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Bradley eyes captain role World No. 7 hoping to lead team at Ryder Cup after win

BRIEFS Safiullin, Moutet through in Mallorca

“I’m going to drop a song Friday, midnight actually, so that’s pretty cool,” he said. The new song is called 4L , meaning “For Life”. “I dropped one song only this far but I’ve done tons of music the past couple of years really so that’ll be fun. “I feel like I’d like to have another hobby, I guess, maybe not distract me but just give me something else mentally.” Duplantis said he enjoyed golf but was discouraged because “in Sweden, it’s super cold”. – AFP DEFENDING champion Thailand and past winners United States and South Korea were among seven teams named yesterday as qualifiers for October’s LPGA International Crown team event. Australia, Japan, China and Sweden also booked a place in the Oct 23-26 match play event at New Korea Country Club in South Korea. The four top-ranked golfers from each qualified nation after the Women’s British Open on Aug 4 will compete for their homeland in the International Crown. An eighth squad, the World Team, will include the top ranked player not from an already qualified nation from each of four regions – Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa/Oceania – based on points as of Aug 4. The Thai squad of Ariya and Moriya Jutanugarn, Patty Tavatanakit and Jeeno Thitikul won the most recent Crown in 2023 at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. RUSSIAN Roman Safiullin upset French fifth seed Alexandre Muller 7-6(5), 7-5 in a tight opening-round contest at the Mallorca Open yesterday, while Corentin Moutet overcame home favourite Pedro Martinez 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 to reach the round of 16. Moutet, fresh off his stunning victory over Taylor Fritz at Queen’s last week, struggled with frustration in the first set against Martinez, smashing rackets and voicing his anger before losing the opener. “I’m coming from Queen’s, so I didn’t have much time to recover,” said Moutet, who will now play German eighth seed Daniel Altmaier. Kasatkina falls, Fonseca secures first win TOP SEED Daria Kasatkina was dumped out of the WTA Eastbourne Open yesterday by Lulu Sun, while Brazilian rising star Joao Fonseca secured his first grass court win in the men’s event. Sun, who reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon last year as a qualifier, again raised her game on the grass to oust the defending champion 7-5, 2-6, 6-3.“I really enjoy playing on grass. It’s a really unique time of the season,” Sun said in her on court interview. Two-time Wimbledon finalist Ons Jabeur of Tunisia also suffered an early exit to Australia’s Maya Joint 7-5, 6-2. In the ATP event, Fonseca recovered from blowing three set points in the opener to beat Belgian Zizou Bergs 6-7 (8-10), 6-0, 6-3 and set up a second round meeting with defending champion and top seed Taylor Fritz of the USA in round two. British wild card Daniel Evans defeated Serbia’s Miomir Kecmanovic 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to set up a meeting with second seed American Tommy Paul. Seven set for LPGA International Crown

K EEGAN BRADLEY could become the first Ryder Cup playing captain since Arnold Palmer in 1963 after jumping to seventh in world rankings following his PGA Tour Travelers Championship victory. The 39-year-old American’s fightback tri umph over England’s Tommy Fleetwood brought an eighth career PGA crown, his fourth in as many years, and sparked already brisk talk about Bradley playing on his US squad against Europe in September at Bethpage Black. “Yeah, I mean, listen, this changes the story a little bit,” said Bradley, previously reluctant to consider a playing captaincy. “I never would have thought about playing if I hadn’t won. This definitely opens the door to play. I don’t know if I’m going to do it or not, but I certainly have to take a pretty hard look at what’s best for the team and we’ll see.” Bradley leaped 14 spots in the world rankings and into ninth in the US team points qualifying. While still shy of the six automatic qualifying spots, Bradley is in a position that would typi cally be worthy of a captain’s pick. “It’s still June, so we still got a long ways to go,” Bradley said. “This definitely changes things a little bit and we’ll all get together and figure out the best way to do this.”

