6 October 30, 2019 Iran Runner-Up at Serbian Sitting Volleyball Team Taekwondo Tournament Remains Top in Ranking BELGRADE, Serbia (Tasnim) – at the -68kg and -74kg, respec- Iran have finished in second place at tively. the Galeb Belgrade Trophy Serbia Armin Hadipour claimed a silver Open G1 2019 in Belgrade, Serbia. at the -58kg and Farzan Ashourza- The two-day Taekwondo com- deh (-63kg), Sajjad Mardani (+87) petition was held in Belgrade’s and Saeid Rajabi (+87kg) won “Aleksandar Nikolic” Hall. three bronze medals. Iran finished in second place with Mexico won the title with 24 20 points, bagging two gold med- points, winning three gold medals als, one silver and three bronzes. and one silver. Soroush Ahmadi and Mir Hash- Australia came third with 14 em Hosseini won two gold medals points with two gold medals. TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran na- Herzegovina (4005) are third and Federer Wins 10th Swiss Indoors Title tional sitting volleyball team re- fourth in the ranking. mained at the top spot in the world Iran’s women’s sitting volley- BASEL, Switzerland (AP)- forehand wide. para volley rankings. ball team sits seventh with 3018 Roger Federer has won his home- ederer’s 10th Basel title was Team Melli is the first with points. town Swiss Indoors title for the one of his most efficient. He did 5500 points, followed by Brazil USA sits top with 5350 points. 10th time by dominating Alex de not drop a set in four matches with 4573 points. China (4915) and Brazil (4313) Minaur in a 6-2, 6-2 victory. played, and was never pushed to Egypt (4314) and Bosnia and are second and third, respectively. The 38-year-old Federer put a tiebreaker. on a tennis clinic in his first “I was really hoping that Rog- match against the 20-year-old er was going to get sick of win- Denver Nuggets 101, Sacramento Australian, who was not born ning here and give someone else when the Swiss great turned a chance,” De Minaur said dur- Kings 94 in NBA professional and first played at ing the trophy ceremony. “Too Basel in 1998. good again, that was amazing.” Mixing speeds and angles with Sunday’s final took just 68 powerful ground strokes, Fe- minutes, and Federer’s longest derer clinched on his first match Swiss Roger Federer (right) shakes hands to Australian Alex De Minaur after match all week lasted 79 min- point when De Minaur sent a winning at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament in Basel on Oct 27, 2019. utes. PSG Rout Marseille 4-0 for 8-Point Lead in French League PARIS (AP) - Mauro Icardi and advantage. Kylian Mbappe have scored two first- Mbappe then turned in from close half goals each as defending champi- range in the 32nd after Angel Di on Paris Saint-Germain routed Mar- Maria squared to him to make it 3-0. seille 4-0 to move eight points clear Mandanda got a hand to Mbappe’s of Nantes at the top of the French shot from the edge of the box a league. minute from halftime, but it was Denver Nuggets guard Gary Harris, left, drives to the basket against Sacra- Icardi netted his first at his sec- not enough to push it around his mento Kings guard Buddy Hield during the first quarter of an NBA basketball ond attempt after Steve Mandanda left-hand post as the France striker game in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Oct. 28, 2019. pushed out his initial effort in the made it 4-0. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Denver led comfortably mid- 10th minute, and he headed be- Andre Villas-Boas’ Marseille are -- Jamal Murray took the blame way through the fourth quarter yond the advancing goalkeeper 16 seventh after one win in six league for another slow start by Denver’s before Holmes scored five points minutes later to double the hosts’ games. offense and quickly pointed out as part of a 10-0 run that cut the how well the Nuggets have been Nuggets’ lead to 90-88. playing defensively. Holmes later scored on a soar- Murray scored 14 points of his ing one-handed dunk that made it Gladbach Win 4-2, Reclaim Bundesliga Lead From Bayern 18 points in the second half, in- 95-92, before Murray’s deep shot BERLIN (AP) - Borussia Mönchengladbach have returned to the top of cluding four in the final 31 sec- just inside the 3-point line. After the Bundesliga with a 4-2 home win over Eintracht Frankfurt. onds, Gary Harris added a pair of Barnes scored on a putback, Har- Denis Zakaria scored late to seal the victory as Gladbach moved a point late free throws and the Nuggets ris and Murray each hit two free clear of seven-time defending champion Bayern Munich and two points held on after nearly blowing a big