SPORT Wednesday 10 May 2017 PAGE | 25 PAGE | 26 PAGE | 27 Curry sparkles as NewNe Delhi set to stage Infantino vows to Warriors seal the Amir Khan-backed fight racism, will deal against Jazz SSuperu Boxing League talk to Muntari Murray into Juventus see off Monaco to Madrid Open third round Madrid reach Champions League final Reuters orld number one UEFA CHAMPIONS Andy Murray beat LEAGUE WRomanian Marius Copil 6-4 6-3 to reach the Juventus reach their third round of the Madrid second final in three Open yesterday. years and will meet The Briton made a slow Real Madrid or start against an opponent 103 Atletico Madrid in places below him in the world Cardiff on June 3. rankings but he broke Copil's serve in the 10th game to take Dani Alves created first the set and found his feet in the second after breaking at goal for Mandzukic and 3-2. scored the second. He finished off the big- serving Romanian in 83 minutes without having faced Turin a break point. AP Murray, runner up in Madrid last year to Novak ani Alves inspired Juven- Djokovic, is likely to face a real tus to a 2-1 win over test of his number one status DMonaco yesterday to send at the tournament where any- the Italian club to its second thing less than a final berth Champions League final in three will reduce his overall rank- years. ing points. Alves set up Mario Mandzu- Crowd favourite Rafael kic's opener in the 33rd minute Nadal will make his first and got on the scoresheet him- appearance at the tournament self on the stroke of halftime he has won a record four times with a fantastic volley as Juven- when he meets Italian Fabio tus swept to a 4-1 victory on Fognini on today. aggregate. World number two Djok- Kylian Mbappe scored a con- ovic will meet Nicolas solation goal in the 69th minute Almagro, who won an all- for Monaco, as Juventus Spanish affair against Tommy remained on course for the tre- Juventus' Croatian forward Mario Mandzukic (left) scores a goal past Monaco's goalkeeper Danijel Subasic during the UEFA Robredo 6-3 3-6 6-1. ble. Massimiliano Allegri's side Champions League semi-final second leg football match played at the Juventus stadium in Turin yesterday. Juventus beat is likely to secure an unprece- Monaco 2-1 and reached their second Champions League final in three years. dented sixth Serie A title on Sunday at Roma, while it is also Radamel Falcao then blasted defender Kamil Glik hooked the sparked a counter which culmi- Monaco scored when a cor- Punjab down in the Italian Cup final. over the crossbar two minutes ball clear. Subasic then did well nated in an Alves cross. Subasic ner was played short and Joao Needing to overturn a 2-0 later. to deny Mandzukic, who also parried Mandzukic's header but Moutinho put in a low cross for KKR to keep first-leg deficit, Monaco got off Juventus soaked up the sent a header wide shortly the Croatia forward prodded Mbappe to fire home from close to an aggressive start. Juventus early pressure before stepping afterward as Juventus pushed home the rebound. range. play-off survived an early scare when up a gear midway through the for the goal which would effec- Juventus doubled its tally just Real Madrid and Atletico Mbappe's shot from a tight angle half. tively end the contest. before halftime. Subasic punched Madrid meet on Wednesday for came off the inside of the far Gonzalo Higuain burst into That came shortly after the clear a corner but it fell to Alves, the other second leg match, with hopes alive post, although the teenager had the area and chipped Monaco half hour as a long throw by who volleyed it into the back of defending champion Real been flagged offside. goalkeeper Danijel Subasic, but goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon the net from outside the area. Madrid leading 3-0. Mohali IANS ings XI Punjab stayed in contention in the Krace for play-offs with Unbeaten Lekhwiya finish as Group B leaders an upset victory over the sec- ond-placed Kolkata Knight Armstrong vas The home team struck first Lekhwiya's Youssef Msakni (left) scores Riders even as its top batsman The Peninsula through Musa as his right footed their second goal against Saudi Arabia's Al Chris Lynn's 52-ball 84 went drive from close range ended Fateh during the AFC Champions League up in smoke in an Indian Pre- three-goal blitz within a into the nets. football match played at the Abdullah bin mier League (IPL) game in span of 18 minutes paved Eleven minutes later, Msa- Khalifa stadium in Doha yesterday. Lekhwiya Mohali yesterday. A the way for unbeaten kni finished off a move started registered an emphatic 4-1 win to confirm Punjab now have 12 Lekhwiya to register an by Nam Tae-hee. themselves as Group B leaders. points from the same number emphatic 4-1 win over Al Fateh Tae-hee had a hand in the of matches and play Mumbai in the AFC Champions League third goal and he let Afif do the Indians and Rising Pune Group B match played at the damage with elegant drive from Supergiant away. KKR, on the Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium in outside the box, which ended in other hand, remained second Doha yesterday. the top left corner. despite the defeat with 16 With yesterday’s win, The Qatar Stars League points from 13 outings. They Lekhwiya confirm themselves champions continued to pick have already made the as Group B leaders. holes in the rival defense. Djamel knockout stages. Victory ensured the Qatar Belmadi’s side added a fourth Lynn struck eight fours Stars League side finished the one in the added-on injury time and three sixes but wickets group phase with an unbeaten of the first half. fell around him as the men in record and they will now meet Flores completed a move purple failed to gun down a Iran’s Persepolis, who finished started by Afif to make it 4-0. par target of 168 set by the as runners-up in Group D, in the Thereafter, in the second hosts batting first at the IS Round of 16 later this month. half, Lekhwiya could not add Bindra Stadium. Mohammed Musa gave his more goals. Earlier, Punjab lost wick- side the lead after just nine min- Much against the run of play, ets at regular intervals and utes before further goals from Flores ended by scoring an own could not get partnerships Yousef Msakni, Ali Hassan Afif goal of a flag kick with three going as KKR restricted them and Chico Flores inside the open- minutes to go for the final to 167/6 in 20 overs. ing 45 minutes effectively ended whistle. Esteghlal Khouzestan needed campaign. The hosts came back seeing off third-placed Al Fateh Brief scores: the game as a contest, with Flores’ In the other match, substi- just a point to advance to the strongly after the restart but Ali 4-1 in the other Group B game of Kings XI Punjab 167 for late own goal merely a consola- tute Mehdi Zobeidi headed home knockout round, but Humaid Khaseif proved hard to beat in the night, Esteghlal Khouzestan, 6 (Glenn Maxwell 44, Wrid- tion for the eliminated Al Fateh. a late equaliser as Esteghlal Ahmed gave the visitors the lead the Al Jazira goal until, with just who will next play Group D win- dhiman Saha 38, Chris The Saudi Arabian outfit Khouzestan claimed a 1-1 draw shortly before the interval at four minutes remaining, Zobeidi ners Al Hilal in the last 16, would Woakes 2-20) beat Kolkata never recovered from the early with Al Jazira and progressed to Ghadir Stadium when he found rose highest to head home Has- have advanced regardless of the Knight Riders 153 for 6 (Chris jolt, conceding goals at regular the 2017 AFC Champions League the back of the net from outside san Beit Saeid’s cross from the outcome. Al Jazira, meanwhile, Lynn 84, Rahul Tewatia 2-18, interval to go down to the Qatar Round of 16 as Group B the area to give the bottom side right. finished bottom of the Mohit Sharma 2-84) by 14 Stars League side. runners-up. hope of a first win of the With table-toppers Lekhwiya standings. runs SPORT WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 25 NBA opens first academy Curry sparkles as Warriors in cricket-mad India New Delhi seal the deal against Jazz Reuters he National Basket- Los Angeles said. The Warriors laid the foundation for ball Association AFP the win with a devastating first quarter T(NBA) opened its performance which saw them pour on 39 first academy in India tephen Curry scored 30 points as points to open up a double-digit lead yesterday, hoping the the Golden State Warriors against a shellshocked Utah. facility on the outskirts wrapped up a series sweep with "Guys really came out focused," said of Delhi will trigger the a 121-95 rout of the Utah Jazz on Warriors forward Draymond Green, who game's growth in a coun- Monday. had a triple-double. try obsessed with cricket. SThe Warriors advanced to a Western "We knew what the game plan was "We opened our first Conference finals showdown against and executed that game plan. I think the office in India in 2011 but either Houston or San Antonio after over- most important thing, though, is we we had to understand the coming a fleeting Utah rally to take the imposed our will on the game.