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Thursday 9 November 2017

Twins’ Buxton leads group of 6

1st-time Gold Glove winners

Jack Sock of the United States
celebrates his victory against
Filip Krajinovic of Serbia during
their final match of the Paris
Masters tennis tournament
at the Bercy Arena in Paris,
France, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017.
Associated Press
Top U.S. man

Jack Sock’S

TenniS SeaSon

endS on high mighTY

in London

By HOWARD FENDRICH
AP Tennis Writer
Jack Sock’s 2017 did not miTT
always go as planned. Still,
he’s having quite a finish.
He won a total of only three
matches at Grand Slam
tournaments all year, mak-
ing it as far as the third round
just once and bowing out in
the opening round twice.
During one particularly
rough stretch from August
to early October, he lost
five times in a row.
The 25-year-old American
turned things around at the
end of the season, so much
so that he ended up earn-
ing a debut appearance at In this Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017 file photo, Minnesota
the ATP Finals, starting with Twins center fielder Byron Buxton goes up the
a match against 19-time
major champion Roger Fe- wall to catch a fly ball off the bat of San Diego
derer on Sunday in London. Padres’ Cory Spangenberg in the fourth inning of
“It’s hard when you have a baseball game in Minneapolis.
a bit of a period where it Associated Press
doesn’t go as well as you Page 20
would like. So he had to get
back to doing the things he
does really well and really
believing in those things,”
Sock’s coach, Jay Berger,
said in a telephone inter-
view.
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