The New York Times - USA (2020-11-15)

32 0 N THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTSSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Those mornings, there was
never enough time. For years, you
could set your watch by Arsène
Wenger. Punctuality is a rare trait
in soccer, but Wenger was fastidi-
ous about it. His
weekly news confer-
ence at Colney,
Arsenal’s training
facility just outside
London, always
started at 9 a.m.
And it started at 9 a.m. sharp.
There were days when Wenger
was defensive, prickly, a little
irascible, but they were rare.
Often, particularly in the later
years of his reign, he gave the
impression that he was happy to
talk, to chew the fat, to delve deep
into some issue or other that had
grabbed his attention.
It was rarely something head-
line-grabbing; long-term trends in
the development of players in
South America always seemed to
engage him more than the delay
in Jack Wilshere’s new contract.
But there was never enough
time. It was a point of principle to
Wenger that, even as an elder
statesman, he should be on the
training field before his players
every day. If he was not going to
be late for the news media, he
certainly would not be late for
them.
And so, just as he seemed to be
getting going, as he started to
bestow his wisdom and share his
thoughts, he would cut the whole
thing short and — with impecca-
ble politeness — extricate himself.
Questions and ideas would hang
there in the air, never fully real-
ized.
Now, though, Wenger has time.
More time, anyway. Since he left
Arsenal in 2018, it has been easy
to believe him to be retired, to
assume that his role at FIFA — as
chief of global football develop-
ment — would mean a hefty sala-
ry but little actual work.
If he has retired, though, he is
not especially good at it. If the
FIFA job was meant to be a sine-
cure, he was hoodwinked. He has
been tasked with creating a re-
search department that can iden-
tify structural deficiencies in
every country around the world.
He is working to improve the
facilities and coaching in 200
national federations. He wants to
make sure “everyone has chance
to play structured football.” In his
spare time, he has written a mem-
oir, and embarked on a moder-
ately demanding promotional
schedule.
This should, perhaps, be no
surprise. Wenger never made a
convincing candidate for a quiet
life. Bixente Lizarazu, the former
France defender and an occa-
sional colleague of Wenger’s from
his time as a television pundit,
always worried that it would be
“impossible for him to stop.”
It is a characterization Wenger
recognizes. His approach to man-
agement was all-encompassing.
He prepared, he said, like a “top-
level athlete: I never went out,
never went to a disco, ate early,
did my gym.” His approach, he
writes, was “monastic.”
That came at a cost. Amid the
recollections of his great teams,
his new book is at its most com-
pelling when he sheds even a
glimmer of light on the personal
sacrifices. Management, he
writes, is “lonely.” More than once,
he hints that he did not spend
quite so much time with his
daughter, Lea, as he might have
done. (His pride in her is evident:
There are several mentions of her
academic success at Cambridge
University.)
“If you want success, you have
to commit completely,” he said,

when asked if he regretted that approach. “No matter what kind of life you lead, you have to find the meaning in that life. I did that. Football was the meaning in my life. I have no regrets on that. “But, like every single-minded life, it develops some aspects and kills others. When you are in competition, you become tough. You kill your sensitivity. You focus on efficiency and winning, but don’t develop other parts of your personality. I regret that. But I don’t regret the life I lived. I would do it the same way again.” His dedication to the game remains. The metaphors he chooses speak of both a higher calling and a base addiction. Even now, he said, “a day without football is like a day without mass for a priest,” he said. He misses management — or, more, the basic tenet of being a coach, helping “players to maximize the talent they have” — because “if you take a drug every day for 36 years, you miss it, even if it does not mean you take it again.” He has found a balance, then. He can still be consumed by soccer; it is just that now, he does not have the demands of the immedi- ate to distract him from the big questions, the grander thoughts. And he still has those thoughts, on anything and everything. He worries that the development of players is suffering because clubs are too quick to solve problems for their young talents. “The balance between providing support for players and asking them to use their initiative is too much toward support,” he said. “We have to encourage players to take the initiative again, to solve their own problems.” He fears that clubs are too quick to “ask what they can do to help,” whether it is offering psycholo- gists or specialist coaches, and he accepts that he was “one of the first to create the problem,” that his modernization of Arsenal led to teams’ employing a phalanx of coaches to take care of every aspect of a player’s growth, re- moving individual agency. He believes that soccer, at the elite level, is growing too homo- geneous, running the risk of “los- ing local characteristics.” He thinks that in an era when “everyone plays a little bit the same, and everyone thinks they are the only ones who play like that,” there is a danger that creativity has been outsourced to the collective. “The technical level has re- gressed a little bit,” he said. “Bar- celona today is not as good as before. Real Madrid is the same. Bayern Munich is not as good as it was when it had Robben and Ribéry on full power. The team- work is of a high standard, but individually the level has gone down.”

