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NEW YORK: Australian warhorse Lleyton pion and a great fighter,” said the big vived a first-set wobble before racing Hewitt battled to a five-set US Open win Argentine. away with 12 of the last 14 games to Argentine sixth seed Juan Martin Hewitt, playing in his 13th US Open defeat Germany’s Benjamin Becker 7-6 Del Potro Friday, relegating Andy after having made his debut in 1999, hit (7/2), 6-2, 6-2 after saving two set points Murray, Novak Djokovic and Serena 42 winners, one more than del Potro, in the 10th game of the opener. Williams to supporting roles. who committed 70 unforced errors, a Djokovic, bidding to reach the final The 2001 champion defeated the bleak statistic which eased the impact of for a fourth successive year, sent down 2009 winner, 6-4, 5-7, 3-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-1 in the Australian only converting eight of 13 aces and 40 winners against the 32- the tournament’s biggest shock to date. 18 break point chances. year-old Becker. Hewitt, 32 years old and down at 66 in Hewitt’s pyrotechnics overshadowed “Becker is a quality player and he the rankings after a lengthy battle with the progress into the third round of should have won the first set. I was for- injuries, served up a trademark warrior- defending champion Murray and world tunate to come out of it, but after that I like performance that recalled his gold- number one Djokovic, as well as felt more comfortable on the court,” said Djokovic, who next plays Portugal’s Joao Sousa. Czech fifth seed Tomas Berdych, who defeated Roger Federer on his way to the semi-finals last year, made the third round by seeing off America’s Denis Kudla 7-6 (7/3), 7-6 (7/3), 6-3. He next meets French 31st seed Julien Benneteau. In the women’s event, four-time champion Williams eased past Russian- born Kazkhastan player Yaroslava Shvedova, 6-3, 6-1. Williams, who has dropped just eight games in three rounds, is chasing a 17th Grand Slam title and next plays compa- triot Sloane Stephens, who beat her in the Australian Open quarter-finals in January. Competitor performs at the Red Bull Olabillop in Bergen, Norway. —www.redbullcontentpool.com Chinese fifth seed Li Na hit 11 aces in a 6-2, 7-5 victory against teenager Laura Robson, avenging her loss to the Briton NEW YORK: Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina celebrates a point at the same stage last year. against Lleyton Hewitt of Australia during their men’s singles third The 31-year-old Li goes on to face round match on Day Five of the 2013 US Open. —AFP Serbian ninth seed Jelena Jankovic, the England level T20 series 2008 runner-up, for a quarter-final spot. en days when he was world number one women’s champion Williams, who made “I was really happy how I was hitting on CHESTER-LE-STREET: ’s 94 pro- and Wimbledon champion. the last 16. Murray, the third seed and the court,” Li said. “And I thought I served vided the platform for England’s 27-run It was his 32nd career five-set victory Wimbledon champion, survived his first really well.” Li’s best US Open perform- win against Australia in the second and gave him a third-round match-up scare of the US Open, beating ance was a run to the quarter-finals in international yesterday as the with Russia’s Evgeny Donskoy, the world Argentina’s world number 81 Leonardo 2009, one round better than Polish third two-match series ended all square at 1-1. number 102. Mayer, 7-5, 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 and goes on to seed Agnieszka Radwanska, who has Australia, set 196 for victory, finished on “I was really pumped up after I won tackle Germany’s Florian Mayer for a last- stumbled at the fourth-round stage on 168 for nine at Chester-le-Street with my first match because I knew I would 16 spot. three occasions. The 2012 Wimbledon opener Aaron Finch-who made a have a chance to play on Arthur Ashe Murray fired 28 winners while the runner-up made the last 16 once again record 156 in the Stadium,” said Hewitt after his four-hour, Argentine hit 49 unforced errors. “It was with a 6-4, 7-6 (7/1) win over Russian tourists’ 39-run win at Southampton on three-minute win. a very tough match,” Murray said of an 32nd seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, a Thursday-out for just five. “I don’t know how many years I have opponent who like him was born on quarter-finalist in 2011. David Warner top-scored for Australia left to play and I was hankering to get May 15, 1987. Radwanska now faces Ekaterina with 53 but they were rarely up with the out on this court again and put on a “Both of us ran a lot and it was very Makarova, the Russian 24th seed who rate as seamer Jade Dernbach took three show.” Del Potro, still bothered by a wrist humid. I’m just glad I was able to put it clinched a 