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P18 Layout 1 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2013 SPORTS Guan and Ko offer Photo of the day glimpse of future SINGAPORE: Guan Tianlang offered a tan- Korean-born Lydia Ko, 16. talizing glimpse of the future this year as a Ko, already the world number four, has group of emerging teens showed how been winning professional tournaments Chinese players could finally become a since the age of 14, when she became the force in world golf. Despite some difficul- youngest player of either sex to do so. After ties in a “year of consolidation” for Asia, missing out on millions of dollars in prize Guan provided hope of better times to money due to her amateur status, Ko come with a stunning appearance at the announced her long-awaited decision to US Masters. The Guangzhou schoolboy turn pro on YouTube in October. She won became the tournament’s youngest ever her first event as a professional this month player, aged just 14, and then the youngest in Taiwan. World number one Park In-Bee to make the cut and the highest placed was player of the year on the back of six amateur. wins this season, while Taiwan’s Tseng Ya-ni With Andy Zhang also competing at last fell off the top ranking and plunged to 29. year’s US Open aged 14, and Ye Wocheng Off the course, it was in some respects a playing a European Tour event at the tough season for Asian golf, with tourna- record-low age of just 12, it seems some- ments dropping off what has become a thing is stirring in Chinese golf. Golf in congested calendar. The Singapore Open, China has made huge strides over the past once dubbed “Asia’s major”, took a break decade and the country now hosts one of while it searches for a title sponsor, while the world’s richest tournaments, the $8.5 the Hong Kong Open struggled on without million WGC-HSBC Champions. Until now, corporate backing. The Avantha Masters, players in the communist country, where India’s only European Tour event, fell victim golf was once banned as a bourgeois pur- to economic woes, and the OneAsia circuit suit, have lagged behind, with just a hand- cancelled two events, the Charity High1 ful ranked in the world’s top 1,000. Resort Open and the inaugural OneAsia But China’s new group of teenagers, Championship. The Asian Tour, locked in a backed by well-heeled “Tiger Dads” and bitter turf war with OneAsia and seeking Robby Naish at the PWA JP Aloha Classic in Maui - 2013.— www.redbull.com trained by some of the world’s best coach- out new markets, also postponed the inau- es-often with the 2016 Olympics in mind- gural Vietnam Masters, which is due to be could be the start of something big. “I think its first event in the country. With two rival people getting to see (Guan) play around circuits and expansion into the region by Warriors whip Pelicans 104-93 the world, especially the Masters, is great both the US PGA Tour and the European for the game,” said America’s Rickie Fowler. Tour, it is no surprise some events are being OAKLAND: Stephen Curry had 28 points and 12 “And there’s going to be, probably in the squeezed out. “Whilst there are new spon- assists, David Lee added 21 points and 17 next 10 to 15 years, some good players sors out there, getting them on board, cer- rebounds and the Golden State Warriors beat coming out of China, more so than what tainly in Asia, is not easy,” David Parkin, the short-handed New Orleans Pelicans 104-93 there has been before.” Women’s golf has OneAsia director of tour operations said on Tuesday night in Andre Iguodala’s long-await- long been dominated by Asian players but earlier this season. One Asia separately ed return. Iguodala finished with two points and another teenager stole the headlines this called it “a year of consolidation... for the two assists in 17 minutes after missing the previ- year in the form of New Zealand’s South industry in general”.