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Stakes Are High As Hathab Series Returns SPORT Friday 12 October 2018 PAGE | 18 PAGE | 19 Intense battles Put your Dukes up!! expected in third Kohli comes out round of Qatar Baja swinging over ballss Season 2: Stakes are high as Hathab Series returns THE PENINSULA DOHA: The hugely popular Hathab Series kicks off today with organisers allocating QR 100,000 for the winners in four classes of competition in the first round at QEF’s Indoor Arena. The 12-round show jumping and dressage series - an initiative of H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani, President of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) - will also have competitions for teams from this season. The QEF’s Indoor Arena will play This season’s battles will be host to opening round of Hathab worth a staggering QR1m, organ- Series Season 2 commencing isers have announced. today. The series - broadcast live on Al Kass Sports Channel - runs from October until April. The firmed by Ali Al Rumaihi, Tour- competitions in Small Tour, competition in the 120/130cm Qatar Equestrian Federation nament Director. Medium Tour and the Big Tour. class, will start at 5:30pm. Asian Para Games (QEF) and Al Shaqab have joined Hathab series is aimed at Al Rumaihi said young riders will Tomorrow, the competitions hands to launch the series and to improving the standard of horse also get to feel the sense compe- kick off at 9:00am with young A Qatari athlete in action during shot put event yesterday at Asian boost homegrown interest in riding among Qatari youth while tition when they compete in the riders going through their paces Para Games, under way in Jakarta, Indonesia. Qatar will conclude show jumping. encouraging the involvement of 70/85cm class. in the 70/85cm class. The all- Besides competitions for private stables and individual The Small Tour at 3:00pm important Big Tour will start at their campaign in the continental event today. Sarah Masood made individuals, team slots have been horse owners to spread today will kick off the new 5:30pm. The round against the Qatar proud by winning a silver medal in women’s shot put F33 reserved by Salam International, awareness of horsemanship as season with a round against the clock (130/145cm) offers a total 3,000 athletes from 43 countries are competing on Tuesday. Over ExxonMobil, Al Kass, Al Shaqab, part of Qatar’s history and tra- clock (100/115cm). The overall prize bag of QR 35,000. Riders in the Para Games. Qatar National Bank, Al Waseel dition, Al Rumaihi said. prize is worth QR 10,000. The above the age of 21 can feature and Power Steel, it was con- Every round will feature Medium Tour, a two-phased in this event. FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER 2018 SPORT 17 Sheikh Joaan attends Olympic Refugee Foundation Board Meeting in Buenos Aires H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani, President of the Qatar Olympic Committee, poses for a group photo along with other officials following a meeting of Olympic Refugee Foundation Board in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr Thomas Bach, President of International Olympic Committee (centre), who chaired the meeting is also seen. The meeting was also attended by the board members of the foundation including Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner of UNHCR, Zaiqing Yu, IOC Vice-President, Dr Chungwon Choue, President of the World Taekwondo Federation and Yiech Pur Biel, member of the first Refugee Olympic Team at the Olympic Games Rio 2016. The meeting discussed the sport for protection projects to be implemented in communities and camps affected by the refugee crisis across the world. Meanwhile, Sheikh Joaan also met with Neven Ilic Alvarez, President of the Pan American Sports Organisation on the sidelines of the Youth Olympic Games. The meeting reviewed the areas of cooperation between the two organisations and the means of developing them in the future. RIGHT: Sheikh Joaan holding a discussion during the meeting with the IOC President. QSL Cup: Al Gharafa Federer battles past snatch Al Duhail draw as Al Kharaitiyat win Bautista in Shanghai THE PENINSULA QSL CUP RESULTS DOHA: Abdul Ghani Muneer Al Kharaitiyat bt Al Arabi 2-0 scored the last-gasp goal as Al REUTERS Qatar SC draw with Umm Salal 0-0 Switzerland’s Roger Federer celebrates SHANGHAI MASTERS Gharafa snatched a 1-1 draw Al Duhail draw with Al Gharafa 1-1 after winning against Spain’s Roberto against Al Duhail in their Group SHANGHAI: Twice Shanghai Bautista Agut in Shanghai, yesterday. Third Round A match of QSL Cup at Suhaim Masters champion Roger Roger Federer (SUI x1) bt Roberto Bautista Bin Hamad Stadium, yesterday. Federer was far from his best Agut (ESP) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 Al Gharafa’s repeated Arabi 2-0 at Grand Hamad against Spain’s Roberto Bautista Kei Nishikori (JPN x8) bt Sam Querrey (USA) attacks to level score yielded Stadium. Salmeen gave the Agut but did enough to reach the 7-6 (9/7), 6-4 result when Muneer struck from winners lead in the 37th which quarter-finals with a 6-3, 2-6, Borna Coric (CRO x13) bt Juan Martín Del a close range in 4th and last Lazar doubled 3 minutes later. 