Sport TUESDAYTUE 6 JULY 2021 ‘Barcelona-style’‘Ba Messi driving Argentina WeW have to take it easy, think about Colombia now, they aare a tough team with players who are great, experi- enced,e very quick up front, good defenders and fast ccounter attackers. We hope to go step-by-step... and be at tthis final we crave for. Lionel Messi Sport |19 WIMBLEDON: Men's Singles (4th Round) - N. Djokovic bt C.Garin 6-2, 6-4, 6-2. Women's Singles (4th Round) O. Jabeur bt I.Swiatek 5-7, 6-1, 6-1. Beach Volleyball: Qatar's Cherif, Tijan drawn in Group C at Tokyo Olympics THE PENINSULA — DOHA BEACH VOLLEYBALL: MEN'S OLYMPIC DRAW Qualification Tournament, 15 Pool A - Mol A./Sorum C. (NOR), Semenov/Leshukov (ROC), Herrera/Gavira (ESP), McHugh/Schumann (AUS) teams from the Olympic Qatar’s top beach volleyball duo Pool B - Krasilnikov/Stoyanovskiy (ROC), Perusic/Schweiner (CZE), Plavins/Tocs (LAT), Gaxiola/Rubio (MEX) Ranking and a further five from of Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Pool C - Cherif/Ahmed (QAT), Gibb/Crabb Ta. (USA), Carambula/Rossi (ITA), Heidrich/Gerson (SUI) the Continental Cup Finals. Tijan has been placed in Group Pool D - Alison/Alvaro Filho (BRA), Brouwer/Meeuwsen (NED), Lucena/Dalhausser (USA), Azaad/Capogrosso Men’s Olympic Ranking C as beach volleyball draw (ARG) leaders Anders Mol and ceremony for Tokyo Olympics Pool E - Fijalek/Bryl (POL), Evandro/Bruno Schmidt (BRA), Grimalt M./Grimalt E. (CHI), Elgraoui/Abicha (MAR) Christian Sorum of Norway were was held in Moscow yesterday, Pool F - Gottsu/Shiratori (JPN), Thole J./Wickler (GER), Nicolai/Lupo (ITA), Kantor/Losiak (POL) placed in Pool A and will take A file photo with 24 men’s and 24 women’s on Konstantin Semenov/Ilya of Cherif teams scheduled to participate Leshukov of ROC, Pablo Younousse in the event in the Japanese the first phase of the compe- Tokyo 2020 (Japan), the winners Herrera/Adrian Gavira of Spain (left) and capital starting on July 24. tition. The 24 teams per gender of the 2019 FIVB Beach Vol- and Christopher McHugh/ Ahmed Tijan. The teams learned who their included one team from the host leyball World Championships, Damien Schumann of pool play opponents will be in country of the Olympic Games the two winners of the Olympic Australia. Federer becomes oldest Wimbledon quarter-finalist in modern era REUTERS — LONDON WIMBLEDON RESULTS Switzerland’s Roger Men’s Fourth Round Roger Federer weathered a Federer in action Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Christian Garin (CHI first-set storm to become the during his fourth round x17) 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 oldest man in the Open Era match against Italy’s Marton Fucsovics (HUN) bat Andrey Rublev (RUS to reach the Wimbledon Lorenzo Sonego. x5) 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 quarter-finals with a 7-5, 6-4, Karen Khachanov (RUS x25) bt Sebastian Korda 6-2 win over Italian 23rd (USA) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 10-8 seed Lorenzo Sonego Denis Shapovalov (CAN x10) bt Roberto Bautista Qatar's Musab Adam yesterday. Agut (ESP 8) 6-1, 6-3, 7-5 qualifies for Eugene The Swiss, who will turn Matteo Berrettini (ITA x7) bt Ilya Ivashka (BLR) 40 next month, was dead- 6-4, 6-3, 6-1 World Championships locked at 5-5 in the first set Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN x16) bt Alexander when a torrential downpour Zverev (GER x4) 6-4, 7-6 (8/6), 3-6, 3-6, 6-4 Middle-distance runner Musab Adam sent the players back into the Roger Federer (6) bt Lorenzo Sonego 7-5, 6-4, became the first Qatari athlete to locker room with Sonego 6-2. officially qualify for the World Athletics down break point. Suspended due to rain: Championships, scheduled to be held The 20-minute disruption, Daniil Medvedev (RUS x2) leads Hubert Hurkacz in 2022 in Eugene, Oregon, United during which the roof was (POL x14) 2-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-3, 3-4 States. According to the Qatar Olympic Women’s Fourth Round closed over a soggy and wind- Committee, Adam clocked 03:34.76 in swept Centre Court, did Ashleigh Barty (AUS x1) bt Barbora Krejcikova 1500m race at Sunday's Diamond League (CZE x14) 7-5, 6-3 Sonego no favours as he meet in Stockholm to qualify for the Karolina Muchova (CZE x19) bt Paula Badosa (ESP immediately produced a Worlds. Adam will also compete at this x30) 7-6 (8/6), 6-4 month's Tokyo Olympics. double fault under the flood- Angelique Kerber (GER x25) bt Coco Gauff (USA lights to surrender his serve. Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz, singles titles on the manicured eight points of the match and x20) 6-4, 6-4 That provided Federer whose match will resume grass at the All England Club, never took his foot off the Karolina Pliskova (CZE x8) bt Liudmila with the spark he needed to today. will play his 50th Grand Slam pedal during the one hour 48 Samsonova (RUS) 6-2, 6-3 Iranian sprinter motor through the rest of the Meanwhile, it was quarter-final when he next minutes, dominating from the Viktorija Golubic (SUI) bat Madison Keys (USA contest after converting only business as usual for top seed faces either Russian fifth seed baseline and the net against x23) 7-6 (7/3), 6-3 two of the nine break points Novak Djokovic as the Serbian Andrey Rublev or Hungary’s the Chilean. Ons Jabeur (TUN x21) bt Iga Swiatek (POL x7) 5-7, Fasihi set to he had earned during the first dismantled the challenge of Marton Fucsovics. He lost only 13 points on 6-1, 6-1 set. Chile’s Cristian Garin with a The 25-year-old Garin, his own serve and broke his Aryna Sabalenka (BLR x2) bt Elena Rybakina compete in Tokyo In his record-extending 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 victory to seeded 17th, had never played opponent five times to stay on (KAZ x18) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 18th Wimbledon quarter- advance to the last eight of Djokovic on grass before and course for a 20th Grand Slam REUTERS —TEHRAN final, and 58th across all four Wimbledon and keep his title soon realised he did not have title that would tie him with majors, the eight-time All defence intact at the grass- the resources to trouble the great rivals Roger Federer and advanced to last 8 stage with Iranian sprinter Farzaneh Fasihi said it was England Club champion will court major. Serbian on a sun-baked Rafa Nadal for the most major a 7-5, 6-3 win over French a dream come true after she qualified for meet either Russian second The world number one, Centre Court. men’s titles. Open champion Barbora the women’s 100 metres at the Tokyo seed Daniil Medvedev or who won the last two men’s Djokovic won the first Also yesterday, Ash Barty Krejcikova. Olympics under the universality quota. The universality quota allows one female and male participant each from Qatar’s Saeed Al Sulaiti in action. a country to take part in the Olympics, provided no other athlete from the same gender naturally qualifies for the com- petition. “It was like a dream for myself. I felt like I was dreaming, I felt like I hadn’t woken up yet. I was shocked,” Fasihi told West Asia News Agency. “The feeling is indescribable and I truly wish every girl who is trying for this to be able to experience this feeling one day. My family all had tears of joy.” Fasihi is the ninth Iranian female athlete to qualify for the July 23-Aug. 8 Games. “As an Iranian woman I want to perform well at my own level. I don’t Qatar’s Saeed Al Sulaiti emerged triumphant in the third round of the CIV Campeonato Inter-Autonomous Speed Championship in Murcia, Spain, on Sunday. At mean to say our level is low, no. To have the Circuito de Cartagena, Al Sulaiti topped the 14-lap Supersport 600 race in 23:01.469 seconds. Al Sulaiti, who had finished third in the previous two rounds reached this point means that our level in May, also set the fastest lap of 1:37.640 seconds during the race. is very high,” she said. QFA announces nominees for 2020-21 season awards THE PENINSULA — DOHA platforms of QFA and Qatar bodies, such as Qatar Olympic Stars League. Committee, Qatar Players The Board of Trustees of Qatar The Mansour Muftah award Association, Aspire and Old Football Association (QFA) for the top scorer will go to Al Players Committee. Award yesterday discussed the Sadd striker Baghdad Best Awards for the 2020-21 preparations for the Best Bounedjah, who scored 21 goals season Awards for the 2020-21 season in the season. A. Best Under-23 Player and approved the final list of It may be noted that partic- Award: Mahmoud Abunada nominees for the awards. ipants in the voting process (Al Arabi), Abdulrasheed A total of 55 forms were sent included QNB Stars League Ibrahim (Al Ahli), Homam Al out to participants in the voting team coaches, Qatar national Ameen (Al Gharafa) process and 45 of them were team coach, Qatar Olympic B. Best Coach Award: approved while 10 forms were team coach, team managers, Younes Ali (Qatar SC), Xavi Her- rejected for being incomplete. media representatives, repre- nandez (Al Sadd) Nebojsa It was also decided to cancel sentative of QFA, represent- Jovovic (Al Ahli) the QFA Award Ceremony this ative of QSL, President and C.