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Serbia’s plays a return to Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti during their fourth round match on day 9, of the tournament at Roland Garros in Paris, . (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com Nadal into quarterfinals as Gauff overwhelms Jabeur Djokovic recovers from 2-set French Open hole against teen PARIS June 7(AP) :For two sets and more than two hours at the French Open on Monday, Novak Djokovic found himself being outplayed by a 19-year-old opponent making his debut. And yet, to hear Djokovic tell it af- Saso becomes 1st player from terward, he had the kid right where he wanted him. After dropping a pair of tiebreak- ers to begin the fourth-round match, Djokovic suddenly went from a big defi cit to his best tennis. He grabbed 13 games in a row in a dominant dis- play before Lorenzo Musetti stopped to ‘win’ golf major playing because of lower back pain and cramps while trailing in the fi fth set. The result offi cially goes into the Yuka US Open champion; Thompson wilts down the stretch books as a retirement. The score when Musetti quit showed Djokovic ahead 6-7 (7), 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-0, 4-0. SAN FRANCISCO, June How shocking was it just to see Mu- 7, (AP): Yuka Saso mod- setti take the opening pair of sets against Djokovic, who is seeking his second eled her golf game after French Open championship and 19th Rory McIlroy, spending Grand Slam trophy overall? The top- hours watching videos of seeded Djokovic never had been beaten at Roland Garros by someone ranked as his swing before going to low as the No. 76 Musetti. Djokovic’s bed each night in order to only previous loss against a teen at the perfect her own. French Open came back in 2006 against a guy named . And Djokovic All that work paid off and now entered the day 14-0 in the fourth round Saso is a U.S. Open champion at the place. just like her idol thanks to a clutch Plus, consider Djokovic’s recent form: playoff putt after a back-nine col- He was 10-0 in Grand Slam matches in lapse by Lexi Thompson. 2021 and hadn’t ceded more than four Saso’s 10-foot putt for birdie on the games in any set in Paris - let alone an third playoff hole Sunday helped her entire set - while dropping a total of just edge out Nasa Hataoka and become 23 games until Monday. the second teenager to win the U.S. Eventually, Djokovic earned his fi fth Women’s Open. career comeback Saso overcame back-to-back double from two sets bogeys early in the round to make the down by limiting playoff and then became the fi rst player his mistakes and from the Philippines to win a golf major. making Musetti look like what he is: Someone with GOLF plenty of promise but not much ex- “I was actually a little upset,” Saso perience. said about her poor start. “But my cad- Djokovic die talked to me and said, ‘Just keep on reached his record going; there’s many more holes to go.’ Gauff 15th quarterfi nal in Paris and 49th That’s what I did.” major quarterfi nal in all. It will come Both players made pars at Nos. 9 and against another Italian, No. 9 seed Matteo 18 in the two-hole aggregate playoff, Berrettini, who advanced without need- sending the tournament to sudden death ing to swing his racket once Monday. back at the ninth hole. That set the stage That’s because the man Berret- for Saso to win it just up the road from tini was supposed to face in the fourth Daly City, dubbed “Little ” for its round, 20-time Grand Slam champion large population of Filipinos. , withdrew in order to let There were many on hand for the fi - his surgically repaired right knee and nal round, including several with Fili- the rest of his 39-year-old body rest pino fl ags for the occasion. with an eye on Wimbledon this month. “I don’t know what’s happening in Yuka Saso, of the Philippines, celebrates her victory during the final round of the U.S. Women’s Open golf tournament at The Olympic Club in San Fran- the Philippines right now, but I’m just cisco. Saso defeated Nasa Hataoka, of Japan, in a three-hole playoff. (AP) thankful that there’s so