SPORT Wednesday 11 October 2017 PAGE | 30 PAGE | 32-33 PAGE | 35 Wozniacki blasts Cahill keeps FiFive-starv Perera shines past slumping Australia in World in Sri Lanka series Bouchard Cup hunt triumph FIA: Qatar’s Al Attiyah retains World title with Morocco win Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah races to victory in Rally of Morocco yesterday. Erfoud, Morocco to choose the most favourable reduced Loeb’s overall lead to The Peninsula starting position for the first of 2017 OILIBYA RALLY OF MOROCCO – FINAL POSITIONS 5min 02sec. Domzala, Ten the longer desert selective sec- 1. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive: 10hrs Brinke, a resurgent Chabot, and verdrive Racing’s tions between Fèz and Erfoud. 39min 34sec Munk were sixth, 11th, 15th and Nasser Saleh Al This was a hard Domzala was ninth, Van Merk- 2. Sébastien Loeb (FRA)/Daniel Elena (FRA) Peugeot 3008 DKR: 10hrs 47min 29sec 18th. Attiyah, the ace earned victory steijn 14th, Ten Brinke 16th, @7.55 Van Merksteijn dropped Qatari rally driver and a very Chabot 19th, Munk 22nd and He 3. Jakub Przygonski (POL)/Tom Colsoul (BEL) Mini John Cooper Works Rally: 11hrs around 10 minutes in 22nd and yesterday, made Zhitao was 27th of the 43 09min 12sec @29.38 He Zhitao was 36th. Osure of a fourth FIA World Cup important one for finishers. Rain and flooding forced 4. Joan Roma (ESP)/Alex Haro (ESP) Mini All4 Racing: 11hrs 09min 19sec @29.45 for Cross-Country Rallies title Al Attiyah started fourth race officials to shorten the third in stunning fashion by clinch- me and the whole behind Carlos Sainz, Joan Roma 5. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RUS) Mini Cooper Countryman: 11hrs Marathon stage to Erg Lihoudi ing his fourth outright victory team: Al Attiyah and Mikko Hirvonen for the 22min 59sec @43.25 and teams only tackled the sec- in a rain-affected OiLibya Rally long liaison and the opening 6. Aron Domzala (POL)/Maciej Marton (POL) Toyota Hilux Overdrive: 11hrs 36min 08sec ond 142.79km section of the day. of Morocco, the 10th and penul- selection section of 272.8km. @56.34 Al-Attiyah beat Loeb by 1min timate round of the FIA World Multiple WRC champion FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies – standings after round 10 16sec to trim the Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. Sébastien Loeb claimed the 1. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT) 300pts Frenchman’s overall lead The Qatari, driving a Toy- quickest time and moved into 2. Jakub Przygonski (POL) 191pts to 3min 46sec. Domzala, Ten ota Hilux prepared by the standings behind Al Attiyah and the lead with a time of 3hrs 3. Aron Domzala (POL) 114pts Brinke and Van Merksteijn held Belgian team, won the series in Jakub Przygonski. 41min 52sec, as Al Attiyah eighth, 15th and 16th overall. 4. Khalid Al-Qassimi (ARE) 105pts 2008, 2015 and 2016 and gave The action got underway slipped to second position with He Zhitao and Munk were 27th Toyota a second successive with a 12km super special stage the third quickest time. and 28th, but Chabot’s earlier series win with his eighth vic- around 40km from Fèz on Domzala, Van Merksteijn, in time penalties, plummeting flooded wadi that claimed some time had moved him down to tory of a dominant 2017 Thursday (October 5). Ten Brinke and Munk held to 41st overall. of the leading riders and the 40th. campaign with French naviga- Al Attiyah continued his run eighth, 16th, 20th, 23rd overall. The second selective section NPO decided to stop the com- Two selective sections of tor Matthieu Baumel. of stunning form with a crush- He Zhitao completed the stage looped around Erfoud for petitive action at PC1, after 191.56km and 263.51km had While the Frenchman ing opening time of 8min 38sec, in 28th overall, but an accident 354.45km and included a pas- 150km. originally been planned for day claimed his third world title, the which enabled the Qatari to cost Chabot’s Toyota its rear sage through the notorious Erg Al Attiyah claimed the fast- four from Erg Lihoudi to Erfoud, duo had to fight hard to over- storm into a lead of 31 seconds wheels and the Frenchman Chebbi, but the route also est time after Sainz was but the day was shortened again come a fierce early challenge and gave him the opportunity incurred the customary 100hrs included an impassable and penalised and, therefore, to just 170m because of from multiple WRC champion flooding. Sébastien Loeb over a six-day Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah claimed the stage event where large chunks of the Al Attiyah (left) and win with a time of 1hr 46min competitive route were can- his