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Leeds United's Noah Okafor scored twice as his side grabbed a morale-boosting 2-1 Premier League away win over bitter rivals Manchester United, who had Lisandro Martinez sent off in the 56th minute for pulling the hair of Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Reuters reported. 

Manchester United remain third in the table on 55 points, ahead of Aston Villa on goal difference, while 15th-placed Leeds put some more daylight between them and the teams battling relegation by moving up to 36 points, six ahead of Tottenham Hotspur in 18th.

The home side were returning to action after a long period of inactivity due to the recent international break, but instead of looking fresh and rested, they looked rusty as Leeds pressed them hard, repeatedly winning the ball high up the pitch en route to a well-deserved win, according to Reuters. 

Italy's Jannik Sinner dethroned defending champion Carlos Alcaraz 7-6(5) 6-3 in Sunday's Monte Carlo final to claim his first Masters title on clay and snatch back the world number one ranking from the Spaniard, Reuters reported. 

The victory capped a remarkable run for Sinner, who became just the second player to win the 'Sunshine Double nL1N40H08Q' and Monte Carlo in the same season -- a feat previously achieved only by Novak Djokovic in 2015.

It marked Sinner's fourth consecutive Masters 1000 crown following triumphs in Paris, Indian Wells and Miami, and his eighth Masters title overall.

South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns snatched a 1-0 away win at Esperance in Tunis on Sunday in the first leg of their African Champions League semi-final with Colombian import Brayan Leon netting the key goal, Reuters reported. 

Leon headed home in the 51st minute from Thapelo Morena's volleyed cross to hand Sundowns a major advantage to take home for the return leg in Pretoria next Saturday.

But Sundowns, who were Champions League runners-up last season, finished with 10 men when defender Grant Kekana was sent off for a dangerous tackle in the 84th minute.

Thirty minutes before kick-off Roberto De Zerbi wandered on to the pitch with his black padded gilet zipped high to the neck in the face of a chill Wearside wind. By the final whistle that stiff breeze had dropped a little but so, too, had the morale of Tottenham and their new manager, Reuters reported. 

In cementing the visitors’ position in the bottom three with six games to go, Nordi Mukiele’s second half winner ensured Régis Le Bris’s Sunderland rose to 10th. De Zerbi’s unusually subdued body language suggested he was shivering inside.

Those Tottenham officials who patronised their promoted Stadium of Light counterparts with talk of a one season top-tier stay at preseason Premier League meetings must wonder how they got things so horribly wrong.