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DELHI THE HINDU 18 SPORT TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Woods equals Snead’s ‘crazy’ 54­year­old record Corominas saves Goa His penalty cancels out Udanta’s strike Holds off Matsuyama to win the Zozo Championship, his 82nd PGA Tour triumph ISL and Bengaluru handed out Agence France-Presse birthday. the punishment in the 62nd Inzai (Japan) “Sam did it into his fifties PRESS TRUST OF INDIA minute. Udanta collected a Tiger Woods made golf histo­ and I’m in my early to mid­ MARGAO simple flick from Manuel ry on Monday when he won forties. I’ve been very fortu­ The first meeting of the sea­ Onwu at the edge of the box, the Zozo Championship for nate to have had the career son between the two Hero outfoxed Mourtada Fall with his 82nd US PGA Tour victo­ I’ve had so far.” Indian Super League heavy­ a sublime touch and slotted ry — equalling Sam Snead’s Woods said it was “cool” weights finished all square the ball past Nawaz. 54­year­old record and ad­ that, with the addition of his after FC Goa and Bengaluru With Bengaluru on the ding to his long list of latest title in Japan, he had FC shared the spoils in a 1­1 verge of victory, a clumsy achievements. now won US PGA Tour draw here on Monday. challenge by Ashique Kuri­ The 15­time Major winner events in seven different In what was a fiercely niyan on Corominas after held off the challenge of countries. contested game in midfield, the youngster lost the ball home favourite Hideki Mat­ the teams struggled to carve resulted in the referee point­ suyama to win by three shots Global player out clear­cut chances but ing to the spot. at the weather­delayed tour­ “I’ve always been a global the visitors, who produced Corominas converted nament, his first outing since player, I’ve always played all the better output in the final coolly from 12 yards to send arthroscopic left knee sur­ around the world and to tie third, found the break­ the home supporters into gery in August. the record outside the United through through Udanta delirium and earn a point Woods broke into a huge States is pretty cool,” Woods Singh in the 62nd minute. for his team. smile after he birdied the told reporters. However, in dramatic On Sunday, host Chennai­ 18th to complete a three­un­ fashion, Goa’s Ferran Coro­ “This was big,” said a smil­ yin FC and Mumbai City FC der final round of 67 and fin­ minas won a penalty in inju­ ing Woods. “Hideki made it were wasteful upfront, ish 19­under. ry time and converted it tight. It was a lot closer than squandering chances aplen­ himself to salvage a point for what people probably ty and sharing the spoils in a Crazy his team at the Jawaharlal thought.” goalless draw. “It’s just crazy. It’s a lot,” the Nehru Stadium. The results: Monday: FC Goa 1 43­year­old Woods said of his Woods’ playing partner The result saw FC Goa Gary Woodland said he had (Corominas 90+3) drew with 82nd official PGA Tour victo­ join Mumbai City and Bengaluru FC 1 (Udanta 62); been privileged to have a ry. His first came 23 years ago NorthEast United at the top Sunday: Chennaiyin FC 0 drew this month in Las Vegas, front­row seat for the last of the table with four points with Mumbai City 0. two rounds. when he was 20. from two games while Ben­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD “It’s been a long week, five “Obviously, the Majors galuru has now been in­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD days at the top of the board is speak for themselves, but 82 volved in a second consecu­ Tuesday’s match is just a crazy number,” said a long time. It was definitely tive draw. B Jamshedpur FC vs the 35­year­old US Open stressful,” said Woods, who Goa couldn’t score dur­ Hyderabad FC, 7.30 p.m. pocketed a cheque for $1.755 champion, who himself has ing the period it was on top DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD million. won four times on the PGA Woods led from gun to Tour. tape in the inaugural US PGA “You look at the guys that Tour event in Japan, which have won 10 times and it’s saw Friday’s play washed out pretty special, let alone to by the fringes of a typhoon come out here and win 82 that dumped almost 25cm of times.” rain on the course 80km from Tokyo, forcing play into McIlroy joint third an extra day. