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McLaren to join Extreme E in 2022 Tsitsipas to face off with Djokovic in final Stefanos Tsitsipas overcomes fightback to reach French Open final

Tsitsipas went from way• ahead to suddenly All I can think of is my stuck in a five-set roots, a small place struggle against Zverev outside Athens where I dreamed to play on the AFP | Paris big stage at the French Open. It was nerve- wracking, so intense, I tefanos Tsitsipas became McLaren’s British driver Lando Norris steers his car during the Formula One the first Greek player to stayed alive. I went out Azerbaijan Grand Prix Sreach a final there and fought. This AFP | London yesterday when he defeated win means a lot, it’s the Germany’s Alexander Zverev most important one of in a bruising five-setter at the my career so far Stefanos Tsitsipas hits a return to Alexander Zverev cLaren are to join the Ex- This new venture is French Open. STEFANOS TSITSIPAS Mtreme E electric off-road true to our roots of Fifth-seeded Tsitsipas won only hit one winner. championship next year, the 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3 and now Zverev, bidding to become the Formula One team announced participating in a moves on to face Novak Djok- first German man since Michael yesterday. variety of categories, ovic in the championship match. Stich in 1996 to reach the final German, now fired up, broke in Extreme E was set up by innovation and The 22-year-old will have his in Paris, raced into a 3-0 lead in the opening game of the fourth the man behind Formula E, bravery work cut out for him on Sunday the second set. set and levelled the semi-final KNOW WHAT Alejandro Agag, to draw at- MCLAREN TEAM BOSS ZAK BROWN when he faces the top seed and However, Tsitsipas’ greater in the 10th game on the back of tention to some of the world’s world number one, who ousted composure saw him rack up six a brutal 27-shot rally. most pressing environmental The RxR team of Hamilton’s third seed Rafael Nadal in four consecutive games to move two Tsitsipas, playing in his third issues. former teammate at Mercedes, sets early this morning 3-6, 6-3, Zverev had needed five sets ahead. The Greek had come consecutive semi-final at the “This new venture is true to 2016 world champion Nico 7-6 (7-4), 6-2. sets to beat his 152nd- into the semi-final certainly majors, crucially saved three our roots of participating in a Rosberg, is leading the series “All I can think of is my roots, ranked compatriot sharper having seen off three break points in the first game of variety of categories, innova- after wins in the opening two a small place outside Athens seeded players to get this far. the decider. He made the most tion and bravery,” said McLar- races. where I dreamed to play on the Oscar Otte in the first Zverev had needed five sets of the escape, breaking the Ger- en team boss Zak Brown. Brown noted that while they big stage at the French Open,” round and hadn’t faced to beat his 152nd-ranked com- man for 3-1 and quickly securing For Brown, Extreme E is “a would be competing against said a tearful Tsitsipas on mak- a player inside the top patriot Oscar Otte in the first the advantage for 4-1. force for good in confronting some familiar big names “we ing his first final at the majors, 45 before yesterday round and hadn’t faced a player In a 10-minute eighth game, some of the biggest challenges are there to win”. secured on a fifth match point. inside the top 45 before yes - Zverev saved four match points, facing our world today and in Brown has overseen a sharp “It was nerve-wracking, so semi-final and he was the first terday. the second of which with a drop the future”. revival in McLaren’s fortunes intense, I stayed alive. I went to pounce with the only break But Zverev carved a break in shot, the third with an ace. The British F1 outfit sup - in Formula One with Lando out there and fought. This win of the opening set in the sec- the third game of the third set However, Tsitsipas held his plied Lewis Hamilton with his Norris placed fourth in the means a lot, it’s the most im - ond game. The rock-solid Greek and this time backed it up de- nerve and claimed victory after first world title and Hamilton’s drivers’ standings and the team portant one of my career so far.” didn’t give up a single break spite a lengthy, foul-mouthed over three and a half hours on X44 team is competing in the occupying the same position in Tsitsipas took a 5-2 ca - point although in an indication rant at the umpire over a dis- court with his eighth ace of the inaugural season of Extreme E. the constructors’ standings. reer lead over Zverev into the of the fine margins, Tsitsipas puted line call. The 24-year-old match. Denmark will ‘dare to dream’ Super League rebel trio have ‘lost moral and sporting battle’ - UEFA chief of ‘92 repeat, says Hjulmand