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HH Shaikh Nasser, HH Shaikh Khalid and HH Shaikh Isa attend Saudi Cup ‘We will play to win’: Vincent National basketball team wrap up campaign in FIBA Asia Cup 2021 qualifiers tonight against Iraq Palestine crush Sri Lanka

From left, HH Shaikh Nasser, HH Shaikh Khalid and HH Shaikh Isa at the event TDT | Manama Khalid bin Hamad Al Khali- fa, and Rashid Equestrian and Bahrain coach Sam Vincent speaks during his post-game Press conference on M the King’s Humani - Horseracing Club High Com- Saturday after the national team’s loss to Lebanon Htarian Works and Youth mittee chairman HH Shaikh Affairs representative and Isa bin Salman bin Hamad Al Today’s contest Bahrain Royal Equestrian Khalifa. • Palestine’s Tariq Tamimi makes a two-handed slam dunk in their game and Endurance Federation Held at King Abdulaziz is scheduled for an We’ll continue to look against Sri Lanka (BREEF) honorary president Racecourse in Riyadh, the two- 8pm tip-off at the at different guys and alestine crushed Sri Lanka there and went ahead by as His Highness Shaikh Nasser day event featured high-cal- Khalifa Sports City different match-ups P129-74 yesterday in Group many as 58 points. bin Hamad Al Khalifa attended ibre racehorses from all over arena in Isa Town F action in the FIBA Asia Cup Star forward Sani Sakaki- the races on the second and the world, who are competing so that we can really qualifiers being held in Bah- ni had a monster effort of 36 final day of the Saudi Cup 2021 in various races at the Saudi figure out going into rain. points, 24 rebounds, six assists on Saturday, along with Su- Cup, the world’s most valuable TDT | Manama August what’s going The win at least assures the and three steals to spearhead preme Council for Youth and horserace, organised by the to be our strongest Palestinians a place in the fi- Palestine. Sports first deputy chairman Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia. ahrain will be playing to rotations and who can nal qualifying tournament as Tamer Habash added 18 in- and Bahrain Olympic Com- Eight Bahrain horses took win tonight when they really help us have a possibly one of the six third- cluding four three-pointers, mittee president HH Shaikh part Bface Iraq in their final as- chance to win in the placed teams from this current while Jamal Mayali chipped signment of the FIBA Asia Cup stage. in 17. 2021 qualifiers. FIBA Asia Cup Their hopes of booking au- Kendall Dykes and Omar The game will have no bear- BAHRAIN HEAD COACH SAM VINCENT tomatic seats in the FIBA Asia Eldiraoui each had 11 points. ing on the teams’ qualification Cup as one of the top two Dykes almost finished with a National football team bids as the Bahrainis have al- in this year’s FIBA Asia Cup. teams in their division are triple-double after also regis- ready booked their tickets to the “We’re going to come out slim, but still mathematically tering nine rebounds and 14 continental showcase, which and play hard; it’s important possible. They will need to de- assists. kick off local training takes place later this year in In- to try and play well every time feat unbeaten Group F leaders Clinton Thevakumar paced donesia, while the Iraqis are you step on the floor,” said Jordan in their two still-to-be- Sri Lanka with 20 points, while already out of the running. Vincent during his post-match played meetings and hope that Arnold Brent added 18 and Today’s contest is scheduled Press conference on Saturday the Jordanians lose their other Pawan Gamage scored 15. for an 8pm tip-off at the Khalifa following Bahrain’s loss to games to have any shot at the The game was Palestine’s Sports City arena in Isa Town Lebanon. direct berths. Those fixtures last assignment in this window and it will wrap up action in “Against Iraq we’ll come out are to be played at a later date. of qualifying in Bahrain. Sri qualification Group D. and we’ll play to win,” he con- Against Sri Lanka, they came Lanka take to the hardwood National team head coach and tinued. “We’ll continue to look out firing and took a 38-19 lead once more today when they 1986 NBA champion Sam Vin- at different guys and different at the end of the first quarter. face off with Kazakhstan at cent says that his team will not match-ups so that we can real- They never looked back from 11am. be taking the game lightly and ly figure out going into August adds that it will be an important what’s going to be our strongest Bahrain have a 3-2 win-loss In their first meeting also held Bahrain’s national team players during training opportunity for the Bahrainis to rotations and who can really record heading