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THE HINDU DELHI FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 SPORT 19 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Berrettini prevails over Monfils in a thrilling five­setter To meet Nadal, who grinds out a win over Schwartzman; teenager Andreescu makes women’s semifinals

court. “While I was playing I in which the 23­year­old Ita­ US OPEN thought, this is one of the lian won titles in Budapest Reuters best matches I ever saw. I was and Stuttgart en route to a ca­ playing, but I was watching reer­high ranking of 20th in NEW YORK also.” June. Big­serving Italian Matteo Berrettini took another step Big serves Staying on course in his breakthrough season as Berrettini used booming With Roger Federer and 2018 he beat Frenchman Gael serves and stinging forehands champion Novak Djokovic Monfils 3­6, 6­3, 6­2, 3­6, 7­6 to overwhelm Monfils, who having already exited, Nadal’s (5) at the U.S. Open on Wed­ struggled with humid condi­ path to a fourth Open trophy nesday to reach his first ca­ tions in Arthur Ashe Stadium has been cleared of familiar reer Grand Slam semifinal. until shortly after the roof hurdles. In the other men’s quarter­ closed during the third set But Schwartzman remind­ finals, Diego Schwartzman, and brought in cooler ed Nadal that danger can lurk the smallest player in 25 temperatures. everywhere, even from an years to reach the last eight, In the decider, Berrettini opponent he had beaten in all gave Rafa Nadal a big fight broke twice for a 4­2 lead but seven previous meetings and and forced the second­seed­ a rejuvenated Monfils, who only lost two sets. ed Spaniard to grind out a despite being bent over in ex­ That caution was well 6­4, 7­5, 6­2. haustion after many points, placed as Schwartzman made Putting away the 13th­seed­ dug deep and raced around the 18­time Grand Slam win­ ed Frenchman took everyth­ the court to fight off three ner work for every point, THE RESULTS ing that Berrettini had as match points to force a final­ with the Argentine fighting Monfils, who struggled set tiebreak. back from two breaks down Quarterfinals: Men: 24­Matteo Berrettini (Ita) mightily with his serve late in But Monfils ran out of Yesss! Matteo Berrettini gives vent to his feelings after thwarting Gael Monfils’ comeback on Wednesday.* AP in the opening two sets. the match, managed to see tricks and it was Berrettini In the women’s section, bt 13­Gael Monfils (Fra) 3­6, 6­3, 6­2, 3­6, 7­6(5); 2­Rafael off four pressure­packed who leaned on his powerful in the first set and had an ear­ hold to love that levelled the about five minutes when rain on his feet between points as Canadian teenager Bianca Nadal (Esp) bt 20­Diego match points until the Italian serve to prevail and become ly 2­0 lead in the second but match at 1­1. forced the closure of the roof. he got a crucial break and Andreescu came from behind Schwartzman (Arg) 6­4, 7­5, finally prevailed. the fourth Italian man to Berrettini took over and Berrettini, the 24th seed, Monfils, with his back firm­ won 88% of his first­serve to overpower Elise Mertens 6­2. “Right now I don't remem­ reach a Grand Slam semifinal broke the fatigued French­ broke twice for a 5­2 lead and ly against the wall to start the points to force the decider. 3­6, 6­2, 6­3 and reach her Women: 15­Bianca Andreescu ber any points. Just the match in the Open Era. man twice before ultimately served out the third set, fourth, suddenly looked full For Berrettini, it marked first Grand Slam semifinal, (Can) bt 25­Elise Mertens (Bel) point,” Berrettini said on Monfils was very efficient firing down an ace to seal a which was interrupted for of energy and was bouncing the latest triumph in a season against Belinda Bencic. 3­6, 6­2, 6­3. Magnificent Smith seizes the day Abhimanyu puts Red in command Linde replaces Smuts His unbeaten hundred takes the team close to Green’s total for India T20Is

