Isner Serves up Fifth Atlanta Title
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17 TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2018 sports Isner serves up fifth Atlanta title AFP | Los Angeles Isner blasted 21 aces and won 75 percent of his first-serve John Isner Sloane Stephens ohn Isner won his fifth At- points in the two-hour match. lanta Open title on Sunday, The eighth-seeded Jwith a 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 win over Harrison, who was Stephens excited to Ryan Harrison to beat the fellow aiming for his American in the final for the second career defend US Open crown second straight year ATP title, fin - The 33-year-old Isner earned ished with 10 AFP | Washington back on hardcourts, it’s my his second win of 2018 and a aces but made favorite surface, and back in record fifth in Atlanta to go with three double eigning US Open champion the United States,” Stephens previous wins in 2013, 2014, faults and had RSloane Stephens returns to said Monday. 2015 and 2017. his serve broken hard courts at this week’s WTA “Defending any tournament The top seed served out the twice. Washington Open excited for is hard but especially a Grand match to love in the 10th game Harrison the challenge of defending her Slam. I’ve never been in that of the third set, clinching victo- won the first first Grand Slam title. situation before. I know there ry with a powerful serve down set against Isner Stephens, ranked a ca - will be a lot of nerves and ex- the line that handcuffed Har- after a week of reer-high third, suffered a citement going into US Open rison. come-from-be- first-round Wimbledon exit but I’m looking forward to it.” Isner is having one of the best hind victories. In after falling to Simona Halep The 25-year-old American seasons of his career. Earlier order to make the in last month’s French Open arrived in Washington last this month he reached his maid- final he had to rally final. She begins her hardcourt year after ending an 11-month en Grand Slam semi-final with a from a set down in push to Flushing Meadows at layoff with an opening loss at run to the final four of Wimble- each of his previous the same event where she won Wimbledon, worried her ca- don. He will be ranked number matches. her first WTA title in 2015. reer was in jeopardy after a nine in the world when the new “Preparations for hardcourts left foot injury that required rankings come out on Monday. have been good. Excited to be surgery in January 2017. Brave CF signs 2011 NCAA KHK MMA Bahrain preparing Division Champion for IMMAF Asian Open TDT | Manama ubba Jenkins, former 2011 BNCAA Division Champi- Vibeke Skofterud on had signed a multi-fight contract with Brave Combat Federation. Olympic champion The featherweight fighter Skofterud dies in from Los Angeles, California had come into contact with jet-ski accident the organisation while he cor- AFP | Oslo nered Zach Zane at Belfast, United Kingdom during Brave orwegian cross-country 13. Nskier Vibeke Skofterud, Jenkins is the 2011 NCAA Di- an Olympic gold medallist vision I national champion at and double world champion 157lbs. He attended Arizona Bubba Jenkins in relay, has died in a jet-ski State University, graduating accident at 38, Norwegian in 2011. Having a profession- featherweight division of authorities said. KHK MMA Fight Team after the victory at 2017 IMMAF Asian Open al record of 12-4-0, Jenkins Brave Combat Federation. Skofterud was reported competed 11 times inside the Recently Brave Combat missing on Saturday. Her TDT | Manama Team and professional light- Yousif Al Kooheji, Moham- Bellator cage. Federation has signed major body was found on Sunday weight fighter at Brave Combat med Saad and Eldar Eldarov The signing marks a ma - athletes including Jeremy morning on a small island HK MMA Fight Team will Federation. had accompanied the team dur- jor statement for Brave since Kennedy, Danyel Pilo, Jakub near the town of Arendal. Krepresent the Bahrain Na- The initiative had produced ing 2017. Bellator had signed over 20 Kovalewicz to the feather- “All the indications are tional Fight Team for the up- champions for Bahrain dur- 2018 IMMAF Asian Open is athletes including many who weight division. that it was a jet-ski acci- coming IMMAF Asian Open ing 2017 when Hussain Ayyad, the major IMMAF event prior to were rejected by Brave Combat Currently Elias Boudeg- dent,” Sveinung Alsaker taking place in Beijing, China Nayef Fikri and Abbas Khan the 2018 IMMAF World Cham- Federation while Brave Com- zdame is the champion of the of the local police said in a during 10-25 September 2018. had won bronze medals in their pionships hosted in Bahrain bat Federation signed a higher division and the latest signing press release. The fight team is currently respective categories while Ab- during November which will ranking Jenkings who rejected will prove heavy competition Skofterud won gold in the trained under Elder Eldarov, dulmanap Magomedov has se- be a part of Brave International to work with Bellator. Jenkins in one of the dymanic divisions 4 x 5km relay at the Vancou- Head Coach of KHK MMA Fight cured the gold medal. Combat Week will be joining the growing in the promotion. ver Winter Games in 2010. Kalisz sweeps individual medley titles AFP | Irvine, United States Abrahm DeVine was second in 1:57.41 while Gunnar Bentz and An- ouble world champion Chase drew Seliskar tied for third in 1:58.23. DKalisz won the men’s 200m in- Kalisz, the 2016 Olympic silver dividual medley in a blistering 1min That one was medalist in the 400m IM, swept the 55.73sec on Sunday to cap the US definitely my best medleys at the World Championships swimming championships with a sec- race of the meet. I in Budapest last year. He said he was at Seef District too ond IM title. honestly didn’t think I looking forward to the Pan Pacs, Kalisz put himself atop the world was going to go 1:55 where his 200m competition could Um al Hassan +973 17728699 rankings for 2018 heading into the include Japan’s Kosuke Hagino and Seef District +973 17364999 Pan Pacific Championships starting CHASE KALISZ Daiya Seto and China’s Wang Shun. in Tokyo on August 9. The Pan Pacs are the biggest inter- “That one was definitely my best time in the 400m IM two days earlier. national meet for US swimmers this race of the meet,” said Kalisz, who “I honestly didn’t think I was going year, and also a qualifier for 2019’s was disappointed with his winning to go 1:55.” World Championship in South Korea..