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy fin­ “It’s about consistency ished birdie­birdie for a 67 and doing it for a long period and a share of third place on of time,” Woods said of tying 13­under with South Korea’s Snead, who died in 2002 PGA Tour Rookie­of­the­Year No stopping that! Udanta Singh’s perfect finish gave four days before his 90th Im Sung­jae who had a 65. Bengaluru FC the lead. * SPORTZPICS/ISL

Gokulam loses Red­letter day for Papua New Guinea as it qualifies for T20 WC to Abahani Agence France-Presse DUBAI SPORTS BUREAU Papua New Guinea (PNG) CHITTAGONG will make its first­ever appea­ Gokulam Kerala FC went rance at a mega event after down 3­2 to Chittagong beating Kenya here on Sun­ Abahani Limited in the day to book its place at next semifinals of the Sheikh Ka­ year’s T20 World Cup. mal International Club Cup PNG hammered Kenya by at the M.A. Aziz Stadium 45 runs at the Dubai Interna­ on Monday. tional Stadium but had to The I­League side twice wait for the result of Nether­ took the lead, thanks to lands’ game against Scotland Henry Kisekka (29th mi­ before it could celebrate an nute) and Marcus Joseph automatic qualification for (80), but was pegged back the tournament in Australia. by a Didier Brossou brace The Dutch beat Scotland as the game went into by four wickets but failed to extra­time. knock off the 131 they needed Dance of delight: Papua New Guinea players celebrate the fall of a Kenyan wicket. Matthew Chinedu sealed for victory in 12.3 overs * COURTESY: ICC-CRICKET.COM Abahani’s spot by scoring which meant that PNG the winner in the 105th topped the group with a PNG was facing disaster as have any chance of qualify­ group­stage action. minute. higher net run­rate. it slipped to 19 for six in four ing for the playoffs but the As well as reaching next The result: Chittagong Aba­ “I am feeling a little emo­ overs but Norman Vanua led batsmen were unable to get year’s showpiece, both PNG hani Limited 3 (Brossou 47 & tional,” PNG’s Australian the recovery, clubbing 54 out of first gear. and Ireland will also progress 90, Chinedu 105) bt Gokulam coach Joe Dawes told the from 48 balls and sharing a Ireland also booked a tick­ to the semifinals of the ongo­ Kerala FC 2 (Kisekka 29, Jo­ seph 80). ICC. “It’s been a pretty big seventh­wicket partnership et to Australia, thanks to re­ ing qualifying tournament, two years, for them to of 77 with Sese Bau. sults elsewhere going in its fa­ where they will play the win­ achieve this is pretty Kenya needed to reach the vour, with Jersey defeating ners of the two semifinal special.” target of 118 in 12 overs to Oman on the final day of playoffs. Joshna enters third round Sports Bureau Ganguly to meet NCA head Dravid Federer picks up a 10th Svitolina tames Pliskova Cairo India’s Joshna Chinappa moved into the third round The duo to discuss roadmap for the academy title in his hometown of the CIB PSA Women’s World squash champion­ Press Trust of India Agence France-Presse the record 109 ATP titles ship with a comfortable New Delhi Basel won by American Jimmy win over Hong Kong’s Ho Longtime teammates Sourav Roger Federer won his 10th Connors. Tze­Lok here. Ganguly and Rahul Dravid Basel title on Sunday, smoth­ The 20­time Grand Slam Joshna, ranked World will reconnect in Bengaluru ering young Australian Alex champion said it was as a No. 12, is set to play second on Wednesday as BCCI presi­ de Minaur 6­2, 6­2 to secure ball­boy at the St. Jakob­ seed Nour El Sherbini of dent and head of National what the Swiss legend de­ shalle more than two de­ Egypt in the round of 16. Cricket Academy respective­ scribed as “an unbelievable” cades ago that he got his