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‘Leave him space’ Under pressure Ferrari boss gets Wolff backing T OTO WOLFF has backed close friend Fred Vasseur to turn Ferrari’s fortunes around after a disappointing start to the 2025 F1 season. Formula 2 from 2005-2017, and it was at the start of that stint that he first worked with Hamilton in GP2. “Fred is one of the best racing managers that I know,” Wolff, who saw Hamilton leave Mercedes after 12 years for Vasseur’s team in the off-season, added.

March to replace Lawson, dropped by Red Bull after just two races. “It’s a great team and I know that the sen ior Red Bull guys are extremely happy with the way the team is being run,” Permane added.“They’re very happy with our competi tiveness. “The target is to be top of the midfield, and we are certainly in a battle for that and we’ll continue that fight throughout this year.” CHRISTIAN HORNER has allegedly been left feeling “betrayed” over Red Bull’s decision to sack him after a 20-year reign as the team principal of the Formula One giants. The 51-year-old was sensationally removed from his post earlier this month in what was a shock announcement from the energy drinks company. The decision to part ways with Horner came 18 months after he was at the centre of a WhatsApp scandal, where an unnamed female Red Bull employee accused him of alleged inappropriate conduct, which he vehemently denied. Family friends of the motorsport executive have since spoken out about his firing, with Horner allegedly feeling “betrayed” by the F1 team. One told The Sun : “Christian told me how hurt and betrayed he felt after all that he and Geri and their family have been through over the past 18 months. He was cleared twice over the texting scandal but is now on gar dening leave.” Horner ‘betrayed’ by sack decision

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Racing Bulls boss ‘shocked’ after promotion ALAN PERMANE admitted he was “shocked” after being announced as Racing Bulls’ new team principal following Christian Horner’s exit at Red Bull. The domino effect of Horner being relieved of his duties saw Laurent Mekies – formerly RB team principal – promoted to Red Bull F1 CEO. Permane, who was previ ously racing director at RB, is now the team boss. The 58-year-old was previously with Alpine, in all its previous guises including championship-winning seasons with Benetton and Renault, for 34 years before being let go in July 2023. The engineer joined Racing Bulls at the start of last season. “I had many reactions to the news, some shock, some pride,” Permane told Motorsport.com . “It’s amazing that they feel I’m capable and have the potential to lead this team. “I deeply thank the Red Bull Austria senior management, Oliver Mintzlaff and Helmut Marko, and of course Laurent for recom mending me, pushing me forward, his belief in me as well. It’s been a great week.” Racing Bulls are currently seventh in the constructors’ championship and have two young talents in Liam Lawson and Isack Hadjar in the cockpit. Yuki Tsunoda was previously with the team for four years before being promoted in

While McLaren, Red Bull and Mercedes have all won at least one of the first 12 races, Ferrari are yet to land a grand prix victory and star driver Lewis Hamilton has not finished on the podium yet. Ferrari’s underwhelming first half of the season has put Ferrari team principal Vasseur’s position in some doubt, but Wolff urged the Italian outfit to stick with the Frenchman. “It seems to be a bit of a revolving door with teams generally,” Wolff said, regarding team princi pal change-ups in the sport. “I think in F1, you can’t buy time, and you need to give senior leadership the time to get on top of things. “Look at us. I’m not enjoying being in a phase where it’s the third year in a row that we are not fight ing for a championship. We’re not useless. “We have really good weekends. We’re winning races. It’s respectable at times. “And when it’s not good, nobody’s questioning in a way whether the top guy is doing a good job or not. Leave him the space. Let him do (things). They need to just let them do (things).” Vasseur, 57, was previously at Sauber and Renault. Prior to that, he ran the ART junior team in

