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THE HINDU DELHI THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2019 SPORT 19 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Nadal up and running in quick time PASSING SHOTS Thiem and Tsitsipas’ campaigns cut short; Nishikori and Pliskova make the third round US OPEN defeat, was hit with a point penalty for a time violation Agence France-Presse in the final set. Russian ninth seed Kha­ NEW YORK chanov lost to Canada’s Va­ Rafael Nadal launched his tilt sek Pospisil in five sets, with at a fourth U.S. Open title on 10th seed Bautista Agut of Tuesday with a swift defeat Spain succumbing in similar of John Millman as other fashion to Mikhail Kukushkin leading seeds in his half of of Kazakhstan to leave that Uninspired Tsitsipas lashes out at umpire the draw tumbled out in the quarter of the draw wide Stefanos Tsitsipas called an umpire a “weirdo” after being told to first round. open for Nick Kyrgios. hurry back onto court during his first­round loss to Andrey Four players in the world’s The volatile Australian Rublev on Tuesday and later said he was struggling for top 10 — Dominic Thiem, Ste­ eased past American Steve inspiration in his game. “You are the worst. For some reason, you fanos Tsitsipas, Karen Kha­ Johnson 6­3, 7­6(1), 6­4 in a have something against me, I don’t know what. Because you’re chanov and Roberto Bautista match that finished at 1:12 French probably. And you’re all weirdos. You’re all weirdos,” the Agut — lost to ease Nadal’s a.m. local time. 21­year­old shouted. REUTERS potential path to the final. Alexander Zverev, seeded The Spanish second seed sixth, outlasted Moldova’s — champion in 2010, 2013 Radu Albot 6­1, 6­3, 3­6, 4­6, and 2017 — needed barely 6­2, while Marin Cilic, the two hours to see Millman off 2014 champion, advanced in 6­3, 6­2, 6­2 at Arthur Ashe straight sets over Slovakia’s Stadium with the World No. Martin Klizan. 60 from Australia unable to Wimbledon champion Si­ reproduce the magic that mona Halep, ousted in the saw him stun Roger Federer opening round the past two here a year ago. years at Flushing Meadows, “The beginning, the first beat US lucky loser Nicole Nadal offers boat to match, is always a little bit Gibbs 6­3, 3­6, 6­2. Murray for Mallorca stay new even if I’ve played here ‘Grown­ups do grown­up Rafael Nadal revealed on plenty of times,” said Nadal. Former champion exits things’: Stephens Tuesday he had offered to “I think I played well and in Sloane Stephens, the 2017 Sloane Stephens refused to provide Andy Murray with his general am very happy with champion, slid to a 6­3, 6­4 be drawn into a spat with boat in Mallorca, where the the way I started. loss to Russian qualifier An­ Monica Puig after coach Scot is playing in a second­ Two­time French Open na Kalinskaya. Kamau Murray split with the tier Challenger event as part runner­up Thiem was upset Meanwhile on Wednes­ Puerto Rican to reunite with of his comeback following by Italian giant­killer Tho­ day, past U.S. Open runners­ Giant­killer: Thomas Fabbiano produced one of the big upsets by taking out fourth seed Dominic Thiem on Tuesday.* AP the former US Open winner hip surgery. “I'm very happy mas Fabbiano 6­4, 3­6, 6­3, up Kei Nishikori and Karoli­ recently. “I’ve seen some of to have Andy Murray playing 6­2, the Austrian fourth seed na Pliskova advanced to the IMPORTANT RESULTS the things that were said. I there,” Nadal said. “It's great think that grown­ups do news for us...I just texted him slumping to another first­ third round when most Men: Second round: 7­Kei 3­6, 6­3, 6­2; 6­Alexander 6­2; 2­Rafael Nadal (Esp) bt (Esp) bt 31­Barbora Strycova grown­up things. We should a couple days ago saying, ‘If round exit, having lost at the matches were delayed by Nishikori (Jpn) bt Bradley Zverev (Ger) bt Radu Albot John Millman (Aus) 6­3, 6­2, (Cze) 6­3, 0­6, 6­1; 19­Caroline leave it in the past and we you need anything, just let same stage at Wimbledon. showers. Klahn (USA) 