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• SPORTS BRIEFS

  • Staff writer, with agencies
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  TENNIS

  Hsieh advances to quarters

  Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and partner Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic on Monday beat Japan’s Miyu Kato and Indonesia’s Aldila Sutjiadi 6-3, 6-3 at the Madrid Open to advance to the quarter-finals. They are today to play Taylor Townsend of the US and Leylah Fernandez of Canada, who beat Georgia’s Oksana Kalashnikova and Russia’s Yana Sizikova 6-3, 7-5. In women’s singles, world No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka made light work of 16-year-old Mirra Andreeva with a 6-3, 6-1 win to reach the quarter-finals. “Of course I’m happy with the win. I wish I would have played at Madrid when I was 16,” Sabalenka said.

  SOCCER

  Wolfsburg beat Arsenal

  VfL Wolfsburg are to play Barcelona in the UEFA Women’s Champions League final after Pauline Bremer’s last-gasp winner sealed a dramatic victory against Arsenal on Monday. The Germans won 3-2 in the semi-final second leg at the Emirates Stadium, as Bremer’s goal in the closing seconds of extra-time sealed a 5-4 aggregate success. Stina Blackstenius put Arsenal ahead, with Jill Roord and Alexandra Popp netting for Wolfsburg before Jennifer Beattie leveled for the Gunners, setting the stage for Bremer’s decisive goal. “Credit to Arsenal, they’ve been through a lot as a team, but they made it super hard,” Roord said. “At the end they could have won, we could have won. We were the lucky ones.”

  BOXING

  IBA lashes out at ‘hyenas’

  International Boxing Association (IBA) president Umar Kremlev on Monday blasted the national federations who broke away from the body to form a new world boxing federation, describing the officials as “black sheep” and “hyenas” who do not belong in sports. A group including the US and Britain announced a new federation — World Boxing — last month in a breakaway aimed at securing the troubled sport’s Olympic future while seeking recognition from the International Olympic Committee. With representatives from Germany, Britain, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, Sweden and the US, World Boxing has an interim executive board and said there would be no bar on any national federation being a member of both bodies. Russian Kremlev said the IBA is the only international association that governs the sport. “We say that there’s always a black sheep in our family, there are always people who go their own ways... Someone tried to register an international association from their garage, why should we even consider them,” he told a news conference.

  SOCCER

  Fan with chainsaw caught

  A soccer fan wielding a chainsaw was arrested during riots at a CAF Champions League match in Tunis, a source at the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior said on Monday. The return leg of the quarter-final between Tunisia’s Esperance and Algeria’s JS Kabylie at the Rades Stadium on Saturday was interrupted by violence, which caused a 40-minute delay to the second half. Esperance fans clashed with security forces and lit fireworks on the terraces. Local reports said that a warehouse at the stadium was looted and some equipment, including a chainsaw, was stolen. “We can confirm the arrest of a fan holding the chainsaw,” said the ministry source, who requested anonymity.
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