Werner Bags Hat-Trick in Leipzig's 5-0 Rout of Mainz
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SPORT SPORT | 06 SPORT | 07 OlympicOl champion Mentality is key VeithV retires after to success in ‘achieving her empty stadiums, dream’ says Flick MONDAY 25 MAY 2020 How sport around Werner bags hat-trick in the globe gunning for return to action Leipzig's 5-0 rout of Mainz AFP – PARIS The return of Bundesliga football in Germany and Saturday’s announcement that Spain’s La AFP – BERLIN since the Bundesliga restarted in Werner scores his 24th “We’ll be celebrating quietly, Liga can resume from June 8 shows there are near-empty stadiums. Bundesliga goals this season because we don’t have much time. some shoots of recovery as sports worldwide Timo Werner bagged a hat-trick as “We could have scored a few to move to within three But we have managed to turn things make tentative plans to return to action: RB Leipzig thrashed Mainz 5-0 more, but no complaints -- we’re goals of Bayern’s Robert around.” yesterday to climb back to third in very happy,” Leipzig sporting The 48-year-old Herrlich apol- CRICKET Lewandowski at the top of the Bundesliga and keep their director Markus Kroesche told Sky. ogised to his squad after breaking dwindling title hopes just about Werner opened the scoring in the league scoring charts. a week-long coronavirus quar- The English season will not start until July alive. only the 11th minute, before Yussuf antine by leaving the team hotel -- 1 at the earliest and likely behind closed doors. Julian Nagelsmann’s side sit Poulsen marked his 250th Schalke slumps to a to buy toothpaste and skin cream The new Hundred tournament has been seven points behind leaders Bayern appearance for Leipzig by heading shock 3-0 home defeat -- before the Wolfsburg match last scrapped until 2021. However, England could Munich ahead of the reigning cham- home a Marcel Sabitzer cross on 23 by relegation-threatened weekend. begin their rescheduled three-Test series pions’ top-of-the-table clash against minutes. Augsburg. Having been as high as third last against the West Indies on July 8. second-placed Borussia Dortmund The pair reversed roles for the December, Schalke are winless in on Tuesday. third when Poulsen laid the ball off their last nine league games, The series was originally due to start on Leipzig bounced back from their for Sabitzer to make it 3-0 at the including last Saturday’s 4-0 June 4. Australia and Pakistan are still due to draw with Freiburg last weekend break. touchline as Augsburg coach, a drubbing at Dortmund. tour later in the summer. in their first match since the coro- Werner grabbed his second goal week after he missed their loss to “We were extremely stupid at navirus lockdown in style, with three minutes into the second half Wolfsburg because he broke quar- the start,” said Wagner. The money-spinning IPL, which should Werner moving to within three when Kevin Kampl played him into antine rules to buy toothpaste. Loewen gave the visitors the have started on March 29, was postponed but goals of Bayern’s Robert Lewand- the area. David Wagner’s Schalke con- lead after just five minutes with a media reports said the BCCI may aim for a tour- owski at the top of the league The visitors were attacking at tinued their slide down the table, superb free-kick which flew into the nament in September-October, ahead of the scoring charts. will when Kampl had a goal ruled falling to eighth following another top corner from 30 metres out at T20 World Cup in Australia. The 24-year-old striker, linked out for offside soon after. poor defensive display. the Veltins Arena. with several of Europe’s biggest With 15 minutes left, Poulsen’s Eduard Loewen, Noah Sarenren Augsburg doubled their lead 14 TENNIS clubs, has scored 24 Bundesliga floated free-kick was met by Bazee and Sergio Cordova scored minutes from time when Schalke goals this season including two Werner who volleyed past Mainz as Augsburg moved seven points defender Salif Sane was wrong- The ATP said it will not resume tournament trebles. goalkeeper Florian Mueller to wrap clear of the relegation play-off footed by a long ball and substitute play until the first week of August in Lewandowski scored his 27th up his hat-trick. place. winger Bazee rifled home. Washington. Bundesliga goal this term in Bay- Earlier, Augsburg also eased to “I’m totally happy,” said Her- Cordova came off the bench to The WTA is still scheduling events in Palermo ern’s 5-2 win over Eintracht a comfortable away win with a 3-0 rlich, whose side host bottom club score in injury