Briefly: Joey Logano wins NASCAR playoff race by knocking aside Martin Truex Jr.

Joey Logano won a race and ignited a rivalry Sunday at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.

Logano bumped Martin Truex Jr. out of the way and crossed the finish line in the NASCAR Cup Series First Data 500 just before Truex slid sideways across it. The victory gave Logano one of four spots in the winner-­take-all championship race.

Truex angrily promised a response.

"He may have won the battle, but he ain't winning the damn war. I'm not going to let him win it [the championship]. I'm going to win it," Truex said.

Warning received, Logano said.

"That's expected," Logano said. "He raced really clean and I laid the bumper to him. I don't expect him to be happy."

Denny Hamlin slipped past Truex's sliding car for second place, and Truex took third.

Elina Svitolina secured the biggest title of her career, winning the season-ending WTA Finals in Singapore. The Ukrainian, seeded sixth, beat fifth-seeded American Sloane Stephens 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Svitolina has a reputation as a closer. She has won 13 of 15 finals she has played in her career, including the past nine. She last lost a final in 2016.

• Roger Federer won his 99th ATP Tour title, beating qualifier Marius Copil 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the Swiss Indoors final in Basel.

• Kevin Anderson won the Erste Bank Open in Vienna, Austria, beating Kei Nishikori 6-3, 7-6 (3) and securing a spot in the ATP Finals.

Xander Schauffele birdied his last two holes for a 4-under 68 and then two-putted for birdie on the par-5 18th in a playoff to beat Tony Finau and win the HSBC Champions, a World Golf Championship event in Shanghai.

Americans won all four WGC events this year: Phil Mickelson in the Mexico Championship, Bubba Watson in the Dell Match Play and Justin Thomas in the Bridgestone Invitational.

• Scott Parel shot a 4-under 68 and won the Invesco QQQ Championship, a PGA Tour Champions playoff event in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

• Nelly Korda shot a 4-under 68 to win the Taiwan Championship in Taoyuan for her first LPGA Tour title. She's the younger sister of Jessica Korda, who has won five titles on the LPGA Tour.

• Cameron Champ birdied five of the last six holes for a 4-under 68 and a four-stroke victory in the PGA Tour's Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Miss.

A record seven teams moved into the Associated Press Top 25 after a season-high 11 ranked teams lost over the weekend.

The top five in the ranking were unchanged because No. 1 Alabama, No. 4 LSU and No. 5 Michigan were idle, and No. 2 Clemson and No. 3 Notre Dame won easily.

Lewis Hamilton won his fifth Formula One championship by finishing fourth at the Mexican Grand Prix.

The British driver for Mercedes tied the late Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina for the second-most titles in F1 history. Only Germany's Michael Schumacher has more, seven.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen won Sunday's race.

Gymnastics: Russia, lifted by the return of 2010 world champion Aliya Mustafina, moved into second in qualifying at the world championship in Doha, Qatar. The Russians had 165.497, nearly nine points behind the leading American score, posted Saturday.

Skiing: The season-opening men's World Cup giant slalom was postponed because of weather in Soelden, Austria, and will be rescheduled for another resort in Europe. The date and venue will be announced Monday.