World No. 1 and Italian native son Jannik Sinner captured his sixth consecutive ATP Masters 1000 title, subduing Norway’s Casper Ruud, 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday to raise the trophy at the Italian Open in Rome.

Sinner joined Serbia’s Novak Djokovic as the only two players to win all nine ATP Masters 1000 titles, known as the Career Golden Masters. He extended his winning streak to 34 in these elite tournaments — breaking Djokovic’s record of 31 — and became the first Italian to win in Rome since Adriano Panatta pulled it off in 1976.

“I think this year was the 50th year since an Italian won and I am really, really happy,” Sinner said in his on-court interview. “There was a lot of tension on both sides, it was not perfect tennis from both of us, but I am really happy.

“(It has been) an incredible past two and a half months. I try to put myself in the best possible position every time and do the best I can. Not every day is simple, but I am really, really happy.”

Sinner started sluggishly, missing his first seven first serves of the match as 23rd-seeded Ruud broke him in the second game. But he quickly recovered, breaking right back and succeeding on 13 of his next 18 first serves, winning 12 of those 13 points.

Tied at 4-all, he earned his second break of the set and won his serve at love to take the first set.

Sinner kept his foot on the gas to start the second set, ripping a backhand up the line to break Ruud. The Norwegian did get one chance at 3-4, but Sinner fended off one break point and crossed the finish line in one hour, 55 minutes.

The Italian recorded 26 winners and 15 unforced errors, while Ruud hit 22 winners and made 23 miscues.

Ruud will move up to No. 17 in the ATP Rankings on Monday.

Hamburg Open

Seeded Americans Tommy Paul and Frances Tiafoe both advanced to the round of 16 on Sunday with straight set triumphs in Hamburg, Germany.

Paul, seeded No. 6, defeated fellow American Ethan Quinn, 6-1, 6-3, while No. 8 Tiafoe knocked off Germany’s Diego Dedura, 6-4, 6-4.

Paul did not face a break point and converted 5-of-8 in the match. Quinn struggled, recording only five winners and 25 unforced errors. Tiafoe had a tougher time, but saved all eight break points, including five in the sixth game of the second set.

Geneva Open

In the lone main draw match on Sunday, Argentine Mariano Navone stunned his countryman Marco Trungelitti, 5-7, 7-5, 6-1 in a two-hour, 55-minute come-from-behind victory to advance to the round of 16 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Trungelli served for the match twice, leading 5-1 and 5-3 in the deciding set. But Navone broke without facing a match point in either game and reeled off six consecutive games to prevail.

Navone won 66 of 140 (47.1%) return points in the match.

–Field Level Media

The Los Angeles Dodgers placed left-hander Jack Dreyer on the 15-day injured list Sunday with left shoulder discomfort, while right-handers Paul Gervase and Chayce McDermott were recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City.

In another pitching move, the Dodgers optioned left-hander Charlie Barnes to Triple-A.

Dreyer, 27, is tied for the Dodgers’ lead in appearances with left-hander Tanner Scott at 20. The second-year pitcher is 2-1 with a 2.08 ERA and has 24 strikeouts in 21 2/3 innings.

In his two seasons, Dreyer is 5-3 with a 2.76 ERA in 87 appearances (five starts) and did not allow a run in four appearances in last year’s postseason, including two appearances in the World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Gervase, 25, went three innings in his lone appearance for the Dodgers this season on May 9 and allowed one run.

McDermott, 27, is set to make his Dodgers debut after he was acquired from the Baltimore Orioles on April 16 for minor league right-hander Axel Perez. He had a 12.79 ERA in five appearances with the Orioles from 2024-25.

Barnes, 30, has made two scoreless relief appearances for Los Angeles this season, including a one-inning outing Saturday against the Los Angeles Angels.

–Field Level Media

The Buffalo Sabres and Montreal Canadiens are set for a Game 7 showdown to settle their Eastern Conference second-round matchup on Monday night.

The Sabres scored seven unanswered goals in an 8-3 win in Game 6 on Saturday night in Montreal, forcing the deciding game back in Buffalo.

“It’s probably the worst game we’ve played, so we’re only going up,” Canadiens forward Nick Suzuki said. “It’s going to be important for guys to look at themselves in the mirror and say we’ve got an opportunity to win one game and advance to the third round. So, we’ll take that any time throughout the season.”

Montreal also needed seven games to decide its first-round matchup against the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Canadiens missed a chance to clinch in Game 6 at home in that round, but went to the Sunshine State and pulled out a 2-1 victory.

“We’re a team that is really resilient,” Suzuki said. “We’ve been in this situation already in the first round, so we have experience. We just have to win one game. That’s the focus right now.”

Suzuki thinks the Canadiens may have put too much pressure on themselves to clinch at home, where thousands of fans surrounded their home arena hours before puck drop in hopes of celebrating victory.

“Maybe we wanted to try to do too much here to impress the fans and give them back some love,” Suzuki said. “Can’t just let that affect us mentally, and we’ve got to keep things simple and keep doing what makes us successful, regardless of where we’re playing.”

The winner of Game 7 will play the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference final beginning Thursday in Raleigh, N.C.

Carolina has been off since completing its sweep of the Philadelphia Flyers on May 9. The Hurricanes also swept the Ottawa Senators in the first round.

The Canadiens won all three games against Carolina during the regular season, while the Sabres lost two of three.

The Sabres have played in seven Game 7s in their franchise history. Their lone win came in overtime against the Ottawa Senators in the 1997 conference quarterfinals.

“It’s going to be awesome,” Buffalo forward Tage Thompson said of playing in his first Game 7 in the NHL. “It’s a new experience for a lot of guys in this room, and something you dream of growing up.

“We knew going into this series it was going to be a long one. They’re a good team, and I think it’s just something that gets you excited. It’s another game that we get to embrace. I think if you would have asked every guy in here in September if they would have taken being in Game 7 in round two, we all would have signed up for that, so we’re in a great spot.”

Thompson said the Sabres don’t need to do anything differently in the winner-take-all game, just focus on each shift and the task at hand. Same as they did in Game 6.

“We kept it simple,” Thompson said. “We didn’t mess around with the puck in areas where we’re going to give them any free offense, and guys competed and played hard. You do that, usually, you’re going to have success.”

–Field Level Media