6-4, 7-5 win over German for 23 runs in his maximum per- injury, was beaten in his second succes- together and pull it out in the fourth set.” 16th seed Sabine Lisicki, the Wimbledon mitted four overs. sive four-hour match. “He’s a great cham- Djokovic, the 2011 champion, sur- runner-up. —AFP Earlier, opening batsman Hales just failed again to become the first England batsman to score a Twenty20 interna- tional hundred as he took the hosts to Young American legacy of 195 for five. Pakistan-born leg-spinner , wicketless on debut at CHESTER LE STREET: Australia’s David Warner (right) bats as Williams sisters emerges Southampton, took his first international England’s looks on during the second 20Twenty interna- wickets to finish with three for 25. tional match. —AFP NEW YORK: The legacy of the championship years of the Williams needs to get quicker.” Man-of-the-match Hales, who made 99 Hales, off the last ball of the penulti- off-spinner Joe Root. sisters is beginning to emerge, with 10 American women now McEnroe said the sheer number of emerging talents was what in a Twenty20 international against the mate over, was by Warner, running Warner, one ball after being missed by ranked in the top 100 and members of the younger set beginning gave him such optimism for the future. “I don’t know if you can cre- West Indies last year, shared an opening in from long-on, off Faulkner to end a 61- , then holed out off Dernbach to knock on the door of grand slam success. ate a grand slam champion, but if you get the numbers then you stand of 111 with (43). ball knock featuring 11 fours and two sixes. to Hales, sweeping on the cover fence. Tennis great Chris Evert sees major hardware within reach, have that group effect and you have a better chance that the That equalled England’s It was the 24-year-old Hales’s sixth fifty And when Dernbach took two wickets while US Tennis Association chief of player development Patrick extraordinary ones will get to the top,” he said. best for any against Australia in a in 21 at this level. In contrast to the in two balls to dismiss Glenn Maxwell and McEnroe and US Fed Cup Mary Joe Fernandez agree that All three agreed that the current rise of US women was tied to T20 international, with Craig Kieswetter first innings, Australia lost early wickets Faulkner to leave Australia 148 for eight in US women’s tennis is once again very much on the rise. the impact made by Serena and Venus Williams, who have won a and having put on 111 for with Finch out to his fifth ball when he the 18th over, the match was all but over. On Friday, 20-year-old Sloane Stephens beat Jamie Hampton in total of 23 grand slam singles titles between them. the second wicket in England’s 2010 World top-edged a hook off Broad to Wright at England, who won the preceding a third-round US Open clash between Fed Cup team mates that “Seeing them dominating and the great lives they are having Twenty20 final win over their arch-rivals in mid-on. Ashes Test campaign 3-0, and Australia put a spotlight on American talent bursting to prominence. and the champions that they are, that inspires them to develop Barbados. “I was disappointed not to get a And when Watson, sent back by meet in their third format of the season “The ceiling is high. This is a great group, starting with Sloane, their game even more,” said Evert, pointing to the African American hundred after getting close, Lumby helped Warner, was run out by ’s when a five-match one-day international who has had the most success,” McEnroe, the former US Davis Cup girls among the crop like Stephens, Keys, Duval, Taylor Townsend me out at the start-he gets going quicker direct hit from backward point, Australia series starts in Leeds on Friday. captain, told Reuters at Flushing Meadows. and Sachia Vickery. than me,” said Hales at the presentation were 15 for two. However, both sides will be in one- Stephens won international attention this year with a quarter- “And it’s not just African Americans. The influence is starting to ceremony. Warner and Shaun Marsh repaired day international action on Tuesday, final upset of Serena at the Australia Open and followed that with a show.” McEnroe said there was no doubting the influence of the England Twenty20 captain Stuart some of the early damage with a stand with England away to Ireland in run to the quarter-finals at Wimbledon. Williams sisters. “We see a lot more diversity in girls’ tennis than in Broad added: “After losing the toss, the of 67 before the latter was bowled, Malahide and Australia facing Scotland Earlier this week, 17-year-old Victoria Duval shocked 2011 US boys. We need to work on that on the men’s side,” he said. guys adapted to the conditions really well. heaving across the line, by occasional in Edinburgh. —AFP Open champion Samantha Stosur in a first-round