NEW YORK—Coco Gauff never wavered. Not when a big lead in the first set evaporated. Not when match point after match point went by the wayside. And not, most distracting of all, when her US Open semifinal against Karolina Muchova w...

NEW YORK—The US Open semifinal between Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova was delayed by 50 minutes because of a disruption by four environmental activists in the Arthur Ashe Stadium stands on Thursday night.

ZARAGOZA, Spain—Colombian Juan Sebastián Molano sprinted to win the 12th stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Thursday, and American rival Sepp Kuss kept hold of the overall lead for the fifth straight day.

LATVIA will play Lithuania for fifth place at the Basketball World Cup and Slovenia and Italy couldn’t recover one day after seeing their hopes of making the tournament semifinals fall short.

BOSTON—The Boston Marathon will add two more para athlete divisions and boost prize money that will put the total Patriots’ Day purse above $1 million for the first time, organizers said Thursday.

MANCHESTER, England—After an outlay of $1 billion, Saudi Arabia’s transfer window shut on Thursday with the oil-rich kingdom having announced itself as a new powerhouse in global soccer.

MEXICO City—Jenni Hermoso returned to Mexico on Thursday to resume playing with her club team, which pledged to help her find “normality” after the Spaniard was kissed without consent by the president of the Spanish soccer federation after the Women’s...

BARCELONA, Spain—The players for Spain’s women’s league maintain they’ll go on strike rather than start the new season after salary negotiations with the league broke down on Thursday.