Schwartzman Shocks Thiem in Five-Hour Battle to Reach Semis
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Sport WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER 2020 Australia’sA IPL stars to be short of rred-ball practice before India: Paine These are guys that have transferred from white-ball to red-ball, fromf Test cricket to Twenty20 cricket, within a matter of days. It’sI never been an issue and we wouldn’t expect it to be. Tim Paine Sport | 11 OOREDOO CUP: ROUND 2 (RESULTS) GROUP A: Al Sailiya beat Al Duhail 3-1, Qatar SC beat Al Sadd 3-2, Al Wakrah beat Al Khor 2-1 Investigation Schwartzman shocks Thiem in opened into match-fixing at five-hour battle to reach semis Roland Garros AFP – PARIS AFP – PARIS FRENCH OPEN RESULTS MEN'S SINGLES - QUARTER-FINALS French prosecutors said Argentine 12th seed Diego Diego Schwartzman (12), Argentina, def. Dominic Thiem (3), Austria, 7-6 (1), 5-7, yesterday they had begun an Schwartzman defeated US 6-7 (6), 7-6 (5), 6-2. investigation into suspected Open champion and third seed WOMEN'S SINGLES - FOURTH ROUND match-fixing at the French Dominic Thiem in a five-hour Danielle Collins, United States, def. Ons Jabeur (30), Tunisia, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Open, reportedly involving a epic yesterday to reach the WOMEN'S SINGLES - QUARTER-FINALS women’s doubles match. Roland Garros semi-finals, his Nadia Podoroska, Argentina, def. Elina Svitolina (3), Ukraine, 6-2, 6-4. “It’s a first-round match first ever Grand Slam last-four featuring players that are not appearance. well-known,” a source within The 28-year-old Podoroska becomes first France’s National Gaming Schwartzman triumphed 7-6 Authority (ANJ) told AFP on (7/1), 5-7, 6-7 (6/8), 7-6 (7/5), qualifier to make women’s condition of anonymity, 6-2 and will face either 12-time without specifying which champion Rafael Nadal or French Open semi-finals match was targeted. Italian teenager Jannik Sinner French sports daily for a place in the final. AFP – PARIS L’Equipe and German news- It was one marathon too paper Die Welt reported that many for Thiem, the runner- Argentina’s Nadia Podoroska became the first qual- the match in question was the up in Paris for the last two Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman reacts ifier in the Open era yesterday to reach the women’s first-round encounter on Sep- years, who had needed five during his quarter-final match against semi-finals at Roland Garros after stunning third seed tember 30 between Romanian sets and three and a half hours Austria’s Dominic Thiem yesterday. Elina Svitolina 6-2, 6-4. pair Andreea Mitu and Patricia to down world number 239 World number 131 Podoroska had never won a Maria Tig and opponents Yana Hugo Gaston in the fourth Grand Slam main draw match before the tournament Sizikova of Russia playing with round. to reach a fifth successive Schwartzman even had a and is the first Argentine woman to reach the last four US player Madison Brengle. The 5ft 7in (1.70m) semi-final in Paris. set point but couldn’t convert of a major since Paola Suarez Suspicion surrounds the Schwartzman’s success came However, despite and Thiem pounced in the in Paris in 2004. fifth game of the second set on the same day that compa- crunching 65 winners to his breaker to sneak ahead. The 23-year-old which the Romanian duo won triot Nadia Podoroska, the opponent’s 47, he committed The Argentine blinked Podoroska will play by love after Sizikova served world 131, reached the last- 81 unforced errors in a match again in the 10th game of the Polish teenager Iga two double faults. four of the women’s singles. which featured 19 breaks of fourth as three more set points Swiatek or Italian L’Equipe reported that “Dominic is one of the great serve and at five hours and went begging, but he clung on, qualifier Martina Tre- large sums of money were bet players. He is my best friend eight minutes was the second snatching the breaker after a visan for a place in Sat- on the Romanians winning and I have a lot of respect for longest of the tournament. 73-minute set. urday’s final. that game and that the wagers him,” said Schwartzman. Schwartzman recovered By this stage, they had been “It’s a little bit dif- were placed in several coun- “So this win is very from a break down in the on court for over four and a ficult for me to speak tries. The Romanians went on important for me. In the 65-minute first set to sweep half hours. now after the match,” to win the match 7-6, 6-4. second and third sets, I was through the tiebreaker. However, a weary Thiem said Podoroska, Director-General of going a little crazy and I was But Thiem kept hammering was broken in the sixth and whose only other French tennis Jean-François screaming at myself because I away forcing the Argentine to final game of the decider as Slam appearance Vilotte would not confirm had so many chances. save seven break points in the Schwartzman celebrated came at the 2016 US which match was under inves- “But, come on, I deserved ninth game of the second. becoming the 10th Argentinian Open. It was the first tigation but was upbeat about to win tonight,” added The Austrian broke through man to make the semi-finals time Podoroska had the ongoing procedures. Schwartzman who defeated for a 6-5 edge before wrapping of a major. even faced a player “It means that these Nadal in the Rome quarter- up a 71-minute set. The epic match meant that inside the top 20, having warning systems are working. Argentina’s Nadia Podoroska celebrates finals on the eve of the French In a tie of dramatically fluc- Nadal and Sinner were facing started the year ranked It’s good that everyone is doing after winning her quarter-final match Open. tuating rallies, eight breaks of a late night in Paris a lowly 255. their part in the exchange of Thiem had been attempting serve punctuated the third set. yesterday. against Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina. information,” he said. Longines Qatar Equestrian Social and Sport Tour - Hathab Contribution Fund partners with Al Shaqab Stage set for start THE PENINSULA – DOHA The Social & Sport Contribution Fund (Daam) and Al Shaqab, of new show member of Qatar Foundation, will cooperate to support the devel- opment of equestrian sports, particularly among the youth. 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