net.
Ilya Samsonov played the entire
third period Thursday and
stopped all 17 shots he faced.
While the majority of them were
not high-danger attempts, it was
an encouraging result for the
2 5-year-old.
“I thought he came in and
played well because I don’t think
we played very well in the third at
all, so I thought he came in and
made some saves,” Laviolette said
of Samsonov. “They had a lot of
shots from the outside. He got to
feel the puck, so that was good.”
Laviolette, who has expressed a
desire for a true No. 1 goalie in the
postseason, could go back to Van-
ecek for Game 3, though. Washing-CAPITALS FROM D1ton spent the regular season rotat-
ing Vanecek and Samsonov, but
Laviolette and his coaching staff
could decide to pick one and com-
mit now.
Laviolette said he gave Vanecek
the starting nod in the openerbecause of his “body of work” dur-
ing the regular season.
“You’re just doing your job and
trying to stop the pucks and help
the team,” Vanecek said of his
mind-set during the postseason. “I
know we have a good team and we
can score goals, so I always trust
them.”
Samsonov has had a tougher
time in consecutive starts but
fared well in his three postseason
starts last year.
He has also risen to the occasion
against top-tier opponents, but his
inconsistent play — or the possi-
bility of an in-game spiral after a
bad goal — remains a glaring is-
sue. When Samsonov is at his best,
it’s when his confidence is high.
His solid third period Thursday
could help put him in the righthead space for a possible Game 3
start.
“Every season has up and
downs,” Samsonov said in late
April. “It is just not reality that it is
not just up. It does not work like
that.”
Laviolette on Friday offered no
update on the status of Tom Wil-
son, saying that the forward, who
left Game 1 early in the first period
with a lower-body injury after
scoring the game’s first goal, is still
“day-to-day.”
“When you lose a player like
Tom, it’s tough.... It would have
been great if we could have just
moved from Game 1 to Game 2 and
had the same lineup, but that op-
portunity wasn’t there. It wasn’t
present, and so we have to move
forward,” Laviolette said.Capitals’ goaltending issues flare up early in seriesJOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST
Washington’s V itek Vanecek was pulled from Game 2 on Thursday after giving up five goals on 18 shots.Capitals vs. Panthers
Series tied 1-1
Game 1: Washington 4, Florida 2
Game 2: Florida 5, Washington 1
Today: at Washington, 1 (ESPN)
Monday: at Washington, 7 (TBS)
Wed.: at Florida, 7:30 (ESPN2)
Friday*: at Washington, TBD
May 15*: at Florida, TBD
* if necessary; all games also
on NBC Sports Washington