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TENNIS | FRENCH OPEN
Sister act finished Serena, Venus both ousted in second-round matches BY HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer
PARIS – Wind was whipping, rain was falling, and thick gray clouds overhead were foreboding as Serena Williams doublefaulted, then raised her hands in despair and wailed, “I can’t serve!” As if to prove the point, Williams double-faulted again moments later, before pushing a routine backhand wide to get broken at love. Truth is, the French Open’s defending champion couldn’t do much properly on this particular afternoon, absorbing the most lopsided loss of her 288match Grand Slam career. Unable to figure out how to get herself going, or counter her unheralded opponent’s aggressive game, Williams was beaten 6-2, 6-2 Wednesday by 35th-ranked Garbine Muguruza of Spain in the second round. “Nothing really worked,” said Williams, whose older sister Venus also lost. “I don’t know anything that actually worked.” Ever since last week’s draw, there was talk about a possible all-Williams match in the third round, which would have been their first Grand Slam meeting since the 2009 Wimbledon final. So much for that: Exactly 1 minute before Serena’s match began on Court Suzanne Lenglen, the 29thseeded Venus’ 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 defeat against 56th-ranked Anna Schmiedlova of Slovakia, wrapped up in the main stadium. “I felt like this was a match that I was most likely going to win,” Venus said. “I don’t know how Serena felt, but I’m sure she feels like that every time she goes on the court. So I think our expectation was to play in the next round.” Instead of the 25th Williams vs. Williams encounter on tour, it’ll be the 20-year-old Muguruza vs. 19-year-old Schmiedlova. Serena’s exit came a day after a loss by No. 2 Li Na, the first time in the Open era, which began in 1968, that the top two women were gone before the third
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Serena Williams returns the ball Wednesday during the second-round match of the French Open against Spain’s Garbine Muguruza at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France. Williams was upset in two sets. round at any major tournament. “Nobody’s safe,” summed up Patrick Mouratoglou, the coach who began working with Serena after the 2012 French Open. “Usually when she’s in trouble, she always finds a way,” Mouratoglou said. “But she’s a human being, so today she couldn’t.” The biggest beneficiary might be Maria Sharapova, who won the 2012 French Open, lost to Serena in last year’s final and potentially faced a quarterfinal against the American this time. Sharapova beat 42nd-ranked Tsvetana Pironkova 7-5, 6-2 in a drizzle. Alize Cornet of France, seeded 20th, was surprised 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 by 18-year-old Taylor Townsend, an American wild-card entry ranked 205th and making her Grand Slam debut. On the men’s side, No. 15 Mikhail Youzhny and No. 20 Alexandr Dolgopolov were sent home, while
No. 2 Novak Djokovic, No. 4 Roger Federer and No. 8 Milos Raonic won in straight sets. If an early stumble by seven-time major champion Venus is no longer big news – a month shy of 34, and slowed by an energy-sapping autoimmune disease, she’s lost in the first or second round at eight of her past nine Slams – Serena’s departure was shocking for many reasons. She owns 17 major titles, including two in Paris; Muguruza was playing in her 13th career Slam match. Serena was 54-2 on clay over the past three seasons; Muguruza was 1-1 at the French Open until this week. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God, I’m winning,’” Muguruza said, noting that she grew up watching Serena on TV. “Since I was a child, I thought, ‘Oh, I want to play against Serena on center court.’ And today was the day,” Muguruza said. “And I think I did very good.”
NBA PLAYOFFS | PACERS 93, HEAT 90
By George, he did it Pacers guard keeps playoff hopes alive BY MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer
INDIANAPOLIS – Paul George scored 31 of his 37 points in the second half Wednesday night, and almost single-handedly kept the Indiana Pacers alive in the Eastern Conference finals with a 93-90 victory over the Miami Heat. The Pacers still trail 3-2 in the best-of-seven series. Game 6 will be played Friday night in Miami. It took a frantic effort just to extend the series, even with the foul-plagued LeBron James held to just seven points in 23 minutes. Chris Bosh led the Heat with 20 points, but he missed a potential goahead 3-pointer in the closing seconds. Indiana turned a 50-41 deficit into a 64-57 lead after three, then led by as much as 11 in the fourth. But Miami’s last-ditch rally made it 91-90 with 16 seconds to go before Indiana held on. Miami failed to clinch its fourth straight Eastern Conference title. The Pacers played like a desperate team trying to save their season. They
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Pacers’ Lance Stephenson and Heat forward LeBron James scramble for a loose ball during the second half of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Wednesday in Indianapolis. The Pacers won 93-90. chased shooters all over the floor, ran down loose balls, even put themselves in harm’s way. Lance Stephenson appeared to hurt his left shoulder in the third quarter after a hard fall and still finished the game. But hard falls and tough plays were a theme all night for a team that had been roundly criticized for its lack of effort in Monday night’s loss.
“We just played. Our backs are against the wall right now, so that’s all we can do,” George said. “We were in a position that if we lost this game, we’re going home, so I think that was in the backs of everybody’s minds.” Until George amped it up in the second half, it looked like the Heat would close out the series with a fourth straight win.
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