Reuters Sports News Summary

Reuters Sports News Summary

Following is a summary of current sports news briefs. ATP roundup: Tsonga, Herbert reach final in Montpellier

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Pierre-Hugues Herbert each won in straight sets on Saturday to set up an all-French final at the Open Sud de France in Montpellier. Tsonga downed Moldova's Radu Albot 6-1, 6-3 in just 69 minutes, converting five of his six break-point opportunities and notching seven aces. $5.2 million guarantee kicks in for Seahawks' Chancellor

Seattle Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor hasn't played an NFL game since November 2017, but he got a big win Friday. Chancellor saw $5.2 million of his $10 million salary for 2019 become guaranteed, according to multiple media reports. He missed all of the just-concluded season due to a neck injury that has been described as career-ending, but he has yet to announce his retirement officially. Alpine skiing: Jansrud beats Svindal to downhill gold

Kjetil Jansrud led a Norwegian one-two to win gold in a weather-hit men's downhill at the Alpine skiing world championships on Saturday, edging out team mate Aksel Lund Svindal by the narrowest of margins. Jansrud, 33, made light of the falling snow and poor visibility to win by 0.02 seconds and claim a first world title, having won the Olympic Super-G gold at Sochi in 2014. Kejelcha narrowly misses world indoor mile record

Ethiopia's Yomif Kejelcha fell one-hundredth of a second short of the world indoor mile record and Kenya's Michael Saruni clocked the third fastest indoor 800m of all-time as young Africans lit up the NYRR Millrose Games in New York on Saturday. Kejelcha raced home in three minutes 48.46 seconds as the 21-year-old almost took down Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj's 1997 world record. NFL notebook: Dolphins add ex-Colts, Lions coach Caldwell

New Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores has filled out much of his coaching staff, which includes former NFL head coach Jim Caldwell. Flores announced his staff hires on Friday, and Caldwell will serve as assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach. Caldwell had a 62-50 record as a head coach with Indianapolis (2009-11) and Detroit (2014-17). He took the Colts to the Super Bowl in his first season. Casey leads Mickelson by three after 54 holes at Pebble Beach

Paul Casey opened a three-stroke lead over Phil Mickelson after the third round of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Saturday, a cushion the Englishman hopes will be enough to prevent his American rival from winning the storied tournament a fifth time. Teeing off as part of a four-way tie for the lead, Casey jumped clear with a five-under 67 at Spyglass Hill that give him a 15-under total of 200. NBA notebook: Celtics, Irving have 'engagement,' Ainge says

Celtics president Danny Ainge is confident All-Star guard Kyrie Irving will put a ring on his relationship with Boston this summer, saying the team and Irving have an "engagement." "The way I viewed the situation is that I think a lot of people, because of Kyrie's announcement at the beginning of the year, thought that it was a marriage," Ainge said on Boston radio, referring to Irving's public proclamation last fall that he'd stay with the Celtics instead of pursuing free agency. MLB notebook: Indians' Lindor (calf) out two months

Cleveland Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor will be sidelined seven to nine weeks after sustaining a right calf strain, the team announced Friday. The Indians said Lindor recently hurt the calf while preparing for spring training in Orlando, Fla. An evaluation on Wednesday at the Cleveland Clinic confirmed there was a moderate strain. Report: NBA stepped in to make sure Pelicans play Davis

While Anthony Davis' playing status for the New Orleans Pelicans' Saturday road game against the Memphis Grizzlies is uncertain, the fact that the team is playing him at all might be due to the NBA's intervention. The league office reached out to the Pelicans on Friday to inform the team Davis would be expected to play, per the rule against teams resting healthy players, according to ESPN's Brian Windhorst. Wild top Devils, stop losing streak

Zach Parise scored the tiebreaking power-play goal against his former team early in the second period and the visiting Minnesota Wild stopped a four-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils Saturday afternoon. Parise scored his second career goal in nine games against New Jersey since joining the Wild as a free agent in July 2012. He scored his 22nd goal of the season 4:34 into the second period when he tipped a slap shot by defenseman Ryan Suter from the right point into the net.

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