into their last in the Kingdom in November of continue building their chemis- help us have a chance to win in qualifier tonight, while the Ira- last year, Bahrain won 95-92 in TDT | Manama bin Hamad Bahrain Premier try, as they look ahead to playing the FIBA Asia Cup.” qis have yet to win in five games. overtime. Football League and from sec- ahrain’s senior men’s na- ond division side Alkhaldiya. Btional football team have Bahrain are in Group C of kicked off their week-long the current joint-qualifiers training camp, being held lo- alongside Iraq, Iran, Hong Djokovic routs Medvedev for ninth Australian Open title cally under the supervision of Kong and Cambodia. Their AFP | Melbourne Portuguese head coach Helio three remaining games are Sousa. against Cambodia, Iran and It is the first gathering of Hong Kong. eerless world number one the Kingdom’s internationals There are eight groups in PNovak Djokovic demolished in 2021. The sessions continue all in this round of qualifi - Russia’s Daniil Medvedev in until Saturday and they are ers, with five nations in each straight sets to win his ninth KNOW WHAT part of the Bahrainis’ prepa- group. At the end, the eight Australian Open title and ex- rations for their international group winners and the four tend his record-breaking reign fixtures in the coming months. best runners-up advance to at Melbourne Park yesterday. These include their remaining the third round of World Cup Djokovic overpowered the The win reinforced joint-qualifiers for the FIFA qualifying, and also secure fourth seed 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 in front Djokovic’s status as World Cup 2022 and AFC Asian their berths in the Asian Cup. of 7,400 fans on Rod Laver Are- world number one, Cup 2023, which are to take The next best 24 teams will na to end the Russian’s unbeaten where he will mark his place in June. compete in a separate compe- run at 20 matches. 311th week when the Sousa has named 33 players tition for the remaining 12 slots In winning a third straight new rankings come out from six clubs in the Nasser in the Asian Cup. Australian Open for the second on Monday, surpassing time, the Serb claimed his 18th Novak Djokovic lifts the trophy after beating Daniil Medvedev Federer’s record of 310 Players Grand Slam title to move within two of Roger Federer and Rafael inal injury that nearly forced “Daniil, a class act, great guy Riffa: Ahmed Abdulla, , , Hamad Shamsan, Sayed Hashim Isa, Nadal who have 20 each, while him to pull out after the third and great person,” he said. the end of a tournament that Hazza Ali, Jassim Al Shaikh, Mahdi Humaidan, Mohamed Marhoon, Sayed Redha denying Medvedev his first. round. “I really like him off the court was delayed three weeks over Isa, Sayed Mahdi Baqer and Sayer Shubar Alawi. Rarely has a player been so Despite admitting it was a ... but on court he’s definitely the coronavirus and had to bar Manama: Ahmed Nabeel, Ammar Mohamed, Issa Moosa, Mahdi Abduljabbar and dominant at a single tourna - gamble to keep playing, with a one of the toughest players I fans for five days when state Mohamed Adel ment with the Serb’s record-ex- risk the injury could get worse have ever faced in my life. authorities ordered a snap lock- tending ninth title moving him and affect the rest of his season, “It’s a matter of time till you down. Muharraq: Abdulrahman Alahmadi, Abdulwahab Al Malood, Ismaeel Abdullatif, past Federer’s eight at Wimble- the 33-year-old chose to contin- hold a Grand Slam.” Medvedev, 25, is one of the Waleed Al Hayam, and Sayed Mohammed Jaafar. don but still a long way behind ue and it paid off. Djokovic’s speech to the smartest players on tour, keep- East Riffa: Abdulla Alhazza, Hamad Al Dossary, Mohamed Alhardan and the 13 Nadal has won at Roland “Thanks to this court, the Rod crowd came after Tennis Aus- ing his opponents guessing with Mohammed Al Rumaihi Garros. Laver Arena, I love you each tralia chair Jayne Hrdlicka was his flat and low groundstrokes, Hidd: Ahmed Bughammar, Ahmed Mirza and Mohammed Abdulwahab. But it was a rollercoaster year more and more -- the love booed for mentioning the Covid changing up the pace and an- ride to get there, with Djokovic affair keeps going,” said a re - vaccine and the Victorian gov- gles, as he blends impenetrable Al Najma: Abdulla Alkaabi, Abdulrahman Yusuf and Rashed Alhooti. dropping five sets en route to lieved Djokovic, while paying ernment. defence with opportunistic of- Alkhaldiya: Ebrahim Lutfallah from Alkhaldiya. the final and battling an abdom- tribute to Medvedev. The unusual scenes came at fence.

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