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Rennes 1 Lyon 1 Montpellier 0 Toulouse 1 Nantes 2 Angers 1 Lorient 1 Caen 0 Gilbert bags Real Nice 2 Bordeaux 1

Ingolstadt 2 Mainz 1 Tour of go 5 Bayer Leverkusen 3 Wolfsburg 3 Torino 2 Udinese 2 Fiorentina 1 Bologna 0 Chievo 1 Crotone 2 Genoa 0 Atalanta 5 points Pescara 1 AC Milan 1 Palermo 1 Cagliari 3 FlandersOudenaarde Giro di Lombardia. peloton around 90km from the elgian champion has also won major finish as another team-mate, Napoli 1 Juventus 1 Gilbert carried his bike one-day classics including three-time Flanders winner Bover the line above his head Amstel Gold, Fleche Wallonne , accelerated up as he won the prestigious Tour and Clasica de San Sebastian, the iconic Muur climb. of Flanders for the first time but this victory tops the lot. It Both Van Avermaet and Hearts 0 Celtic 5 yesterday with a remarkable was his seventh participation at Sagan were caught out and left in clear, beat solo breakaway. Flanders and first for five years the peloton, which quickly lost Gilbert, 34, attacked alone having previously come third a minute. They had started to with 55km of the 261km race to in 2009 and 2010. close in when, with 55km to go go and held on to win as world But while a BMC team- and on the second ascent of the Sevilla 0 Sporting Gijon 0 champion Peter Sagan and mate of Belgian compatriot 2.2km-long Oude-Kwaremont Real Madrid players celebrate a goal Real Madrid 3 Alaves 0 Olympic gold medallist ’s he was forced climb, Gilbert turned on the Valencia 3 Deportivo la Coruna 0 Van Avermaet crashed 17km to ride the Ardennes classics after-burners and broke clear Alaves Granada 1 Barcelona 4 from the end of the cobbled rather than the cobbled ones. on his own. A crash took out classic. Belgian Sep Vanmarcke also Madrid the scoring moments later. the edge of the box as Madrid as the Santiago Bernabeu crowd years, Sevilla boss Jorge Van Avermaet, the in-form After-burners taking down Briton Luke Rowe eal Madrid moved five Barcelona can close back to started brightly, but they had to became restless. Sampaoli cast doubt on rider this spring, picked himself He was part of a group of 14 and forcing Maciej Bodnar off points clear of Barcelona within two points with victory wait 31 minutes for the opener. However, Isco settled their his future before kick-off up to take second place ahead riders who broke clear of the the road.(AFP) atR the top of despite a at Granada later on Sunday. Carvajal’s burst of pace nerves when he rocketed with Argentina reportedly of Gilbert’s Quick Step Floors lacklustre performance as goals Real boss Zinedine Zidane took him to the by-line and Ronaldo’s through ball into the interested in hiring him to team-mate Niki Terpstra but Results from Karim Benzema, Isco and had handed a rest from the start he picked out the unmarked roof of the net from a narrow salvage their floundering the crash with Sagan and Oliver Nacho secured a 3-0 win over to a host of his stars involved in Benzema to smash into the far angle. World Cup qualifying Naesen potentially robbed the 1. Philippe Gilbert (BEL/Quick-Step) 6hr 23min 45sec Alaves yesterday. international duty over the past corner. And Nacho gave the scoreline campaign. race of a grandstand finish. 2. Greg Van Avermaet (BEL/BMC) at 28 sec Benzema volleyed home week as captain Sergio Ramos, Madrid’s rhythm was an unjustified gloss when However, Instead, Gilbert’s audacious 3. Niki Terpstra (NED/QST) same time Dani Carvajal’s cutback for the Marcelo and James Rodriguez disrupted by the half-time he tapped into an empty net Sampaoli’s stock solo breakaway paid dividends. 4. Dylan van Baarle (NED/CAN) s.t. opening goal just after the half were left out. whistle, though, as Alaves were after Fernando Pacheco made has fallen in Victory in Flanders added 5. Alexander Kristoff (NOR/KAT) 52 hour mark. Yet, Zidane’s plans were the better side for large spells of a brilliant save to parry Bale’s recent weeks to the 2012 world champion’s 6. Sacha Modolo (ITA/EAU) s.t. However, the European undone inside 10 minutes the second-half. driven free-kick. as Sevilla’s impressive resume that 7. John Degenkolb (GER/TRE) s.t. champions were grateful to when Raphael Varane suffered Deyverson headed over Earlier, an unsettling week winless run includes stage wins at all three 8. Filippo Pozzato (ITA/WIE) s.t. Alaves’ wastefulness in front a recurrence of a hamstring from point-blank range from for Sevilla ended with another Grand Tours and victories in 9. Sylvain Chavanel (FRA/DEN) s.t. of goal after the break as injury and had to be replaced Theo Hernandez’s cross before disappointing result as they were two other ‘Monument’ races -- Deyverson and Edgar Mendez by Carvajal. Mendez passed up the visitors’ held 0-0 at home by Sporting 10. Sonny Colbrelli (ITA/BAH) s.t. Karim Benzema Philippe Gilbert Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the passed up huge chances to Zidane did name his first- best chance when he slotted Gijon, leaving them fourth in La stretched equalise. choice front three as Cristiano wide when unmarked at the Liga on Sunday. to five games Isco eventually made the Ronaldo and Gareth Bale back post. Manu Garcia’s flicked In the wake of Sporting in all competitions despite Miami game safe five minutes from flanked