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Saifeldin, Ibrahim Win Gold for Qatar in Japan SPORT Saturday 9 June 2018 PAGE | 18 PAGE | 19 Bad boys of Australia novices Football excite Finch ahead World Cup of World Cup Saifeldin, Ibrahim win gold for Qatar in Japan CHINTHANA WASALA competition. Saifeldin made it to yester- add another medal to his name when THE PENINSULA day’s final after easily outplaying all his he competes in the 3000 metres steeple opponents in the heats on the opening chase final at the Nagaragawa Stadium. GIFU, JAPAN: Middle distance runner day of the Championship, clocking a There will be high hopes for another Saife Saifeldin and shot putter Moaaz time of 3:38.99. medal or two for Qatar in the 110 metres Ibrahim won gold medals for Qatar during In the boys’ shot put final, Ibrahim hurdles final in which Saoud Abdulaziz the 18th Asian Junior Athletics Champi- won Qatar’s second medal of the day Al Humaidi and Owaab Barrow will take onship at Nagaragawa Stadium in Gifu, when he cleared a distance of 18.57 part. The duo is also expected to be part Japan yesterday. metres. It was also a new personal best of the Qatari team in the boys 4x100 Saifeldin cruised to victory in the boys’ for the Qatari youngster. meters final later on. 1,500 metres final, clocking a time of South Korea’s Jinseong Yeo made Awad Bassem Mohamed will compete 3:49.30 as home favourite Reito Hanzawa 18.25 metres to secure the silver medal in the first round of boys 400 metres finished second with a time of 3:49.66. while India’s Ashish Bhalothia, with a hurdles in the morning session. Iraq’s Hussein Lafta completed the top personal best of 18.22 metres, completed Salim Mohamed and Jaber Hilal Al Qatar’s Saife Saifeldin celebrates his win in the Boys’ 1500 metres final of the three with a time of 3:49.75 in the the podium. Mmamri will take part in the boys 200 18th Asian Junior Athletics Championship in Gifu, Japan yesterday. afternoon session of the second day of the Today, Saifeldin will be looking to metres heats. Nadal crushes Del Potro, sets up Thiem final AFP against just two losses after weathering impossible without hard work and going He suffered a worrying power cut in a big-hitting opening from 2009 US Open through tough moments. the second set, slipping to 5-0 down on PARIS: Ten-time champion Rafael Nadal winner Del Potro to win 6-4, 6-1, 6-2. “You have to be focussed and keep a double break, wasting his seventh reached his 11th French Open final In his 24th Grand Slam final, Nadal your passion for the game. I never break point out of seven on the way. yesterday when he demolished Juan will face Thiem who ended Marco Cecch- dreamed in 2005 when I played my first Nadal tightened his grip, going to Martin del Potro in straight sets, setting inato’s French Open fairytale, reaching final here that I would be in another 5-1 on another double break in the third up a title showdown with Dominic Thiem, his first major final with a 7-5, 7-6 one.” set and sealed the match when Del Potro the only man to defeat him on clay in the (12/10), 6-1 victory. Thiem is the only man to beat Nadal hit a backhand long. last two years. Seventh seed Thiem is the first Aus- on clay in the last two seasons -- in “I had a lot of break points. I couldn’t Nadal, a 16-time Grand Slam trian to make a final at the majors since Madrid this year and Rome in 2017. make it,” said Del Potro. champion, claimed his 85th win in Paris Thomas Muster was champion in Paris But the Spaniard was impressive on “Rafa served well and he made me in 1995. Friday, finishing with 35 winners and 19 run a lot. The intensity was too high the “It was a very difficult first set and unforced errors to Del Potro’s analysis whole match, and I couldn’t stay there. Juan Martin had lots of opportunities. of 20 and 32. He deserved to win.” He was a little unfortunate,” said Nadal “Thiem is an amazing player. He beat World 72 Cecchinato had knocked who reeled off 14 of the last 17 games, me in Madrid, he has big power so I have out three seeded players to reach the having seen Del Potro fail to convert any to be at my best and improve,” said semi-finals, including 12-time major of his seven break points. Nadal. winner Novak Djokovic in the Nadal is now just the “But I believe I will be ready for the quarter-finals. second man to reach 11 final.” But Thiem, 24, was too strong and finals at the same World number one Nadal went into now believes he has a particularly pow- Slam, equalling Friday’s