The Knicks will try to ride a tone-setting first quarter from Game 4 of their Eastern Conference first-round series against the Atlanta Hawks into Game 5 on Tuesday in New York.

The Knicks responded to consecutive one-point losses by securing a seven-point lead after the end of the first quarter in Game 4. They doubled the advantage by halftime and extended the lead to as many as 24 points en route to a 114-98 victory on Saturday.

The best-of-seven series is tied at two wins apiece.

“You can’t be satisfied with this performance,” Josh Hart said after his team regained home-court advantage in the series. “You can’t go into Game 5 thinking we had a great game, and they’re just going to lay down, ‘cause they’re not.

“They’re going to come out with a sense of urgency, a sense of physicality that they probably haven’t shown yet. We’ve got to be ready to weather that storm and have our own physicality.”

Atlanta head coach Quin Snyder credited New York’s defensive intensity — and the play of Hart — for contributing to his team’s stumble out of the gate.

“More than anything, the start of the game, their physicality bothered us,” Snyder said.

It’s safe to say Karl-Anthony Towns and OG Anunoby bothered the Hawks as well.

Towns recorded his first postseason triple-double after finishing with 20 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. He is the fourth player in franchise history to record a triple-double in a playoff game, joining Hall of Famers Walt Frazier and Dick McGuire as well as Hart.

“I thought we did a great job coming out with more tenacity. More desperation I think is the proper word,” Towns said.

Anunoby finished with 22 points while making 9 of 16 shots from the floor for the second straight game. He also collected 10 rebounds and All-Star guard Jalen Brunson had 19 points to continue his team’s strong play since the fourth quarter of Game 3.

“The way we’ve been able to (play on both sides of the ball) these past five quarters is how we’ve got to play,” Brunson said.

New York scored 21 points off 19 turnovers in Game 4, much to the chagrin of Atlanta’s CJ McCollum.

“They played better than us. They played harder than us,” said McCollum, who was limited to just 17 points after averaging 27.0 over the first three games.

“We would have liked to go up 3-1, but if you would have told us we’d be 2-2 going back to the Garden, life’s not so bad.”

Jalen Johnson made just 4 of 12 shots to finish with 14 points in Game 4. He averaged 21.3 points over the previous three games.

Like Johnson, the rest of the Hawks struggled to find their range. They shot 41.0% from the floor and 24.4% from 3-point range.

The Hawks, who rely heavily on the transition game, didn’t record a fastbreak point until the fourth quarter in Game 4.

“There’s no transition when you’re turning the ball over and bringing it up out of the net,” Snyder said.

–Field Level Media

It’s come down to a best-of-three in the Western Conference first-round series between the No. 2 seed Dallas Stars and the No. 3 Minnesota Wild with Game 5 set for Tuesday night in Dallas.

The teams split Games 1 and 2 in Dallas and then alternated overtime wins in Games 3 and 4 in Minnesota to set up a pivotal Game 5.

“It’s home ice, best-of-three,” said Stars forward Mikko Rantanen, who had two assists in Game 4. “This group has been in this situation before, so we’re pretty familiar.”

Dallas was on the verge of coming home with a commanding 3-1 series lead, but Marcus Foligno tied Game 4 at 14:40 of the third period, then Matt Boldy won it on a deflection with 29 seconds remaining in overtime.

“There’s a lot of belief in here,” Foligno said after the win. “These are two unreal teams, and we’ve got to understand they’re a heck of a hockey club, and it’s going to take this type of effort every night against this squad. … We took a lot of positives out of (a 4-3 double overtime loss in Game 3), and we got rewarded tonight.”

After compiling a career-high 42 goals and 85 points in his fourth NHL season, Boldy has five points (three goals, two assists) in the series and got to the right place at the right time to tip Jared Spurgeon’s shot past Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger to end Game 4.

“He’s a tenacious competitor,” Wild coach John Hynes said after Game 4. “He just continues to do the right things. He continues to play, he continues to push. Plays through whatever the circumstances are and got a huge goal for us.”

