A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko's preparations in the run-up to the claycourt major hit the skids in the first round of the Madrid Open on Saturday as she was beaten 6-3, 6-3 by unseeded Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu.
The Latvian has failed to scale the same heights she reached last year when she emerged out of nowhere to conquer Roland Garros.
But if the 20-year-old harbours any hopes of repeating that run in Paris later this month, she will have to make a vast improvement on Saturday's error-filled performance.
Joining her at the exit was American Venus Williams, a runner-up in Madrid in 2010. She was beaten 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 by Estonian Anett Kontaveit.
World number four Elina Svitolina and former world number one Karolina Pliskova, however, eased to victories.
Ukrainian Svitolina, the fourth seed, struck 28 winners and lost her serve just once as she brushed Alize Cornet aside for a 6-2, 6-2 victory.
Svitolina is aiming to win her third title of the year but the 23-year-old has never progressed past the second round in Madrid.
Sixth seed Pliskova, coming off a Stuttgart Open title win last month, extended her winning run to six matches after striking 29 winners and seven aces to sweep past Elena Vesnina 6-4, 6-2.
The duo will be joined by French seventh seed Caroline Garcia and Russian Daria Kasatkina in the next stage.
American 12th-seed CoCo Vandeweghe's defeat by unseeded Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic was the other upset of the day.
World number one Simona Halep, Race to Singapore leader Caroline Wozniacki and Spaniard Garbine Muguruza will take to the courts for their first round matches on Sunday.
Kadhe finishes runner-up in Abuja ITF Futures
India's Arjun Kadhe emerged runner-up at the ITF Futures event at Abuja, Nigeria, after losing to Brazil's Joao Menezes the final.
Playing his fourth final on the ITF circuit this season, the 397th-ranked Kadhe lost 3-6, 1-6 to an opponent three places above him in the ranking chart.
"First set was pretty close and he played really well. It was tough for me to break him. In the second set, I lost the first few games which I should have won on deuce," Kadhe told PTI from Abuja.
It was a third runner-up finish for the 24-year old from Pune after similar results in Kolkata and Trivandrum early this year.
"It's a learning process and being consistent with performance is key too, especially when you are playing doubles and singles both," he said.
Kadhe had won the title in Bhubneswar in February.
Marquez wins in Spain and takes MotoGP lead
Marc Marquez won his home Spanish Grand Prix and took the overall MotoGP lead on Sunday after the reigning champion's main rivals collided spectacularly.
The Honda rider was in a race of his own for the last eight laps after the Ducati pairing of Andrea Dovizioso, the previous championship leader, and Jorge Lorenzo collided with Honda's Dani Pedrosa while fighting for second place.
Pedrosa, who had wrist surgery less than a month ago, was thrown high over his bike after trying to go past the two Ducatis on the inside.
Lorenzo came across into the corner as Dovizioso went wide, colliding with Pedrosa and sending the two Ducatis into the gravel. All three riders walked away from the crash.
French Tech3 Yamaha rider Johann Zarco was gifted the runner-up slot, 5.241 seconds behind, and is now Marquez's closest rival in the championship.
Four times world champion Marquez, who started the race from fifth place, now has 70 points after four races to Zarco's 58. Dovizioso dropped to fifth overall with 46.
Italian Andrea Iannone finished third for Suzuki.
Zverev to meet veteran Kohlschreiber in Munich final
Defending champion Alexander Zverev advanced to the final of the Munich Open after a hard-fought 7-5, 6-2 victory over South Korean's Chung Hyeon on Saturday.
World number three Zverev will take on compatriot Philipp Kohlschreiber in Sunday's all-German final.
Next Gen ATP Finals champion Chung was quick off the blocks in the semi-final clash and took a 3-0 lead but top seed Zverev responded by winning five straight games.
The Korean levelled the scores but Zverev was not affected by the attempted comeback and broke Chung's serve for a third time en route to clinching the set.
Zverev continued his high-intensity approach in the second set and piled the pressure on his 21-year-old opponent, breaking Chung's serve on two more occasions as he progressed to his second ATP final this year.
The German, who won his first title on home soil in Munich in 2017, will face Kohlschreiber in the final after the veteran eased to a 6-2, 6-4 win over Maximilian Marterer in the other semi-final.
Marterer, 22, had not lost a set en route to the last four but was no match for Kohlschreiber, who used his experience to cruise to victory in little over an hour.
Kohlschreiber, who is 34th in the world rankings, was slow to get off the mark as Marterer took a 2-1 lead in the first set but the 34-year-old settled into his stride to win 20 of the next 23 available points and eventually, seal the set.
The three-times Munich Open champion took a 5-2 lead in the second set before Marterer attempted a comeback. Kohlschreiber was unfazed by his opponent's spirited efforts and closed out the match by winning four straight points.
Zverev, who was defeated by American John Isner at the Miami Open final in April, and Kohlschreiber will be targeting their first ATP title of the year.