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Tuesday 19 March 2019

Austria’s Marcel Hirscher, left, and United States’ Mikaela Shiffrin
hold the World Cup overall trophies, at the alpine ski finals in
Soldeu, Andorra, Sunday, March 17, 2019.
Associated Press
Shiffrin tops ski

World Cup money list

with record $885K Bianca Andreescu, of Canada, smiles as she hugs her trophy after defeating Angelique Kerber,

of Germany, in the women’s final at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament Sunday, March 17,
OBERHOFEN, Switzerland Marcel Hirscher, who won 2019, in Indian Wells, Calif. Andreescu won 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. Associated Press
(AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin a record-extending eighth
earned a record 886,000 straight overall World Cup Thiem edges Federer in 3 sets to win
Swiss francs ($885,000) in title, topped the men’s list
prize money during the with 565,000 Swiss francs Indian Wells title
World Cup ski season. ($564,000). Shiffrin won the
Shiffrin’s 17 victories — the women’s overall title for Continued from Page 17 more games in the set. the final set to earn the first
most ever in a season — the third straight year. Both players were on serve title of her fledgling career.
gave her at least double World Cup organizers Thiem had lost in his previ- in the third set until Thiem Andreescu won on her
the amount of the next typically pay 45,000 Swiss ous two ATP Masters 1000 collected the only break. fourth match point when
highest earner on the wom- francs ($44,950) for a win. finals. But the 25-year-old Federer tried consecutive Kerber netted a back-
en’s circuit. Petra Vlhova Prize money is paid down Austrian’s solid serve held drop shots that Thiem re- hand. She broke Kerber
was second with 428,000 to 30th place, which usu- up against Federer as it trieved for crosscourt fore- three times in the third set,
Swiss francs ($427,000). ally earns $500 ($499).q had throughout the tour- hand winners before the rallying from a 3-2 deficit
nament. Austrian hit a winning fore- to take four of the final five
Tour de France Thiem was broken just four hand to lead 6-5. games.
times out of 61 service “He did very well when he Andreescu dropped her
organizers unveil opening games in the tournament. got up to the ball, stayed racket near the baseline
and fell on her back, her
He didn’t lose serve during calm, made the shot,” Fe-
stages of 2020 race his semifinal win over Milos derer said. legs in the air as she cov-
Raonic, facing only one Federer won just one point ered her face in disbelief.
break point in that match. on Thiem’s serve in the final After getting up and ex-
PARIS (AP) — Sprinters and Canadian teenager Bian- game. changing kisses with Ker-
climbers will have a chance ca Andreescu upset An- “Just came up against ber, the teen bent down
to shine at the start of next gelique Kerber 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 somebody who was on and kissed the sunbaked
year’s Tour de France. to win the women’s title. the day a bit better when hard court and dropped to
Race organizers have un- Thiem and Andreescu it really mattered,” Federer her back again, her arms
veiled the details of the first earned $1.3 million each. said. “I have been in these and legs splayed, before
two stages of the 2020 edi- Federer and Thiem had split positions so many times that grabbing her head.
tion of cycling’s showcase their four previous meet- I get over it very quickly.” Born in Canada, she later
event, which will start in the ings, but Federer had won Federer advanced to the moved with her parents to
Mediterranean city of Nice. both of their hard-court final after rival Rafael Nad- Romania, where she first
The 170-kilometer open- matches without dropping al withdrew before their started playing tennis.
ing stage consists of three Colombia’s Egan Arley Bernal a set. semifinal match because Kerber was the last of five
laps on a circuit designed Gomez, wearing the overall He cruised through the of knee pain. Thiem also seeded players that An-
around Nice with a finish leader’s yellow jersey, thanks first set in 36 minutes while benefited from a walkover, dreescu knocked off in her
on the Promenade des teammate Poland’s Michal getting broken for just the reaching the semis when seven matches.
Anglais that should favor Kwiatkowski, wearing the second time during his run Gael Monfils withdrew with “When she had the chanc-
best sprinter’s green jersey,
sprinters. The profile of the as they cross the finish line of to his ninth appearance in an Achilles injury. es, she just go for it,” Kerber
second stage, which also the eighth stage of the Paris the final. But Federer broke Andreescu, an 18-year-old said.
finishes in Nice, is radically Nice cycling race with start back in the next game and Canadian, became the The Canadian followed
different with three difficult and finish in Nice, southeast- served out the set. first wild-card winner and in the footsteps of Naomi
climbs, the Col de la Colmi- ern France, Sunday, March “The way he was playing second-youngest to claim Osaka, who was a little-
ane, Col de Turini and Col 17, 2019. Associated Press the first set was unreal,” the title in tournament his- known 20-year-old when
d’Eze. Thiem said. “I had to get tory. she won the title last year.
The Riviera city, which hosts This year’s race will begin used to it.” “The fricking champion of Osaka used it as a spring-
the final stage of the Paris- in Brussels to celebrate the Thiem earned the only Indian Wells,” Andreescu board to win titles at the
Nice race each year, pre- 50th anniversary of five- break of the second set in said. “It’s crazy.” U.S. and Australian opens
viously held the Grand De- time champion Eddy Mer- the fourth game, going up She overcame nerves, fa- while ascending to the No.
part in 1981. ckx’s first win.q 3-1. Federer won just two tigue, arm and leg issues in 1 ranking in January.q