In that context, he sees creative players being stifled. “Physique has taken over, and the creative players have been kicked out,” he said. “You want to see players like Maradona, Cruyff, Platini, Zidane. But since we measure the physical performances, these players are suffering.” He sees, in his former charge Mesut Özil, one of the victims of that shift. He credits France’s “successful immigration policy” with its re- markable treasure-trove of talent. He regards an era of satellite clubs — as practiced by Manches- ter City and the Red Bull network — as an inevitability. “You cannot have a situation where the country that educated the boys has to pay megamoney to use them, as has happened with Paul Pogba and Jadon Sancho,” he said. “That system cannot last.” He suspects that the coronavirus pandemic will accelerate soccer’s journey to one of two futures: either a European Super League, something he has been warning about for some time, or to a world in which “the Premier League eats everything else.” He just hopes that the sight of empty stadiums teaches the game that “without fans, we are not the same sport.” And he wonders if soccer has, perhaps, become too narrow in its definition of success. “We live in a society where only the winner gets credit, and everyone else feels useless,” he said. “But real life is not like that.” Wenger, perhaps, is a prime example of that. There were plenty of those, a few years ago, who pointed at him — in a sta- dium he helped design, working at a club whose modern reputation he forged, in a league he had helped to define — and told him that he had failed, all because he had not won a championship for a decade or so. It is hard to believe Wenger misses all of that: the pressure, the criticism, the heat. But for all that he has given to soccer, all that it has taken from him, he does not seem to have wearied of it at all. He has a chance, now, to do what- ever he wants. This is what he wants to do: to think about some of the big questions, and to try to find answers. And, at last, he feels as though he has time to do so.

Purpose in the Pointless

It is possible, in theory, that there has been a more meaning- less sporting event in history than Denmark’s 2-0 victory over Swe- den on Wednesday night. I’d always assumed that a penalty shootout between two teams who had already been eliminated from a competition was the height of futility. But this may have trumped it. Not simply because it was an

international friendly in the middle of a pandemic, yet another fixture in a schedule that is push- ing players to their physical limits and managers to the ends of their tethers. That was bad enough, but worse was that both teams — especially the host, Denmark — were basically scratch sides, cobbled together to make up for players missing through a combi- nation of coronavirus positives, travel restrictions and compulsory quarantines. The best illustration of its absurdity, though, was that neither manager could attend: Both were self-isolating after possible exposure to the virus. (Sweden’s Janne Andersson was confirmed as positive before kick- off.) It is hard to mount a convincing case that this international break should be happening at all. Its existence is testament to the emptiness of Aleksander Ceferin’s promise that the pandemic would bring soccer together in a spirit of mutual compromise. Nobody, in the event, has compromised at all. All the games are still happening. Every interest group has made sure to get what it wants, and they all expect both the players and the fans to swallow it. There are, though, a handful of cases in which this break is of some use. The United States men’s national team, for example, has not gathered together for eight months. In that time, the profile of the squad available to Gregg Berhalter, the coach, has changed considerably. The players at Berhalter’s com- mand are suddenly some of the most exciting prospects in Euro- pean soccer: Chris Richards, Sergiño Dest, Yunus Musah and, perhaps most of all, Giovanni Reyna. Tyler Adams has estab- lished himself at RB Leipzig. Weston McKennie is thriving at Juventus. Only three players in Berhalter’s squad are over 26. Fixtures against Wales in Wales and Panama in, well, Austria, obviously, will be of enormous use to Berhalter as he begins to shape a World Cup-quality team from these promising raw materials. For all the (accurate) cynicism about why these games are happening, that provides at least one valid reason for persevering with them. Soccer’s present is ex- tremely difficult, but it must en- dure it if it is to have an easier, better future.