Press Trust of India dards”, a CSA release said. DULEEP TROPHY Johannesburg Linde has played 75 T20 matches so far, scoring 611 Ashwin Achal Uncapped left­arm spinner George Linde was on Thurs­ runs at a strike rate of 139.81. Bengaluru day named as replacement He also snapped up 77 wick­ Abhimanyu Easwaran (102 for all­rounder Jon­Jon Tre­ ets at a strike rate of 19.3. batting, 173b, 11x4, 2x6) vor Smuts in South Africa’s The squad : Quinton de Kock pushed India Red close to In­ squad for the three­match (Capt.), Rassie van der Dussen dia Green’s first­innings total T20 International series (Vice­Capt.), Temba Bavuma, Junior Dala, Bjorn Fortuin, on the second day of their against India, starting Sep­ Beuran Hendricks, Reeza Hen­ Duleep Trophy final at the tember 15. dricks, David Miller, Anrich M. Chinnaswamy Stadium Linde was drafted in after Nortje, Andile Phehlukwayo, here on Thursday. Smuts was pulled out of the Dwaine Pretorius, Kagiso Ra­ Abhimanyu displayed a squad for “failing to meet bada, Tabraiz Shamsi and Ge­ wide array of shots, dis­ the required fitness stan­ orge Linde. patching the ball to all parts England’s nemesis: It was business as usual for Steve Smith on Thursday as the top­ranked of the ground. The Bengal Test batsman notched up his third career double ton. * RYAN PIERSE/GETTY IMAGES opener, who has struggled since making an exceptional Back with a bang: Abhimanyu Easwaran found his touch to Mithali to lead in ODIs, nately for the host, joy None of England’s seam­ 233 against Sri Lanka­A in come up with a long innings. * SUDHAKARA JAIN THE ASHES turned to despair when vi­ ers nor Leach were able to May, came good in great Reuters deo officials deemed Leach seriously trouble Smith and style. the match situation,” he ly reached his highest First Harmanpreet in T20s had delivered a no­ball. in the end, with the third said. Class score. MANCHESTER Earlier, Smith had had a double century of his Test Comfortable The scores: Special Correspondent MUMBAI Steve Smith’s domination of lucky escape when Jofra career — the previous two al­ Abhimanyu was comforta­ Failing to convert starts India Green — 1st innings: Faiz England’s bowling attack in Archer dropped a caught so came against England — ble against the pacers and His teammates Priyank Pan­ Fazal lbw b Unadkat 12, Aksh­ Mithali Raj will lead the In­ the Ashes series reached and bowled chance. in the bag, he fell to the oc­ spinners alike. He was espe­ chal (33, 78b) and Karun ath Reddy run out 16, Dhruv dia women’s team in the new heights on Thursday as England had come into casional spin of captain Joe cially strong off the back­ Nair (20, 24b), however, Shorey c Kishan b Warrier 23, ODI series at home against his magnificent 211 (319b, this match in buoyant mood Root. foot, punching the quicks failed to convert their good Siddhesh Lad c Panchal b Unad­ South Africa, the BCCI an­ 24x4, 2x6) led Australia to but minute by minute, over As Smith headed back to through the cover and point starts. Panchal paid the kat 0, Akshdeep Nath c Panchal nounced. Harmanpreet 497 for eight declared on the by over and run by run, the pavilion, there were still regions. When the slow bow­ price for playing away from b Sarvate 29, Akshay Wadkar b Kaur will lead Indian T20 Unadkat 6, Dharmendrasinh Ja­ second day of the fourth Smith drained away its self­ a smattering of now tire­ lers came on, the 23­year­old his body, edging one from squad for the first three deja c&b Avesh 15, Mayank Mar­ Test at Old Trafford. belief. His 145­run sixth­ some boos from England either danced down the Ankit Rajpoot. kande (not out) 76, Rajesh Mo­ matches in the six­match England lost opener Joe wicket stand with captain fans, recalling his 12­month track or went deep into the Karun — who has scores of hanty c Kishan b Unadkat 0, series. Denly for four, brilliantly Tim Paine (58) and Mitchell ban for his role in a ball­tam­ crease. 