Zverev Reaches Maiden French Open Semi-Final

14 CLASSIFIEDS WEDNESDAY 9 JUNE 2021 Sport WEDNESDAY 9 JUNE 2021 15 Qatar’s Younousse, Tijan seeded 2nd at Olympics THE PENINSULA — DOHA Younousse and Tijan, Qatar team won the Olympic Games even before who won several medals on silver medal at the Sochi participating in the decisive Qatar’s top beach volleyball the World Tour recently World Tour Championship, qualifying rounds. duo of Cherif Younousse and have 7,720 points, and the recently held in Russia, The team had previously Ahmed Tijan has been pair is only behind Nor- with a rating of 4 stars, as won the gold medal for the seeded second for the next wegian team, who are on well as reaching the third round of the Cancun month’s Tokyo Olympics, top with 10,960 points. quarter-finals of the Czech World Championship, which according to classification Brazil are seeded third Ostrava tour, which con- concluded in Mexico in May, announced by the Interna- while Poland and the Neth- cluded on Sunday. in which they won the silver A ﬁle photo of Cherif tional Volleyball Federation erlands are fourth and fifth The Qatari beach vol- medal in the first and second Younousse (right) and (FIVB) yesterday. respectively. leyball team qualified for the rounds. Ahmed Tijan. Sri Lanka agree to Zverev reaches maiden England tour despite French Open semi-final contract dispute REUTERS — COLOMBO with their tour of AP – PARIS FRENCH OPEN snowboarding. But spurred on by Bangladesh for a RESULTS the vocal support of her coaching Sri Lanka’s cricket three-match one-day Alexander Zverev did not want team on Court Philippe Chatrier, board said yesterday series. to believe that his opponent in MEN'S SINGLES Zidansek got past No. 33 seed its players have agreed “They will play this the French Open quarter-finals QUARTER-FINALS Paula Badosa 7-5, 4-6, 8-6. to tour England, even tour without signing had saved a break point with a shot Alexander Zverev (6), Germany, “It feels overwhelming,” though a contract any contract,” players’ that landed on - or was it merely def. Alejandro Davidovich Zidansek said. dispute remains unre- representative Nishan near? - a line in the fourth game Fokina, Spain, 6-4, 6-1, 6-1. There were 15 service breaks solved. Premathiratne told the yesterday. WOMEN'S SINGLES in that match and Badosa acknowl- The players, ESPNcricinfo website So Zverev QUARTER-FINALS edged being a bit undone by her including Test captain ahead of the players’ crouched down near Tamara Zidansek, Slovenia, def. nerves. Dimuth Karunaratne departure for London. the mark on the red Paula Badosa, Spain, 7-5, 4-6, She threw her racket at the and ODI skipper Kusal “They have signed clay and engaged in a 8-6. changeover after falling behind 6-5 Perera, had refused to a voluntary decla- bit of an argument with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (31), in the third set. sign new contracts ration, but there’s Russia, def. Elena Rybakina chair umpire Alison “I guess I managed to keep my which offer lower base nothing there about (21), Kazakhstan, 6-7 (2), 6-2, Hughes, repeatedly composure today a little bit better salaries and more per- player remuneration. 9-7. saying, “No!” and then than her,” Zidansek said. formance-based They have always “How?” Zverev was able to contain incentives. been committed to Hughes, whose call Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of whatever was roiling inside after “The team will go playing for Sri Lanka.” was backed up by an unof- Russia and 85th-ranked Tamara what, to him, perhaps felt like a ahead with the tour. Sri Lanka will play ficial video ren- Zidansek of Slovenia each earned critical moment - even if it came All the players are three one-dayers and dering shown on TV, didn’t her first berth in a major after just 20 minutes of play available,” said a Sri three Twenty20 Inter- budge, and Zverev quickly semi-final. against the 46th-ranked Davi- Lanka Cricket nationals in England. lost that game, then the next one, Pavlyuchenkova entered the dovich Fokina, a 22-year-old from spokesman. The limited-overs tour too, to fall briefly behind. Could day with an 0-6 record in Slam Spain who loves to use drop shots. The players will begins on have been the start of an quarter-finals - including a loss in But after getting broken three leave for England June 23. unraveling. Paris back in 2011 - but she edged times in the opening set, Zverev today, he Instead, Zverev recovered her doubles partner Elena never faced so much as one break added. quickly, grabbed 16 of the Rybakina 6-7 (2), 6-2, 9-7. point the rest of the way. The remaining 19 games and easily Rybakina managed to elim- And he played so much more players had moved into his third Grand Slam inate 23-time Grand Slam cleanly that Davidovich Fokina, criticised the semifinal by defeating Alejandro champion Serena Williams in the who wound up with 37 unforced “unfair and Davidovich Fokina 6-4, 6-1, 6-1. fourth round but wasn’t able to errors to Zverev’s 16. non-trans- The No. 6-seeded Zverev, the play as well against Zverev began this French Open parent” con- US Open runner-up to Dominic Pavlychenkova. in the worst way possible last tracts in a Kusal Thiem last year, will participate in Before last week, Zidansek week: He lost the initial two sets statement last Perera his first semi-final at Roland never had advanced past the he played - 6-3, 6-3 against qual- month but con- Germany’s Alexander Garros against either No. 2 Daniil second round at any Grand Slam ifier Oscar Otte. tinued Zverev in action during Medvedev or No. 5 Stefanos tournament. But Zverev hasn’t dropped one his quarter-ﬁnal Tsitsipas. Indeed, her biggest triumphs since, completing a comeback in match against Spain’s In the two women’s quarter- as an athlete might have come in five against Otte to start a run that Alejandro Davidovich finals played earlier in the day at an entirely different sport: She was has now stretched to 15 sets in a Fokina, yesterday. Court Philippe Chatrier, No. 31 seed a junior national champion in row..

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