22 Tuesday, February 20, 2018 SPORTS Anderson lifts New York times in my career,” Anderson said. “One evin Anderson had already dealt with of the big goals I had for this year was to the disappointment of falling short in try to be a bit more successful in that final Ka final in New York. stage. I fell a little short earlier this year in His surprising run to the U.S. Open India and it feels great to come through final last summer jump-started his climb and get today’s win. So, gives me a lot of back into the top 10, but his loss to Rafael confidence for the year.” Nadal was a painful reminder that he kept The South African dominated the coming up short at the finish line. tiebreaker after a tight third set, winning Back in New York this week, he finally the first six points and leading Querrey to got the ending he wanted. slam his racket to the court in frustration. The top seed won the first New York Anderson will move to career-high ninth Open on Sunday, beating No. 2 seed Sam in the ATP rankings yesterday, continuing Querrey 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (1) for his fourth a strong rise that began in nearby Flushing career ATP Tour title. Meadows when he reached his lone Grand Anderson came into Sunday 3-11 in Slam final as the world’s No. 32 player, the ATP Finals, with one loss already this year. lowest-ranked U.S. Open finalist since the “I have been runner-up quite a few inception of the rankings in 1973. (AP) Kevin Anderson (Pic courtesy: atpworldtour) Red Bull launch new car for 2018 season

London Daniel Ricciardo will conduct initial testing at Red Bull’s new RB14 F1 car ed Bull have launched the car they Silverstone on Monday. (Pic courtesy: redbullracing.redbull) hope will return them to Formula 1 Red Bull are the first major team to unveil their championshipR contention for the first time car, at the start of a week that will see the vast in five years. majority of the new machinery appear before the The RB14 bucks the team’s trend of recent start of pre-season testing on 26 February. years, by appearing well before the Renault and Sauber are launching on Tuesday, start of pre-season testing. world champion Mercedes and rivals Ferrari on The team said launching Thursday and McLaren on Friday. “aggressively late” Red Bull came on strong towards the allowed more time to end of last season after a slow develop the car, but start, Max Verstappen that they did not winning two of the need to launch last six races. late this year. (BBC)

Iran wrestler Muguruza to play banned in for 6 months London Wimbledon title, will join last year, said in a Alireza Karimi (file pic) pain’s Garbine British number one Johanna statement. London conceded points to lose 14-3 Muguruza will prepare Konta and twice Wimbledon Kvitova is the defending n Iranian wrestler has been in order to avoid a semi- forS the defence of her champion Petra Kvitova in champion at the WTA banned for six months after final against ’s Uri Wimbledon title by playing the field at Edgbaston Priory Premier tournament, which Adeliberately losing to avoid a Kalashnikov. the Birmingham Classic Club. will be played from June bout with an Israeli opponent. His coach, Hamidreza on grass in June, the “Winning my first 16-24. Alireza Karimi was leading Jamshidi, was banned from tournament organisers said Wimbledon title was so The event precedes the ’s Alikhan Zhabrailov 3-2 the sport for two years. Iran yesterday. special and I can’t wait to play International, in the 86kg freestyle quarter- does not recognise the state of Two-times in front of British crowds which is a last chance for final at the Under-23 World Israel and forbids its athletes winner Muguruza, who again,” the world number players to fine-tune their Championships in November. from competing against Israelis Garbine Muguruza (file pic) defeated three, who reached the grasscourt game before After being told to lose, at international sporting events. to claim her maiden semifinals in Birmingham Wimbledon. (Reuters) Karimi, 23, deliberately (BBC)