Red Sox pound Matthews Orioles wins in AL15 action Tour stage THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2013 17 Manchester United must not lose Rooney Page 18 MILAN: AC Milan’s forward Stephan El Shaarawy (center) vies for the ball with PSV Eindhoven’s goalkeeper Jeroen Zoet (right) during the Champions League preliminary round football match. — AFP Celtic join big guns in group stage AC Milan, Zenit and Sociedad booked CL spot PARIS: Celtic produced a superb comeback to aggregate three minutes into the second peri- second season running. Remi Garde’s side were European champions had a brace by Kevin- also netting, the latter from the penalty spot. beat Shakhter Karagandy and qualify for the od, but it was not all plain sailing for Neil looking to do what no team had ever done Prince Boateng and a second-half Mario Balotelli Manuel Jose and Carlao scored consolation Champions League group stage yesterday, while Lennon’s side. before by overturning a 2-0 first-leg defeat at strike to thank for taking them past PSV, the goals for tiny Pacos, who finished third in their AC Milan, Zenit St Petersburg and Real Sociedad Anthony Stokes hit the bar for the hosts home to win a European Cup tie. 1988 European Cup winners who have not domestic league last season. also booked their place at European football’s before Sergei Khizhnichenko struck the wood- It proved too great a task as Mexican forward graced the Champions League proper since Meanwhile, Czech champions Viktoria Plzen top table. work at the other end. But it was to be Celtic’s Carlos Vela scored a second-half brace to take 2008-09. won 1-0 away to Maribor in Slovenia to progress The Scottish champions had given them- night, with Stokes doing brilliantly to set up the Liga club through 2-0 on the night, 4-0 on In other games, Zenit St Petersburg eased 4-1 on aggregate with Stanislav Tecl’s early goal selves everything to do after losing 2-0 to James Forrest to make it 3-0 on the night and 3-2 aggregate. past Portuguese minnows Pacos Ferreira with a easing their path through. Shakhter in Kazakhstan in the first leg last week, on aggregate with virtually the last kick of the France will only have two clubs - Paris Saint- 4-2 win in Russia to advance 8-3 on aggregate. They join Arsenal, Schalke 04, Basel, Steaua but a terrific strike from Kris Commons gave game. NBIn contrast to Celtic, Lyon never really Germain and Marseille - in today’s group-stage Portuguese international Danny scored twice for Bucharest and Austria Vienna, who all won on them hope just before half-time in front of a typ- threatened to overturn a two-goal first-leg draw in Monaco, but there will be three Italian Zenit against his countrymen, including a spec- Tuesday in the group-stage draw along with the ically raucous Parkhead crowd. deficit against Real Sociedad as the French club clubs after AC Milan eased to a 4-1 aggregate tacular solo effort for his second of the night, 22 automatic qualifiers, led by reigning Giorgos Samaras then levelled the tie on missed out on reaching the group stage for the win against PSV Eindhoven. The seven-time with Aleksandr Bukharov and Andrey Arshavin European champions Bayern Munich. — AFP Federer, Djokovic cruise, Stosur stunned at US Open NEW YORK: A teenage American girl with a “I think I’m very much of a child at heart ... squeaky voice and an incredible tale of survival (but) on the court, you have to be a warrior stole the spotlight at the US Open on Tuesday because that’s just the sport we are in,” she said. with a stunning upset win over the former Stosur paid tribute to Duval, saying she champion, Sam Stosur. While Roger Federer and deserved the win, but said she had contributed Novak Djokovic and the rest of the sport’s old to her own downfall with a whopping 56 order calmly went about their business, 17-year- unforced errors. old Victoria Duval became the toast of New “I’m not going to be a sore loser and say she York. didn’t do anything,” said Stosur. “But, you know, I Making her second appearance in a grand think I certainly helped her out there today, slam event against the Australian who beat that’s for sure.” Serena Williams in the final just two years ago, Federer and Djokovic blasted their way into the pint-sized