UAE jiu-jitsu team ready for JJAU Regional Championship West Asia in Jordan

The UAE Jiu-jitsu National team taking part in the JJAU Regional Championship West Asia in Jordan. (UAEJJF)

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Updated 01 August 2024

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August 01, 2024 13:10

UAE jiu-jitsu team ready for JJAU Regional Championship West Asia in Jordan

Event will feature 160 athletes from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan

Updated 01 August 2024

Arab News

August 01, 2024 13:10

ABU DHABI: The UAE national jiu-jitsu team completed the official weigh-in procedures on Wednesday as they prepared for the JJAU Regional Championship West Asia in Jordan.

The team delegation arrived in Amman on Tuesday, where the championship events will be held from Aug. 1-2.

The championship, hosted by the Jordan Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts Federation, will feature 160 athletes representing Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan. The competitions will include categories for adults, under-18s and under-16s.

Salem Al-Dhaheri, vice chairman of the UAE Jiu-Jitsu Federation, said: “The UAE jiu-jitsu national team’s participation in the JJAU Regional Championship West Asia in Jordan aims to reaffirm the team’s leadership in both continental and international jiu-jitsu competitions. This competition offers our athletes the chance to test their skills against top competitors, and we are confident in their capabilities to represent UAE jiu-jitsu with honor, inspiring future generations.

“This participation underscores the UAE Jiu-Jitsu Federation’s commitment to competing in all championships and taking every opportunity to highlight the exceptional abilities of our champions, regardless of the competition’s scale.”

Faisal Al-Ketbi, a member of the national jiu-jitsu team’s coaching staff, said: “We’ve focused on intensive training and strategic planning to outperform competitors, recognizing our team’s strong reputation in the region. We know other teams are well-prepared to face us, but our athletes have consistently proven to be strong contenders. We have full confidence in their capabilities to perform well and win as many medals as possible.”

The UAE national team delegation to Jordan includes several administrative and technical staff, as well as medical personnel, in addition to 27 athletes.

Mayed Al-Shehi, competing in the adult 62 kg category, said: “I am honored to represent the national team in this championship here in Jordan, which features many strong teams and distinguished athletes at the regional level. We aim to deliver strong performances and win the maximum medals possible, as we always strive for the highest achievements in all championships.”

Topics: Jiu-Jitsu UAE

Wyndham Clark handles a stressful test at Bay Hill to lead by 2

Updated 8 sec ago

March 07, 2025 10:05

Wyndham Clark handles a stressful test at Bay Hill to lead by 2

Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley, Shane Lowry, Corey Conners and Christiaan Bezuidenhout were the only other players to break 70, each with a 6.
Only 14 players broke par, the fewest in 36 years at Bay Hill with an asterisk — this now is a signature event with only 72 players in the field, compared with 120

Updated 8 sec ago

March 07, 2025 10:05

ORLANDO: Wyndham Clark handled a stressful day at Bay Hill by eliminating as much trouble as possible. Two late birdies as the wind finally waned carried him to a 5-under 67 and a two-shot lead Thursday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

It was clear from the start Bay Hill was going to be a beast with cold weather and big wind on a course with thick rough and putting surfaces that already had a yellow sheen to them.

Clark, with a pitching wedge to 2 feet on the 18th for one final birdie, had the highest score to lead the tournament in eight years.

Only 14 players broke par, the fewest in 36 years at Bay Hill with an asterisk — this now is a signature event with only 72 players in the field, compared with 120.

But it was tough.

“Pick your poison out here — you can probably create a story with whatever it is,” defending champion Scottie Scheffler said after the world’s No. 1 player shot 71. “The greens are tough, the rough is high, and the wind is up.”

Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley, Shane Lowry, Corey Conners and Christiaan Bezuidenhout were the only other players to break 70, each with a 69. Rory McIlroy was poised to join them until a bogey on the final hole to join the group at 70.

Lowry was watching some of the feature groups on streaming before his afternoon tee time and didn’t like what he saw — Cameron Young on his way to an 82, Max Homa with an 81 and, unlike last week at PGA National, a premium on par.

“I turned on the TV and watched some golf this morning and it didn’t look much fun out there. I wasn’t particularly looking forward to my round,” Lowry said. “But I think we got favorable conditions. Even though it wasn’t easy, I felt like did I a good job of making my way around the golf course. I was pretty happy with my result.”

The wind died but the greens were getting crustier, so call it a draw.

Clark missed only three greens and salvaged a bogey from a shot into the water on the par-4 third hole. He didn’t drop another shot.

He narrowly missed an 18-foot eagle attempt on the par-5 16th, hit a tough lag from 45 feet on the par-3 17th for a tap-in par and finished with birdie.

“I knew it was going to be really challenging. And although 5 under looks like a fantastic score, I wasn’t necessarily trying to shoot that number, it kind of just happened. I was really just trying to keep it in front of me. Any time I got out of position, hit it back short of the green, leave myself into the wind, easy chips.

“I really didn’t have that much stress, which was really nice. That makes it for an easier round when it’s really tough.”

It was plenty tough for Xander Schauffele, who returned from two months off to heal an intercostal strain and slight cartilage tear in his right ribs. His health was good. The rust was evident. The score was a 77.

