Sports briefly: Young Frenchman Lucas Pouille drives Rafael Nadal out of U.S. Open

Rafael Nadal refused to depart quietly from the U.S. Open, but he departed anyway, falling to 24th-seeded Lucas Pouille of France 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (6) Sunday in New York.

Nadal twice erased a set deficit, and he staved off three match points. And then, more than four hours into the toughest test he has put his left wrist through since returning from injury, Nadal faltered. He missed a short forehand, pushing it into the net. One point later, the fourth-round match was over.

"There were things I could do better," Nadal said. "Had the right attitude. I [fought] right up to the last ball. But I need something else. I need something more that was not there today."

Pouille, a 22-year-old with flashy strokes, has won three five-set matches in his career — his past three matches.

"It's just never over until the last point. I was a break down in the fifth; I came back. And then 6-3 in the tiebreaker, he came back," Pouille said. "It's never done until the last point is over."

Since losing in last year's French Open quarterfinals, Nadal has failed to make it beyond the fourth round at a major. He pulled out of the French Open before his third-round match because of a torn tendon sheath in his left wrist, an injury that forced him to withdraw from Wimbledon altogether and miss about 2½ months on tour.

Pouille was joined in the quarterfinals by No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and No. 10 Gael Monfils, giving France three men's quarterfinalists at the U.S. Open for the first time in 89 years.

The 27-year-old German shot a 5-under 67 and won by a stroke.

She's only the third player over 23 years old to win in the first 24 events this season.

Carlos Franco shot a 7-under 63 to win the Shaw Charity Classic in Calgary, Alberta, his first PGA Tour Champions victory.

Fastest in every practice and fastest in qualifying, Scott Dixon won the IndyCar Grand Prix at the Glen in Watkins Glen, N.Y., leading all but 10 of the 60 laps.

It was his 40th victory overall, moving the New Zealander into fourth place on the career list.

• John Hunter Nemechek knocked Cole Custer from the lead and won the Chevrolet Silverado 250 trucks race in Bowmanville, Ontario. After the race Custer angrily tackled Nemechek.

U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe knelt during the national anthem Sunday before the Seattle Reign's game against the Chicago Red Stars "in a little nod" to the protest of racial injustice by NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

"It was very intentional," Rapinoe told American Soccer Now after Seattle's 2-2 tie in the National Women's Soccer League game. "Being a gay American, I know what it means to look at the flag and not have it protect all of your liberties. It was something small that I could do and something that I plan to keep doing in the future."