ARAB TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2021 SPORTS 14 Pak win by an innings and 147 runs Pakistan seal 2nd Test and 2-0 series sweep in Zimbabwe HARARE, Zimbabwe, May 10, (AP): Pakistan quickly took the one wicket it needed Monday for another innings Zverev claims 2nd victory over struggling Zimbabwe in the second Test and a 2-0 series sweep. Madrid Open title It took only five overs on Day 4 for Shaheen Shah Afridi to end it by hav- MADRID, May 10, (AP): Alexander ing Luke Jongwe caught behind by Zverev continued his impressive form wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan for going into the French Open by win- 37. ning his second Madrid Open title. Pakistan won by an innings and 147 After beating top-seeded Rafael runs at Harare Sports Club to go with Nadal in the quarterfinals and fourth- the innings and 116-run win in the first ranked Dominic Thiem in the semifi- Test at the same venue. nals, Zverev rallied to defeat Matteo Berrettini 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-3 for his sec- ond title this season. The sixth-ranked CRICKET German also won the Mexican Open in Acapulco in March. Zverev won his first Madrid title in Pakistan also claimed a slice of his- 2018 in a final against Thiem. The win tory with Afridi’s 5-52 making him the on Sunday gave him his fourth Masters third Pakistan bowler in the test to take 1000 title, and first in three years. a five-wicket haul. He and Nauman Zverev will be trying to improve from Ali (5-86) took five each in the second his fourth-round exit last year at the innings after Hasan Ali’s five in the French Open. first. It’s the first time Pakistan has had three bowlers with five wickets in a TENNIS match, and the first time it has hap- pened in tests since 1993. Zimbabwe continued on 220-9 in its “To do well at the French Open, you second innings, on the brink of defeat and need to be playing well during the clay still 158 runs short of making Pakistan bat court season,” the 24-year-old Zverev again. The home team added only 11 said. “That is in a way important for more runs to be all out for 231. me, as well. At the end of the day I Pakistan cricket team pose with the trophy after winning the series and Test cricket matches against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club, Harare, on May Pakistan controlled the match from won a Masters. There’s really very 10. (AP) the start and posted 510-8 declared little in terms of bigger than this one after batting first, with 215 not out right here. I’m happy with this achieve- from opener Abid Ali and 126 from ment. Obviously, yeah, I look forward Azhar Ali. to the next few weeks. I look forward The bowlers then went to work and to what’s ahead.” were also dominant, with Hasan Ali The 10th-ranked Berrettini won the McIlroy wins at Quail Hollow to collecting 5-27 in 13 overs as Pakistan title in Belgrade last week. The Italian bowled Zimbabwe out for 132 in its has been gradually returning to form first innings and made the home team after struggling with an abdominal follow on. injury that kept him from playing his Zimbabwe was outclassed and only quarterfinal match against Stefanos passed 200 once in its four innings in Tsitsipas at the Australian Open. The end 18 months victory drought the series. injury kept Berrettini out until Monte Carlo, where he lost his opening match. “This was my first (Masters 1000) Home favorite Jutanugarn shoots 63 to win LPGA Thailand final. Hopefully it’s not going to be my last,” Berrettini said. “But like I said before, I’m really happy on my level. CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 10, (AP): Crosby, became the first US captain with back-to-back Today unfortunately I think I didn’t victories since Buddy Marucci in 2007 and 2009. play my best tennis.” Rory McIlroy found his comfort zone Eckroat overwhelmed Mark Power 7 and 6 in the After exchanging a break each in at Quail Hollow and left with a tro- opening match, and Coody beat Alex Fitzpatrick 3 the first set, Berrettini opened the tie- and 1 in the second. Castillo topped John Murphy 2 breaker with a 5-0 lead but allowed phy he badly needed. Zverev to come back. The Italian McIlroy closed with a 3-under 68 and made it and 1 to become the only player to finish the two-day event 4-0. closed it out on his fourth set point tough on himself at the end, driving into the after Zverev also squandered a set hazard left of the 18th fairway and needing two Hammer beat Ben Schmidt 4 and 3 in the second- to-last match, and Hagestad put the Americans over point in the back-and-forth tiebreaker. putts from 45 feet for a one-shot victory in the the top when he was 4 up with four to play in a It was the first set dropped by Zverev Wells Fargo Championship. 