upset, while the “Absolutely seeing that this generation has been inspired by them.” It was great to keep wickets in hand as we likes of Madison Keys and Sachia Vickery are also showing promise. The Williams sisters followed a chain of US champions stretch- can set a good platform. “What I’m really pleased about is not only do we have girls right ing from Evert to naturalised Americans Martina Navratilova and “Jade has been fantastic in the last few SCOREBOARD behind Sloane like Keys and Sachia and Vickie Duval, but we have Monica Seles. games, we know in Twenty20 that it’s tak- girls behind them,” said McEnroe. But the possible successors to 31-year-old Serena and 33-year- ing wickets that slows the run-rate.” CHESTER-LE-STREET, England: Final scoreboard in the second Twenty20 inter- Evert, who like McEnroe and Fernandez is part of the ESPN old Venus have only just recently emerged. The last American Australia captain George Bailey said his national between England and Australia at Chester-le-Street yesterday: broadcast team at the year’s final grand slam, called the group women not named Williams to enjoy success at the four grand side hadn’t been at their best. “It was England A. Finch c Wright b Broad 5 “very promising”. slam tournaments respectively were Lindsay Davenport (1998 U.S. tough with the wind and we probably did- M. Lumb c Wade b Ahmed 43 S. Watson run out (Morgan) 7 “It is very encouraging to American tennis,” she told Reuters. Open and 1999 Wimbledon) and Jennifer Capriati (2001 French n’t nail our skills as well as we would have A. Hales c Warner b Faulkner 94 S. Marsh b Root 13 “This generation is emerging. In two years time we can see four or Open and 2002 Australian Open). liked,” he said. L. Wright c Johnson b Faulkner 30 G. Bailey lbw b Briggs 23 five young Americans in the top 20.” This new crop of talent grew up watching the Williams sisters. “We’ll take some good things out of E. Morgan c Coulter-Nile b Ahmed 20 G. Maxwell c Lumb b Dernbach 27 Evert, who won 18 grand slam singles titles, did not stop there, Serena won her first slam at the 1999 US Open and Venus followed this. Finch’s innings the other night was J. Buttler b Ahmed 0 M. Wade b Briggs 4 predicting major success around the corner. “I think Sloane can the next year at Wimbledon. fantastic, James Faulkner will continue to R. Bopara 1 J. Faulkner c Morgan b Dernbach 5 win a major in a few years. I think Madison Keys could win a major,” “They’ve been great role models on many levels,” said improve and to have a leg-spinner J. Root not out 1 M. Johnson not out 3 she added. Fernandez. “We’re finally getting to see the young ones who (Ahmed) is great in Twenty20.” Extras (lb5, nb1) 6 N. Coulter-Nile c Briggs b Finn 13 “It’s not like, ‘oh they’re nice players, they can make the top 20’. looked up to them 10, 15 years ago making a move now.” England ended the initial six-over pow- Total (5 wkts, 20 overs) 195 F. Ahmed not out 3 These young players have weapons. They are winning points, not Fernandez said the Williams sisters have been mentoring some erplay on 61 without loss off after a bliz- Fall of wickets: 1-111 (Lumb), 2-157 Extras (lb4, w7, nb1) 12 waiting to lose points from the veterans. They are being aggressive, of the youngsters. “I’ve had Venus and Serena on a few teams now,” zard of boundaries. Hales drove a straight (Wright), 3-187 (Hales), 4-187 (Buttler), 5- Total (9 wkts, 20 overs) 168 which I like.” she said. “They offer advice, they ask questions, they practice with six off Faulkner and left-hander Lumb 194 (Morgan) Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Finch), 2-15 (Watson), Fernandez, the US Fed Cup captain, also ranked Stephens as the girls.” Venus Williams, after losing her second-round match, was struck all-rounder Shane Watson high over Did not bat: S Broad, S Finn, D Briggs, J 3-82 (Marsh), 4-111 (Warner), 5-113 the leader of the pack - for now. “She’s shown how tough she is asked about the up-and-coming US girls. “I think that is definitely the long-on rope. Dernbach (Bailey), 6-123 (Wade), 7-148 (Maxwell), 8- under pressure, especially at the majors,” Fernandez told Reuters. something that makes me happy, to see young people doing posi- However, the first-wicket stand was : Johnson 4-0-32-0; Watson 2-0- 48 (Faulkner), 9-162 “She beat Serena and Maria (Sharapova) this year. She’s got the tive things with their life,” she said. “I love seeing young girls come broken when Lumb top-edged a sweep 24-0; Coulter-Nile 4-0-47-0 (1nb); Faulkner (Coulter-Nile) complete package. through. off Ahmed and was caught behind by 4-0-37-2 (1nb); Ahmed 4-0-25-3; Maxwell Bowling: Finn 4-0-30-1 (1w); Broad 3-0- “She’s got the speed, got the power. She comes forward well, “Tennis has done so much for me and my life and my family. wicketkeeper Matthew Wade. 