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Sinner, Djokovic kept apart in French Open draw

PARIS: Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic will not be able to meet until the French Open final after the pair were placed in opposite halves of the draw on Thursday. Sinner, the red-hot title favorite in the absence of injured rival Carlos Alcaraz, will start his bid for a maiden Roland Garros crown against French wildcard Clement Tabur, the world number 165. World number one Sinner is slated to meet big-hitting American fifth seed Ben Shelton in the quarter-finals. Daniil Medvedev is a possible semifinal opponent for the Italian. The Russian gave Sinner a rare scare in the Italian Open semis earlier this month before eventually succumbing in three sets. Djokovic will kick off his latest tilt at a record-breaking 25th Grand Slam title against home player Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard. Second seed Alexander Zverev is a potential semifinal opponent for Djokovic. The German has played Djokovic twice before at Roland Garros, suffering quarter-final defeats against the Serb in 2019 and last year. The stand-out first-round tie sees in-form French number one Arthur Fils take on former champion Stan Wawrinka, featuring at the tournament for the last time before retirement.

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Neymar suffers calf injury but expected to join Brazil camp ahead of World Cup

BRASILIA: Neymar has suffered a ‌minor calf injury but is expected to recover in time to join Brazil’s camp next week ahead of the World Cup starting on June 11 in the US, Canada and Mexico. The 34-year-old, Brazil’s all-time leading scorer, was named in the squad on Monday, marking his return after a prolonged injury layoff that kept him out for much of the qualifying campaign, as Brazil chase a record-extending sixth title. Much ‌of the ‌build-up to the squad announcement centered ‌on ⁠coach Carlo Ancelotti’s ⁠decision over whether to include Neymar. The Italian, who took charge of Brazil last year, had not previously recalled the former Barcelona and Paris St. Germain attacker, who now plays for Santos and is set to feature at his fourth World Cup in ⁠pursuit of his first world title. “Neymar has ‌a minor calf injury, ‌an oedema,” Santos’ head of medical services Rodrigo Zogaib ‌told Brazil’s ge.globo on Wednesday.

UK sending three police officers to World Cup for ‘cultural’ help

LONDON: British police are sending just three officers to the US as “cultural interpreters” during the World Cup given the lack of any US funding, UK police said on Thursday. By contrast, 40 officers went to Germany for the 2024 European Championships, with financing by the hosts, said Mark Roberts, who leads football policing. “The States are not funding mobile travel delegations this time,” Roberts told reporters of next month’s tournament where England and Scotland will play their three opening group games in the US Both ‌nations have a ‌huge traveling fan base and the English have ‌a ⁠history of hooliganism, ⁠though the exorbitant cost may put many off this tournament which is being co-hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico. “Our fans at World Cups are really well behaved ... I’m not anticipating problems, but clearly we’d rather have a presence there that can get involved if we are seeing issues develop,” Roberts added, stressing that he was not criticizing the US decision nor ⁠was there hostility to a UK deployment. The White House ‌Task Force for the FIFA World Cup ‌2026 did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Two additional British officers will ‌be working with US authorities at the Washington-based International Police Cooperation ‌Center. “Most of the other European countries just aren’t bothering” to send their own officers to the tournament, Roberts added.

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