In Case You Missed It

Over the years, soccer has produced a million underdog stories: Leicester City winning the Premier League, Iceland qualifying for the World Cup, the United States beating England in black-and-white and in glorious technicolor. They are all special, but a lot of the building blocks of each story are the same: char- ismatic coach, plucky set of players, some behind-the-scenes se- cret that explains it all. Bodo/Glimt — Norway’s cham- pion-in-waiting — is cast from the same mold, but with one excep- tion: It is essentially the Platonic ideal of an underdog story. The team has captivated Norway this year, something that is particularly poignant given that the pandemic means barely anyone has seen its games live. It should lift the title next weekend. That will be balm for everyone’s soul this year. This weekend’s standout club fixture, meanwhile, was Manches- ter City’s meeting with Manches- ter United in the Women’s Super League in England. This year, it came with added American interest: Tobin Heath and Christen Press in red, Sam Mewis and Rose Lavelle in blue. Heath scored on a stunning left-footed shot just after halftime, the first of two second- half goals that allowed United to rally for a 2-2 tie.

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Arsène Wenger, who left Arsenal in 2018, is still trying to fix soccer’s problems. He may finally have the time to find some answers.

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FOOTBALL

N.F.L. STANDINGS AMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PA Buffalo 7 2 0 .778 242 233 Miami 5 3 0 .625 222 161 N. England 3 5 0 .375 166 194 Jets 0 9 0 .000 121 268 South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 6 3 0 .667 242 177 Tennessee 6 3 0 .667 249 235 Houston 2 6 0 .250 193 242 Jacksonville 1 7 0 .125 179 247 North W L T Pct PF PA Pittsburgh 8 0 0 1.000 235 161 Baltimore 6 2 0 .750 227 142 Cleveland 5 3 0 .625 206 237 Cincinnati 2 5 1 .313 194 214 West W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City 8 1 0 .889 286 183 Las Vegas 5 3 0 .625 218 229 Denver 3 5 0 .375 174 217 L.A. Chargers 2 6 0 .250 205 216

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PA Phila. 3 4 1 .438 186 205 Washington 2 6 0 .250 153 188 Dallas 2 7 0 .222 204 290 Giants 2 7 0 .222 168 219 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 6 2 0 .750 244 200 Tampa Bay 6 3 0 .667 250 203 Atlanta 3 6 0 .333 243 251 Carolina 3 6 0 .333 210 226 North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 6 2 0 .750 253 204 Chicago 5 4 0 .556 178 190 Detroit 3 5 0 .375 197 240 Minnesota 3 5 0 .375 217 234 West W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 6 2 0 .750 274 243 Arizona 5 3 0 .625 234 180 L.A. Rams 5 3 0 .625 193 152 San Fran. 4 5 0 .444 225 207 THURSDAY Indianapolis 34, Tennessee 17 SUNDAY Houston at Cleveland, 1 Jacksonville at Green Bay, 1 Philadelphia at Giants, 1 Tampa Bay at Carolina, 1 Washington at Detroit, 1 Buffalo at Arizona, 4:05 Denver at Las Vegas, 4:05 L.A. Chargers at Miami, 4:05 Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 4:25 San Francisco at New Orleans, 4:25 Seattle at L.A. Rams, 4:25 Baltimore at New England, 8:20 Open: Kansas City, Jets, Atlanta, Dallas MONDAY Minnesota at Chicago, 8:15 THURSDAY, NOV. 19 Arizona at Seattle, 8:20 SUNDAY, NOV. 22 Atlanta at New Orleans, 1 Cincinnati at Washington, 1 Detroit at Carolina, 1 New England at Houston, 1 Philadelphia at Cleveland, 1 Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, 1 Tennessee at Baltimore, 1 Miami at Denver, 4:05 Jets at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 Dallas at Minnesota, 4:25 Green Bay at Indianapolis, 4:25 Kansas City at Las Vegas, 8:20 Open: Buffalo, Chicago, Giants, San Francisco MONDAY, NOV. 23 L.A. Rams at Tampa Bay, 8:15