clash with a 9-5 career record erful weapon on his side for the final Roger Federer’s against Del Potro, including all three -- breakfast. mark at meetings on clay. “I need to regenerate and have a Wimbledon. However, it was Del Potro who was good breakfast to keep up my good level. “It’s in the ascendancy in the rallies in the “Full power on Sunday.” first set. Thiem, who was playing in his third The fifth seed, playing in his first successive French Open semi-final, Roland Garros semi-final in nine years, admitted the second set had been a had three break points in the third game nervy encounter after needing five set and three more in the ninth. points to get through it. However, the 29-year-old was “The big key was the second set,” unable to capitalise and Nadal made him he said. pay in the 10th game when he claimed “It was a really close tiebreak and I the opener off a netted backhand. didn’t want that especially after I missed Del Potro had required the doctor an easy volley at 6/4. early in the first set after appearing to “That was not a nice feeling.” jar his ankle in the red clay. Cecchinato had never won a Grand Slam match before this year’s Roland Garros but made the semis with a string of stunning wins. FRENCH OPEN RESULTS He put out seeded players Pablo Carreno Busta and David Goffin before MEN the seismic shock of knocking out 2016 SEMI-FINALS champion Djokovic in the Rafael Nadal (ESP x1) bt Juan Martin del quarter-finals. Potro (ARG x5) 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 “Today, all day, on Philippe Chatrier, Dominic Thiem (AUT x7) bt Marco the fans said ‘Forza, Marco’, so I think Cecchinato (ITA) 7-5, 7-6 (12/10), 6-1 Spain’s Rafael Nadal in action during his 2018 French Open semi-final match against Argentina’s this is the best moment for me,” said Juan Martin Del Potro yesterday. Cecchinato. Verstappen tops Canada practice REUTERS qualifying, offered the promise of behind the Dutchman but in front Another Finn, Kimi Raikkonen, He got his first taste off whatwhat it something much better in Montreal, of the other Red Bull of Monaco was sixth for Ferrari in front of is like to take part in a Grandand Prix MONTREAL: Red Bull’s Max taking full advantage of an winner Australian Daniel Ricciardo. McLaren’s Fernando Alonso, who is weekend, sitting in for Sergiogio Perez Verstappen, under pressure to clean upgraded power unit to clock a pol- German former world champion entered in his landmark 300th Grand in the Force India for thethe firstfirst up his act after a string of crashes ished one minute, 13.302 seconds Sebastian Vettel was fourth Prix. The home crowd had very little practice. and costly errors, kept his nose around the 2.7 mile (4.34 km) sun- quickest as Ferrari also used to get excited about as Williams’ The 22-year-old, wasas 19th19th clean yesterday to clock the fastest splashed Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. opening practice to break in their Lance Stroll continued his struggles, fastest ahead of only NicoNico time in opening practice for the Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, upgraded engine. posting only the 18th best effort. Hulkenberg, who interruptedted Canadian Grand Prix. chasing a record equalling seventh Finland’s Valtteri Bottas was Right behind Stroll was fellow the session for nearly 15 Verstappen, who started from Canadian Grand Prix win, once fifth best in a Mercedes that will run Canadian Nicholas Latifi, whose minutes when his Renaultult the rear of grid at the Monaco again figured near the top of the with an old power unit that will be father recently purchased a 10 coasted to a stop with sus-s- Grand Prix after a crash in time sheets, just.088 seconds on its seventh race. percent stake in McLaren. pected gearbox problems.. Max Verstappen 18 SPORT SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 Rashford shines Bad boys of World Cup as England cruise AFP French midfielder Zinedine Zidane (left) past Costa Rica PARIS: From Luis Suarez’s teeth to gesturing after head- AFP Roy Keane storming out on the butting Italian defender Republic of Ireland and Toni Schu- Marco Materazzi during macher pole-axing Patrick Battiston the World Cup 2006 LEEDS: England manager Gareth Southgate in ‘82, here are 11 bad boys in World final at Berlin’s Olympic admitted Marcus Rashford had given him a Cup history: Stadium in this July 09, difficult decision to make ahead of the World 2006 file photo.
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