Webb Simpson and Brandt Snedeker. “I’m really proud of the guys that are vice captains,” Bradley said. “You got Jim Furyk, one of the greatest players to play and also an incredibly great captain at the Presidents Cup.” Furyk guided the Americans to a 10th con secutive victory over the Internationals in last year’s Presidents Cup at Montreal. The Presidents Cup also saw Tiger Woods serve as a playing captain in 2019 at Royal Melbourne, when the US team won 16-14 in Australia. PGA of America chief executive Seth Waugh told Bradley a year ago when he was picked as captain that he wanted Bradley to be the first playing captain since Palmer. “My head was spinning, I didn’t know what they were talking about, but they knew that was a possibility,” Bradley said. “A year ago I don’t know if I would have thought I would be seventh in the world, but I certainly thought I would be contending in tour naments.” – AFP

The six automatic qualifiers will be set after the BMW Championship on Aug 17 while the six captain’s picks will be chosen after the Tour Championship in Atlanta on Aug 21-24. “I will play if I feel like it will help the team,” said. Bradley has fielded questions about playing in the Cup all year. “I never really planned on playing,” he said. “I really wanted to just be the captain. I really felt

strongly about that. I want to serve the guys. They asked me to do a job. I want to do it to the best of my abilities. “With the amazing vice-

captains that I have, and I have a better perspec tive of playing in the Presidents Cup and being around a lot of the guys, I feel a lot more comfortable if I went that route.” If he plays,

Bradley would load more responsibili ties on his assistant captains – Jim Furyk, Kevin Kisner,

Naomi Osaka. – REUTERSPIC

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FORMER world No. 1s Naomi Osaka and Victoria Azarenka both advanced to the second round in the Wimbledon warm up tournament at Bad Homburg yesterday. Japan’s Osaka battled past Serbian qualifier Olga Danilovic 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7 4) as Belarusian Azarenka beat Germany’s Laura Siegemund 6-2, 6-2. Azarenka, 35, next meets Poland’s Iga Swiatek in the second round. Osaka fired 16 aces with Danilovic hitting 10 in a big-serving battle which lasted just over two hours. “It’s my first grass-court win of the year, so I’m really excited about that,” said Osaka, a wildcard to the main draw. “I think I have potential (on grass), but everyone else is also really good. “I can never take it for granted, the wins. Just super excited that I won today.”

showed the ball just out. Danilovic then double-faulted, and Osaka took a 3-1 lead. A smash gave Osaka a 6-4 advantage and double match point which she wrapped up with a forehand winner on the next point. Two-time Australian Open champion Azarenka had to qualify for this week’s main draw, but eased past wild card Siegemund. Croatian Donna Vekic lost to Diana Shnaider in last year’s Bad Homburg final, but she reversed that result on Monday. Vekic saved all four break points she faced to sweep past the sixth seeded Russian 6-3, 6-3. She next plays Czech Linda Noskova who beat Australian Ajla Tomljanovic 6 3, 6-2. – AFP

The victory halts Osaka’s three match losing streak after Rome, the French Open and Berlin as she continues her comeback from maternity leave last year. The four-time Grand Slam winner advances to a second-round meeting with fifth seed Emma Navarro of the United States. Osaka saved four break points, while Danilovic fought off six, with the Japanese player coming through two tight tie-breaks. Osaka came back from 4-2 down in the first-set breaker, using her backhand to force an error on her second set point. Danilovic started the second set with three consecutive aces. In the tiebreak Osaka challenged a called ace by Danilovic and the review

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Vaulting 6.40m is within the ‘realm of possibility’, says Duplantis SWEDISH pole-vaulting star Armand Duplantis said yesterday that clearing 6.40m was “in the realm of possibility”, eight days after improving his previous world record to 6.28m. “I want to keep pushing and I want to get to 6.30m as soon as possible. “I’d like to get to 6.40m, that would be another crazy barrier of course and that also feels like in the realm of possibility for me.” place on the day and a little bit inconsistent. But then I hit the right jump at the right time, which I guess is the most important in pole vaulting.”

Setting a world record in Sweden presented Duplantis with a welcome occasion to celebrate with friends and family. “I did celebrate it pretty hard, but I feel like I’m fully recovered now and ready to start jumping again,” he said. Duplantis also announced he is planning to release his second song this week, following on from his debut single Bop in February.

The 25-year-old US-born double Olympic champion set his 12th world record at the Stockholm Diamond League meet on June 15. “I’ve always believed that I’m able to keep pushing higher and of course I’ve shown now that I’m very, very close to 6.30m,” Duplantis told reporters ahead of the Golden Spike meet in the Czech city of Ostrava.

Duplantis said he had been surprised that his latest world record had come in Stockholm because the set-up had not been ideal. “I didn’t feel like my best, it was probably the worst that I felt for a world record jump, honestly, before,” said Duplantis. “I felt like I was a little bit all over the