ARAB TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2021 SPORTS 14 Venus rises to 90th Wimbledon win Spain take 6 players from Euro 2020 Russia picks 10 athletes for limited Olympic track team MOSCOW, June 29, (AP): Russia Spain at Euro 2020. named three world champions on its ❑ ❑ ❑ 10-strong athletics team for the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday under rules lim- Some stages of the Tokyo Olympic iting the size of its squad because of a torch relay will be pulled off the roads long-running doping dispute. of the Japanese capital because of Three-time high jump world cham- fears about spreading the coronavirus, pion Mariya Lasitskene is joined by Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported pole vault world champion Anzhelika on Tuesday. Sidorova and 2015 world 110-meter Citing the Tokyo Metropolitan Gov- hurdles champion Sergei Shubenkov. ernment, Kyodo said the relay would Five more of the squad have won not appear on public streets from July world championship medals. 9-16. Kyodo said organizers would de- All of the 10 have “authorized neu- cide on the format for the relay from tral athlete” status from World Athlet- July 17 until the opening ceremony on ics after undergoing vetting of their July 23. records of drug testing. ❑ ❑ ❑ Top-ranked Ash Barty is set to lead OLYMPICS Australia’s 11-member tennis team at the Tokyo Olympics. The Australian squad was an- The Russian Athletics Federation nounced Tuesday, hours before Bar- has been suspended from World Athletics since 2015, when an inves- ty’s scheduled fi rst-round match at tigation revealed doping was wide- Wimbledon against Carla Suárez Na- spread. Plans to lift the suspension varro. were delayed in 2019 when RUSAF Former U.S. Open champion Sam Australia’s Ashleigh Barty plays a return to Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro during the women’s singles first round match on day two of the Wimbledon Ten- Stosur was selected to play singles and nis Championships in London, on June 29. (AP) officials drew up fake documents to give an athlete an alibi for missing a doubles in her fi fth Olympics, while doping test. That case drew the ire Nick Kyrgios, Alex de Minaur and of World Athletics and led to bans John Millman were among the men se- Barty, Kerber and Zverev advance for five senior officials including a lected for the Australian team. former president. ❑ ❑ ❑ WIMBLEDON, England, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 by Tereza Martincova of 2008, the year she set the tournament the fi rst Arab woman to win a WTA World Athletics capped the Rus- Ben Simmons has withdrawn from the Czech Republic. women’s record for fastest serve, 129 title. sian Olympic team at 10 athletes last Australia’s Olympic squad in order to June 29, (AP): Venus Wil- In men’s action, 20-year-old mph. When Jabeur did a video confer- year. Using quota limits to punish spend time working on his individual liams accumulated 10 aces American Sebastian Korda - whose On this day, with strips of black ence with reporters after winning countries for doping is rare, but not skill development following a disap- Tuesday by smacking father, Petr, won the 1998 Australian tape around her left knee, serving her fi rst-round match, Williams and unique to track and field. More than pointing NBA post-season for the serves at up to 114 mph - Open and whose sisters, No. 1-ranked helped Williams save 13 of 15 break Buzarnescu were beginning their last a dozen major weightlifting nations Philadelphia 76ers. Nelly and Jessica, are on the LPGA points, including a trio in the fi nal set. Whoever advanced would meet will have limits on their teams at the Basketball Australia issued a state- not quite like the old days, Tokyo Olympics as that sport tries ment early Tuesday local time to con- Tour - made a successful Wimbledon game. Jabeur, a 6-2, 6-1 winner against Re- to clean up its own steroid-tainted but not too shabby, either. debut, eliminating No. 15 Alex de On the fi rst, becca Peterson. fi rm Simmons’ decision to pull out of past. selection for the Tokyo Olympics. She drove forehands to corners. Minaur 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5). Buzarnescu “I’m praying for her to win right Russia is competing under the acro- She made her way to the net for tried a lob that now. It’s such an honor, privilege, nym “ROC” for the Russian Olympic crisp volleys. And when it was all TENNIS the 6-foot- everything, to play Venus,” Jabeur Committee at the Tokyo Olympics in over, the 41-year-old American 1 (1.85-me- said, smiling widely and holding all sports because of a Court of Ar- celebrated her first Wimbledon