99, 166 n.o. and 90 in his last Tanveer Ul­Haq b Warrier 18, The team was named by caught by Matthew Wade at Starc’s blistering unbeaten pering affair, but most at Old After reaching his 13th three innings — committed Ankit Rajpoot c Sarvate b Avesh the All­India Women’s Selec­ short leg after he fended off 54 put Australia firmly in Trafford stood in apprecia­ First Class century, Abhima­ himself too early to pull leg­ 39; Extras (nb­1, b­4, lb­1): 6; tion Committee, after a a rising delivery from Pat control. tion. nyu reached into his pocket spinner Mayank Markande Total (in 72.1 overs): 231. meeting at the Cricket Cummins, to leave it strug­ and took out a ‘Rakhi’ and lost his stumps. Fall of wickets: 1­19, 2­53, 3­ Centre. Mithali Raj. * AP gling on 23 for one at the thread. “That was dedicated Earlier, fighting knocks 54, 4­65, 5­92, 6­99, 7­107, 8­ Harmanpreet will be SCOREBOARD mah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet close. to my sister, Pallavi,” Easwa­ from Markande (76 n.o.), 112, 9­172. Mithali’s deputy in the ODIs, Kaur, Punam Raut, Smriti India Red bowling: Unadkat But the day, in which Aus­ Australia — 1st innings: Marcus 387, 8­438. ran said. Tanveer Ul­Haq (18) and Raj­ while Srmiti Mandana is the Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Ta­ 24­2­83­4, Warrier 17­3­39­2, tralia smelt again the chance Harris lbw b Broad 13, David England bowling: Broad 25­2­ Abhimanyu explained poot (30) rescued India vice­captain for the T20s. niya Bhatia (wk), Jhulan Gos­ Avesh 16.1­1­56­2, Sarvate 11­1­ of retaining the Ashes, was Warner c Bairstow b Broad 0, 97­3, Archer 27­3­97­0, Stokes that he once suffered from Green. Resuming on 147 for The five T20Is in the wami, Shikha Pandey, Mansi 30­1, Wakhare 4­0­18­0. all about Smith and the the Marnus Labuschagne b Overton 10.5­0­66­0, Leach 26.1­3­ throwing away good starts, eight, India Green was in se­ Paytm series against the tou­ Joshi, Ekta Bisht, Poonam Ya­ India Red — 2nd innings: Pri­ 30­year­old’s fine demon­ 67, Steve Smith c Denly b Root 83­2, Overton 28­3­85­2, until he sought help. “I had a rious danger of being bow­ rists will be played under dav, D. Hemalatha, Rajeshwari yank Panchal c Wadkar b Raj­ stration of the art of Test bat­ 211, Travis Head lbw b Broad 19, Denly 3­1­8­0, Root 6­0­39­1. chat with (India­A coach) Ra­ led out cheaply, but the trio lights in Surat, while the 50­ Gayakwad and Priya Punia Matthew Wade c Root b Leach England — 1st innings: Rory poot 33, Abhimanyu Easwaran T20 squad (first three games): ting even as he enjoyed good hul Dravid sir and my coach took the total to 231. (batting) 102, Karun Nair b Mar­ over format will be day fortune. 16, Tim Paine c Bairstow b Burns (batting) 15, Joe Denly c Apurva Desai. We decided Markande and Tanveer games in Vadodara. The Harmanpreet Kaur (Capt.), Overton 58, Pat Cummins c Wade b Cummins 4, Craig Over­ kande 20, Ankit Kalsi (batting) Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Ro­ that I needed to focus on the added 60 for the ninth wick­ home series will start with Stokes b Leach 4, Mitchell Starc ton (batting) 3; Extras (nb­1): 1; 11; Extras (nb­7, w­2): 9; Total drigues, Deepti Sharma, Taniya Reprieves present. et before Tanveer was (not out) 54, Nathan Lyon (not Total (for one wkt. in 10 overs): (for two wkts. in 52 overs): 175. T20 games in Surat, starting Bhatia (wk), Poonam Yadav, Having made his third centu­ out) 26; Extras (b­8, lb­14, w­3, 23. “Earlier, if I was on 60, I cleaned up by a perfect in­ Fall of wickets: 1­87, 2­126. September 24. The ODI Shikha Pandey, Arundhati Red­ ry of the series, Smith was nb­4): 29; Total (for eight wkts. Fall of wicket: 1­10. would try to dominate and swinging yorker from San­ India Red bowling: Tanveer 12­ games in Vadodara, will dy, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Ya­ on 118 when he was caught decl. in 126 overs) 497. Australia bowling: Starc 2­2­ get out. deep Warrier. Rajpoot used 2­35­0, Rajpoot 12­1­38­1, Mo­ start from October 9. dav, Veda Krishnamurthy, Har­ by Ben Stokes off left­arm Fall of wickets: 1­1, 2­28, 3­ 0­0, Hazlewood 4­1­3­0, Cum­ “It is important to stay fo­ the long handle to great ef­ hanty 9­0­43­0, Jadeja 9­0­ The Indian women’s squads: leen Deol, Anuja Patil, Shafali spinner Jack Leach. Unfortu­ 144, 4­183, 5­224, 6­369, 7­ mins 3­0­10­1, Lyon 1­0­10­0. cused on the present and fect, while Markande fluent­ 35­0, Markande 10­1­24­1. ODIs: Mithali Raj (Capt.), Jemi­ Verma and Mansi Joshi.