first The 12th seed Indian had ly to discuss the roadmap of success at the hometown taste of tennis. to be on the court for just 12 Indian cricket’s feeder line. tournament where he used “Being a ball­boy really in­ minutes before her second Dravid, who took charge to work as a ball­boy. spired me,” he said. “But I round opponent Tze­Lok as NCA chief in July, has al­ The 38­year­old had to cannot believe that I’ve won Doing it again: Elina Svitolina posted a fourth straight victory conceded the tie because of ready drawn a roadmap for control his emotions as he here 10 times. I never even over a misfiring Karolina Pliskova. * GETTY IMAGES injury. Joshna was leading the institution and Ganguly drew a loud and heartfelt thought I would win it 11­5, 11­4 at that time. is expected to give his inputs standing ovation from his once.” WTA FINALS into the match and broke in In the Egyptian Open when the two former cap­ home crowd during the pre­ Later on Monday, Federer the fourth game as Plisko­ (men) being held simulta­ tains meet. Talking heads: Ganguly and Dravid will exchange ideas on the sentation of his 103rd career announced he was with­ Agence France-Presse va’s radar went awry. neously, Saurav Ghosal, The meeting will be at­ functioning of the NCA. * FILE PHOTO: VIVEK BENDRE trophy. drawing from this week’s Pa­ Shenzhen (China) It was a tense contest ex­ who made it to the third tended by all the newly ris Masters in order to Defending champion Elina tending into a nerve­jan­ round beating Tsz Fung Yip elected BCCI office­bearers At Connors’ heels “pace” himself for the next Svitolina continued her do­ gling tie­breaker with Plisko­ 11­9, 11­5, 11­4, fell to Egyp­ who took charge on October He is now just six short of year. minance over World No. 2 va’s bold approach saving tian Fares Dessouky. The 23. NCA CEO Tufan Ghosh BCB to consult players Karolina Pliskova with a six set­points, but she mis­ unseeded Dessouky won will also be part of the straight­set victory at the cued on the seventh as the 11­6, 11­5, 11­5. discussion. WTA Finals here on Ukrainian finally drew first For the past few years, on D/N Test at Eden Monday. blood. NCA, which was supposed to Opening Purple Group, Press Trust of India A frustrated Pliskova was be the supply line of Indian BCB’s cricket the eighth seed started her broken immediately to open New Delhi cricket, has actually become operations chairman title defence impressively the second set and never se­ a rehabilitation centre, Bangladesh Cricket Board Akram Khan said the with a 7­6(12), 6­4 win in one riously threatened to stage a which even Ganguly ack­ on Sunday confirmed BCCI had communicated hour and 53 minutes. comeback. nowledged after taking over. that the BCCI has a few days back. “They It was Svitolina’s fourth The results: Ganguly is expected to be requested it to play a have proposed and we straight victory over a mis­ Purple Group: Elina Svitolina updated on the new NCA day­night Test during the will let them know after firing Pliskova who had 42 bt Karolina Pliskova 7­6(12), project, which is being deve­ upcoming India tour and thinking a while. We unforced errors. 6­4; Simona Halep bt Bianca loped. “Ganguly and Dravid it will respond after received the letter two or It was a disappointing re­ Andreescu 3­6, 7­6(6), 6­3. will be discussing the way consulting their players three days (ago) and we sult for Pliskova who started Sunday: Red Group: Ashleigh forward for NCA and the is­ and the team will take a decision in this well and captured a break in Barty bt Belinda Bencic 5­7, sues it faces,” said a BCCI management. regard,” Khan said. Remembering the beginning: Federer, who began his career the first game. But Svitolina 6­1, 6­2; Naomi Osaka bt Petra Joshna Chinappa. official. as a ball­boy in Basel, has a treat for the ball­kids. * AFP slowly clawed her way back Kvitova 7­6(1), 4­6, 6­4. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

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