“If I wasn’t here, I would take Fred. So, I respect him a lot. He’s a great personality. He’s a straightfor ward guy. He doesn’t do politics and lies. He knows what he’s talking about. “He just needs to be given the trust to run this. He’s perfectly aware that in Italy, it’s like managing the football national team. You’re going to have the scrutiny from the media. “Maybe that’s something you need to grow a little bit of a thick skin, because if he wins, he is God, and if you lose, you’re a loser. That’s how Italy is. That’s fantastic. “That’s the passion that is in there. You’ve got to embrace that. Maybe that’s something he needs to learn. But the rest, he should be given the confi dence in running this team. They won’t get anybody better.” Despite not winning a race, Ferrari are second in the constructors’ championship, 12 points ahead of Mercedes in third, but a whopping 238 points off leaders McLaren. The next race is the Belgian Grand Prix this week end at Spa-Francorchamps. – The Independent Zverev told to ‘shut up and listen’ BORIS BECKER has given Alexander Zverev some firm advice after the German was spotted training at Rafael Nadal’s Mallorcan academy under the watchful eye of Nadal’s uncle and former coach, Toni. There have been reports that Nadal himself could land a new job with the world No. 3 as something of a mentor. It comes after Zverev suffered a shock first-round exit at Wimbledon and then claimed he had been struggling with feelings of loneliness and a lack of motivation in recent months. And Becker wants the 28-year-old to make the most of his opportunity working with the Nadal family. “This may be a completely new perspective for Sascha Zverev on how to live tennis, how to train tennis,” the retired six-time Major winner told Eurosport Germany. “I mean, when Rafael and Toni are talking to you about ten nis, you have to keep your mouth shut and just listen.” Zverev was once touted as the man who would fill the void in the post-Big Three era. But, now aged 28, he has a 0-3 record in Grand Slam finals and has never reached the top of the rankings. Instead, the former Olympic champion has been sur passed by younger rivals like Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz. But Becker still believes Zverev can get to the top of the game with the right guidance. He added: “I’m still convinced he’ll win his Grand Slam. I’m also convinced he can still become No. 1 if he sets the right course.” After Zverev’s disappointing Wimbledon result and his revealing press conference, he pulled out of last week’s ATP 250 event in Gstaad citing personal reasons. But instead of taking a break, he jetted to Mallorca to train at the Rafa Nadal Academy in Manacor. It comes after Nadal’s uncle Toni, who has been out on the practice court with Zverev, said the German’s comments“filled him with sadness” in his recent El Pais column. “I have a great deal of affec

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Venus Williams returns a shot against Peyton Stearns (not pictured) during a women’s single match of the Mubadala Citi DC Open. – AFPPIC

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Venus wins, Osaka to face Raducanu in DC VENUS WILLIAMS made a triumphant return to singles tennis yesterday after a 16-month hiatus, defeating fellow American Peyton Stearns 6-3, 6-4 to reach the second round of the WTA and ATP Washington DC Open.

“Thank you so much for the energy,”Williams told the crowd. “We were literally living and dying together.” Japan’s Naomi Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam champion, ousted Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 6 2, 7-5, to book a second-round match against Britain’s Emma Raducanu, the 2021 US Open winner who eliminated Ukraine’s seventh-seeded Marta Kostyuk 7-6 (7-4), 6-4. “I’m excited about it,“ Osaka said. “I’ve never played her before, so for me, that’s something really cool too. Because I’ve seen her, I guess when she first did well at Wimbledon before she won the US Open, moments like that, and I knew she was a good player.” “I’m looking forward to the match,” Raducanu said. “It will be a great test of my own game and myself.” Britain’s Cameron Norrie rallied to defeat world No. 7 Lorenzo Musetti 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. Norrie, seeking his sixth ATP title, captured his first victory over a top-10 player in 2 ½ years. “I made it very difficult for him,” Norrie said. “My backhand was coming through the court low. My forehand was jumping. I’m just enjoying my tennis a lot more these days.” – AFP

The 45-year-old winner of seven career Grand Slam singles titles rolled to her 819th career WTA singles victory in 97 minutes at the first US Open hardcourt tuneup event. “It is not easy to come off after all that time and play the perfect match,” she said. “Peyton played so well. I felt like I was trying to slow myself down from going faster and faster and faster.” Williams had not played a WTA singles match since March of last year at Miami and had not won a match in 709 days – since defeating Russian Veronika Kudermetova in the first round at Cincinnati in August 2023. “I wanted to play a good match and win the match,”Williams said.“It’s so rewarding to come back after a layoff and injuries.” Williams became the oldest player to compete in a WTA tour-level match since Japan’s Kimiko Date at 46 in Tokyo in 2017. She became the oldest WTA match winner since Martina Navratilova at age 47 at Wimbledon in 2004.

tion for him, and I wouldn’t want him to read this as criti cism, but the truth is that all these years he hasn’t managed to correct what he needs in order to become a Grand Slam champion,” the Mallorcan tennis coach wrote. Toni’s words may have been enough to convince Zverev to head to the Balearic Island for a brief train ing block ahead of next week’s Masters 1000 in Canada. – Express Newspapers

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