throws. clear of Freiburg and Wolfsburg after nine rounds. lead in the fourth quarter, beating ‘’I came out more aggressive,’’ Breel Embolo whipped in a low cross to give Marcus Thuram a tap-in the winless Sacramento Kings said Murray, who missed five of for Gladbach’s opener in the 28th, and Oscar Wendt let fly for the second 101-94 on Monday night. his first six shots. ‘’That’s some- in first-half injury time, when Thuram was initially stopped by Danny da The Nuggets (3-0) shook off a thing I have to change with my- Costa. sluggish first half when they shot self from the jump. I can’t just Frankfurt improved after the break and da Costa scored for the visitors 17 of 52, took control in the third kind of be a part of the offense. I in the 59th after Daichi Kamada pulled the ball back. quarter with a stifling defense have to be aggressive and create Nico Elvedi made it 3-1 with a header off a free kick in the 75th, but that repeatedly forced Sacra- for guys. That’s what I did in the Martin Hinteregger kept the visitors’ hopes alive with a header to Ka- mento into contested shots from second half.’’ mada’s corner three minutes later. Moenchengladbach’s Denis Zakaria, center right, celebrates after scoring his side’s the perimeter, then held off a late Richaun Holmes had 24 points Zakaria calmed home fans’ nerves with Gladbach’s fourth goal in the fourth goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Mo- rally by the Kings to remain un- and 12 rebounds for the Kings 85th, set up by Lars Stindl despite Frankfurt defenders around him. enchenglabach and Eintracht Frankfurt in Moenchengladbach, Germany, Oct 27, 2019. beaten. (0-4). De’Aaron Fox added 20 Harris scored 17 points as Den- points and nine assists, and Har- ver won its fifth straight against rison Barnes and Nemanja Bjeli- Argentina to Meet Brazil, Uruguay in Friendlies Sacramento. Nikola Jokic had ca each scored 12. nine points on 4-for-15 shooting First-year Sacramento coach BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Two-time world champions Argentina will Lionel Messi, who served a three-month ban after accusing the South with 13 rebounds and Will Bar- Luke Walton felt his team made meet South American rivals Brazil and Uruguay in international friend- American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) of corruption dur- ton added 13 points and nine re- progress despite the loss, particu- lies next month, the Argentine Football Association (AFA) said on Mon- ing this year’s Copa America in Brazil. bounds. larly defensively. day. The friendlies will be Scaloni’s last chance to test his squad in match The Albiceleste will face Brazil in Saudi Arabia on November 15 and conditions before the South American zone qualifiers for the 2022 Uruguay in Israel four days later, the AFA said on its official Twitter World Cup, which begin in March. Vettel Tops in Mexican GP 2nd Free Practice account. Earlier this month, Argentina drew 2-2 with Germany in Dortmund MEXICO CITY (Dispatches) - Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel has lapped Argentina head coach Lionel Scaloni will be free to recall captain before beating Ecuador 6-1 in Alicante, Spain. fastest in the 2nd free practice session ahead of the Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix. Nepal Man Shatters Record for Scaling World’s Highest Peaks Vettel of Germany set a best time of 1 minute and 17.96 seconds at For- KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepalese man the last of the 14 peaks that are more than 8,000 Mingma Sherpa of Seven Summit Treks in Kath- mula One’s highest altitude track. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who’s won on Tuesday shattered the previous mountaineering meters (26,240 feet) in height. mandu, which equipped the expedition, said the the last two races in Mexico, finished 2nd, and another Ferrari driver, record for successfully climbing the world’s 14 high- The previous record for climbing the 14 peaks 36-year-old Purja was in good health and safely Charl Leclerc, came 3rd. est peaks, completing the feat in 189 days. was seven years, 10 months and six days. It was descending from the summit. With 4 races remaining in the 2019 season, 5-time defending champion, Nirmal Purja scaled the 8,027-meter (26,340- set by South Korean climber Kim Chang-ho in Climbing experts called the record a momentous Lewis Hamilton, stands at the top of the table with 338 points, and to se- foot) Mount Shishapangma in China, which was 2013. achievement in mountaineering history. cure his 6th title, he needs to finish on the podium in Mexico..