COLLEGE

Bowdoin advanced to NCAA Division III men’s tennis championship on Tuesday with a 5-0 win over the University of Chicago at Claremont, California.

Kyle Wolf and Gil Roddy won their singles matches for the Polar Bears (23-1).

The Polar Bears advance to the play Middlebury College, the lone team to defeat them this season. Middlebury is 23-4.

The championship match is 2 p.m. Wednesday.

SOCCER

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BRAZIL: Neymar was back in training to give Brazil a big boost ahead of the World Cup.

Neymar has been sidelined since February after having surgery on his right foot but spent an hour training on the main pitch at Brazil’s Granja Comary training ground in Teresopolis, outside Rio de Janeiro.

Neymar was cleared to take part in training after undergoing a medical exams earlier in the day.

TENNIS

NUREMBERG CUP: Sorana Cirstea rallied to defeat home favorite Andrea Petkovic 2-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5) in the first round in Germany.

Cirstea next faces Madison Brengle, who defeated Varvara Lepchenko 6-1, 6-3 on Sunday.

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LYON OPEN: Top-seeded Dominic Thiem defeated Roberto Carballes Baena 6-2, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals.

GOLF

RYDER CUP: Europe added a wealth of Ryder Cup experience for the team room with four more assistants to captain Thomas Bjorn.

Lee Westwood, Padraig Harrington, Luke Donald and Graeme McDowell are the latest additions to Bjorn’s staff for this year’s matches in France. Bjorn previously named Robert Karlsson as one of his vice captains.

The matches are Sept. 28-30 in a Paris suburb. Europe has not lost on home soil since 1993.

BOXING

HEAVYWEIGHT: American Eric Molina was banned for two years for failing a drug test after losing to Anthony Joshua in December 2016, U.K. Anti-Doping said.

Molina tested positive for dexamethasone, a corticosteroid that is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency for in-competition use, in a routine test after the IBF heavyweight title bout at Manchester Arena.

– Staff and news service report


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