THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2019 SPORT 17 What we’re not going to do is get caught up in an emotional battle of CRICKET CRICKET who’s going to bowl the quickest Australia coach Justin says ahead of bouncers. We’re here to win the Test Langer First Test, Day 1: Third Test, Day 1: third Ashes Test. match, not to see how many helmets West Indies vs England vs Australia at ACTION Emerald Headingley, Leeds we can hit. India in North Sound TODAY’S Lorenzo ready to return from injury at Silverstone REUTERS team-mate to reigning world take some time to get back up to speed.” ruled out because he is still not 100 LONDON champion and current leader Marc Lorenzo, on pole at Silverstone last percent,” Suzuki said in a statement, Marquez, would be to get used to the year with Ducati, is 19th overall and referring to injuries he suffered and Repsol Honda rider Jorge Lorenzo bike again and assess his level of has scored only 19 points this season general weakness due to lack of (pictured) says he is ready to return at performance. compared to Marquez’s 230. training since the accident. this weekend’s British Grand Prix after “It is very good to be back with the Meanwhile, Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli, 37, has already raced missing the last four MotoGP races due Repsol Honda Team, it has been a long Guintoli will ride for Suzuki in place twice for Suzuki this season using “wild to injury. time since Assen,” said the rider. of injured Joan Mir at the British cards”, scoring three points with a 13th The Spaniard, a triple MotoGP “I would have liked to have been MotoGP on Sunday, the team has con- place at the Catalan MotoGP in June. champion, crashed during practice at back sooner, but the nature of the firmed. Mir, 21, injured in a test ride at For Honda, Spain’s Jorge Lorenzo, Assen in the Netherlands in June and injury meant I had to take my time. the beginning of the month, was unable the triple former world champion is suffered fractured vertebrae. “While away from the track, I have to ride but not replaced by the works back for the Silverstone race after Honda said in a statement on been working hard to be as ready as pos- team for the Austrian GP on August 11. missing the German, Czech and Aus- Tuesday that the main aim for Lorenzo, sible for Silverstone but I know it will “His presence in England has been trian races through injury. India expect ‘positive’ Paire and Shapovalov enter verdict on Davis Cup Winston-Salem third round tie against Pakistan AFP -- going up a service break REUTERS WASHINGTON before Shapavolov came through MUMBAI “The committee members with a break in the final game to are from different parts of the Top-seeded Benoit Paire reached seal the victory. The All India Tennis Associ- world so they will set up a the third round of the ATP “It was definitely a great ation (AITA) is hopeful its appropriate time today that Winston-Salem Open on win,” said Shapovalov, who security concerns for next suits everyone. Then they will Tuesday, beating Prajnesh hadn’t made it past the second month’s tie against hosts inform us of their decision,” Gunneswaran 6-3, 7-5. round of an ATP event since Pakistan will be addressed Chatterjee said yesterday. France’s Paire, ranked 30th Lyon in May and, like Paire, after the game’s global “It’s a positive, yes. If there in the world, avenged a loss to said he hoped a strong per- governing body referred the was no merit why will the India’s Gunneswaran at Indian formance in Winston-Salem matter to its Davis Cup committee discuss. We have Wells in March. would be a springboard into the committee. given them more than Paire broke Gunneswaran in US Open. The AITA said last week enough.” the penultimate game, then “I’ve been struggling a little they had written to Interna- The AITA has named a six- capped the contest with his 14th bit during the clay and grass tional Tennis Federation (ITF) member squad under captain ace on match point to book a court season and the hardcourt asking them to shift the tie to Mahesh Bhupathi for the Sept. round of 16 meeting with fellow swing,” he said. a neutral venue or to postpone 14-15 tie but India’s players Frenchman Ugo Humbert, who “I thought it would be it for a couple of months until sought safety guarantees from defeated American Bjorn Fra- perfect to come play Winston- tensions simmer down the ITF before travelling to tangelo 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Salem, get a couple more between the bitter Islamabad. After enjoying a first-round