Brock Faber had a goal and an assist and Jesper Wallstedt made 43 saves (including nine in overtime) for the Wild. He has a 2.06 goals-against-average in the series and a .929 save percentage. Faber has three goals in the series, becoming the first defenseman in franchise history to do so.

“We just keep fighting, keep getting pucks to the net,” Wallstedt said. “We keep playing, and we never give up.”

Minnesota forward Mats Zuccarello, who has missed the last three games with an upper-body injury sustained in Game 1, practiced with the team Monday.

Jason Robertson scored in his fourth straight game for the Stars and has goals in six consecutive contests against the Wild going back to the regular season. Miro Heiskanen also scored for Dallas and Oettinger made 40 saves.

Both Dallas goals came on its power play, which has scored eight goals in 19 chances during the series. The Wild are 3-for-19 with the man advantage and have just one goal in their past 15 opportunities.

However, Minnesota has registered 11 even-strength goals to just three for Dallas.

“It’s almost the blue paint wars,” Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said. “If you get there and find some pucks and win some battles . . . it’s really hand-to-hand combat in the blue paint for both sides.”

Stars defenseman Nils Lundkvist was ruled out of Game 5 on Monday after leaving Game 4 with a facial cut from the skate of Wild forward Michael McCarron in the second period.

–Field Level Media

Unseeded Austrian Anastasia Potapova surprised No. 2 seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan and won a 7-6 (8), 6-4 battle in the Round of 16 at the Madrid Open on Monday.

Two of the top three seeds were shown the exit door, as Czech 13th seed Linda Noskova defeated No. 3 seed Coco Gauff 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (5). Top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus survived a tough test from No. 14 Naomi Osaka of Japan but advanced in three sets.

Potapova’s victory took one hour and 53 minutes and finished just after midnight local time. In the field as a lucky loser, she is now set to play a WTA 1000 quarterfinal match for just the fourth time.

Rybakina turned a 2-0 deficit into a 5-3 lead in the first set, but Potapova rallied to tie it at 5-5 and 6-6. The pair traded one-point leads in a tightly contested tiebreaker before Potapova won it on her third set point.

Potapova then trailed Rybakina 4-2 in the second set before she ripped off the final four games in a row. She ended the match having saved 7 of 10 break points and having won 75.5% of her first-service points (37 of 49).

Gauff, meanwhile, squandered a 4-1 lead in the third set and let Noskova move in front 6-5 before forcing a tiebreaker. There, Gauff led a 4-2 lead slip away.

Noskova hit eight aces with seven double faults, while Gauff fired 13 aces and committed six double faults. Gauff also saved 7 of 10 break points, but it was not to be.

“I know the match is not over until it’s over,” Noskova told reporters. “I was kind of saying to myself that I’m still close … even though it’s 1-4. I just wanted to find my rhythm and my game all over again.”

Sabalenka found herself a set and a break down when Osaka broke her serve in the third game of the second. Osaka won a marathon sixth game to tie it 3-3, but from there Sabalenka took nine of the last 11 games of the match, prevailing 6-7 (1), 6-3, 6-2.

“Oh my God, that was incredible level,” Sabalenka said after improving to 2-1 all-time against Osaka, the four-time major champ. “She played incredible tennis. I feel like I just got lucky in a couple shots in the third set, that’s why it went that fast.”

Sabalenka became the sixth woman to reach 150 match wins at WTA 1000 tournaments.

Her next opponent is 30th seed Hailey Baptiste, who reached her second WTA 1000 quarterfinal by enduring a second-set marathon to beat No. 11 Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 6-1, 6-7 (14), 6-3. Baptiste double-faulted three times during the second-set tiebreaker, and Bencic was credited with six match points saved in all.

In other matches, No. 9 seed Mirra Andreeva of Russia needed two hours and 53 minutes to get past Hungary’s Anna Bondar 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-6 (5); Canadian 24th seed Leylah Fernandez beat 31st seed Ann Li 6-3, 6-2; No. 26 Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine eliminated Caty McNally 6-2, 6-3; and Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic advanced past Solana Sierra of Argentina 6-4, 6-3.

–Field Level Media