Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey dives for the ball on day 2 of the first Test against Bangladesh at Marrara Stadium in Darwin, Australia, yesterday. Tanzid Hasan’s 101 and 84 by captain Najmul Hossain Shanto put the visitors in charge at stumps, leading them to 351-6, 153 runs ahead of Australia’s first innings of 198.
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ON TILT: Four time Grand Slam winner Aryna Sabalenka dropped the first set in a tiebreak against Russian player Ekaterina Alexandrova, who won five of the last six points Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei (謝淑薇) on Saturday advanced to the women’s doubles quarter-finals of the Toronto Masters with Latvian partner Jelena Ostapenko, while in the women’s singles world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula were upset in fourth-round matches. Hsieh and Ostapenko defeated Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and Quinn Gleason of the US in straight sets 6-4, 7-6 (7/1), while Taiwan’s Wu Fang-hsien (吳芳嫺) and Chan Hao-ching (詹皓晴) were knocked out in the round of 16. Hsieh and Ostapenko are scheduled to play Ann Li of the US and Denmark’s Clara Tauson today. Four-time Grand Slam winner Sabalenka suffered a blow to her
Taiwanese tennis veteran Hsieh Su-wei and Latvian partner Jelena Ostapenko on Sunday advanced to the women’s doubles semi-finals at the WTA 1000 Toronto Masters, edging past an unseeded pair in straight sets. The fifth-seeded duo of Hsieh and Ostapenko rallied from an early deficit in the opening set before prevailing 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 in their quarter-final against Ann Li of the US and Clara Tauson of Denmark in more than 90 minutes on hard court. Hsieh and Ostapenko were playing together for the first time in six months as a warm-up for the US Open later this month. They had
Freddie Freeman apparently avoided serious injury on Wednesday when the Los Angeles Dodgers’ first baseman took a frightening tumble down the stairs and into the visitors’ dugout while trying to catch a foul popup in the eighth inning. Freeman was not sure whether he would play when the Dodgers begin an important four-game series with the MLB-leading Milwaukee Brewers, but he is grateful his freefall to the dugout floor was not worse. “I didn’t hit my head, so that was the key part there,” Freeman said. “I am sore. Kneecaps are sore. Shoulder is sore. Hand sore. Wrist sore. I mean, I
Surfing’s 11-time world champion Kelly Slater showed he still has what it takes to foot it with the best at the Tahiti Pro on Saturday, scoring the highest heat total of the first day in huge and wild waves. The 54-year-old, who retired from full-time competition in 2024, clocked up an excellent two-wave total of 16.23 out of 20 to advance to the second round and into a mouth-watering match-up with Brazil’s three-time uworld champion, Gabriel Medina. “It’s sort of like riding a bike, but you forget how gnarly Teahupo’o is,” said Slater, who has won the event five times in 20
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