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Tennis
Williams, coach won’t discuss ‘22’ at Wimbledon
By HOWARD FENDRICH
Associated Press
LONDON — Leave all
the chatter about Serena
Williams’ pursuit of her
22nd major singles trophy to
others.
Williams and her coach,
Patrick Mouratoglou, do not
discuss that number.
“We don’t talk about it
all. Zero,” Mouratoglou said
Tuesday at Wimbledon after
watching Williams win her
irst-round match.
Why is that?
“Because there is nothing
to talk about. We have a
Grand Slam (title) to win,
and that’s what’s most
important. We don’t talk
about the reward,” he said.
“We talk about the work we
have to do.”
That is going to include
some extra time spent
ine-tuning the top-seeded
Williams’ serve after she
delivered ive double-faults,
including three in one game,
and faced ive break points
during an uneven 6-2, 6-4
victory over Amra Sadikovic,
a Swiss qualiier ranked
148th and making her Grand
Slam debut.
“It’s very rare that every-
thing works perfectly the irst
round. It’s one of the things
that were not good today, so
we’re going to work on it,”
Mouratoglou said. “But it’s
“I think more
or less about
winning
Australia. I think
about winning
the French
Open. Didn’t
happen. I think
about winning
Wimbledon. I
don’t necessarily
think about
winning ‘22.’”
Serena
Williams
of the U.S
serves to
Amara
Saikovic
of Swit-
zerland
during
their
women’s
singles
match on
day two
of the
Wim-
bledon
Tennis
Cham-
pion-
ships in
London,
Tuesday,
June 28,
2016.
— Serena Williams
21-time Grand Slam
winner, one behind
Open-era record holder
Stefi Graf.
AP Photo/
Ben Curtis
not a big deal. I don’t think
it’s a big deal.”
Didn’t take long for
the irst rain of this year’s
tournament, which cut short
action in the early evening
and limited play to the main
stadium, the only venue with
a roof at the All England
Club. In all, 14 matches were
suspended in progress and 16
were postponed altogether.
Of the matches that
did conclude, zero seeded
players lost.
Winners included No.
2 Andy Murray, the 2013
champion, in the irst
all-British men’s match at
Wimbledon since 2001; No.
4 Stan Wawrinka, who elim-
inated 18-year-old American
Taylor Fritz and now faces
2009 U.S. Open champion
Juan Martin del Potro, partic-
ipating in his irst Grand Slam
tournament in 2½ years after
three operations on his left
wrist; No. 7 Richard Gasquet,
No. 12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
and No. 15 Nick Kyrgios.
Among the top women,
No. 6 Roberta Vinci —
who stunned Williams at
the U.S. Open last year,
ending the American’s bid
for a calendar-year Grand
Slam — beat Alison Riske
of the U.S. 6-2, 5-7, 6-3;
No. 13 Svetlana Kuznetsova
defeated unseeded Caroline
Wozniacki, a former No. 1
who hasn’t won a match at
a major in 2016; and No. 27
CoCo Vandeweghe of the
U.S. had little trouble getting
past Kateryna Bondarenko
6-2, 7-6 (3) under the roof in
the day’s last match.
Since earning her sixth
Wimbledon championship
and 21st Grand Slam title
a year ago, Williams has
gone 18-3 at majors, with
the losses coming in the
U.S. Open semiinals, the
Australian Open inal and
the French Open inal.
That led some to surmise
that Williams has been beset
by nerves as she seeks No.
22, which would equal Stefi
Graf’s Open-era record
(Margaret Court holds the
all-time mark of 24).
Williams dismissed the
notion of a mental stumbling
block.
“I think more or less about
winning Australia. I think
about winning the French
Open. Didn’t happen. I think
about winning Wimbledon,”
she said. “I don’t necessarily
think about winning ‘22.”’
Then, in what sounded
like a reference to various
health issues that have
put her in the hospital and
kept her off the tour for
months — blood clots on her
lungs in 2010, for example
— Williams continued:
“Mentally I’ve been further
down than anyone can be.
Well, maybe not anyone, but
I’ve been pretty low. There’s
nothing ... mentally too hard
for me.”
With her mother sitting in
Centre Court’s Royal Box,
Williams trailed 15-40 in
Tuesday’s opening game,
then won 13 consecutive
points and grabbed a 3-0 lead.
In the second set, Williams
made four unforced errors in
one game to get broken and
fall behind 2-1. But she broke
right back.
When the players met at
the net after Williams’ return
winner ended the match, they
embraced like old friends.