AFP | London AFP | Copenhagen EFA president Aleksander UCeferin ruled out abandon- asper Hjulmand said yes- ing disciplinary action against Kterday that his Denmark Real , Barcelona and Ju- team will “dream big” as they ventus, telling AFP in an inter- prepare for their Euro 2020 view yesterday that the Super opener against Finland with league trio have “lost the moral one eye on a repeat of their un- and sporting battle”. expected triumph in 1992. European football’s govern- A talented Danish side begin ing body on Wednesday sus- their campaign at the Parken pended legal action “until fur- Stadium in Copenhagen on ther notice” against the three Saturday evening, nearly three teams who have refused to give UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin speaks next to the EURO 2020 2021 decades after winning their one up on the breakaway European European Football Championship trophy major honour in a tournament Super League. but it comes always in life and Denmark’s coach Kasper Hjulmand oversees the MD-1 training session for which they only took part “The process will resume for it will come in this case.” because of the break-up of Yu- on public transport. sure,” Ceferin told AFP in an in- BETTER Nine of the 12 original clubs goslavia. Denmark has been relatively terview before Euro 2020 kicks -- English sides Arsenal, Chel- Hjulmand, 49, was not spared from the pandemic, as of off in Rome later yesterday. sea, Liverpool, Manchester We do dare to dream fazed when asked whether he Thursday it had just 122 Covid “There’s an independent dis- KNOW City, Manchester United and thought his team could go all big but we also patients in hospital, the lowest ciplinary committee and the Tottenham Hotspur, Italian gi- the way. know that there are number since October. lawyers have advised them. ants AC Milan and Inter Milan, “We are comfortable and we bigger countries out “The more noise the better. “We should leave it to the and Atletico Madrid in Spain believe in ourselves,” Hjulmand there with better It’s something that has to give lawyers to finish it. Nine of the 12 original -- backed out of the project as told reporters. opportunities to win us some advantage,” said Hjul- “For me, the most important clubs -- English sides it quickly unravelled amid a “We do dare to dream big but it all. So our first mand. thing is that those three clubs Arsenal, Chelsea, public backlash. we also know that there are “It’s really good news and lost the moral and sporting bat- Liverpool, Manchester Those nine clubs struck a bigger countries out there with aim is to progress the players have been so happy tle a long time ago, now it came deal with UEFA last month. better opportunities to win it from the group and about it. We’re looking forward to the legal battle.” City, Manchester Slovenian Ceferin believes all. So our first aim is to pro- then everything can to having even more people at On Monday, UEFA was noti- United and Tottenham that the case involving the re- gress from the group and then happen the stadium. Hopefully it will fied of an injunction by a court Hotspur, Italian giants maining three clubs will not everything can happen. give us a bigger boost. So, the in Madrid, which had banned drag on indefinitely. KASPER HJULMAND AC Milan and Inter Mi- “It’s football and in one game more noise and the more party- the European body and FIFA lan, and Atletico Ma- “I don’t think so, but let’s see. everything can happen. But first matches against Belgium and ing, the better it is for us.” from cracking down on the drid in Spain -- backed It’s hard for me to judge but my and foremost it’s the first game Russia at the Parken that num- Key to Denmark’s success three teams until the conflict out of the project as feeling is it will be solved very against Finland and we’ll do ber could rise to 25,000 as the will be Christian Eriksen, who had been settled. soon.” our best to try and get a good Scandinavian country relaxes comes into the Euro after a tur- “Obviously, the advice of the it quickly unravelled As for a possible agreement start. From there, as I said, coronavirus restrictions. bulent season at Inter Milan legal team was to first to deal amid a public back- with the last three, as with the everything can happen.” On Thursday, the Danish when he won last season’s Se- with those court cases and then lash other nine clubs, Ceferin re- Denmark will be spurred on government announced that rie A title but also spent long resume the disciplinary,” con- fused to be drawn. by 16,000 their own fans against face masks would no longer periods out of departed coach tinued Ceferin, a 53-year-old “And then I want to say that “I really don’t want to discuss Finland. For the following two required from June 14, except Antonio Conte’s team. lawyer. justice sometimes is a bit late this at this moment,” he said.