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ARAB TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2021 16 Japan’s Kei Nishikori plays a return to Aus- tralia’s Alexei Popyrin during the men’s singles fi rst round match on day three of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London. Nishikori beat Popyrin 6-4,6-4,6-4. (AP) – See Page 15 Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com Hawks rout Bucks, even East finals Giannis goes down, Young sidelined by unusual injury ATLANTA, June 30, (AP): The Atlanta Hawks proved they are more than a one- man team. Now, it’s the Milwaukee Bucks who may have to show they can get by without the Greek Freak. With Trae Young sidelined by an unusual injury, Lou Williams and a host of Hawks stepped up to fi ll the void, leading Atlanta to a 110-88 rout of the Bucks in Game 4 to even the Eastern Conference fi nals Tues- day night. “A total team effort,” Hawks coach Nate McMillan said. In another stunning twist to a series no one saw com- ing, two-time MVP Giannis Williams Antetokounm- po hobbled off the court with an injured left knee, depriving the Bucks of their best player. “We’ll see how he is tomorrow,” coach Mike Budenholzer said. “We’ll take everything as it comes. We’ll evaluate it. We’ve got a heck of a team, a heck of a roster.” Wil- liams started for Young and did a stellar job with 21 points, Bogdan Bogdanovic added 20 to break a Sweden’s Albin Ekdal, (left), and Ukraine’s Roman Yaremchuk head the ball during the Euro 2020 soccer championship round of 16 match between Sweden and Ukraine at the Hampden series-long slump, and the Hawks Park Stadium in Glasgow. (AP) pulled away in the third quarter to tie the series at two wins apiece. Game 5 is Thursday night in Mil- It’s a very bitter defeat: Sweden coach waukee. BASKETBALL Dovbyk the hero as Ukraine reach last 8 It’s not known if Young or Ante- GLASGOW, Scotland, June 30, (AP): Ukraine had in the 98th minute for following through on a challenge tokounmpo will be able to play. reached the round of 16 at the European Championship with a raised boot on substitute Artem Besedin. Williams, long one of the NBA’s with two losses and the worst record of the advancing The game lost all rhythm and fl ow in scrappy extra best players off the bench, will be teams. time periods littered with fouls, injuries and an argument ready to start again for the Hawks, And now the quarterfi nals, too. between the two coaches. if needed. Ukraine eliminated previously unbeaten Sweden 2-1 “It was a really hard game,” Shevchenko said. “Eve- “I knew about an hour before this with a goal in stoppage time at the end of extra time from ryone understood that the prize at the end was great. We game that I was going to start, when a player who was left on the bench for the entire group needed to be strong and the players showed it today.” they said Trae was out, so I just had stage. Substitute Artem Dovbyk Andersson said he confronted Shevchenko because “I to refocus my energy, put on a differ- stooped low to guide a header from felt like they were diving a bit toward the end.” ent hat and get ready for the game,” Oleksandr Zinchenko’s cross past Just to get to Glasgow, the Ukrainians had needed a fa- Williams said, Young was declared goalkeeper Robin Olsen. vor from Sweden to advance because they lost two group out about 45 minutes before tipoff, It was the 24-year-old forward’s games and had a negative goal difference. After losing having sustained a bone bruise when fi rst goal for the national team. to Austria last week, Ukraine would have been out if Po- Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar crosses the finish line of the fifth stage of he twisted his right ankle stepping the Tour de France cycling race, an individual time-trial over 27.2 Ukraine coach Andriy Shevchen- land had beaten Sweden two days later. Sweden won that kilometers (16.9 miles) with start in Change and finish in Laval Es- on an offi cial’s foot along the side- ko, ran down the sideline to cel- line in Game 3. He watched from the pace Mayenne, France. (AP) ebrate with his players, who will SOCCER bench in a black warmup suit, barely now head to Rome to face England noticeable with a hood over his head on Saturday. Van der Poel leads and a mask across his face. Zinchenko also scored on a day Dovbyk game 