6-4 win yesterday. Potro (ARG x3) 7-5, retired minute of injury time to secure Al Arabi made several The top-seeded Swiss, who Matthew Ebden (AUS) bt Peter Gojowczyk a point for Al Gharafa, Earlier, attempts to avoid the defeat but is fighting to defend the title and (GER) 6-2, 6-3 Fahad Waad Al Bayati gave Al failed to score against the his world number two spot, Kyle Edmund (GBR x11) bt Nicolas Jarry (CHI) Duhail lead in the 17th minute. defiant Al Kharaitiyat defence. broke in the fourth game and 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 In another match, Valentin Another Group A at Suhaim sealed the opening set with a Marius Lazar and Majid Aman Bin Hamad Stadium saw Qatar Alexander Zverev (GER x4) bt Alex de Minaur crisp backhand volley. Salmeen scored a goal each as SC and Umm Salal sharing (AUS) 6-1, 6-4 But Bautista Agut, the 2016 Al Kharaitiyat SC blanked Al points after a goalless draw. finalist, was back on song in the Kevin Anderson (RSA x7) bt Stefanos Tsitsi- second set and won four straight pas (GRE x10) 6-4, 7-6 (7/1) games before forcing a decider Novak Djokovic (SRB x2) bt Marco Cecchinato courtesy a stunning backhand (ITA x16) 6-4, 6-0 return. Having lost a set for the first time in eight meetings with Bautista Agut, Federer cut down TIANJIN OPEN his errors before breaking in the ninth game en route to his 38th Second Round match win of the season. Katie Boulter (GBR) bt Barbora Krejcikova In the last four the 37-year- (CZE) 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 old will face eighth-seeded Jap- Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) bt Misaki Doi (JPN) anese Kei Nishikori, who the French Open quarter-finals Djokovic in the quarter-finals 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 knocked out big-serving in June. after the South African overcame Elise Mertens (BEL x3) bt Jana Cepelova American Sam Querrey 7-6(7), “I was making him play Greek youngster Stefanos Tsit- (SVK) 6-2, 6-3 6-4. always an extra shot,” Djokovic sipas 6-4, 7-6(1). Caroline Garcia (FRA x2) bt Zhang Yuxuan Wimbledon and US Open said. Fourth seed Alexander (CHN) 6-3, 6-4 champion Novak Djokovic “I was aggressive when I Zverev raced past Australian exacted revenge over Italian needed to be. The second set was number one Alex de Minaur 6-1, Marco Cecchinato with a 6-4, perfect, really. 6-4 to improve his match record Action during 6-0 victory. “I wanted to start off well to 48-15 for the season. consecutive year. The German QSL Cup match The 31-year-old Serb is now because I know that he battles With a dominant serve and will next face 11th-seeded Briton between Al unbeaten in 15 matches on the hard and he makes you deserve a mix of clever groundstrokes, Kyle Edmund, who produced a Kharaitiyat ATP tour and has won 28 of 30 every point, win every point.” Zverev moved just one match clinical performance to beat and Al Arabi, matches since losing to then Seventh-seeded Wimbledon win away from qualifying for the Nicolas Jarry of Chile 7-6(5), 6-3 yesterday. world number 72 Cecchinato in finalist Kevin Anderson awaits ATP Finals for a second in 90 minutes. Birdies in the air: Golf back in Pakistan after 11-year hitch AFP scheduled tournament, in 2008, felt like home, suggesting sport was cancelled after a wave of could pave the road for better KARACHI: Birds were released insurgent attacks. relations between Islamabad and over fairways and ceremonial “It is always good to be here Delhi. I came here 10 years drives were struck as interna- as people are very lovely and “I am really feeling home tional golf returned to Pakistan friendly,” said Australian golfer here and we are so overwhelm- ago. The perception yesterday after an 11-year Marcus Both. ingly welcomed here. We are is bad but in reality absence. “I came here 10 years ago. seeing the same faces not dif- it is very different: A full field of 132 players The perception is bad but in ferent to us,” Singh told from around the globe were reality it is very different.” reporters. Australian golfer teeing up in the Asian Tour’s The 2009 attack on Sri “Sports should bring the Marcus Both UMA CNS Open Championship Lanka’s bus in Lahore, in which invisible walls down between the at Karachi Golf Club, the latest eight people were killed, caused two countries,” he added.
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