22 Monday, January 23, 2017 SPORTS SPORTS Monday, January 23, 2017 23 Gunners Juventus umble late show hLazio 2-0 breakbreak Melbourne Results orld number ones Andy Men’s singles -3rd rd Juventus’ forward Gonzalo Higuain from Argentina (L) WMurray and 4th rd tries to score Mischa Zverev (GER) bt Andy Murray (GBR x1) 7-5, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 Angelique Kerber Stan Wawrinka (SUI x4) bt Andreas Seppi (ITA) 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/4), both crashed out of 7-6 (7/4) Milan late game. the Australian Open Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) bt Daniel Evans (GBR) 6-7 (4/7), 6-2, 6-4, Burnley aulo Dybala hit a fifth- Napoli sit third, also at on a day of major 6-4 Burnley Roger Federer (SUI) bt Kei Nishikori (JPN) 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 minute opener and four points off the pace, upsets yesterday, PGonzalo Higuain added a following a 2-1 win at AC as Roger Federer quick second as Juventus Milan on Saturday that fought his way closer Women’s singles- 3rd rd humbled Lazio 2-0 left the Rossoneri fifth, 11 to an 18th Grand Slam 4th rd yesterday to restore their points behind Juventus. title. Venus Williams (USA x13) bt Mona Barthel (GER) 6-3, 7-5 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS x24) bt Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS four-point lead over Roma. Left smarting by a 2-1 Murray was stunned by x8) 6-3, 6-3 Despite a poor record defeat at Fiorentina last 50th-ranked serve-and-volley Garbine Muguruza (ESP x7) bt Sorana Cirstea (ROM) 6-2, 6-3 against the Turin giants in week, Allegri rested key specialist Mischa Zverev in four Coco Vandeweghe (USA) bt Angelique Kerber (GER) 6-2, 6-3 heartsheartsreckless challenge on Steven Defour. recent years, Lazio travelled defender sets before Kerber, the women’s London Victory saw Arsenal leapfrog both to Turin looking to end and although wingback title-holder, tamely succumbed en-man Arsenal went second in the Liverpool, beaten 3-2 by Swansea on the champions’ Dani Alves returned from 6-2, 6-3 to Coco Vandeweghe. after a six-month injury lay-off, said the will play France’s Premier League with a stunning 2-1 Saturday, and Tottenham Hotspur, held to 26-match unbeaten league injury the former Barcelona The unpredictable results, hard-fought, fourth-round win could be Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, winT over Burnley at the Emirates Stadium a 2-2 draw by Manchester City, in the table. run at home. star was only fit enough for following six-time champion significant as he now eyes a quarter-final who came from a set yesterday that saw both sides score But Chelsea will end the weekend eight But Juve coach a place on the bench. Novak Djokovic’s stunning loss with Zverev. down to beat British penalties in stoppage-time. points clear of their London rivals if they On Juve’s first real in the second round, opened the “This is a huge moment for me in my surprise package Dan Arsenal were 1-0 up courtesy beat relegation-threatened Hull in Sunday’s overcame a number of chance, Mario Mandzukic door to a host of challengers -- career,” Federer said. Evans. of Shkodran Mustafi’s first goal late match. enforced absences to send nodded the ball into the with Federer leading the charge. Murray had been the hot favourite Kerber’s maiden for the club when, in the third There was a boost for the Blues at out a reshuffled side that path of Dybala for the The 35-year-old Swiss after Djokovic’s shock exit, but the Briton Grand Slam title of seven minutes of time Stamford Bridge with the return to their should have finished with Argentinian to send a won the last of his lost 7-5, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 to Germany’s defence, and first added on by referee Jon starting XI of striker Diego Costa. a far more generous tally, delightfully-hit volley with record 17 Zverev to extend his wait for a first major tournament Moss, Burnley’s Ashley The Brazil-born Spain striker, Chelsea’s Higuain, his 87th minute the outside of his boot past Slam Melbourne title. as world number Barnes was fouled inside top scorer this season with 14 goals, missed replacement Mark Pjaca, Federico Marchetti and into Zverev, a former junior rival of one, ended poorly as the area by Francis last weekend’s 3-0 win at Leicester