SOCCER

M.L.S. PLAYOFFS PLAY-IN Eastern Conference Friday, Nov. 20 (9)Montreal at (8)New England, 6:30 p.m (10)Inter Miami at (7)Nashville, 9 p.m. FIRST ROUND Eastern Conference Saturday, Nov. 21 Orlando City vs. New York City FC, noon Columbus vs. New York, 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24 Toronto vs. higher-seeded play-in winner, 6 p.m. Philadelphia vs. lower-seeded play-in winner, 8 p.m. Western Conference Saturday, Nov. 22 Sporting Kansas City vs. San Jose, 4 p.m. Minnesota United vs. Colorado, 7:30 p.m. Portland vs. Dallas, 10 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24 Seattle vs. Los Angeles FC, 10:30 p.m. CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS Eastern Conference Sunday, Nov. 29 Game 1: Teams TBD, 3 p.m. Game 2: Teams TBD, 8 p.m. Western Conference Tuesday, Dec. 1 Teams TBD, 9 or 10 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2 Teams TBD, 9 or 10 p.m. CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Sunday, Dec. 6 Game 1: Teams TBD, 3 p.m. Game 2: Teams TBD, 6:30 p.m. M.L.S. CUP Saturday, Dec. 12 Teams TBD, 8 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS

M.L.B. Major League Baseball National League ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Signed C Tyler Heineman to a minor league contract.

N.B.A. CHICAGO BULLS — Named Maurice Cheeks, Josh Longstaff, John Bryant, Damian Cotter and Billy Schmidt assistant coaches. Named Henry Domercant, Ronnie Burrell, Ty Abbott and Max Rothschild player development coordinators.

N.F.L. ARIZONA CARDINALS — Activated OL J.R. Sweezy from injured reserve. Signed DL Trevon Coley to the active roster. Placed DL Leki Fotu on injured reserve. Promoted RB D.J. Foster and C Jace Whittaker to the active roster from the practice squad. BUFFALO BILLS — Placed CB Josh Norman, TE Tyler Kroft, CB Levi Wallace and S Dean Marlowe on reserve/COVID-19 list. Promoted LB Darron Lee, CB Daryl Worley, WR Jake Kumerow, S Josh Thomas and CB Dane Jackson to the active roster from the practice squad. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Activated S Justin Burris from injured reserve. Promoted RB Rodney Smith to the active roster from the practice squad. Re-signed K Taylor Bertolet to the practice squad. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Activated DE Sam Hubbard from the reserve/COVID-19 list. Placed CB Darius Phillips and WR John Ross on injured reserve. Promoted WR Stanley Morgan, CB Jalen Davis, G Quinton Spain and DT Kahlil McKenzie to the active roster from the practice squad. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Activated RB Nick Chubb from injured reserve. Promoted G Michael Dunn to the active roster from the practice squad. DETROIT LIONS — Promoted DT Frank Herron and T Dan Skipper to the active roster from the practice squad. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Activated LB Christian Kiirksey from injured reserve. Placed TE John Lovett on injured reserve. Promoted S Henry Black and WR Juwann Winfree to the active roster as COVID-19 replacements. Promoted CBs KeiVarae Russell and Stanford Samuels to the active roster from the practice squad. HOUSTON TEXANS — Placed RB David Johnson and ILB Dylan Cole on injured reserve. Activated S A.J. Moore from injured reserve. Signed C.J. Prosise to the active roster. Promoted ILB Nate Hall, DE Corey Liuget and C/G Greg Mancz to the active roster from the practice squad. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Placed S Josh Jones on injured reserve. Waived DL Caraun Reid. Promoted LB Joe Giles-Harris, WR Terry Godwin, OL KC McDermott and S Doug Middleton to the active roster. Activated S Andrew Wingard from injured reserve. LOS ANGELES RAMS — Activated S Jordan Fuller and OL Joe Noteboom from injured reserve. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Activated LB Kyle Van Noy from the reserve/COVID-19 list. Promoted WR Antonio Callaway to the active roster. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Waived G Pat Elflein. Activated LS Austin Cutting from the reserve/COVID-19 list. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Promoted DT T.Y. McGill, CB Michael Jacquet and TE Caleb Wilson to the active roster from the practice squad. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Activated QB Ben Roethlisberger, OL Jerald Hawkins, RB Jaylen and LB Vince Williams from the reserve/COVID-19 list. Placed G Kevin Dotson on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Promoted S Antoine Brooks to the active roster from the practice squad. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Promoted S Jared Mayden and TE Daniel Helm to the active roster from the practice squad. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Promoted DT Damon Harrison and RB Alex Collins to the active roster. Placed DT Bryan Mone on injured reserve. Activated CB Neiko Thorpe from the injured reserve list. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Placed WR Jaydon Mickens and practice squad WR Cyril Grayson on the reserve/COVID-19 list.

ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Team GP W D L GF GA Pts Leicester ......8 6 0 2 18 9 18 Tottenham .....8 5 2 1 19 9 17 Liverpool ......8 5 2 1 18 16 17 Southampton... 8 5 1 2 16 12 16 Chelsea ......8 4 3 1 20 10 15 Aston Villa .....7 5 0 2 18 9 15 Everton .......8 4 1 3 16 14 13 Crystal Palace.. 8 4 1 3 12 12 13 Wolverhampton. 8 4 1 3 8 9 13 Man City ......7 3 3 1 10 9 12 Arsenal .......8 4 0 4 9 10 12 West Ham .....8 3 2 3 14 10 11 Newcastle .....8 3 2 3 10 13 11 Man United ....7 3 1 3 12 14 10 Leeds........ 8 3 1 4 14 17 10 Brighton ......8 1 3 4 11 14 6 Fulham .......8 1 1 6 7 15 4 West Brom ....8 0 3 5 6 17 3 Burnley .......7 0 2 5 3 12 2 Sheffield United. 8 0 1 7 4 14 1 Friday, Nov. 6 Brighton 0, Burnley 0 Southampton 2, Newcastle 0 Saturday, Nov. 7 Everton 1, Man United 3 Crystal Palace 4, Leeds 1 Chelsea 4, Sheffield United 1 West Ham 1, Fulham 0 Sunday, Nov. 8 West Brom 0, Tottenham 1 Leicester 1, Wolverhampton 0 Man City 1, Liverpool 1 Arsenal 0, Aston Villa 3 Saturday, Nov. 21 Newcastle vs. Chelsea Aston Villa vs. Brighton Tottenham vs. Man City Man United vs. West Brom Sunday, Nov. 22 Fulham vs. Everton Sheffield United vs. West Ham Leeds vs. Arsenal Liverpool vs. Leicester Monday, Nov. 23 Burnley vs. Crystal Palace

SOFIA OPEN Saturday At Arena Armeec, Sofia, Bulgaria Men's Singles Championship Jannik Sinner, Italy, vs. Vasek Pospisil, Canada, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (3). Men's Doubles Championship Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski (2), Britain, d. Jurgen Melzer, Austria, and Edouard Roger-Vasselin (1), France, walkover.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

SCORES Saturday, Nov. 14 EAST Illinois 23 .............. Rutgers 20 Marshall 42 ...... Middle Tennessee 14 Notre Dame 45 ..... Boston College 31 West Virginia 24 ............. TCU 6 SOUTH Appalachian St. 17 ..... Georgia St. 13 Georgia Southern 40 .... Texas State 38 Kentucky 38 .......... Vanderbilt 35 Liberty 58 ........... W. Carolina 14 Louisiana-Lafayette 38. South Alabama 10 Miami 25 ........... Virginia Tech 24 North Carolina 59 ...... Wake Forest 53 Tulane 38 ............... Army 12 Virginia 31 ............. Louisville 17 W. Kentucky 10 ...... Southern Miss. 7 MIDWEST Indiana 24 ........... Michigan St. 0 Nebraska 30 ........... Penn St. 23 Northwestern 27 .......... Purdue 20 SOUTHWEST Cent. Arkansas 37 ..... E. Kentucky 25 Houston 56 ......... South Florida 21 Stephen F. Austin 26 .... Pittsburg St. 7 Texas Tech 24 ............ Baylor 23 UTSA 52 ................ UTEP 21 FAR WEST Colorado 35 ............ Stanford 32 Fresno St. 35 ........... Utah St. 16 San Diego St. 34 ......... Hawaii 10 Southern Cal 34 .......... Arizona 30