time, latching onto from July 20-26 and in Karlsruhe on July Frankfurt on Saturday. romp at Schalke. Paderborn on Wednesday, after a loose pass from Sane, rounding 28-August 2, for now at least. Leipzig’s victory was the 10th Heiko Herrlich enjoyed a perfect ending a run of four straight goalkeeper Markus Schubert and win for a visiting team in 17 matches first Bundesliga game on the defeats. firing into an empty net. The French Open has already been moved to Sept 20-Oct 4 although there are sugges- tions that it may be put back by a further week. Organisers say it could be played behind closed doors. The United States Tennis Association will decide in mid-June on the US Open and has said it is “aggressively” drafting alternative plans if the tournament has to be moved from New York, which is struggling to recover from a wave of COVID-19 deaths. The possibility of playing in Indian Wells in California or Orlando is being considered. MOTOR SPORT After 10 races were either cancelled or post- poned, Formula One hopes to open its season in Austria with back-to-back races on July 5 and 12. NASCAR returned behind closed doors last Sunday at Darlington Raceway, South Carolina. MotoGP hopes to start with back-to-back RB Leipzig’s Timo Werner (second left) scores their fourth goal during the Bundesliga match against FSV Mainz at the Opel Arena in Mainz, Germany races at Jerez, Spain, on July 19 and 26. yesterday. Indian govt to decide Clijsters determined to fate of IPL, not cricket press on with comeback board, says minister AFP – BRUSSELS out to be not so much in the last few REUTERS – MUMBAI months,” she said. Kim Clijsters is looking forward to She began her second comeback in India’s Sports Minister yesterday said any decision to allow returning to the US Open even though February in Dubai, where she lost to the Indian Premier League to go ahead this year would be the coronavirus pandemic means that Garbine Muguruza in the first round. She taken by the government, not the Indian cricket board, and since her second comeback from then lost to Johanna Konta in her would be based on how well the country has contained the retirement she has spent more time with opening match in Monterrey, the last novel coronavirus. her family. tournament before the women’s tour Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju said the IPL would go ahead “I’m still motivated,” the four-time shut down at the start of March. only if there was no risk to public health. Grand Slam winner told a Belgian news- She was in the United States when the “In India the government has to take a call and it will be paper yesterday. tournament in Indian Wells, where she depending on the situation of the pandemic, how we progress “I hope we can still play this season. planned to play singles and partner Venus as a nation,” Rijiju told the India Today television channel. But even if we don’t, I intend to keep Williams in the doubles, was cancelled. “We can’t put health of the nation at risk just because we going,” the Belgian tennis star, who The family stayed at their home in New want sporting events to be held. Our focus is fighting turns 37 in June, told Het Laatse Nieuws Jersey, where they don’t have a tennis COVID-19.” (HLN). court and the public courts soon shut. The BCCI, the richest cricket body in the world, had said it Clijsters had spells at number one “We made a court with kitchen would consider staging the lucrative IPL in October/November before and after her first retirement, chairs,” she said. if the T20 World Cup, which is scheduled to take place in Aus- from 2007-2009. She had her daughter Clijsters and her husband Brian tralia during those months, did not go ahead. in 2008. She won the US Open before Lynch, a basketball coach, completed The IPL is worth almost $530m to the BCCI and attracts that break and the Australian Open and Andy Murray’s 100 volleys couples the best international and Indian cricketers. It was scheduled two more US titles when she came back. challenge. to start at the end of March but was indefinitely postponed She retired for a second time after the “In the first few weeks when you’re because of the pandemic. US Open in 2012. She has since had two in quarantine and all these challenges India has reported 131,868 infections from the new coro- sons. pop up...you’re trying everything,” she navirus, with 3,867 deaths. “I always felt I was fulfilled,” Clijsters said. “After a few weeks it’s ‘another said in an earlier interview with the challenge? I’m done!’” The family In India the government has to take a call Tennis Hall of Fame.