22 Tuesday, August 8, 2017 SPORTS Ali bowls Eng to series win Manchester oeen Ali finished a SCOREBOARD Mbrilliant campaign England 2nd Innings (overnight: 224-8) with a five- haul A. Cook c de Bruyn b Morkel 10 as England beat South K. Jennings c Amla b Rabada 18 Africa by 177 runs in the T. Westley c sub (Markram) b Morkel 9 fourth Test at Old Trafford J. Root b Olivier 49 yesterday to seal a 3-1 series D. Malan c de Bruyn b Maharaj 6 win. B. Stokes c du Plessis b Olivier 23 Victory, achieved J. Bairstow c Rabada b Olivier 10 with more than a day to M. Ali 75 spare, also saw T. Roland-Jones c Maharaj b Rabada 11 triumphant in his first Test S. Broad c de Bruyn b Morkel 5 series as England . J. Anderson c de Bruyn b Morkel 2 South Africa, set a huge Extras (b9, lb13, w2, nb1) 25 380 for victory, were bowled Total (all out, 69.1 overs, 307 mins) 243 out for 202 shortly after tea England’s captain Joe Root (4L) stands with teammates South Africa 2nd Innings (target: 380) on the fourth day when Ali It was also just South balls -- including the prize with no side having made run victory in the third H. Kuhn c Cook b Anderson 11 took two in two balls Africa’s second defeat in 20 scalp of Amla -- as the more to win in the fourth Test at The Oval, fell for D. Elgar c Bairstow b Broad 5 to remove Morne Morkel away Test series, their other Proteas collapsed from 163 innings of a Test at Old five on Monday when H. Amla lbw b Ali 83 and Duanne Olivier. overseas campaign reverse for three to 173 for six. Trafford than England’s caught behind off Stuart T. Bavuma c Bairstow b Roland-Jones 12 That gave the off-spinner in that sequence coming Earlier, Ali, both the 294 for four against New Broad. F. du Plessis c Bairstow b Anderson 61 a return of five for 69 in 19.5 against India in 2015/16. man-of-the-match and the Zealand in 2008. Heino Kuhn, struggling Q. de Kock c Cook b Ali 1 overs and 25 wickets in total South Africa, 43 for three man of the series, made 75 South Africa’s already to cement his Test place, T. de Bruyn c Stokes b Ali 0 in a series where he also at lunch, saw Hashim Amla not out off just 66 balls in difficult task was not helped repeatedly played and K. Maharaj not out 21 scored 252 runs. (83) and captain Faf du England’s second innings when they lost both openers, missed before, on 11, edging K. Rabada c Westley b Anderson 1 This result meant Plessis (61) put on 123 for 243, having been dropped leaving them at 18 for two. James Anderson, again M. Morkel c Root b Ali 0 England had won their first the fourth wicket. on 15. Dean Elgar, who made from the newly- D. Olivier c Stokes b Ali 0 home Test series against But Ali then took three That left South Africa a gritty second-innings named James Anderson Extras (b4, lb3) 7 South Africa since 1998. wickets for five runs in 11 facing a mammoth chase, hundred in England’s 239- End, to Cook. (AFP) Total (all out, 62.5 overs, 269 mins) 202 Sagan clinches opening BinckBank Tour stage Keys downs Vandeweghe Zverev takes The Hague race, formerly know as the fourth title of orld champion Peter Benelux Tour and then Sagan won the opening Eneco Tour, is ridden to take Stanford title the year stageW of the BinckBank Tour through Belgium and the Los Angeles Washington in the Dutch town of Venray Netherlands. adison Keys looked to be lexander Zverev issued yesterday. Olympic champion Greg in US Open form early a warning to top ATP Slovakian Sagan Van Avermaet is also in the Mon Sunday at the WTA Tour’s Arivals Sunday after winning edged out German Phil field, along with German Stanford tournament, beating the Citi Open for his fourth Bauhaus in a photo sprint ace Marcel Kittel. American compatriot CoCo title of the year -- he’s not the finish, with Dane Having crashed out of Vandeweghe 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 for next generation, he’s the now Magnus Cort Nielsen the Tour de France after her third career title. generation. third at the end of winning five stages, The 22-year-old Keys was The 20-year-old German the flat 170km Kittel was making his pleased with the win after defeated South Africa’s Kevin stage from comeback to top battling injuries this year which Anderson 6-4, 6-4 to capture Breda. level competition caused her to miss the first two the $355,460 (302,000 euros) T h e but could finish months of the season following top prize at the US Open tuneup week- only 34th after wrist surgery. event on the Washington long being boxed in the “It hasn’t been the easiest hardcourts. stage sprint finish. (AFP) last couple of months, but this World number eight Zverev means a lot to me,” said Keys, dropped only nine points on who earned her first win of his serve and never faced a 2017. break point in becoming the Keys also said the victory youngest player to win four will give her confidence going ATP titles in a year, or take into the US Open, the last the Washington crown, since Grand Slam of the year which Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Peter Sagan begins in three weeks in New Potro did it at 19 in 2008. York. “I improved a lot in the “It finally feels like I’m on last few months to get where Maria Sharapova receives the right track and feeling good Madison Keys (L) and CoCo Vandeweghe hold up their trophies I can win tournaments,” about my tennis again. It feels strangers off the court. The two first-serve points. She reached Zverev said. “The longer wildcard for China Open amazing to have a title at home Fed Cup teammates shared the final without dropping a the tournament goes for me and on hard courts. a long embrace at the net set. the better I’m able to play. Paris The Russian has still only “I’m really, really happy that after Keys closed out the win Keys hit 23 winners to just Hopefully this can continue aria Sharapova has played four tournaments since this is kind of the start of my with back-to-back forehand 19 unforced errors, while to be like that.” accepted an invitation to returning in April from a US Open Series.” winners. Vandeweghe tallied 20 winners Zverev won his first title last Mmake her seventh appearance 15-month doping ban for the The world No. 21 Keys “Thanks for a great week and 22 unforced errors. September in St. Petersburg at the China Open in Beijing. use of meldonium. reached the final by eliminating CoCo,” said Keys. Keys won the first-set and added trophies this year The five-time Grand Slam “I’m very happy to announce reigning Wimbledon champion Keys hit two aces, had three tiebreaker with a forehand at Montpellier, Munich and champion missed Wimbledon that I will return to Beijing Garbine Muguruza in straight double faults and won 76 winner down the line after both Rome, where he downed Novak and the entire grasscourt and play the China Open this sets, so it didn’t come as a percent of her first-serve points players held serve through all Djokovic in the final. season with a thigh injury, then October,” the 30-year-old surprise she played her best in the one hour, 28 minute 12 games of the set. He also ousted number four was forced to withdraw from said in a statement. “This is tennis in the final. match. Both players continued to Stan Wawrinka at Miami and her comeback tournament in especially exciting as it will be It was the first career WTA Vandeweghe, 24, also served serve solidly in the second and pushed Rafael Nadal to five Stanford with an arm injury my first tournament in Asia meeting between Keys and brilliantly, hammering six aces Keys finally Nafibroke Thiam Vandeweghe sets in the third round of the last week. this year!” (AFP) Vandeweghe but they are no and winning 73 percent of her at 4-4 in the set. (AFP) Australian Open. (AFP)