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Tiger's Name on Updated List for PGA Championship Tiger NBA | Page 6 FFORMULAORMULA OONE|NE Page 8 Dwayne Colliding To Advertise here Wade set Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 Mercedes to return to drivers free Chicago to race on Friday, July 8, 2016 CRICKET Shawwal 3, 1437 AH Anderson out of GULF TIMES England team for fi rst Test against Pakistan SPORT Page 11 TENNIS No sister act as Serena and Kerber set up title clash But her hopes of meeting Venus for the fifth time in a Wimbledon final and ninth time at a major were shattered when fourth seed Angelique Kerber, the Australian Open champion, saw off the 36-year-old 6-4, 6-4. AFP Yesterday’s contest saw Garbine Muguruza in Paris. London Serena race to a 4-0 lead Kerber saw off five-time in the fi rst set before champion Venus in 71 min- Germany’s Angelique Kerber Serena Williams serves to 29-year-old Vesnina got utes on Centre Court to celebrates beating Venus Russia’s Elena Vesnina during ix-time champion on the board. But the set reach her first All England Williams. their semi-final match at Serena Williams was over in 28 minutes Club title match. Wimbledon yesterday. stormed into her courtesy of Williams’s “Venus won so many S ninth Wimbledon seventh ace times here and was playing final in record time yes- really well. That’s why I’m terday and will meet An- had tough matches before so happy to reach my first gelique Kerber after the and I knew she could bring Wimbledon final,” Kerber German ended Venus Wil- it to me on this surface,” said. liams’s hopes of becoming said Williams, who has now “It’s a really good feel- the oldest woman in the ti- defeated the Russian five ing. I’m really enjoying tle match in 22 years. times in five meetings. my tennis life.” Kerber, 28, Serena, bidding for a Despite the painfully stunned Serena to win her seventh Wimbledon and one-sided semi-final, Ser- maiden Grand Slam crown an Open Era record-equal- ena, into her third Grand in the Australian Open fi- ling 22nd Grand Slam title, Slam final of the year, in- nal in January. took just 48mins 34sec, sisted it had been a tough Kerber can now set her the fastest ever semi-final workout. sights on becoming the at the All England Club, to “It’s never easy out first player to defeat both secure a 6-2, 6-0 win over there, every point you have of the American siblings in world number 50 Elena to fight for,” she said. the same Grand Slam since Vesnina. Vesnina, who was due Kim Clijsters at the 2009 But her hopes of meet- to face Serena again in the US Open. ing Venus for the fifth time women’s doubles later yes- If she can cause another in a Wimbledon final and terday, admitted she just upset against Serena, Ker- ninth time at a major were wasn’t good enough. ber would become the first shattered when fourth seed “I felt like I had no German woman to win Angelique Kerber, the Aus- chance. Serena was play- Wimbledon since Steffi tralian Open champion, ing really good. She was in Graf in 1996. saw off the 36-year-old a great mood, and her serve She has raced through 6-4, 6-4. was working really well. her six matches at Wim- Serena, playing in her She was placing it amaz- bledon without dropping a 32nd Grand Slam semi- ingly,” said the Russian. set, has a WTA tour-best final, blasted last-four “She was just better all 34 match wins in 2016 and debutant Vesnina off the over the court.” is guaranteed to rise to a sun-kissed Centre Court Yesterday’s contest career-high second in the in front of Prince William’s saw Serena race to a 4-0 world rankings next week. wife Kate watching from up lead in the first set before Venus had won all eight in the Royal Box. 29-year-old Vesnina got on of her previous Wimbledon The American fired 11 the board. But the set was semi-finals dating back 16 aces, 28 winners and com- over in 28 minutes courtesy years to her maiden ap- mitted just seven unforced of Williams’s seventh ace. pearance in the last four errors, breaking serve five The second set was when she defeated Serena. times to reach her 28th wrapped up in just 20 min- But in her first All Eng- Grand Slam final. utes with breaks in the land Club semi-final for Vesnina won just three first, third and fifth games. seven years, Venus — the points off the Williams Tomorrow’s final will oldest woman to make the serve in the first set and give Serena a chance to win last