many people in TENNIS the Philippines cheering for me,” she Saso matched 2008 winner Inbee said. “I don’t know how to thank them. Park as the youngest U.S. Wom- Hawks shock 76ers in series opener In other fourth-round men’s action They gave me so much energy. I want en’s Open champion at 19 years, 11 on the top half of the draw, No. 10 seed to say thank you to everyone.” months, 17 days. saved seven set points in the opening set on the way to Garros to 35. Thiem took the second set 7-5 to LA Clippers finish off Mavs in Game 7 eliminating Jan-Lennard Struff 7-6 (9), The 18th-seeded Sinner had a chance level the 2019 fi nal. 6-4, 7-5. Schwartzman, a semifi nalist to become the fi rst player since Dominic Nadal won the next two sets to LOS ANGELES, June 7, (AP): No at Roland Garros in 2020, next will Thiem in the 2019 fi nal to take a set off clinch his 12th title here, won all 21 chest-thumping, shouting or theatrics. face 13-time champion Nadal . Nadal here. But when serving for the fi rst sets last year as he added No. 13 and With very little change of expression, Japan continue Nadal beat Jannik Sinner 7-5, 6-3, set at 5-4, the Italian was broken at love. has yet to drop a set this year. Kawhi Leonard altered the Los Ange- 6-0 to reach the quarterfi nals and ex- He then lost the next six games to trail In women’s play, 17-year-old Ameri- les Clippers’ playoff fortunes. their ‘good’ run tend his streak of sets won at Roland 4-0 in the second set. can became the youngest Leonard narrowly missed a triple- player since 2006 to reach the women’s SEOUL, June 7, (AP): Kyrgyz- double, fi nishing with 28 points, 10 stan were forced to play a World quarterfi nals at any Grand Slam tourna- rebounds and nine assists, to help the ment by overwhelming No. 25 seed Ons Cup qualifying match with a de- Nmecha scores, Germany win Jabeur 6-3, 6-1 in under an hour. Clippers fi nish off the Dallas Maver- fender in goal on Monday because Gauff now meets Barbora Krejciko- icks 126-111 on Sunday in Game 7 of all three of the national team’s va, who reached her fi rst major quar- the fi rst-round series. keepers were self-isolating follow- U-21 European Championship terfi nal with a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Playing in front of a noisy mix of ing a COVID-19 outbreak. , the 2017 U.S. Open 7,342 masked fans and cardboard cutouts, the Clippers did what neither LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, June 7, (AP): Belgian club are coached by former champion and 2018 French Open run- SOCCER Germany won the fi rst men’s Euro- City captain Vincent Kompany. ner-up. team had been able to pull off in the pean Championship soccer title of this Germany’s third under-21 Euros , who is seeded 17th, fi rst six games - win at home. It was summer, with a former England youth title followed wins in 2009 and 2017, beat No. 4 Sofi a Kenin, last year’s run- the fi rst time in NBA history the road Defender Aizar Akmatov in- international scoring the goal that beat and left Portugal a beaten fi nalists for a ner-up, 6-1, 6-3. Sakkari’s quarterfi nal team won the fi rst six games of a play- stead played between the posts, off series. Portugal 1-0 in the under-21 fi nal. third time, after 1994 and 2015. opponent will be 2020 champion Iga allowing one goal in a 1-0 loss Swiatek or Marta Kostyuk. The fourth-seeded Clippers ad- to Mongolia in Group F. Oyun- Lukas Nmecha neatly rounded Por- Portugal’s team in 2015 included vanced to the Western Conference tugal goalkeeper Diogo Costa to score three players who were in the senior Gauff, Krejcikova and Sakkari are baataryn Mijiddorj scored in the three of the six fi rst-time Grand Slam semifi nals for the second straight year. 34th minute for the visitors. in the 49th minute after running on to national team that won the 2016 Euro- They’ll play the top-seeded Utah Jazz Atlanta Hawks’ John Collins,(left), an angled pass into the goalmouth by pean Championship fi nal. quarterfi nalists left in the women’s Mongolia are ranked 192nd bracket. starting Tuesday night in Salt Lake goes up for a dunk past Philadel- of FIFA’s 211 teams. Kyrgyz- Wolfsburg midfi elder Ridle Baku. Portugal defends their title in the City. phia 76ers’ Joel Embiid during the Germany-born Nmecha played only postponed Euro 2020 tournament that On an afternoon that began with the stan are ranked 99th. sun shining, before clouds intervened, Luka Doncic had 46 points, 14 as- second half of Game 1 of a second- Also in Group F, Japan beat Ta- a handful of games at his parent club starts Friday, and will play Germany in sists and seven rebounds to lead the round NBA basketball playoff se- Djokovic’s two-handed , his ries, in Philadelphia. (AP) jikistan 4-1 for their seventh victo- Manchester City before impressing a Group F match in Munich on June best shot, was off. Way off. fi fth-seeded Mavs, who have yet to ry in seven matches in the second this season on loan at Anderlecht. The 19. win a playoff series since capturing The Mavs won the fi rst two games round of Asian qualifying. the NBA championship in 2011. He at Staples Center before the Clippers Japan had secured a place in the fi nished the series with 250 points, 55 third round of qualifying. Kyogo rebounds and 72 assists. tied it up with two wins in Dallas. The Mavs won Game 5 in LA and Leonard Furuhashi, Takumi Minamino, powered the Clippers to a road win in Kento Hashimoto and Hayao BASKETBALL Game 6 with a huge fourth quarter. Kawabe all scored for Japan, The Clippers took control with a while Ehsoni Panshanbe scored 24-4 spurt - including 12 in a row - to for Tajikistan - the fi rst goal Japan Paul George added 22 points, 10 have conceded in 549 minutes. assists and six rebounds for the Clip- lead 100-85 going into the fourth. Mor- pers. Their backups outscored Dal- ris made three 3-pointers and Kennard hit a pair. Leonard scored seven points, the fl oor in a single series. The last player las’ reserves, 27-6, getting crucial to do so was Shaquille O’Neal of the contributions from Terance Mann (13 highlighted by a dunk off George’s Lakers in the 2000 NBA Finals. points) and Luke Kennard (11 points). pass. Defensively, Leonard came up Kennard had played just four minutes with a big block and Mann helped con- Doncic said he and George ex- earlier in the series. tain Doncic, who had the Mavs’ only changed jerseys in the locker room af- The Clippers were the league’s top points over the end of the third. terward. The Mavs lost to the Clippers 3- shooting team during the regular Dallas cut its 19-point defi cit early in in six games of the fi rst round in last season, but struggled at times in the se- the fourth to seven points on Doncic’s year’s bubble in Florida. ries. They regained their touch in Game 7, fi fth 3-pointer of the game with just under Hawks 128, 76ers 124 making 20 3s, led by Morris’ seven. The 3 minutes remaining. But the Clippers’ In Philadelphia, Trae Young scored Mavs hit 10, with Doncic having fi ve. own long-range prowess carried them, 25 of his 35 points in the fi rst half and Trailing by eight at halftime, the with Jackson and Morris connecting on the Atlanta Hawks shook off Joel Embiid Mavs outscored the Clippers 19-6 to back-to-back 3s for a 120-107 lead. and a hostile crowd to beat Philadelphia open the third and take an 81-76 lead. Doncic matched his points total in Game 1 of the second-round series. Doncic had just two points in the run, from Game 6 with 29 points in the fi rst Embiid raised a sledgehammer as with Dorian Finney-Smith hitting two half on 10 of 14 shooting. he returned from a one-game absence 3-pointers and Tim Hardaway Jr. add- Leonard is the fourth player in post- with a cartilage tear in his right knee. The Germany team celebrate as Germany’s Amos Pieper holds the trophy aloft after the Euro U-21 final soccer match ing another. Finney-Smith fi nished season history to have at least 200 total He walked out with WWE star Triple between Germany and Portugal at the Stozice stadium in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Germany won the match 1-0. (AP) with 18 points and 10 rebounds. points while shooting at least 60% from H to a roaring ovation.

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