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FOOTBALL | Page 3 NBA | Page 5 Sterling Warriors relishes sweep aside World Cavaliers to Cup stage claim title Sunday, June 10, 2018 TENNIS Ramadan 25, 1439 AH Nadal chases GULF TIMES 11th French Open crown SPORT Page 2 TENNIS/FRENCH OPEN Thrilling fi ghtback gives Halep fi rst Grand Slam title ‘In the last game I felt like I could not breathe anymore’ ATHLETICS Qatar’s Saife bags his second gold medal at Asian Juniors By Sports Reporter to his personal tally yesterday. Gifu, Japan His throw of 61.50m in the discus was well short of Iran’s Hossein Rasouli’s 62.29m. Japan’s Kosei Yamashita was atar’s rising middle distance a distant third with a heave of 56.51m. runner Saife Saifeldin claimed Huanhuan Yang of China won the gold his second gold medal of the medal in the women discus throw with Asian Junior Athletics Cham- a throw of 51.53m while her teammate Qpionships in Japan when he surged to Yuanyuan Yin secured silver medal with victory in the 3,000m steeplechase at the 51.17m and India’s Arpandeep Kaur Bajwa Nagaragawa Stadium in Gifu yesterday. took bronze medal in 46.57m. Saifeldin clocked 8mins 51.97secs to Ayaka Kora of Japan and Jiawei Zhong comfortably beat silver medallist Takumi of China were locked in the most thrill- Yoshida of Japan (8:52.79) and Trung ing women’s long jump fi nal when both Cuong Nguyen of Vietnam (8:59.32) cleared 6.44m in their 5th attempt to tie. His victory yesterday took Qatar’s gold Kora, riding on home support leapt 1cm medal tally to three after he and Ibrahim more than Jiawei in the fi nal jump to break Moaaz Mohamed had won the 1,500m the tie and win the gold medal. and shot put respectively on Friday. Zuocheng Wu of China won the wom- Saifeldin’s 1,500m gold on Friday came en’s pole vault gold medal with a height in a time of 3mins 49.30secs, with Ja- of 4.00m. Anastasya Ermakova of Kaza- pan’s Reito Hanzawa claiming the silver in khstan fi nished second clearing 3.60m. Romania’s Simona Halep kisses the trophy as she celebrates after winning the French Open final against Sloane Stephens of the US yesterday. 3:49.66s and Iraq’s Hussein Lafta taking Chia-Ju Wu of Chinese Taipei took bronze the bronze in 3:49.75. in 3.60m. AFP baseline rallies and made an early Ibrahim Moaaz Mohamed, who had Hosts Japan won the gold medal in the Paris Simona Halep — at a glance breakthrough as two big forehands won the shot put gold with a throw of men’s 4x100m relay with a performance left the top seed scrambling. 18.57m on Friday, added the discus silver of 39.63s. — Yesterday’s final was her fourth — When she was a teenager, The early exchanges were brutal in imona Halep fought back at the majors, having lost her pre- Halep underwent breast reduction the Paris heat, but it was the world from a set and a break down vious three. She looked in danger surgery for personal comfort and number one who found herself being to fi nally achieve her “dream” of flopping again when she slipped to ease her movement around forced onto the defensive as Stephens of winning a Grand Slam title, a set and break down to Sloane the court. “I would have gone for moved 4-1 ahead. Sbeating Sloane Stephens 3-6, 6-4, The 25-year-old, who was ranked Stephens. surgery even if I hadn’t been a 6-1 in a gruelling French Open fi nal — Last year, the 26-year-old Ro- sportswoman,” she said. 957 in the world less than a year ago yesterday. manian squandered a set and 3-0 — Halep is also a committed after her injury woes, was using her The world number one had lost lead to lose the Paris title match businesswoman. As well as buying bigger forehand to good eff ect as Ha- all three of her previous major fi - to Jelena Ostapenko. In the 2014 up property, she opened her own lep struggled to make any inroads into nals, including two at Roland Gar- final, she also lost in three sets to restaurant, called ‘SH’ in her home her opponent’s serve. ros, and said she struggled to contain Maria Sharapova. At this year’s town of Constanta. She did manage to make Stephens her emotions after staging a thrilling Australian Open, she was defeated — Praised for her modesty on and serve for the set, though, and was comeback. in the final by Caroline Wozniacki, off court, Sports Illustrated has stepping into the court with more “In the last game I felt like I could again in three sets. described her as an ‘anti-diva’. authority, bringing up her fi rst break