Duval clawed and fought her way the second round with ruthless efficiency, NEW YORK: Victoria Duval of the US returns against Samantha Stosur of Australia to a 5-7 6-4 6-4 first-round win. crushing their hapless opponents in straight during their 2013 US Open women’s singles match. —AFP It was a remarkable performance but made sets. Defying the sceptics who had dismissed all the more astonishing because of her back- his chances of winning a sixth title in the Big Germany’s Dinah Pfizenmaier 6-0 6-0 in just almost like my relative. We grew up, and I knew ground. When she was seven years old, Duval Apple, Federer was in vintage form as he over an hour. him since we were kids. It’s very, very sad.” was taken hostage by robbers at her aunt’s brushed past Slovenia’s Grega Zemlja 6-3 6-2 7- Italy’s Sara Errani showed why she is loom- With her boyfriend, golfer Rory McIlroy, house in Haiti, a terrifying incident that con- 5 in a delayed afternoon match at Arthur Ashe ing as a real contender as she also handed out a watching from the stands, Wozniacki had to dig vinced her parents, both doctors, to move back Stadium. Djokovic then lit up Tuesday’s night 6-0 6-0 thrashing to her Australian opponent deep to beat Chinese qualifier Duan Yingying 6- to the United States. session with a dazzling combination of power Olivia Rogowska, who got into the draw as a 2 7-5. Wozniacki raced through the opening set “It’s not a good memory, so I try to forget as and precision to defeat Lithuania’s Ricardas ‘lucky loser’ when Japan’s Ayumi Morita with- in just 35 minutes then reeled off five games in much as I could about it. I don’t remember too Berankis 6-1 6-2 6-2. drew. Former world number one Caroline a row to seal the win after falling behind 5-2. “It’s much of it anymore, which is great,” she told The world number one hardly broke sweat Wozniacki survived a tough examination to join not about being pretty,” Wozniacki said. “It’s reporters. on a balmy New York night as he took the first grand slam winners Petra Kvitova and Ana about just getting the job done. I did that, so I’m In 2010, her father was buried alive in the step toward a possible fourth straight appear- Ivanovic in the second round. happy about that.” Haiti earthquake. He survived by digging him- ance in the final. Kvitova, the 2011 Wimbledon champion, Wimbledon semi-finalist Jerzy Janowicz was self out but suffered serious injuries, including The 32-year-old Federer won the last of his also had to put in some overtime before win- booed for serving underhand in his 6-4 6-4 6-2 broken legs, broken ribs and a punctured lung. five U.S. Open titles in 2008 but the Swiss mas- ning her clash with Misaki Doi 6-2 3-6 6-1 while loss to Argentina’s Maximo Gonzalez, who is Duval took to tennis instantly and has quick- ter said he had lost none of his love of the a grieving Ivanovic, the 2008 French Open win- ranked 247th in the world. ly risen through the American junior ranks but game, ripping 35 winners in his win over ner, cruised to a 6-2 6-0 win over Georgia’s Anna Hampered by a painful back injury he suf- Tuesday’s win was by far her biggest. Zemlja. “I’m in a good spot right now. I want to Tatishvili. fered training three days ago, the Polish world With her family watching from courtside and enjoy it as long as it lasts,” Federer said. Twelve Ivanovic arrived in New York with a heavy number 14 was in a foul mood, arguing with the NEW YORK: Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic cele- chants of “U-S-A!” echoing around the Louis months after her agonising defeat in the heart after learning about the drowning death chair umpire and throwing his water bottle on Armstrong Stadium, Duval had to battle all the women’s final, Victoria Azarenka made a tri- of a childhood friend back in her native Serbia. the court. “I was in really good shape before this brates winning against Lithuania’s Ricardas Berankis way to beat the vastly more-experienced umphant return to Arthur Ashe Stadium, chalk- “It’s been very sad news,” Ivanovic told happened,” he growled. “That’s why I’m fricking during their 2013 US Open men’s singles match. — AFP Stosur. ing up a rare double-bagel win by thrashing reporters. “It was very hard because it was disappointed.” — Reuters.