GOLF

THE MASTERS Saturday At Augusta National Golf Club Augusta, Ga. Purse: $11.5 million Yardage: 7,475; Par: 72 Third Round Dustin Johnson ..........65-70-65—200 -16 Sungjae Im .............66-70-68—204 -12 Cameron Smith.......... 67-68-69—204 -12 Abraham Ancer..........68-67-69—204 -12 Dylan Frittelli ............65-73-67—205 -11 Justin Thomas...........66-69-71—206 -10 Patrick Reed............68-68-71—207 -9 Jon Rahm..............69-66-72—207 -9 Sebastian Munoz.........70-68-69—207 -9 Hideki Matsuyama........68-68-72—208 -8 Brooks Koepka ..........70-69-69—208 -8 Tommy Fleetwood........71-66-71—208 -8 Rory McIlroy.............75-66-67—208 -8 Patrick Cantlay...........70-66-73—209 -7 Kevin Na...............73-68-68—209 -7 Paul Casey............. 65-74-71—210 -6 Cameron Champ.........68-74-68—210 -6 C.T. Pan ...............70-66-74—210 -6 Corey Conners...........74-65-71—210 -6 Webb Simpson ..........67-73-71—211 -5 Xander Schauffele ........67-73-71—211 -5 Tiger Woods ............68-71-72—211 -5 Scottie Scheffler..........71-68-72—211 -5 Danny Willett............71-66-74—211 -5 Shane Lowry............74-69-68—211 -5 Matt Wallace............69-73-70—212 -4 Marc Leishman ..........70-72-70—212 -4 Billy Horschel............70-70-72—212 -4 Justin Rose.............67-70-76—213 -3 Lee Westwood...........68-74-71—213 -3 Louis Oosthuizen.........68-70-75—213 -3 Adam Scott.............70-72-71—213 -3 Bryson DeChambeau......70-74-69—213 -3 Nick Taylor .............72-72-69—213 -3 Charl Schwartzel .........73-71-69—213 -3 Bernhard Langer .........68-73-73—214 -2 Si Woo Kim.............70-71-73—214 -2 Collin Morikawa ..........70-74-70—214 -2 Mike Weir ..............71-72-71—214 -2 Shugo Imahira...........72-70-72—214 -2 Ian Poulter..............72-71-71—214 -2 a-Andy Ogletree..........73-70-71—214 -2 Bubba Watson...........74-69-71—214 -2 Jazz Janewattananond.....69-71-75—215 -1 Tony Finau .............69-75-71—215 -1 Rickie Fowler............70-70-75—215 -1 Charles Howell III .........71-70-74—215 -1 Chez Reavie ............71-72-72—215 -1 Sung Kang .............75-69-71—215 -1 a-John Augenstein ........69-72-75—216 E Christiaan Bezuidenhout.... 69-73-74—216 E Victor Perez.............70-71-76—217 +1 Zach Johnson ...........73-71-73—217 +1 Jordan Spieth ...........74-70-73—217 +1 Matthew Fitzpatrick .......74-70-73—217 +1 Phil Mickelson ...........69-70-79—218 +2 Rafael Cabrera Bello.......73-71-74—218 +2 Jimmy Walker ...........71-73-76—220 +4 Brandt Snedeker .........71-71-79—221 +5 Bernd Wiesberger ........71-72-78—221 +5

TENNIS

LINZ OPEN Saturday Intersport Arena, Linz, Austria Women's Singles Semifinals Elise Mertens (2), Belgium, d. Ekaterina Alexandrova (4), Russia, 2-6, 6-1, 7-5. Aryna Sabalenka (1), Belarus, d. Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. Women's Doubles Semifinals Arantxa Rus, Netherlands, and Tamara Zidansek (4), Slovenia, vs. Vera Zvonareva, Russia, and Gabriela Dabrowski (2), Canada, 7-6 (7), 4-6, 10-6.

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