2-0-25-0; 27-1; Dernbach 4-0-23-3 (1nb, 2w); Briggs when she wants to. She still has a lot of room to improve.” What I do on the court has been able to touch a lot of people. added a quickfire 30 3-0-25-2 (1w); Root 3-0-25-1 (1w); Bopara Fernandez cautioned about short-changing 18-year-old Keys. “It makes me motivated to do more, and also makes me happy before he was well caught by a leaping Australia 3-0-34-0 (2w) “Madison Keys seems to have a ton of potential because she’s pow- that a whole new set of people and demographics all over the Mitchell Johnson at mid-off after driving a D. Warner c Hales b Dernbach 53 : England won by 27 runs erful, has a huge serve, really belts the ball from the ground. She world are being introduced to this game.” —Reuters Faulkner full-toss. SCOREBOARD Misbah leads Pakistan to ODI series victory

Scoreboard from the third one-day international between Zimbabwe and Pakistan at HARARE: Captain Misbah-ul-Haq scored a overs and if we could score 250 or more that Harare Sports Club yesterday. steady half- and effected two crucial could be really defendable on this pitch.” Pakistan innings Rehman 25 run-outs as Pakistan clinched the one-day While Shehzad contributed 54, Umar series against Zimbabwe with a sizeable win Amin was crucial in adding momentum to c Taylor b Chatara 38 V. Sibanda c Umar Amin b M Hafeez 2 in yesterday’s third and final match. Misbah’s the innings as he struck a brisk 33, while A Shehzad c Sikandar Raza b H. Masakadza54 B. Taylor run out 26 not out 26 67 proved to be the top score in the game as Sarfraz Ahmed and the returning Hafeez Sikandar Raza lbw b Mohammad Hafeez 6 Pakistan posted a total of 260 for six, before also weighed in during a late flurry that lift- Misbah c Sikandar Raza b S. Masakadza 67 S. Williams run out 2 bowling Zimbabwe out in 40 overs to win by ed Pakistan to a solid score. Umar Amin c & b Utseya 33 M. Waller c b 48 108 runs and complete a 2-1 series victory. Zimbabwe’s reply never really got going, c Taylor b Chatara 7 The series decider had been cast into and was hampered by run-outs to key bats- Sarfraz Ahmed c Taylor b Chatara 22 E. Chigumbura lbw b Shahid Afridi 2 P. Utseya run out 23 doubt after Zimbabwe’s players threatened men. Captain made a prom- Abdur Rehman not out 0 to boycott the match over unpaid salaries ising 26 before Misbah’s direct hit accounted Extras (lb-2, w-11) 13 S. Masakadza b Saeed Ajmal 0 and match fees, but the home side took the for his opposite number, while Sean Williams Totals (for six wickets, 50 overs) 260 T. Panyangara c & b Abdur Rehman 1 field after setting a new ultimatum for the was also dismissed by the Pakistani skipper. Fall of wickets: 1-66 2-119 3-170 4-195 5- T. Chatara not out 1 first Test on Tuesday. For a side with off-field After Zimbabwe had collapsed to 87 for six 243 6-251 Extras (lb-3, w-13) 16 distractions, the Zimbabweans started sur- in the 23rd over, Malcolm Waller and Prosper Did not bat: Saeed Ajmal, , Total (all out, 40 overs) 152 prisingly well in the field after Brendan Utseya put on 58 for the next wicket before Fall of wickets: 1-12 2-46 3-66 4-68 5-75 6-87 7- Taylor had won the toss and asked Pakistan the latter was run out in a mix-up. Bowling: T. Panyangara 10-1-62-0 (w1), S. to bat on a slow surface. The tourists made a ZIMBABWE: Pakistan captain Misbah Ul Haq and teammates pose Waller was the last man out for 48 when 145 8-146 9-149 10-152 Masakadza 10-1-65-1 (w4), P. Utseya 10-0-47-1 circumspect start with openers Ahmed with the series trophy after victory over Zimbabwe in the third and he got a leading edge off the bowling of (w1), T. Chatara 10-1-48-3 (w4), S. Williams 5-0- Bowling: Mohammad Irfan 6-0-20-0 (w3), Shehzad and Nasir Jamshed putting on 66 final one-day international at the Harare Sports Club. —AFP Saeed Ajmal, as Zimbabwe were bowled out 27-0, H. Masakadza 5-1-9-1 Mohammad Hafeez 9-0-40-2, Junaid Khan 4-1- for the first wicket at a sluggish pace, and for 152. “We were definitely up for it today 22-0, Abdur Rehman 8-0-23-2, Shahid Afridi 6- the innings became stilted when Jamshed overly cautious in just 16 from his struggling because the ball wasn’t coming and we restricted them to a total that we felt Zimbabwe innings 1-29-1 (w2), Saeed Ajmal 7-1-15-2. departed and Mohammad Hafeez was first 45 deliveries, the tactic was vindicated onto the bat,” said Misbah. “There was a bit comfortable chasing, but there was maybe a as the stability it provided allowed Pakistan of inconsistent bounce and inconsistent H. Masakadza st Sarfraz Ahmed b Abdur Pakistan won by 108 runs. forced to retire hurt soon after. bit of panic there when it was time to chase Although Misbah at one stage appeared to score 120 in the final 13 overs. “I was really pace, so I just made sure we played all 50 it down,” Taylor said. —AFP