four since Martina none in the second. a first major of the season Navratilova in 1994 — was “I’m very happy. I was after losing to Kerber in unable to roll back the really focused today. We’ve the final in Melbourne and years one more time. BOTTOMLINE I’m scared for my life, says former champ Bartoli aft er being stricken by mystery virus AFP than tap water. playing days, said she will start a course of treat- London “I fear for my life. I worry that one day my ment at a clinic on Monday. “I want to go back heart will stop,” the 31-year-old told ITV’s This to a normal life. I have been reduced to eating Morning programme. organic salad leaves and pre-washed cucumber ormer Wimbledon winner Marion Bar- “This is not life. I am just surviving.” with no skin. toli said yesterday she fears for her life Bartoli said she probably picked up the virus “I cannot process protein. I just drink and after picking up a mystery virus which when fl ying between Australia, New York and drink and drink to get everything out.” Fhas caused dramatic weight loss. India in January and February this year. Bartoli said she respected the decision made The 2013 champion from France, who has She has since lost 20 kilos which has reduced by the Wimbledon doctors to withdraw her from shocked fans with her skeletal appearance, was her life to a “living nightmare”. the women’s invitational doubles at the All Eng- barred from playing in an invitational event at Bartoli said that after visiting Miami and Dal- land Club. Wimbledon this week after doctors expressed las in February to promote her fashion line, her “I was looking forward to it. I am happy when fears over her health. condition started to deteriorate. I am on court. Bartoli, 31, told a British daytime television “I felt worse and my body rejected more and “But the doctors told me that I couldn’t play show that the virus is so rare that medical ex- more things,” she said. because of my health. perts have no name for it. “I can’t type on the phone without gloves and “I understand that and respect the decision.” Insisting that she is not anorexic, Bartoli said Bartoli now (L) and in 2013 when she won the for no more than fi ve minutes as my heart will Bartoli’s decision to go public with her ill- she can only eat organic salad leaves and cu- Wimbledon title. start to pump faster. My life is a living night- ness was praised by world number one Serena cumbers without skins. mare. I don’t wish this on anyone but it is gradu- Williams.“I think it was great. I was really proud She added that she needs gloves when she severe electro-sensitivity. Bartoli also claims ally getting worse.” to hear she did say something,” said the Ameri- uses her mobile phone as the virus has caused that she has to wash with mineral water rather Bartoli, who was around 60kg during her can star. Gulf Times 2 Friday, July 8, 2016 EURO 2016 REVIEW Big-match Ron delivers ‘The team did a marvellous job to Ronaldo’s nine reach the final. I hope on Sunday Euro goals you’ll see me crying with joy’ PORTUGAL 1 GREECE 2, EURO ’04 Ronaldo’s first Portugal goal came in igno- Reuters ing in at the near post. minious circumstances as he headed home Lyon a corner deep into injury time as Portugal’s SPRINTED DEEP start to Euro 2004 on home soil got off to The best moment from Bale came the worst possible start with a shock 2-1 ove him loathe him, there is when, wide inside his own half, defeat to eventual champions Greece. no denying Cristiano Ron- he lured Danilo into an ill-advised aldo delivers when it mat- challenge, fl oated past him and PORTUGAL 2 NETHERLANDS 1, EURO ters most. then sprinted deep into Portuguese ’04 LJust over fi ve weeks after he territory before unleashing a low A second, almost carbon copy, header from struck the decisive penalty shoot- drive that was, however, too close to a Deco corner followed to spark scenes of out kick to win the Champions keeper Rui Patricio. joy on Ronaldo’s return to Lisbon’s Jose League fi nal for Real Madrid against But it was Ronaldo who delivered Alvalade — where he started his career city rivals Atletico, Ronaldo scored the killer blows. with Sporting Lisbon — with the opening one goal and created another to After the two goals, Bale began to goal as Portugal reached their first ever send Portugal into the Euro 2016 drift deeper, searching for the ball major final.
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