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SPORTS Saturday 30 June 2018
Wozniacki to face Sabalenka in Eastbourne final

EASTBOURNE, England (AP) losing the previous two in
— Top-seeded Caroline Tianjin last year and Lugano
Wozniacki reached her third in April.
Eastbourne International She finished off the first set
final by beating fellow with her first ace but, after
former No. 1 Angelique breaking Radwanska in the
Kerber 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 on first game of the second,
Friday. began spraying her shots
Wozniacki next faces and lost six games in a row.
the unseeded Aryna Radwanska was serving at
Sabalenka after the 3-2, 40-0 in the third when
Belarusian knocked out Sabalenka powered back
2008 champion Agnieszka by winning four straight
Radwanska 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. games.
Unseeded pair Lukas Lacko Sabalenka has beaten
and Mischa Zverev will three top-20 players this
meet in the men's final. week, including No. 7
Wozniacki saved a match and defending champion
point at 5-6 in the second Karolina Pliskova on
set, after an epic 24-shot Thursday.
rally, before eventually Lacko took less than an
prevailing in 2 hours, 17 hour to defeat fourth- Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki returns a ball to Germany's Angelique Kerber during their semifinal
minutes. She won the title seeded Marco Cecchinato at the Nature Valley International at Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, south England, Friday June 29,
in 2009 and was runner-up of Italy 6-3, 6-4 and reach 2018.
last year. his second ATP World Tour
"That was very tough," she final, six and a half years
said. "I was down match after his first. Brazil court allows prosecution
point and I think I got a little The 30-year-old Slovakian
lucky hitting both lines, and has grown in confidence
then I somehow managed since beating top-seeded of U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte
to get through. Diego Schwartzman in the
"I always have tough second round, the biggest came annoyed that a false
matches against Angie, win of his career. story about crime drew so
and I knew it wasn't going German player Zverev much attention, when the
to be an easy one today." beat Mikhail Kukushkin 7-6 city had hosted the games
Sabalenka advanced to (9), 6-4 in a match lasting without major problems.
her third career final after just shy of two hours.q
The scandal drew inter-
national headlines and
grew to overshadow the
final days of the games.
Lochte ended up serving a
10-month suspension from
the U.S. national swim team
for his behavior.
Last year, a court dismissed
the case against Lochte,
but the Superior Court of
In this Aug. 9, 2016 file photo, United States' swimmer Ryan Justice reversed that deci-
Lochte checks his time in a men's 4x200-meter freestyle heat at
the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. sion Tuesday. Prosecutor
Associated Press Rodrigo de Almeida Maia
said Thursday that the next
By SARAH DiLORENZO vandalism of a gas station step is for Lochte's lawyers
Associated Press and an ensuing confronta- to present their defense.
SAO PAULO (AP) — The tion with security guards. Lochte does not have to
prosecution of U.S. swim- The confrontation was appear in person to de-
mer Ryan Lochte for filing captured by surveillance fend himself, de Almeida
a false police report during cameras at the gas station. Maia said.
the 2016 Olympics is back Lochte later acknowl- Steve Lochte, the swim-
on after a Brazilian court edged he was intoxicated mer's father, said by tele-
decision this week. at the time and his behav- phone that he had no
During the games in Rio de ior led to the confrontation. comment and directed
Janeiro, the 12-time Olym- The initial claim appeared questions to his son or his
pic medalist told NBC that to confirm widespread son's lawyers.
he and fellow swimmers fears before the Olym- Jeff Ostrow, a lawyer who
were robbed at gunpoint pics that the event would has represented Lochte in
in a taxi by men with police be marred by rising crime the past, did not immedi-
badges as they returned to rates in Rio de Janeiro, ately respond to an email
the Olympic Village from a which has long struggled and a voicemail message
party. But prosecutors said with violence. As Lochte's seeking comment. It was
Lochte invented the story version of events began to not clear if he would repre-
to cover up the swimmers' shift, many Brazilians be- sent Lochte in this case.q