3-2 with Forsberg scoring twice. Turns out, he wasn’t needed. when his Manchester City team- Neither team had ever won a knockout game at a Euro- “Everybody played with confi - mate Raheem Sterling got one in England’s 2-0 win over pean Championship in a combined eight previous tourna- dence. Everybody played at a high Germany. Zinchenko gave Ukraine the lead in the 27th ments. Both often-cautious teams played more freely in a Pogacar ‘dominates’ rivals level,” Williams said “Going back minute when he rifl ed in a low shot set up by a crafty pass wide-open 90 minutes, trying to seize a chance for a deep to Milwaukee, we’re going to have from captain Andriy Yarmolenko. run in the arguably weaker half of the draw. to bottle it up and take it with us.” Emil Forsberg’s defl ected shot from outside the area in The winners between Ukraine and England will play in Tour de France time trial Antetokounmpo endured a dismal the 43rd minute equalized for Sweden. It was his fourth Denmark or Czech Republic in the semifi nals. fi rst half, scoring just six points and goal at Euro 2020, but a tournament lead-tying fi fth elud- Ukraine’s key creator had been Yarmolenko, who LAVAL, France June 30(AP: De- finale and covered the route in 32 chunking up a pair of airballs from ed him in the second half despite curling shots off the plays in England for West Ham. To set up Zinchenko’s fending champion Tadej Pogacar minutes, at an average speed of 51 the free-throw line. He bounced back post and the crossbar. goal, Yarmolenko used the outside of his favored left foot powered to victory in Wednes- kph (32 mph). with eight points in the fi rst 4 1/2 “It’s a very bitter defeat,” Sweden coach Janne An- to drift a curling pass across seven defenders toward their day’s time trial at the Tour de The UAE Team Emirates rider minutes of the third quarter, includ- France to assert himself as the became the second-youngest win- dersson said. “In the second half we had four really great blind side in the penalty area. odds-on favorite at the three-week ner of the Tour de France last year ing a step-back jumper that sliced chances. It felt like we would score eventually.” Yarmolenko looked exhausted long before he was tak- Atlanta’s lead to 62-54. race. after snatching the yellow jersey Andersson cited the momentum shift in extra time en off for the fi nal period of extra time - making way for Pogacar lagged 39 seconds be- in a high-drama time trial on the The next time down the court, when Sweden defender Marcus Danielson was sent off Dovbyk to come on. Williams worked a pick-and-roll hind leader Mathieu van der Poel eve of the finish in Paris. He be- with Clint Capela, who went up for at the start of Stage 5 in the west- came the first rider Wednesday to a dunk that Antetokounmpo tried to ern Mayenne region and erased a win two consecutive time trials at contest. The Bucks star landed awk- big chunk of the deficit to move the Tour since Bradley Wiggins in wardly and went down in a heap, into second place in the general 2012. grasping at his left knee while a hush classification. Van der Poel fought hard in The 22-year-old Slovenian mas- the closing stages and produced fell over the arena. tered the technical 22.7-kilometer his best time trial ever to keep the The entire Milwaukee bench came (14-mile) loop from Changé to La- coveted yellow jersey, crossing out to check on Antetokounmpo, val to gain time on all other main the line exhausted with his mouth who had to be helped to the locker contenders in an impressive dis- wide open. room with what was diagnosed as play of power and technical skills. Pogacar was 19 seconds faster a hyperextended knee. He returned Pogacar was 44 seconds faster than time trial specialist Stefan briefl y to the bench, but never made than last year’s runner-up, Primoz Kung. Jonas Vingegaard was it back to the court, heading to the Roglic, while 2018 champion Ger- third, 27 seconds behind. locker room for good when the aint Thomas dropped 1 minute, 18 Overall, Pogacar lags eight sec- Hawks blew the game open. seconds. Richard Carapaz, a for- onds behind van der Poel. Atlanta outscored the Bucks 25-8 mer Giro champion with big ambi- Time-trial specialist Tony Mar- the rest of the quarter to seize a com- tion at the Tour this year, was 1:44 tin, a teammate of Roglic at Jum- manding 87-62 lead.