Italian center Luigi Suigo has withdrawn from the 2026 NBA Draft and committed to Villanova, according to multiple media reports.

Suigo, 19, averaged 8.1 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.1 blocks across 18.1 minutes per game last season for Mega Superbet in the AdmiralBet ABA League. He is listed at 7’3″ with a 7’5.5″ wingspan.

The prospect, from Tradate, Varese, Italy, was viewed as a potential late first-round pick by media outlets. ESPN ranked him 32nd overall on their big board.

Suigo had offers from Villanova, Illinois, Purdue and Indiana. He will now join a Wildcats’ squad that is fresh off a NCAA Tournament appearance. They went 24-9 in Kevin Willard’s first season as head coach.

–Field Level Media

Former U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu thrilled the home crowd in London by winning a pair of matches over several hours at the HSBC Championships on Saturday to advance to the tournament finals.

The oft-injured 2021 champion knocked off Uzbekistan’s Kamilla Rakhimova, 6-3, 7-5, then came back a few hours later to oust No. 6 Iva Jovic, 6-2, 6-2.

In between those matches, Croatian Donna Vekic, a lucky loser into the main draw, defeated the United Kingdom’s Katie Boulter, 6-1, 6-3.

Vekic and Raducanu will meet for the first time on Sunday. The 29-year old Vekic has four WTA titles under her belt, while the London native is seeking her second.

Raducanu broke Jovic five times in their match and took advantage of the 18-year old American’s 58 percent first serve efficiency.

Vekic won 23-of-25 points on her first serve against Boulter and never faced a break point.

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Robin Montgomery, ranked No. 484 in the world, knocked off Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic, 6-4, 6-2, to reach her first-ever finals in the ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands event on Saturday.

Montgomery, will take on eighth-seeded Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic in Sunday’s finals. Krejcikova, the lone seeded player to reach the quarterfinals of the grass court event, edged Poland’s Magda Linette, 6-3, 7-6 (4).

Linette served at 5-4 in the second set, staved off four break points, but could not convert on a fifth. She took a 3-0 lead in the tie-breaker, but Krejcikova stormed back to win seven-of-eight to earn the win.

Montgomery smacked 11 aces and won 28-of-33 points on her first serve against Tomljanovic.

The two players have never competed against one another in a tour-level match.

–Field Level Media

Ivan Herrera hit two home runs, with the second sparking a five-run seventh inning for the St. Louis Cardinals, who posted a 9-6 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday in Minneapolis.

Herrera went 2-for-3 with a walk and drove in three on his eighth and ninth homers. Jordan Walker also homered in the seventh, a 454-foot homer that hit off the third-deck facade in left field, and Blaze Jordan capped the inning with his first Major League long ball, a three-run shot.

In just his second game in the bigs, Jordan had his second 2-for-4 game and added a triple. Pedro Pages went 3-for-4 with two doubles.

Justin Lawrence (0-3) struck out the first two Cardinals he faced in the seventh, but St. Louis rocked him with four straight hits. Solo homers from Herrera and Walker, his 18th, started the rally. Jordan greeted Travis Adams with a three-run shot.

Royce Lewis (2-for-4) hit his third home run in his last four games for the Twins. Byron Buxton (2-for-4) hit his 22nd home run, and Luke Keaschall added a two-run shot for Minnesota’s scoring.

Matt Svanson (2-1) was perfect in 1 2/3 innings of relief for the Cardinals.

Herrera put the Cardinals up just six pitches into the game as he hit a two-run homer off Connor Prielipp. St. Louis got another two off the Twins starter in the second, thanks to Jordan’s triple, Pages’ first double and a Masyn Winn sacrifice fly.

Prielipp settled down from there to last six innings. He allowed seven hits and two walks while striking out two before giving way to Lawrence, who was tagged with his first loss with the Twins after they acquired him from Pittsburgh on June 2.

Minnesota got its three homers in the fourth and fifth innings off Cardinals starter Matthew Liberatore to tie the game. Liberatore gave up five hits and a walk in 4 1/3 innings and struck out four.

Kody Clemens’ RBI single in the eighth cut the Cardinals’ lead to four. St. Louis closer Riley O’Brien, pitching in a non-save situation, walked the first three batters he faced in the ninth to bring the tying run to the plate three straight times. But only Josh Bell could bring in a run on a fielder’s choice.

–Field Level Media