Turns out that was
Sadikovic’s idea. She was a
bit awe-struck by the occa-
sion — and rightly so.
Sadikovic quit playing
tennis two years ago, because
she wasn’t enjoying life on
tour and had inancial prob-
lems. After more than a year
off, giving tennis lessons, she
returned. So while Sadikovic
knew she’d have a better
chance to win against pretty
much any other opponent, she
was thrilled to play Williams.
“I always looked up to
Serena, because she’s like a
beast, but in a positive way,”
Sadikovic said. “I always
asked myself the question:
How does it feel ... to play
the best player in the world?”
Now she knows.
“I just wanted to hug her,
to be honest,” Sadikovic said.
“And I asked her. She was
like, ‘Yeah, sure!”’
Olympics
Swimming
Security, not Zika, top concern for Rio organizers
Franklin, Lochte
struggle at US trials
By STEPHEN WHYNO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
chief organizer of the Rio de
Janeiro Olympics says security
is his top concern, well ahead of
the Zika virus.
Sidney Levy, CEO of the Rio
Organizing Committee, said
Tuesday that keeping athletes
and visitors safe from terrorism
and other crime is his No. 1 top
priority. He called the biggest
fear “lone wolf” attackers.
“Differently from Zika, secu-
rity’s at the top of my list — the
very top of my list,” Levy said at
a Council of the Americas event.
“We should never forget that
these days we live in a society
that’s very in danger.”
The plan is to have 85,000
security personnel on the streets.
Levy said the 2013 visit of Pope
Francis and the 2014 World Cup
were tests for Brazil.
Francisco Dornelles, Rio’s
acting governor, warned on
Monday that budget shortfalls
could compromise security and
transit at the games. Levy said
intelligence oficials from 100
different countries are in Brazil
monitoring potential threats.
Zika, a virus linked to birth
defects, has drawn widespread
international concern. Levy
stressed he does not worry about
the virus and said none of the
people working for him has
contracted Zika. He pointed to
expected cooler temperatures
during the Olympics in his
attempt to assuage fears.
“If I have to write on a piece
of paper my top 10 worries
today, Zika wouldn’t be there,”
he said. “I’m not saying it’s
not a public health issue. It is a
public health issue. But we are
going into the winter months
in Rio and if you see every
statistic of last year’s mosquitos’
proliferation in the summer and
in the winter, it goes very high
up in February and reaches the
peak, which is the height of the
summer. It starts going down,
down, down. Right now it’s
almost zero.”
Levy said Rio organizers did
not expect this level of concern
over Zika, and he acknowledged
that more people around the
world are worried about it than
Brazilians are. Several high-pro-
ile athletes cited it as their
reason for withdrawing from the
Olympics.
“We thought that there were
too many people here in the
States talking about Zika and this
is too much. This is too much.
Too many negative comments,”
Levy said. “I think it was good
for them to hear other voices.”
Levy was less optimistic
about water pollution, saying Rio
“failed” on its promise to clean
80 percent of it by the Olympics,
which are set for Aug. 5-21. He
said four of the ive sites on the
Guanabara Bay are tested daily
for bacteria and will not pose
any problems and left open the
possibility of moving the other.
“The ifth area is closer to
the shore and we’re testing
that and depending on the rain
and the wind sometimes good,
sometimes not so good,” Levy
said. “If closer to the games we
see that this is not good enough,
we’re going to change the
location to further down the sea.
We’re very committed to not
put at risk any athlete during the
competition.”
The Associated Press has
reported that Guanabara Bay
has shown astronomically high
level of viruses for which the
state is not testing.
Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — One by one, some of
America’s biggest swimming stars are going
down at the Olympic trials.
First, Ryan Lochte. Then, Missy Franklin.
Lochte, an 11-time Olympic medalist
but slowed by a groin injury, missed out on
his second chance to make the team in an
individual event with a fourth-place inish
in the 200-meter freestyle. There was some
consolation: Lochte at least clinched a spot
in the 4x200 relay, so he’ll be in Rio.
Franklin can’t say that yet. The bubbly
star of the 2012 London Games struggled to
a seventh-place inish in the 100 backstroke,
denying her a chance to defend the gold
medal she won four years ago.
Racing just 23 minutes after qualifying
for the inal of the 200 free, the 21-year-old
Franklin couldn’t pull off the grueling
double. She inished nearly a body length
behind winner Olivia Smoliga and runner-up
Kathleen Baker, who will represent the U.S.
in what was once Franklin’s signature event.
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