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SPORTS Friday 19 May 2017

KING

JAMES

COURT

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic
returns the ball to Spain’s
Roberto Bautista Agut dur-
ing their match at the Italian
Open tennis tournament, in
Rome, Thursday, May 18,
2017.
Associated Press
Nadal beats

Sock to reach

Italian Open
quarterfinals

ROME (AP) — Rafael Nad-
al’s preparations for the
French Open continued
apace as he swept past
13th-seeded Jack Sock
6-3, 6-4 Thursday to ease
into the Italian Open quar-
terfinals and extend his win-
ning streak to 17 matches.
Fourth-seeded Nadal
broke Sock’s serve twice
in the second set and
served out the match to
set up a last-eight meeting
with Dominic Thiem, who
was beaten by Nadal in
the Madrid Open final last
week.
“I am here to try my best. I
know (it) is a tough tourna-
ment. I don’t have an easy
draw here, a tough one,”
Nadal said. “Dominic is the
player that is having prob-
ably more success now on
clay, no? So will be anoth- Cavaliers again flirt with historic playoff start
er tough battle tomorrow.”
The 30-year-old Nadal has
won consecutive clay- Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James waits at the scorers’ table to enter the
court tournaments in Mon- game during the first quarter of Game 1 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference
te Carlo, Barcelona and finals against the Boston Celtics, Wednesday, May 17, 2017, in Boston.
Madrid. Associated Press
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