4-and-2 victory over Ben Jones. this week. What mattered was ending 18 months since his Quade Cummins gave the US a half-point, win- Germany’s Alexander Zverev Zverev, who finished with seven last victory in the HSBC Champions in Shanghai, ning the 18th with a par to pull even with Barclay returns the ball to Italy’s Matteo double-faults, evened the match after along with finding a strong semblance of his game as Berrettini during the men’s final breaking Berrettini at 4-4 and serving Brown. match at the Mutua Madrid Open he prepares to return to Kiawah Island for the PGA British Amateur champion Long, Matty Lamb, out to clinch the second set at the Championship. tennis tournament in Madrid, Spain, Magic Box center court, which had its Angus Flanagan and Jack Dyer won matches for on May 9. (AP) McIlroy seemed to be on the verge of choking up GB&I. roof closed because of rain in Madrid. at winning on Mother’s Day, thinking of his mother, GB&I took 2-1/2 of the four points in the morning Rosie, and wife Erica. She was at Quail Hollow with their daughter, Poppy, and McIlroy doted on them foursomes to pull within a half-point. before signing his card. In Pattaya, Thailand, Ariya Jutanugarn closed with Truex dominates at Darlington Rory McIlroy holds the trophy after winning dur- a 9-under 63 to win the Honda LPGA Thailand by a ing the fourth round of the Wells Fargo Championship golf tournament at Quail Hollow stroke and become the first home winner in 14 years. DARLINGTON, S.C., May 10, (AP): Super Bowl winning coach a scare. on May 9, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP) Jutanugarn won her 11th LPGA Tour title and first Martin Truex Jr got nervous in a hurry “Yeah, he scared me, too,” Truex told GOLF since July 2018. She finished at 22-under 266 to edge near the end of his dominating drive at him. fellow Thai Atthaya Thitikul, the 18-year-old who Darlington Raceway. The victory gave Truex some pay- Stricker made for birdie in regulation to force the missed a 4-foot birdie putt at the last to force a playoff. Barely pushed much of the race, the back at Darlington from the last time McIlroy seized control with two splendid bunker playoff. Patty Tavatanakit, the 54-hole leader and winner Joe Gibbs Racing driver suddenly saw here last September, when he led 196 shots, getting up-and-down for birdie on the reach- Stricker, who won the last time the event was held of the first LPGA Tour major of the year, closed with Kyle Larson catching up in the closing laps, yet finished 22nd after tangling able par-4-14th and the par-5 15th, and then holding in 2019, closed with a 68 to match Cejka at 18-under on at the end. a 70 to tie for third with Angel Yin (66), three-time laps. for the lead late with Chase Elliott. 270. Thailand winner Amy Yang (64) and So Yeon Ryu Truex, though, called on his steady Abraham Ancer ran off three straight birdies and Cejka, who grew up in Germany, got into the field nearly closed with a fourth one, posting a 66 for a (64). demeanor and track focus to pull away as an alternate Monday when Jay Haas withdrew and Jutanugarn’s unblemished round included nine for his third NASCAR Cup Series vic- runner-up finish, the fourth of his career as the left with full exemption. He made his first two PGA Mexican seeks his first PGA Tour title. birdies and went some way to making up for her col- tory this season. Tour Champions starts as a Monday qualifier, and lapse in 2013 when she blew a two-shot lead on the Not that it was easy. McIlroy finished at 10-under 274 for his 19th tied for second at the Chubb Classic. career victory, and his third at Quail Hollow. 18th hole with a triple bogey that handed victory to In Birmingham, Alabama, Alex Cejka won the Swede Robert Karlsson was third at 14 under after South Korea’s Inbee Park. Regions Tradition in only his third PGA Tour a 69. In Tenerife, Spain, Garrick Higgo of South Africa CAR RACING Champions start, beating defending champion Steve In Juno Beach, Florida, Austin Eckroat and made a hole-in-one on the seventh hole and was Stricker with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff.