GOLF
Two lead in Tamsui
Miguel Tabuena and Ajeetesh Sandhu were joint leaders after the third round of the Mercuries Taiwan Masters in New Taipei City yesterday. Tabuena shot a third-round 68 and Sandhu a 70 at the Taiwan Golf and Country Club in Tamsui to put them on 209 overall, one shot clear of Suradit Yongcharoenchai. Lin Wen-tang in eighth was the leading Taiwanese at the tournament. He was five shots off the lead after rounds of 71, 71 and 70 for 212 overall. The other Taiwanese in the top 20 were Wang Wei-lun, Lu Wei-chih, Chan Shih-chang and Chiu Han-ting.
GOLF
Trio head LPGA event
Alena Sharp shot a six-under 65 on Friday for a share of the second-round lead with Brittany Altomare and Cheyenne Knight at the LPGA Tour’s Volunteers of America Classic. Sharp closed with a bogey on the 18th to drop into the tie for the lead at nine-under 133 at the Old American Golf Club in The Colony, Texas. Altomare had a 66 and Knight shot 67. Of the two Taiwanese at the event, Hsu Wei-ling was shot her second 68 to take a share of seventh, three shots off the pace, while Chien Pei-yun was in a share of 37th after rounds of 68 and 73.
MOTORSPORT
HK loses Formula E
Hong Kong has been dropped from the 2019-2020 Formula E season amid pro-democracy protests in the territory that show no sign of abating. Organizers released next season’s calendar on Friday, with Hong Kong missing out for the first time since 2016. The release made no mention of why Hong Kong had been dropped, but the South China Morning Post reported that organizers feared they could not risk putting on the event given the major protests now coursing through the city. “The recent social unrest put a big question mark on the possibility of starting the event in March,” Hong Kong Automobile Association governor Edward Yu was quoted as saying.
CRICKET
India set S Africa 395
India’s Rohit Sharma on the fourth day yesterday struck his second century of the first Test to help India set South Africa a daunting victory target of 395. South Africa were 11-1 when bad light ended play for the day, with Dean Elgar (2) out LBW after the home team declared on 323-4, with Sharma getting 127. Earlier, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin ended with 7-145 as South Africa added 46 runs to their overnight score to finish on 431 all out.
EUROPEAN SOCCER
Spurs lose Lloris
Tottenham Hotspur lost goalkeeper Hugo Lloris to injury as they lost 3-0 to Brighton & Hove Albion. Lloris was stretchered from the field with an apparently painful elbow injury after an awkward fall as he conceding an early goal. He dropped a simple cross into the box before falling backward as Neal Maupay headed into an empty net. In Ligue 1, Olympique de Marseille are without a win in four matches after losing 3-1 against Amiens on Friday, while Hertha BSC ended a long wait to beat Fortuna Dusseldorf 3-1 in Bundesliga action. Hertha claimed their first Bundesliga victory over Dusseldorf since 1979, although they beat them in 2011 in Germany’s second division. In La Liga, Real Betis Balompie and SD Eibar drew 1-1.
‘AWFUL PERFORMANCE’: Golden State were always chasing the game after failing to threaten from long range, making just eight of 33 three-point attempts Aaron Gordon on Monday scored 38 points as the Denver Nuggets shrugged off the absence of Nikola Jokic to halt the Golden State Warriors’ seven-game winning streak with a 114-105 victory over their Western Conference rivals. A dazzling display from Gordon inspired what was ultimately a comfortable win for Denver, who were missing regular starters Jokic and Jamal Murray from their lineup. The absentees were barely felt by Denver, who startled the Warriors early at San Francisco’s Chase Center and led for most of the game. The Warriors threatened to stage a late rally after slashing the Nuggets’ fourth-quarter lead from 15 points
Barcelona’s Ferran Torres scored twice on Sunday to help secure a late 4-2 comeback win at Atletico Madrid in a pulsating La Liga clash that took the Catalan side back to the top of the table. Barca have 60 points and a game in hand after last week’s postponement of their home game with CA Osasuna. They are level on points with Real Madrid, who won 2-1 at Villarreal on Saturday. “I am happy and proud of this team,” Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick told a news conference. “They never give up... It’s a great three points and we are happy to
Chris Wood has fired Nottingham Forest into surprise UEFA Champions League contention and now the striker wants to score the goals to help New Zealand make history at the FIFA World Cup. New Zealand are strong favorites to qualify out of the Oceania region over the next week and reach the World Cup for only the third time. At the country’s two previous appearances at the finals, in 1982 and 2010, they have failed to win a match in six attempts. With Wood captaining the side and leading from the front, he told local media yesterday that the current squad can finally deliver
Paolo Banchero on Sunday scored 24 points as the Orlando Magic overturned a 13-point deficit to end the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 16-game unbeaten streak with a gutsy 108-103 road victory. Cleveland, the runaway Eastern Conference leaders, had looked poised to extend their franchise-record winning run after surging clear of Orlando early in the third quarter, but after a season where they have staged hefty winning comebacks of their own, the tables turned on Cleveland in the face of a furious burst of Orlando scoring. The Magic outscored Cleveland 35-23 in the third quarter, with Franz Wagner leading the charge with nine points and
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