matches under my belt and get neighbours. The ITF shared security bye, Paire was glad to get to ready for the Open. The national body was arrangements for the Indian work in the heat and humidity “So far, so good,” said Shapo- scheduled to discuss its con- team in Islamabad with the of North Carolina as part of his valov, who next faces Serbian cerns on Monday with AITA and said they were sat- build-up to the US Open, which Miomir Kecmanovic, a 7-6 (7/5), security advisers from the ITF isfied with the safety plan. starts on Monday at Flushing 6-3 winner over Australian over the September 14-15 tie An Indian tennis team last Meadows in New York. Alexei Popyrin. scheduled in Islamabad went to Pakistan in 1964 for a “Honestly, I like to play South Korean Lee Duck- between arch-rivals India and Davis Cup tie while Pakistan before the Slam,” he said. hee’s ground-breaking tour- Pakistan. last visited India in 2006. “I did the same in Lyon the nament came to an end with a The call was, however, Pakistan was forced to week before Roland Garros and 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 loss to third-seeded cancelled and instead the ITF host Davis Cup ties at neutral I won the tournament and after France’s Benoit Paire during his Wimbledon fourth round match Hubert Hurkacz of Poland. said the Davis Cup committee, venues for more than a I made the last 16 at Roland against Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut in this July 8, 2019 file photo. Lee had become the first deaf comprising eight members decade. Garros so it was good player to win an ATP match with and chaired by Egypt’s Ismal They played their first preparation. beating American Tennys second singles match since the his first-round win over Henri El Shafei, will deliberate on home tie after a gap of 12 “I’ll try to do the same -- I’ll Sandgren 6-2, 6-4. Australian Open as he bids to Laaksonen. the matter. years against Iran in 2017, try to win a lot of matches here. Sandgren, ranked 73rd in the return to peak form in the wake “I’m a little bit disappointed AITA General Secretary while Hong Kong was rele- I think it’s important for me to world, was coming off a first- of career-threatening hip right now,” Lee admitted. Hironmoy Chatterjee said a gated and fined by the ITF play before the US Open.” round victory over three-time surgery. “I had many chances that I “positive” decision was after they refused to travel to Second-seeded Canadian Denis Grand Slam champion Andy Sandgren battled back from didn’t utilise, but it was a great expected today. Pakistan the same year. Shapovalov also advanced, Murray, who was playing just his 0-3 down in the second set experience overall.” Last chance for NZ Cup hopeful Fifita REUTERS squad next Wednesday. “He’s got a to have settled on the trio as his pre- himself available. While Fifita, like WELLINGTON lot to play for,” Wellington coach Chris ferred starting combination heading Hemopo, could also cover lock in the Gibbes told reporters yesterday. into Japan. World Cup squad Gibbes said he had Vaea Fifita is well aware he has one “He’s coming back full of energy With Savea’s ability to play all not been given any instruction where last chance to convince All Blacks and excitement, he knows as well as three loose forward positions and to play him on Friday against coach Steve Hansen that he deserves the whole country that there’s a lot to openside flanker Matt Todd in con- Canterbury. one of the few remaining slots up for play for.” tention, Fifita is competing with Luke “The All Blacks have got plans in grabs in his Rugby World Cup squad, The 27-year-old Fifita, who Jacobson, Jackson Hemopo and place for him, our part of it is to give the coach of the loose forward’s pro- started against Argentina and came perhaps even Liam Squire for the fifth Vaea game time and get him ready to vincial side has said. off the bench against South Africa last spot in the squad. go,” Gibbes said. Fifita was one of nine players month, was not included in the Squire was the first-choice “Those players (All Blacks) will released to appear for their local sides matchday squad for the two Bledisloe blindside flanker for the last two years know that there’s a bigger plan in in New Zealand’s provincial champi- Cup matches against Australia. but, beset by injury, ruled himself out place for all of them, and again they’ll New Zealand’s Vaea Fifita attends the onship this weekend, with Hansen Hansen named Ardie Savea as his of contention for the Rugby Champi- know what they need to work on.