6­2, 4­6, 6­3, 7­5. (Mda) 6­1, 6­3, 3­6, 4­6, 6­2; 6­2; 28­Nick Kyrgios (Aus) bt Wozniacki (Den) bt Wang Yafan should move on. It doesn’t me know. You want to go out Japanese seventh seed First round: Andrey Rublev 29­Benoit Paire (Fra) bt Bray­ Steve Johnson (USA) 6­3, 7­6 (Chn) 1­6, 7­5, 6­3; 15­Bianca have anything to do with me, with the boat or anything, I Finding fault Nishikori, the 2014 runner­ (Rus) bt 8­Stefanos Tsitsipas den Schnur (Can) 6­2, 6­4, 6­4; (1), 6­4. Andreescu (Can) bt Katie so... Her side is her side,” Greek eighth seed Tsitsipas up and a semifinalist in 2016 (Gre) 6­4, 6­7(5), 7­6(7), 7­5; 20­Diego Schwartzman (Arg) Women: Second round: 3­Karo­ Volynets (USA) 6­2, 6­4; Alison can help you, just let me Stephens added. AFP struggled with cramps and and 2018, defeated Ameri­ 24­Matteo Berrettini (Ita) bt bt Robin Haase (Ned) 6­3, 7­6 lina Pliskova (Cze) bt Mariam Riske (USA) bt 24­Garbine know’.” AFP accused umpires of having can Bradley Klahn 6­2, 4­6, Richard Gasquet (Fra) 6­4, 6­3, (6), 6­0; Tennys Sandgren Bolkvadze (Geo) 6­1, 6­4. Muguruza (Esp) 2­6, 6­1, 6­3; 2­6, 6­2; 13­Gael Monfils (Fra) (USA) bt Jo­Wilfried Tsonga First round: Magda Linette 25­Elise Mertens (Bel) bt Jil Riske’s Bollywood dance moves, a superhit “preferences” after he fell to 6­3, 7­5 after two hours and Alison Riske has made her name in tennis, but her biggest claim a 6­4, 6­7(5), 7­6(7), 7­5 defeat 44 minutes. bt Albert Ramos (Esp) 7­6(2), (Fra) 1­6, 6­7(2), 6­4, 7­6(5), (Pol) bt Astra Sharma (Aus) Teichmann (Sui) 6­2, 6­2; 23­ 6­4, 6­3; Denis Shapovalov 7­5; Vasek Pospisil (Can) bt 9­ 6­3, 6­4; Timea Babos (Hun) bt Donna Vekic (Cro) bt Richel Ho­ to fame might be the Bollywood dance moves from her wedding by Next Gen rival Andrey Ru­ Czech third seed Pliskova, (Can) bt 18­Felix Auger­Ali­ Karen Khachanov (Rus) 4­6, 28­Carla Suarez Navarro (Esp) genkamp (Ned) 7­6(4), 6­3; 9­ last month that became an internet sensation. Riske, playing in blev in a gruelling four­hour seeking her first Grand Slam assime (Can) 6­1, 6­1, 6­4; 7­5, 7­5, 4­6, 6­3; 14­John Is­ 6­2, 0­0, retd.; 21­Anett Aryna Sabalenka (Blr) bt Vic­ her first Grand Slam after getting married to Stephen Amritraj, slog. title and the top ranking, Pablo Andujar (Esp) bt 30­Kyle ner (USA) bt Guillermo Garcia­ Kontaveit (Est) bt Sara Sorribes toria Azarenka (Blr) 3­6, 6­3, the son of former India tennis player Anand Amritraj, said: “the Tsitsipas, for whom it was ousted 202nd­ranked Geor­ Edmund (GBr) 3­6, 7­6(1), 7­5, Lopez (Esp) 6­3, 6­4, 6­4; 32­ (Esp) 6­1, 6­1; 4­Simona Halep 6­4; Anna Kalinskaya (Rus) bt whole weekend was awesome, just to have everyone that we also a second successive gian qualifier Mariam Bolk­ 5­7, 6­2; Thomas Fabbiano (Ita) Fernando Verdasco (Esp) bt To­ (Rou) bt Nicole Gibbs (USA) 11­Sloane Stephens (USA) 6­3, love together — it was really special. There were so many Grand Slam opening­round vadze 6­1, 6­4. bt 4­Dominic Thiem (Aut) 6­4, bias Kamke (Ger) 6­3, 3­6, 6­1, 6­3, 3­6, 6­2; Aliona Bolsova 6­4. highlights. I think my Bollywood dance went off well.” After blow on neck, Smith thought of Hughes A chance for the hopefuls to impress ‘These things happen and unfortunately missed what was a pretty amazing Test’ India­A takes on South Africa­A in the first unofficial one­dayer today THE ASHES SA-A IN INDIA nue the momentum. The ‘A’ series against South Africa Press Trust of India M.R. Praveen Chandran will be a good platform for all of us to impress the selec­ London Thiruvananthapuram tors. It will be a tough se­ Australian batting mainstay South Africa­A’s tour of India ries,” he said. Steve Smith thought about holds significant interest for The Indian selectors will his late teammate Phil fringe players from both be keenly watching the per­ Hughes right after being hit countries to be on their se­ formances of a few players on the neck by England pac­ lectors’ radar as the series before they pick the T20 er Jofra Archer in the second kicks off with the first ‘unoffi­ squad for the South Africa Ashes Test. cial’ one­dayer at the Sports series. Hub, Kariyavattom, on Vijay Shankar, who is Bit of past Thursday. making a comeback after in­ “I had a few things running South Africa­A is essential­ juring his toe during the through my head, particular­ ly a recce party with a hand­ World Cup, will be keen to ly where I got hit, just a bit of ful of experienced interna­ impress and so will be Yuz­ past came up, if you know tionals who will be testing vendra Chahal, who had an what I mean, from a few the conditions in the sub­ Gearing up: Vijay Shankar, Khaleel Ahmed and Shardul Thakur underwhelming World Cup. * COURTESY BCCI years ago. That was probably continent before the series go through the paces ahead of the series opener. The teams (from): the first thing I thought against India in October. India­A: Manish Pandey (Capt.), about,” Smith told reporters After the retirement of ment to test the skills and rience of India Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shubman Gill, Eerie feeling: Steve Smith recalled that following the nasty blow off Jofra Archer, it felt like he in Derby referring to Hughes stalwarts Hashim Amla and ability. internationals. Anmolpreet Singh, Ricky Bhui, who passed away after being had had too much alcohol. * AFP J.P. Duminy and post the A few players like Hein­ India­A captain Manish Ishan Kishan (wk), Vijay Shan­ hit by a bouncer in a 2014 World Cup, South African rich Klassen, who was a last­ Pandey said his team was kar, Shivam Dube, Krunal Pan­ Sheffield Shield match. and that stuck around for a cricket finds itself in transi­ minute replacement in the keen to continue the win­ dya, Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Smith was found to have couple of days. Not a nice tion. The selectors will be South African Test squad to ning habit after the trium­ Chahal, Shardul Thakur, Deepak delayed concussion. place to be in but these ‘Not going to change’ looking keenly at this tour — India, Reeza Hendricks and phant series in the West In­ Chahar, Khaleel Ahmed, and “It wasn’t until later that things happen and unfortu­ which comprises five one­ Beuran Hendricks will want dies. Nitish Rana. evening that it hit me. When nately missed what was a Press trust of India “If they’re bowling up dayers and two four­day to use this opportunity to Though, on paper, India­A South Africa­A: Temba Bavuma the doc asked me what did it pretty amazing Test match,” London there it means they can’t Tests — to find out players for put their stuttering interna­ has more internationals in its (Capt.), Matthew Breetzke, feel like I said it felt like I had he said. Steve Smith is expecting a nick me off, or hit me on the future. tional career on the right ranks, Pandey is expecting a Kyle Verrynne, Junior Dala, Theunis de Bruyn, Bjorn For­ six beers last night and felt a With Ben Stokes playing lot of short balls to be the pad or hit the stumps. Captain Temba Bavuma track. tough challenge. tuin, Beuran Hendricks, Reeza little bit under the weather, one of the best Test match directed at him in the With the Dukes ball, I said the tour will be impor­ “We have been playing Hendricks, Heinrich Klaasen without the six beers unfor­ innings, England pulled off a fourth Test, but said he don’t know, that’s an tant for his players to get Firepower well as a team in the last two (wk), George Linde, Janneman tunately. one wicket win in Leeds, le­ will not change the way interesting ploy. I’m not used to alien conditions. He Bavuma believes his side has years. We have won the last Malan, Marco Jansen, Anrich “That was the sort of feel­ velling the five­match series he bats against Archer. changing anything.” added there was no better enough firepower to stand series against the West In­ Nortje, Sinethemba Qeshile, ing I got, that groggy feeling at 1­1. place than India at the mo­ up to the collective expe­ dies and are keen to conti­ and Lutho Sipamla.

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