National Sports

NEW YORK (AP) — Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez are so similar in so many ways: They possess enviable quickness and anticipation. They take balls low to the ground and redirect them with ease. They love the big moment.

NEW YORK — Canada's newest teenaged tennis hero is headed to the U.S. Open women's final. Leylah Fernandez, of Laval, Que.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Blue Jays gave the Yankees a Bronx battering this week they haven't experienced since they were still the Highlanders.

After opening the season within the friendly confines of Mosaic Stadium, running back William Powell and the Saskatchewan Roughriders are heading into a very hostile environment.

ZURICH — Canada's Olympic champion Andre De Grasse capped his "greatest season ever" with a pair of second-place finishes at the Diamond League Final on Thursday.

VANCOUVER — After flirting with a Major League Soccer playoff spot, the Vancouver Whitecaps are hoping for a more permanent relationship when they try to win a franchise record fifth consecutive game against the Portland Timbers on Friday night.

FORT ERIE, Ont. — H C Holiday was installed as the 5-2 early favourite for the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes on Thursday. The 1 3/16-mile race on Fort Erie Racetrack's dirt course is slated for Tuesday night.

Nick Arbuckle and the Toronto Argonauts don't have time to dwell upon their Labour Day loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Toronto (2-2) hosts Hamilton (2-2) on Friday night at BMO Field.

Toronto FC expects to have all of its players who've been away on international duty back in time for Saturday's return to MLS action at FC Cincinnati.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A young giraffe named for a Louisiana football star has died at the Baton Rouge Zoo, zoo officials said Thursday.