City due and several other players the far bottom corner. Murray’s, stretched to a series of elastic she came off distinctly Britain’s Andy Murray Coquelin. to a back complaint. spurning scoring chances in Lazio were stunned volleys to frustrate the Scot, coming to second-best to the aggressive reacts after a point Andre Gray, a But he was reported to have had a a fairly one-sided encounter. again barely 10 minutes the net 118 times as he reached his first Vandeweghe. against Germany’s childhood Arsenal training-ground row with fitness coach Juve’s 16th win of the later, although the visitors’ titles major quarter-final. In the quarter-finals, Mischa Zverev fan, slammed the Julio Tous, amid speculation he had been campaign leaves Allegri’s defence allowed Higuain to in 2012, but Mean while Stan Wawrinka, who won Vandeweghe faces French Germany’s spot-kick down the subject of a mega-money offer from men four points ahead of run in unchecked to meet he took full advantage the first of his three Grand Slam titles in Open champion Garbine Angelique the middle, with Chinese club Tianjin Quanjian. Roma, who can reduce the Juan Cuadrado’s delivery of Murray’s demise with a 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, Melbourne in 2014, Muguruza, who swamped Romania’s Kerber reacts Petr Cech unable Costa replaced Willian in the only change gap to a point with a win from the right flank on 17 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 win over Kei Nishikori. came through 7-6 (7/2), Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 6-3. Earlier Venus while playing to prevent the made by Chelsea manager . over Cagliari in Sunday’s minutes. (AFP) Federer, who looks back to full fitness 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/4) Williams also became against Coco equaliser despite Earlier, Southampton marked their first against Italy’s one of the first Vandeweghe getting a hand to the ball. match since former captain Jose Fonte’s Italy’s Serie A on Sunday: Andreas Seppi. into the last of the US But that was not the end of the £8 million ($9.9 , 9.2 million euros) move The eight when drama. to West Ham on Friday by ending a run of Juventus 2 Lazio 0 formidable she beat When Arsenal pumped the ball into four straight league defeats with a 3-0 win (Dybala 5, Higuain 17) Swiss, now German the box with virtually the last attack of the at home to struggling champions Leicester. Empoli 1 Udinese 0 into his qualifier game, Laurent Koscielny was caught by a The Saints were 2-0 up before the break (Mchedlidze 82) fourth Mona high foot from Ben Mee as he attempted at St Mary’s thanks to goals from James Bologna 2 Torino 0 Australian Barthel to head in. Ward-Prowse and Jay Rodriguez before (Dzemaili 43, 83) Open 6-3, 7-5. quarter- (AFP) Moss, amid suggestions Koscielny was Dusan Tadic’s penalty four minutes from Palermo 0 Inter Milan 1 marginally offside, again pointed to the spot time completed a comfortable win. final, (Mario 65) and Alexis Sanchez, showing remarkable Victory was just the boost south coast cool in the circumstances, chipped rather side Southampton, now 11th in the table, Pescara 1 Sassuolo 3 than fired a penalty down the middle. needed ahead of their League Cup semi- (Bahebeck 56) (Matri 1, 73, Pellegrini 65) Arsenal’s Chilean striker Arsenal had to play the final 25 minutes final second leg clash against Liverpool on Genoa 2 Crotone 2 Alexis Sanchez celebrates down to 10 men after midfielder Granit Wednesday, with the Saints taking a 1-0 (Simeone 43, Ocampos 66-pen) (Ceccherini 54, Ferrari 74) after scoring Xhaka was shown a straight red card for a lead to Anfield. Meanwhile Leicester manager Playing later Claudio Ranieri blamed himself for Atalanta v Sampdoria (1700), English Premier League results on Sunday: the Foxes’ latest loss and promised to Roma v Cagliari (1945) Coco Arsenal 2 Burnley 1 revert to the formation that proved so Vandeweghe (Mustafi 59, Sanchez 90+7-pen) (Gray 90+3-pen) successful for the Foxes during their Saturday of the US cel- Southampton 3 Leicester 0 shock title triumph last season. Chievo 0 Fiorentina 3 Roger Federer celebrates ebrates her (Ward-Prowse 26, Rodriguez 39,Tadic 86-pen) “The players are used to 4-4-1-1 AC Milan 1 Napoli 2 his victory victory Chelsea v Hull () and know the positions but I made a mistake,” he said. (AFP)