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Thursday 7 June 2018

French Open

Continued from Page 17 In the other men’s quarter-
final, No. 3 Marin Cilic and
When the top-seeded Ha- No. 5 Juan Martin del Potro
lep and No. 3 Muguruza were at 5-all in a first-set tie-
meet Thursday, their con- breaker when the matchup
trasting styles will match up of past U.S. Open champi-
with plenty at stake. The ons was stopped.
winner earns a berth in the In addition to Halep vs. Mu-
final at Roland Garros — guruza, the other women’s
plus the No. 1 ranking that semifinal is the first at the
currently belongs to Halep. French Open featuring two
“I have just to stay strong, Americans in 16 years: No.
to try to make her uncom- 10 Sloane Stephens against
fortable on court,” Halep No. 13 Madison Keys in a
said, “and to try to play my rematch of last year’s U.S.
game.” Open final. Stephens won
The women got their that one, as well as the
matches done before rain only other match the long-
arrived at Roland Garros, time friends, Fed Cup and
leaving the men’s quarterfi- Olympic teammates have
nals suspended in progress. played against each other. Romania’s Simona Halep celebrates her victory over Germany’s Angelique Kerber after
That might very well have Muguruza had lost all three their quarterfinal match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium,
been a relief to 10-time previous times she faced Wednesday, June 6, 2018 in Paris.
champion Rafael Nadal, Sharapova, whose five Associated Press
who was not at his best Grand Slam titles include “When you’re facing some- gain a game, and by then two games.
Wednesday and dropped two at Roland Garros. body that also has an ag- she already trailed 4-0. “Kind of a weird day,” Mu-
a French Open set for the But they hadn’t played gressive style of game,” “She did a lot of things bet- guruza said.
first time since 2015. since 2014, back before Muguruza said about fac- ter than I did,” Sharapova Muguruza leads Halep
Nadal lost the opener 6-4 Muguruza was as confident ing Sharapova, “I think it’s said. Sharapova didn’t play 3-1 head-to-head, but
against 11th-seeded Di- and successful as she is about who takes the com- a point in the fourth round, this is their first Grand Slam
ego Schwartzman but be- these days. mand, who takes the first because Serena Williams matchup.
gan to play better after a Muguruza has not dropped opportunity.” pulled out of their much- Here’s another key catego-
rain delay of just under an a set in this year’s tour- Sharapova certainly didn’t anticipated showdown ry in which Muguruza has
hour. Nadal was serving for nament and dominated do that. She double-fault- with an injured chest mus- the upper hand: 2-0 in ma-
the second set at 5-3, 30- Sharapova with booming ed three times in the open- cle. Muguruza essentially jor championships. Muguru-
15, when another shower groundstrokes and superb ing game, part of her 27 got that round off, too: Her za won the French Open in
came and action was halt- returning that earned six unforced errors. opponent, Lesia Tsurenko, 2016, then Wimbledon last
ed for the day. breaks. It took her 29 minutes just to quit with an injury after only year.q

APNewsBreak: Mastercard scraps food-for-goals after backlash

mar scored. Having spent
the weekend defending its
“goals change lives” ad-
vertising on social media ,
Mastercard said on Mon-
day it “heard the com-
ments about our cam-
paign in Latin America”
and was withdrawing it.
“We don’t want fans, play-
ers or anyone to lose focus
on the critical issue of hun-
ger and our efforts to raise
Brazil’s Neymar during the friendly soccer match between support for this cause,”
Brazil and Croatia at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool, England, Mastercard told The As-
Sunday, June 3, 2018. sociated Press. “Based on Argentina’s Lionel Messi takes part during a team training ses-
Associated Press the feedback, we are ad- sion at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper, in Sant
By ROB HARRIS cized online as a stunt justing this campaign to Joan Despi, Spain, Friday, June 1, 2018.
AP Global Soccer Writer ahead of the World Cup, replace the 10,000 meals Associated Press
Facing an escalating where rival credit card gi- donation per goal by called the campaign “a pany said. “We are grate-
backlash, Mastercard ant Visa is the official FIFA Messi and Neymar Jr. with PR own goal. Priceless” — ful to our brand ambassa-
scrapped a charity ini- sponsor. a contribution of one mil- alluding to the company’s dors who will continue to
tiative to donate 10,000 Even Brazil coach Tite, lion meals in 2018. This is in slogan. play a critical role in help-
meals to hungry children whose team is sponsored addition to 400K meals we “We want to reinforce that ing us raise awareness of
for every goal scored by by Mastercard, expressed have already donated as Mastercard’s global com- the cause. Mastercard will
Argentina forward Lionel frustration with the cam- part of the campaign.” mitment of delivering 100 continue to be one of the
Messi and Brazil counter- paign that only rewarded Among the tweets to Mas- million meals by the end of many players engaged in
part Neymar. the United Nations World tercard, Andrew Stroehlein this year goes beyond any reversing the cycle of pov-
The campaign was criti- Food Programme if Ney- of Human Rights Watch one campaign,” the com- erty globally.”q