National Sports

PARIS — Canadians Steven Diez and Brayden Schnur advanced to the second round of men's qualifying at the French Open with wins on Monday. Diez, from Toronto, defeated Ilya Ivashka of Belarus 6-1, 2-6, 6-4. Schnur, from Pickering, Ont.

TORONTO — After a wave of demonstrations against racial injustice around the world, the International Olympic Committee is in talks with athlete groups about potentially easing protest bans at the Olympic Games.

BERLIN — On the day the FIFA president warned about a lack of competition in club soccer, Bayern Munich started the German league by scoring a whopping eight goals.

PITTSBURGH — Chase Claypool didn't wait long to set a Canadian NFL record.

HARRISON, N.J. — Romell Quioto put the Montreal Impact ahead. Then he put them down. Kacper Przybylko scored late in the first half and early in the second to help the Philadelphia Union beat the 10-man M Impact 4-1 on Sunday night at Red Bull Arena.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The opener of the WNBA playoff series between the Seattle Storm and the Minnesota Lynx was postponed nearly 90 minutes before its scheduled tipoff Sunday because of inconclusive COVID-19 test results for Storm players.

PHILADELPHIA — Without any fans in the seats at Citizens Bank Park, you could almost hear the sigh of relief.

ROME — Canadian Denis Shapovalov's steady run at the Italian Open ended Sunday with a semifinal loss to Diego Schwartzman of Argentina. The No.

EDMONTON — The Tampa Bay Lightning are the latest team in the NHL playoffs to discover how much the Dallas Stars' defence can be, well, downright offensive.

MONTREAL — Albert (Junior) Langlois, a three-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens, has died, the team announced Sunday. He was 85. Langlois, a defenceman from Magog, Que.