QUICK QUIZ
1930 Don Bradman became the first Australian to score a Test century at Trent Bridge – one of the 11 he scored on English soil. Despite his 131-run total, Australia lost by 93 runs.
1962 Brazil beat Czechoslovakia 3-1 in Santiago to win the World Cup, with goals from Amarildo, Zito and Vava. They became only the second team to retain the trophy, after Italy first achieved the feat in 1938.
1991 Payne Stewart won his first US Open and second Major title at the Hazeltine National Golf Club, Minnesota. He beat fellow American Scott Simpson in an 18-hole play-off.
1. Which Leicester player scored the final Premier League goal before the competition was suspended in March?
2. Sebastian Vettel won all four of his Formula One drivers’ world championships with which team?
3. World record holder Adam Peaty specialises in which swimming stroke?
ENGLAND’S Euro 92 finals campaign was off to a poor start in Sweden. Goalless draws in their first two group matches with Denmark and France meant a semifinal berth hung in the balance. In the third game against Sweden, David Platt gave Graham Taylor’s men an early lead only for the Swedes to hit back to win 2-1, and send England home. Taylor took off Gary Lineker with the score 1-1 and England desperate for a goal and victory.
NICK KYRGIOS has branded the US Open “selfish” for going ahead in August and said: “I’ll get my hazmat suit ready.”
New York governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday gave final permission for the Grand Slam to go ahead behind closed doors.
He promised the United States Tennis Association (USTA) will take “extraordinary precautions” to protect players and staff at Flushing Meadows from the coronavirus.
But tennis is now braced for top stars to snub the event because of health and safety concerns
– or the strict medical protocols in place.
Novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal and Simona Halep are all doubts along with Kyrgios. The Australian world No.40 took to Twitter yesterday, before the announcement by Cuomo (right), to post: “People that live in the US of course are pushing the Open to go ahead – selfish.
I’ll get my hazmat suit ready for when I travel from Australia and then have to quarantine for two weeks on my return.”
Current rules in Australia state that anyone arriving from overseas will be quarantined for 14 days.
World No.1 Djokovic (below right) has called rules limiting player entourages to one person as “extreme”, while defending champion Nadal (below left) wants to see worldwide tennis suspended until all players could travel safely.
Darren Cahill, coach of Wimbledon champion Simona Halep, called the restrictions “tough” and added: “I’m pretty sure that won’t work for Simona.”
New York has seen the most Covid-19 deaths of any state – over 30,000 – and the USTA’s Billie Jean King National Tennis Center was turned into a temporary hospital. But a strict lockdown has since pushed the infection rate down to one of the lowest in the country. “The facts in New York are very, very good,” claimed Cuomo. “We have made it over the mountain – and we did it with a smart reopening.” Players will be flown to New York on specially chartered flights while the preceding Cincinnati Open could be staged in Flushing Meadows. Qualifying starts on August
24 with the main tournament running from August 31 to September 13.
USTA chief executive officer Mike Dowse said: “We can now give fans around the world the chance to watch tennis’ top athletes compete for a US Open title, and we can showcase tennis as the ideal social distancing sport.” Wimbledon has been cancelled for the first time since WWII, while the French Open is set to be pushed back from its rescheduled date of September to allow the staging of clay-court events in Madrid and Rome.