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30 FRIDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 2019<br />
www.weekender.news<br />
Sports & Local News<br />
Rivals together<br />
NOVAK Djokovic and Roger<br />
Federer will be in the same<br />
group at the ATP Finals<br />
tournament, which starts<br />
on Sunday at London's O2<br />
Arena.<br />
Five-time winner Djokovic<br />
and six-time winner Federer<br />
are drawn alongside<br />
Dominic Thiem and Matteo<br />
by Alex Trelinski<br />
Berrettini.<br />
World number one Rafael<br />
Nadal is in a group with<br />
Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos<br />
Tsitsipas and Alexander<br />
Zverev.<br />
The ATP Finals are the season-ending<br />
championships<br />
featuring the year's eight best<br />
players and has been held<br />
at London's O2 Arena since<br />
2009, but will move in 2021 to<br />
Turin in Italy.<br />
The players play three<br />
round-robin matches with<br />
the top two in each group<br />
progressing to the semifinals.<br />
Jokers wild<br />
EL PLANTIO 2 Golf Society’s<br />
Joker Competition<br />
saw Helen Beddows as the<br />
victor, by virtue of scoring<br />
a fantastic par and birdie<br />
on her two Joker choices<br />
to net 14 points.<br />
Helen squeezed out exclub<br />
captain Mike Davies<br />
by Alex Trelinski<br />
by one point, with Mike and<br />
Paddy O’Brien getting nearest<br />
the pin over holes nine<br />
and two respectively.<br />
Pictured left to right are<br />
Mike, Helen, and Paddy.<br />
If anyone would like to<br />
join the Society, then they<br />
play at El Plantio Golf Club<br />
every Tuesday, Friday and<br />
Sunday.<br />
They cater for all abilities<br />
and membership rates are<br />
competitive, with more details<br />
from David Swann on<br />
865 779 983 or 648 476 752.<br />
Awesome aussie<br />
ASHLEIGH Barty beat Elina<br />
Svitolina in a high-quality<br />
match last weekend to<br />
claim the WTA Finals title<br />
in China, and pick up the<br />
biggest prize money ever<br />
offered in tennis.<br />
The Australian world number<br />
one won 6-4 6-3 to take the<br />
by Alex Trelinski<br />
season-ending title in Shenzhen<br />
and a record four million<br />
euro purse.Barty, 23, had<br />
lost all her five of her previous<br />
matches against the Ukrainian<br />
defending champion.<br />
The Aussie, who won her<br />
first Grand Slam title at the<br />
French Open in June, will<br />
end the season as the world<br />
number one, while 25-yearold<br />
Svitolina, who reached<br />
both the Wimbledon and US<br />
Open semi-finals, finishes a<br />
year without a title for the<br />
first time since 2013.<br />
Winning return<br />
SOUTH Africa’s Rugby<br />
captain captain Siya Kolisi<br />
says their World Cup triumph<br />
was "for all <strong>South</strong><br />
Africans" who "make our<br />
wonderful country an even<br />
better place".<br />
Kolisi became the first<br />
black <strong>South</strong> African captain<br />
to lift the William Webb Ellis<br />
by Alex Trelinski<br />
Trophy when the Springboks<br />
deservedly beat England 32-<br />
12 last Saturday.<br />
The returning squad<br />
members were greeted by<br />
thousands of fans when they<br />
landed in Johannesburg on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
"We are tired but grateful,<br />
humbled and overawed.<br />
Thank you," said Kolisi.<br />
"In Japan, we got a<br />
glimpse of the support back<br />
home, but this reception is<br />
something else - we can't<br />
begin to thank everyone for<br />
backing us throughout this<br />
journey."
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