French navigator 38sec and that enabled the celled because of flooding. Qatari to move 6min 42sec in Matthieu Baumel Al Attiyah’s winning mar- front of a struggling Loeb and gesture after victory gin was 7min 55sec and gave snatch the outright lead. Over- him an unassailable lead of in Morocco yesterday. drive team-mates Domzala, Ten 109 points in the FIA World Brinke, Munk and Zhitao held Cup with one event sixth, 11th, 25th and 26th over- remaining. all, but Chabot remained down “This was a hard earned in 38th place. victory and a very important Van Merksteijn suffered a one for me and the whole crash that broke the wishbone team,” said a delighted Al Atti- on his Toyota Hilux and the yah, who had already claimed Dutchman decided not to con- outright wins this season in tinue to the final day. Dubai, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Two short stages of 179.5 Spain, Hungary and Poland. and 8.65km were in the agenda Overdrive Racing managed for the final loop around Erfoud. seven Toyotas in Africa’s only Al-Attiyah beat Loeb by 26 sec- round of the series. Aron Dom- onds through the opener to zala teamed up with fellow move ever closer to victory and countryman Maciej Marton and he stayed clear of trouble over finished sixth overall, the result the short finale to claim the win lifting the talented young Pole with a final stage time of 5min into third in the FIA World Cup 58sec. 30 SPORT WEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER 2017 Venus heads Kyrgios sorry for Shanghai walk-off back to Sydney Shanghai after 20 years AFP Sydney ustralian firebrand AFP Nick Kyrgios apolo- gised and said he had vergreen Venus Wil- been unwell after he liams will headline the stormed off court to ESydney International in loudA boos midway through his January to kick off her 2018 opening match at the Shanghai season, returning to the tour- Masters yesterday. nament after a 20-year The 22-year-old issued a absence. statement following his abrupt The American veteran, 37, exit after losing the first set 7/5 shows no signs of slowing on a tie break to the American down and enjoyed one of her Steve Johnson, having been best seasons this year, mak- docked a point for the second ing the final of Wimbledon match running because of his and the Australian Open and conduct. the semis at the US Open. The ATP Tour is investigat- “This was one of the ear- ing and Kyrgios, similarly hit liest tournaments I ever with a point penalty in losing the played and has always held a China Open final to Rafael Nadal special place in my heart,” on Sunday, said he was “gutted” Williams said of Sydney in a statement issued through the SHANGHAI MASTERS RESULTS organisers. Results from the Shanghai Masters Men’s “The last time I played in Singles matches yesterday the Sydney International I Round 2 was 18 years old, so a lot has 4-Marin Cilic (Croatia) bt Kyle Edmund (Brit- changed in this time.” ain) 6-3 7-6(5) Williams’ stellar year saw Richard Gasquet (France) bt Chung Hyeon her return to the world top (South Korea) 3-6 6-4 6-3 five for the first time since Steve Johnson of the US hits a return during the men’s singles against Nick Kyrgios of Australia at the Shanghai Masters tennis 16-Juan Martin del Potro (Argentina) bt An- 2011, the year she was diag- drey Rublev (Russia) 6-3 6-4 tournament in Shanghai yesterday. nosed with strength-sapping Fabio Fognini (Italy) bt 15-Lucas Pouille Sjogren’s Syndrome. (France) 7-6(7) 6-3 to retire against Johnson. A enough to continue because I’ve Kyrgios and Johnson were Kyrgios complained, and added: She said she was still Albert Ramos (Spain) bt 7-Pablo Carreno member of Kyrgios’s coaching not eaten much the past 24 both comfortable on their serves “Sick of this place.” driven to succeed. (Spain) 7-5 7-5 team said in Shanghai -- where hours.” and they went into the tie break After Johnson wrapped up “I have been playing some Round 1 a year ago he was accused of He will make a decision on with signs Kyrgios was begin- the set Kyrgios had enough, really great tennis this year 10-Sam Querrey (US) bt Yuichi Sugita (Japan) “tanking” in defeat and conse- tosday as to whether he takes ning to lose his cool. shaking the hands of his oppo- and I feel I’m in a strong posi- 6-3 6-2 quently suspended -- that the part in his doubles match the He went 3-0 up in the tie nent and the umpire -- though tion, both physically and Viktor Troicki (Serbia) bt Denis Shapovalov world-ranked 21 had injured his same day with Frenchman Lucas break but as Johnson pegged him not looking him in the eye -- and mentally, in the lead up to (Canada) 6-7(3) 6-3 6-0 shoulder.