GOLF

Kuchar takes one-stroke lead in Phoenix Open

Matt Kuchar eagled the par-5 13th, and added two late birdies and a big par save on the rowdy par-3 16th hole Thursday to take the first-round lead in the Waste Management Phoenix Open at Scottsdale, Arizona.

Kuchar shot a 7-under 64 in perfect afternoon conditions at TPC Scottsdale for a one-stroke lead over defending champion Hideki Matsuyama and Brendan Steele. The crowd was estimated at 103,420 on the fan-friendly stadium layout.

DUBAI DESERT CLASSIC: Missing fairways, greens and piling up the putts, Tiger Woods got off to a rough start at United Arab Emirates.

The 14-time major winner finished the first round at 5-over-par 77, failing to record even one birdie. He is in a tie for 121st, 12 shots behind first-round leader Sergio Garcia (65).

TENNIS

ST. PETERSBURG LADIeS TROPHY: Venus Williams lost her first match since the Australian Open to Kristina Mladenovic 6-3, 6-1 at St. Petersburg, Russia.

In the quarterfinals, Mladenovic meets defending St. Petersburg champion Roberta Vinci, who beat Andrea Petkovic, 6-4, 6-4.

DAVIS CUP: Novak Djokovic will play Daniil Medvedev in the second singles match as he makes a return for Serbia in the first round against Russia.

Djokovic will be playing his first match since an unexpected second-round loss to Denis Istomin at the Australian Open.

SOCCER

BRAZIL: The power remains off at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium in a fight over who will pay a $1 million electricity bill that’s been unpaid for a week.

The consortium running the stadium owes the bill, although the consortium is disputing that. It said some of the bill was owed by Olympic Games organizers, who used the stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies, and soccer matches.

The stadium has fallen into disrepair in recent weeks, with hundreds of seats ripped out by vandals while the field is brown from a lack of water.

U.S. WOMEN: Contract talks between the women’s national team and the U.S. Soccer Federation resumed after the players’ union retained a new lawyer.

The U.S. Soccer Federation president, Sunil Gulati, said the union is being represented in collective bargaining by Mady Gilson of Bredhoff & Kaiser. The players parted ways in December with Rich Nichols, a lawyer who represented them since 2014.

NASL: The New York Cosmos are moving to Brooklyn after four seasons on Long Island.

The team, which relaunched in 2013 as part of the second-tier North American Soccer League, said it will play at MCU Park, home of the New York Mets’ Class A Brooklyn Cyclones.

ROAD RACING

BOSTON: A woman who lost her leg in the Boston Marathon bombing is now engaged to the firefighter who saved her.

Roseann Sdoia tells The New York Post that she and firefighter Mike Materia got engaged during a trip to Nantucket in December.

Sdoia was standing near the finish line during the 2013 Boston Marathon when the bombs went off, badly mangling her leg.

Materia rushed to help her, and stayed with her on the ride to the hospital. Two months after the bombing, they went on their first date.

They plan to marry this fall and are releasing a book next month titled “Perfect Strangers,” about four people affected by the bombing.