not breathe anymore”, said Halep. point. It was the perfect way for the Ro- But Halep wasted the chance with manian to banish the demons of her her 10th unforced error and Stephens painful fi nal defeat by Jelena Ostap- the 1978 French Open. the American 10th seed wilted in hot made her pay, drilling an unreturn- enko 12 months ago, when she blew a “But it’s emotional to be making conditions and Halep pounced. able backhand into the corner to wrap lead of a set and 3-0. this speech as a winner. I’ve been “It’s been amazing here for me,” up the set after just 41 minutes. “Last year it was tough to talk be- dreaming of this since I was 14.” said Stephens. “It’s not the trophy I A fi rst-ever Grand Slam fi nal de- cause I lost this match,” added Halep, US Open champion Stephens had wanted, but it’s still beautiful.” feat in straight sets for Halep looked only the second Romanian to win a looked set to lift a second Grand Slam Halep played a scintillating decid- likely as soon as Stephens claimed Slam after Virginia Ruzici who won trophy when leading 6-3, 2-0, but ing set in which she made only fi ve the fi rst game of the second set on her unforced errors, breaking her ma- fourth break point. jor duck in style after two hours and The Romanian knows better than three minutes. anyone how Grand Slam fi nals can The 26-year-old celebrated her turn though after her 2017 heart- victory in a way usually seen at Wim- break against Ostapenko, and she bledon, climbing into her box to greet broke back to love to the delight of the friends and family. crowd. “I tried to not do the same thing as Suddenly Halep had won 12 of 13 last year. It’s a dream and it’s so spe- points and snatched the momentum, cial to do it here in Paris,” she said. and she made it four games on the “When I was down a break in the spin as Stephens dumped consecu- second set I just tried to relax and en- tive forehands into the net. joy the match.” Stephens briefl y looked out on her The fans at Roland Garros preced- feet, but raised her game by shorten- ed the match with a standing ovation ing the points to break straight back for seven-time Grand Slam cham- before levelling the set at 4-4, helped Sloane Stephens pion Maria Bueno after the Brazilian’s by the fi rst ace of the match. reacts during the final death on Friday aged 78. But Halep dug deep, squaring the against Simona Halep. Halep had vocal support from the fi nal by winning the next two games, Qatar’s Saife Saifeldin negotiates a water jump during the 3,000m steeplechase at the start on Court Philippe Chatrier, but as Stephens fi red a backhand wide on Asian Junior Athletics Championships yesterday. He won the event in a time of 8mins Stephens was the better player in the the fi rst set point. 51.97secs. Gulf Times 2 Sunday, June 10, 2018 SPORT TENNIS CRICKET Head and Stanlake star as Australia Nadal eyes 11th beat Middlesex AFP that starts across London at The London Oval on Wednesday. It was also a reminder they were without two outstanding batsmen in former ravis Head’s century and captain Steve Smith and hs deputy French Open title two wickets from Billy David Warner, who both received Stanlake helped Aus- year-long bans for their roles in tralia beat Middlesex by a ball-tampering scandal during ‘I have lost a lot of opportunities through injuries, and I know the years are T101 runs at Lord’s yesterday in the third Test against South Af- their last warm-up fi xture before rica in Cape Town in March. going quick. So there is not 10 more chances to keep playing here’ a one-day international series In addition to Smith and Warn- against England. er, Australia arrived in England Australia, despite a century without their injured frontline from Travis Head, found runs fast-bowling trio of Mitchell hard to come by in a total of 283 Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh for six. Hazlewood, as well as sidelined Head made 106 and Australia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh vice-captain Aaron Finch 54. But their white-ball prob- Australia, for the second match lems predate the ball-tampering in a row, following their 277 for scandal, with Australia losing nine in a 57-run tour-opening win their last three bilateral ODI se- over Sussex at Hove on Thursday, ries — against New Zealand, In- This combination of pictures created on Australia failed to reach the now dia and England.

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