Benzema. header also then dipped just director Monchi’s decision dominating for 95 minutes ohanna Konta defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, time before Nacho rounded off All three fired off target from beyond Kiko Casilla’s far post to leave the club after 17 at the Sanchez Pizjuan. (AFP) Sindhu lifts India Open title J6-3 to win the Miami Open on Saturday - the New Delhi change of ends to take a one- game at 21-16 to lift the title. biggest title won by a British woman in 40 years. Konta beats ndia’s PV Sindhu defeated point lead 18-17 before Sindhu The maiden title win helped Konta, who had never won an elite WTA premier Itop seed Carolina Marin of rallied to seal the game at 21-19. the Indian shuttler narrow mandatory event, will move to number seven in the Spain in straight games to win The lanky Indian raced to down her head-to-head record world rankings with the victory. Wozniacki Arsenal hold Man City the final match of the India a 4-0 lead in the second game against the Olympian Spaniard The Sydney-born 25-year-old, who beat Venus London on them. City were prevented the members of Arsenal’s back Open badminton tournament and maintained a five-point to 4-5. Williams in the semis, began superbly, breaking to rsenal earned beleaguered from reclaiming third place four. It took City less than five in New Delhi yesterday. lead at 15-10. She locked the Sindhu had last defeated love in the opening game before Wozniacki swiftly Amanager Arsene Wenger from Liverpool and eating into minutes to draw blood as Kevin Third seed Sindhu Marin in the BWF broke back to level at 2-2. a measure of respite by twice Chelsea’s advantage following De Bruyne’s hopeful pass from beat the Spaniard Super Series in Dubai After another break each, the Briton took hitting back to hold Manchester the leaders’ shock 2-1 defeat at deep inside his own half sent 21-19, 21-16 in a last year. advantage of two double-faults from the Dane to City to a 2-2 draw at the home to Crystal Palace. Sane scampering clear. match that lasted 46 She won her semi- break to 5-4 and serve out for the set. yesterday. But City, who have now The winger minutes at the Siri Fort final clash against There was a similar pattern to the start of the Pep Guardiola twice saw his drawn their last three league outpaced Hector Bellerin and Sports Complex. second-seeded Sung Ji second set, with the pair exchanging breaks in the City side go ahead, through games, will have an opportunity skipped past David Ospina The 21-year- Hyun of South Korea first two game. The key moment came when Konta Leroy Sane and then Sergio to close to within eight points -- deputising in goal for the old Olympic silver on Saturday. broke to go 4-3 up, with a little help from the net Aguero, but Arsenal twice of the summit when they travel injured Petr Cech -- before medallist took an early In the men’s singles cord. responded via goals from Theo to Chelsea on Wednesday. rolling in his eighth City goal. lead in the match and final, Viktor Axelsen Clearly full of confidence, Konta then broke Walcott and Shkodran Mustafi. Wenger again faced When De Bruyne bent a low continued to dominate of Denmark clinched again, with a lob on match-point, to secure the Victory would have been protests from some Arsenal shot against the post and David the game throughout the title beating biggest win of her career and the best by a British a welcome tonic for Wenger, fans, this time in the form Silva forced Ospina to parry in front of a cheering Chinese Taipei’s Tien who has come in for heavy of an advertising van parked with the rebound, Arsenal woman since Virginia Wade won Wimbledon in Liverpool’s Belgian striker home crowd. Chen Chou in straight 1977. No British woman had ever won a premier criticism from Arsenal’s fans, outside the ground and looked set for a long afternoon. Sindhu took a games. butDivock after fourOrigi defeats (R) celebrates in five leaflets about the launch of a They worked a foothold, mandatory event since the elite tier was introduced with Liverpool’s Dutch mid- crucial 5-1 lead in the Third seed Axelsen in 2009 and this was only the second time that Konta games, the #NoNewContract social media however, with Mesut Ozil first game but a fight took just 36 minutes pointfielder was Georginiowelcome. Wijnaldum campaign. putting a tame shot straight had even qualified for the Miami tournament. after scoring back by Marin left the to edge past Chou The Briton said her quick start had really helped His side remain seven points City’s team featured the at Willy Caballero, Nacho score 11-9 at the mid 21-13, 21-10 to claim her in what was just her second premier mandatory below City, who occupy the novelty of Jesus Navas at right- Monreal lashing over from break. his maiden India Open final, following her loss to Agnieszka Radwanska in fourth and final Champions back, but there was nothing a corner and Alexis Sanchez Manchester City’s (C) vies with Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil and Shkodran Mustafi (R) Marin came back title at the Siri Fort Johanna Konta League berth, in sixth place, new about the huge boulevards curling centimetres wide. P V Sindhu Beijing in 2016. (AFP) strongly after the Sports Complex. (AFP) but they retain a game in hand of space they found between (AFP)