— AFP ous 12 games with a right hamstring injury. The Warriors led by 10 points in the first quarter, 18 at halftime and 26 late in the third quarter. The Pelicans played without injured starters Anthony Davis (broken left hand) and Tyreke Evans (sprained left ankle). Ryan Anderson had 21 points and six rebounds and Jason Smith scored 12 for New Orleans, which has lost its first two games of a five-game trip. The Warriors outshot the Pelicans 45.1 to 37.5 percent and outre- bounded them 58 to 44 to control the game - for the most part - from start to finish. New Orleans made a brief run in the fourth quarter against Golden State’s backups before the starters returned and restored order. The Warriors went 5-7 after Iguodala injured his hamstring Nov. 22, losing three of its last four games. TRAIL BLAZERS 119, CAVALIERS 116 Damian Lillard made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds remaining, lifting Portland to the road win. Lillard had a career-high eight 3- pointers while scoring 36 points. The 2013 NBA Rookie of the Year also had a fadeaway jumper as time expired to give Portland a 111-109 over- time victory over Detroit on Sunday. Portland (22-4) has the best record in the NBA and is 11-0 against the Eastern Conference. The Blazers have won five straight and are 12-2 on the road. Kyrie Guan Tianlang of China Irving’s bid for a tying 3-pointer bounced off the back of the rim at the buzzer. Irving and Dion Waiters scored 25 points apiece for Cleveland. LaMarcus Aldridge had 26 points and 15 OAKLAND: New Orleans Pelicans’ Lou Amundson (left) and Golden State Warriors’ David Lee fight Glory for LeBron, more rebounds for Portland. for a loose ball during the first half of an NBA basketball game on Tuesday, Dec 17, 2013. —AP THUNDER 105, NUGGETS 93 BOBCATS 95, KINGS 87 rebounds for Sacramento, which shot 37.5 per- heartbreak for Derrick Kevin Durant scored 30 points, powering the Kemba Walker scored 24 points, helping cent from the field. The Kings have dropped Thunder to their seventh consecutive victory. Charlotte snap a three-game losing streak. three of four. Kings forward Rudy Gay scored NEW YORK: LeBron James cementing his started playing basketball, even though it Durant had 30 or more points in a game for the Gerald Henderson added 20 points and reserve four points on 1-of-6 shooting in his worst game status as one of the all-time best players, was six or seven years ago. It’s just crazy.” 12th time this season, most in the NBA. He is Ramon Sessions scored 16 for the Bobcats, who since he was acquired in a seven-player trade another devastating injury to Derrick Rose averaging a league-high 28.6 points. Russell went 8 for 17 from 3-point range. Walker also with Toronto on Dec. 9. He departed with 5:23 and a once-unthinkable power shift in Los REJUVENATED CLIPPERS Westbrook had 21 points, 13 rebounds and eight had five assists in his 10th game with at least 20 left in the third quarter due to right knee stiff- Angeles all occurred during basketball’s For Chicago Bulls point guard Rose, the assists for the Thunder. Serge Ibaka added 17 points. DeMarcus Cousins had 30 points and 17 ness.— AP memorable 2013. The year also will be year ended the same way it began, with points and 10 rebounds. Denver had won 10 of remembered for a series of “lasts” for out- him on the sidelines because of an injury 13. JJ Hickson had 20 points and 14 rebounds, going NBA Commissioner David Stern and that has robbed the 25-year-old of another but the Nuggets dropped to 0-2 this season NBA results/standings against Oklahoma City. Ty Lawson added 17 a Canadian making history as the top pick season in his prime. Rose, who missed all of Charlotte 95, Sacramento 87; Portland 119, Cleveland 116; LA Lakers 96, Memphis 92; Oklahoma City 105, Denver in the NBA Draft. the 2012-13 season recovering from a torn points and 13 assists. 93; Golden State 104, New Orleans 93. After facing loads of criticism for past ACL in his left knee, was injured 11 games playoff failures, James inched his way up into the current 82-game campaign before LAKERS 96, GRIZZLIES 92 Eastern Conference Western Conference Atlantic Division the list of all-time greats by leading the undergoing season-ending surgery to Kobe Bryant scored 21 points in his sixth Northwest Division W L PCT GB Portland 22 4 .846 - Miami Heat to a second consecutive NBA repair the medial meniscus in his right game of the season, and the Lakers closed out a four-game road trip with a victory. Pau Gasol Boston 12 14 .462 - Oklahoma City 20 4 .833 1 championship in June and putting his team knee. The injury was a devastating blow to Toronto 9 13 .409 1 added 21 points and nine rebounds for the Denver 14 10 .583 7 on the verge of becoming a dynasty. While a Bulls team that was considered a con- Brooklyn 9 15 .375 2 Minnesota 12 13 .480 9.5 not always at his best in the 2013 playoffs, tender for the Eastern Conference crown Lakers, who were coming off a 114-100 loss at NY Knicks 7 17 .292 4 Atlanta on Monday night.
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