No. 4 Alexander Zverev, No. 9 Di- ter) Williams up crossed fingers on both hands. bitration for Sport ruling last year on match win since 2018 by raising ego Schwartzman and No. 26 Fabio reached and “She’s a legend and such an in- doping laboratory data which the court Fognini also advanced. turned into an spiration for me. I’ve watched her found was manipulated while in stor- her arms and yelling “Come on!” Buzarnescu is a 33-year-old left- overhead win- so many times. I love the way she age in Moscow. The Russia name, fl ag before reprising her familiar smile- hander who has dealt with a series of ner. Buzarnescu fights. Honestly, it would be my and anthem are banned. and-twirl wave at No. 3 Court. injuries and has gone from the top 20 Zverev fl ipped her rack- dream to play her.” ❑ ❑ ❑ A fi ve-time singles champion at the et end over end Jabeur said Williams “was kind to outside the top 150. Taking advantage of Spanish clubs’ All England Club who is making her “Both of us, we are not young any- and caught it. The next break chance enough to practice with me” recently 23rd appearance there, Williams be- ended with a backhand passing shot and congratulated her for her barrier- obligation to release players, Spain more. She’s got a few years in front will take six members from its Euro- gan her record-extending 90th Grand of me,” Buzarnescu said about Wil- into the net. On the third, a powerful breaking trophy. Slam tournament with her 90th career pean Championship squad to the To- liams. “Really a lot of respect for her forehand from Williams forced an er- “Such a nice person ... Very happy kyo Olympics. victory at Wimbledon, beating Mi- ror, and Buzarnescu put her hands on and supportive,” Jabeur said. “I ap- haela Buzarnescu of Romania 7-5, to be still playing at this age. And I’m Olympic coach Luis de la Fuente an- really happy that as long as she can her hips. preciate her a lot.” nounced a list of 22 players on Tues- 4-6, 6-3. Two points later, it ended. One of Later, Williams returned the com- Williams is a former No. 1-ranked compete at this level, that she will day including Unai Simón, Eric Gar- continue, because she’s an example Williams’ sisters stood and shot the pliments, calling Jabeur “one of my cía, Pau Torres, Pedri González, Mikel player who came into this week scene with her cellphone. Her moth- favorite people on tour.” ranked 111th and having lost in the for (all) tennis players.” Oyarzabal and Dani Olmo. They are in Spain’s goalkeeper Unai Simon Williams, who is entered in the er, Oracene Price, simply sat in the “Honestly, she’s just breaking the Euro 2020 squad that on Monday celebrates his side’s fifth goal dur- fi rst or second round at the past eight stands, head resting on her left hand. down barriers,” Williams said. “The majors. mixed doubles competition with Nick advanced to the quarterfi nals. ing the Euro 2020 soccer champi- Kyrgios, made her debut at Wimble- Someone who was rather demon- fi rst woman from her country to do Simón, García and Pedri were in the onship round of 16 match between “You can’t win them all. Life is strative about hoping Williams would anything that she’s doing. ... She’s starting lineup as Spain defeated Croa- about how you handle challenges. don in 1997. She won it for the fi rst Croatia and Spain at Parken sta- time in 2000 and most recently in win: No. 21 seed Ons Jabeur of Tu- inspiring so many people, including tia 5-3 in extra time in Copenhagen. dium in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Each point is a challenge on the nisia, who earlier this month became me.” Torres and Olmo also have started for June 28. (AP) court. No one gives you anything,” said Williams, who was diagnosed a decade ago with Sjogren’s syndrome, an autoimmune disease that can cause Kremlev confident AIBA will return to Olympic role in Paris fatigue and joint pain. “I like to think I handle my challenges well.” LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 29, sport’s place in the Olympic program pleting reforms, tage, it is true,” Kremlev said. “To put The schedule on Day 2 of the tour- (AP): The International Boxing Asso- was in question when the IOC tired and putting a full it mildly, our past is not that good.” nament, like on Day 1, was jumbled ciation’s new president is confi dent his of AIBA’s scandals and questionable stop to the past. Kremlev won election partly by by showers. At least 18 matches were beleaguered organization will be wel- business practices under President It is for the IOC vowing to eliminate AIBA’s debts, postponed until Wednesday and a comed back into the Olympic family Ching-Kuo Wu, who resigned in 2017.