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WC QUALIFIER game, a hopeful long ball <> We’re very sad, found Ashique Kuruniyan, deserved more from Anirudh Velmuri who ran down the left­wing this game. We could and crossed into the box. GUWAHATI have scored many in With Sunil Chhetri nowhere the first half and Two late goals, aided by de­ close, the Oman defence finished the game fensive errors, saw Oman cleared with little pressure. before the break come from behind to take all A minute later, Ali Al Bu­ Igor Stimac three points against India in saidi’s chip found Abdulaziz India’s chief coach the first Group­E FIFA World Al Maqbali in the box but his Cup qualifying match at the left­foot shot on the turn was the King’s Cup and Intercon­ Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadi­ palmed away by Gurpreet tinental Cup were back um on Thursday. Singh Sandhu. again. At home and in front of a At the quarter­hour mark, Moshin Al Khalid’s pass boisterous crowd, India the ball fell to Chhetri after found the Indian defence upped the ante and stayed in the Oman goalkeeper made stranded. Al­Mandhar Al Ala­ control for most of the first an error from his goal kick. wi brought down the ball, half. With the keeper off his line, Bitter­sweet: Indian skipper Sunil Chhetri racked up yet saw Gurpreet come off his Chhetri found Udanta on the another international goal but it was Oman that came away line and chipped it into an Good midfield pivot right but, after skipping a with full points. * RITU RAJ KONWAR empty net. The midfield pivot of Ani­ challenge, he saw his shot On the 90th minute mark, rudh Thapa and Rowllin bounce off the bar and away tor’s right­back Abdulaziz Al done to save that. Al Alawi ran down the left­ Borges was at the centre of from any waiting teammate. Gheilani once again, was In the second half, India wing and danced his way everything good India did. Minutes later, Ashique ran promptly brought down and was happy to defend and past Rahul Bheke to fire in a They stayed in continuous behind the Oman defence a yellow card followed. hold onto the lead, which is curler into the top corner. communication with the de­ once again. With the ’keeper From the freekick, Chhe­ always a wrong move with India has little time to re­ fence when India was on the running to the edge of the tri ran out of the crowd in the more than a half left. And group before taking on Qatar backfoot and in telepathic box, he chipped in a cross box, latched onto Brandon’s when the equaliser came, it on September 10. Coming good: Puneri Paltan’s Manjeet, second from left, who scored 10 points, in action understanding with the for­ but found no takers. pass and smacked a left­foot wasn’t a surprise. The result: India 1 (Sunil Chhetri during the 33­33 tie against U Mumba in the Pro Kabaddi League in Bengaluru on Thursday. wards when on the ball. Twenty­four minutes in, shot into the goal. There was The defensive mistakes 24) lost to Oman 2 (Al­Mandhar * K. MURALI KUMAR Five minutes into the Ashique attacked the visi­ nothing the keeper could’ve that hounded India during Al Alawi 82, 90). CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

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