WIMBLEDON-DAY 9
Murray bounced from Wimbledon
LONDON (AP) — Andy Murray, the defending champion at Wimbledon, has been knocked out in the quarterfinals by 11th seed Grigor Dimitrov (GREE’-gohr DIHM’-ih-trov) of Bulgaria, 6-1, 7-6, 6-2. His previous best finish at Wimbledon was the second round in 2011, 12 and 13.
The women’s semifinals are set at Wimbledon. Simona Halep (HAL’-ehp) and Eugenie Bouchard advanced today with straight set wins and join Petra Kvitova (kuh-VIHT’-oh-vuh) and Lucie Safarova in the final four. Halep qualified with a 6-4, 6-0 win in 57 minutes over Sabine Lisicki while Bouchard disposed of Angelique Kerber 6-3, 6-4. Halep and Bouchard will square off in one of the semis with Kvitova and Safarova in the other.
For the time being the weather is good and all courts are in use.
MLB-SCHEDULE
Busy day of play
UNDATED (AP) — Just about half of the schedule in baseball today is taking place this afternoon. In Toronto, the Blue Jays and Brewers are putting the finishing touches on their two-game set. The Jays won the opener last night 4-1. In the American League East, the Jays lead the Orioles by a game while the Brewers top the Cardinals by 6 ½ in the National League Central.
Also this afternoon it’s the third and final game of a series between division leaders Detroit and Oakland. The Tigers, who lead the American League Central by 4 ½ games over Kansas City, have won the first two games of the series. With the losses the Athletics lead over the Angels in the AL West is 3 ½.
The other day games feature the Rays in New York against the Yankees, the Twins at home to the Royals, Seattle at Houston, the Indians in L.A. against the Dodgers and the Padres at home to the Reds.
In San Francisco this evening, Adam Wainwright of the Cardinals is going for his 11th win of the season. If he gets it, he would join Rick Porcello of the Tigers and Masahiro Tanaka (mah-sah-HEE’-roh tah-NAH’-kah) as baseball’s only 11-game winners.
WORLD CUP
Break from play
UNDATED (AP) — The World Cup has reached the quarterfinal stage of play. The first matches will be on Friday when France faces Germany and Brazil goes up against Colombia.
If you somehow missed it on Tuesday, the U.S. was eliminated from play with a loss to Belgium.
In case you were wondering when the World Cup will end, the title match will be Sunday, July 13 in Rio de Janeiro.