“Got my (butt) kicked,” Schauffele said. “Yeah, it’s a tough place to come back to, not going to lie. Palm Springs would have been nice, something like that. I knew I was going to come in on short notice to what is sort of like a major championship setup around the greens.”

Schauffele has the longest active cut streak at 57 tournaments, which now is in danger going into Friday. He was tied for 52nd, and only the top 50 and ties advance to the weekend in this player-hosted signature event.

But then, it was like that for everyone.

“I feel like I hit the ball really well and had very few birdie chances,” Ludvig Aberg said after he battled to a 72.

The scoring average was 74.6, and every hole played over par except for the par 5s.

“The fairways are quite narrow and when you miss them you’re in that thick rough, and you lose all control of your golf ball from there and you’re just hoping for a good lie to get it up somewhere near the green,” McIlroy said.

Bradley was bogey-free until he missed the 15th green to the left and then hit what looked to be a good chip until it kept rolling some 6 feet by the pin. Every green was treated with care.

“Anything under par any day around this place is good, but on a day like today, it’s one of the better rounds I’ve played all year,” Bradley said.

“I think that this is the hardest course we play all year,” he said. “I used to think it was Torrey (Pines). I think it’s here now. You’ve really got to play well to shoot under par. Sprinkle in some conditions like this, it’s really tough.”

Topics: golf

Hurting Kyrgios out at Indian Wells, van de Zandschulp advances

Updated 25 min 53 sec ago

AFP

March 07, 2025 09:41

Hurting Kyrgios out at Indian Wells, van de Zandschulp advances

Brazilian teen sensation Joao Fonseca rallied from a break down in the third set to beat Britain’s Jacob Fearnley 6-2, 1-6, 6-3
Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic eased past Germany’s Tatjana Maria 6-1, 6-1 in just 65 minutes

Updated 25 min 53 sec ago

AFP

March 07, 2025 09:41

INDIAN WELLS: Lucky loser Botic van de Zandschulp advanced to face five-time Indian Wells champion Novak Djokovic on Thursday as first-round foe Nick Kyrgios was forced out of his latest comeback event with a right wrist injury.

A distraught Kyrgios trailed 7-6 (9/7), 3-0 when he called a halt after consulting the trainer.

The mercurial Australian, last seen grimacing from an abdominal injury and firing expletives at his coaching box as he fell in the first round at the Australian Open, was playing on a protected ranking after missing 18 months following knee surgery and wrist reconstruction.

“It’s always hard to see someone walk off court like that,” van de Zandschulp said. “But especially Nick. His previous year, couple of years, have been tough ... (it’s) tough to see someone hurting like this.”

Kyrgios had displayed some of his crowd-pleasing best in the opening set, keeping one rally alive with two between-the-legs shots.

Down two breaks he rallied to force the tiebreaker, but after saving one set point he failed to convert one of his own before van de Zandschulp pocketed the set.

“It’s never easy to play someone like him,” van de Zandschulp said. “You never know what to expect. Had to be sharp every point.”

Kyrgios, who hasn’t won an ATP match since 2022, was clearly hurting in the second set, flexing his hand and staring at his wrist between points.

After withdrawing, he sat with his head in his hands before walking dejectedly off the court.

Van de Zandschulp, ranked 85th in the world, will now get a chance to add another big name to his victims list.

The Dutch 29-year-old toppled Carlos Alcaraz at the US Open last year and beat Rafael Nadal in Davis Cup play in what proved to be the last match of the Spaniard’s career. He’s played Djokovic once before and lost.

“What I remember from the last match is I actually played pretty good — lost 6-3, 6-1,” he said.

Earlier, Brazilian teen sensation Joao Fonseca rallied from a break down in the third set to beat Britain’s Jacob Fearnley 6-2, 1-6, 6-3.

The 18-year-old from Rio de Janeiro, who became the 10th-youngest ATP Tour champion in history when he triumphed at the Argentina Open last month, kept his cool on a blustery day in the California desert, winning the last five games to clinch the match.

In women’s first-round action, Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic eased past Germany’s Tatjana Maria 6-1, 6-1 in just 65 minutes.

Bencic, the Tokyo Olympics gold medallist in 2021, captured the title in Abu Dhabi in February, her first trophy since she returned from maternity leave during which she gave birth to daughter Bella last April.

The 27-year-old, already ahead of schedule in her comeback, said coping with the conditions was key to the match.

“Obviously today the main topic was the wind, trying to accept it and not trying to make it pretty — just staying in the rallies, trying to be more smart rather than playing amazing shots.”

Indian Wells newcomer Moyuka Uchijima of Japan cruised past former US Open champion Emma Raducanu 6-3, 6-2 to set up a second-round meeting with world number three Coco Gauff.

Britain’s Raducanu was back in action for the first time since she was targeted by a stalker in a troubling incident in Dubai last month.

“I didn’t have what happened in Dubai in my head at all today,” Raducanu said, adding that it was Uchijima’s game that was the problem.

“It was a lot of balls that were, very, very spinny on these courts in the day and in the wind,” she said. “So (the ball) was just jumping up a lot, and then kind of short, almost like mishits, and then deep, spinny and then flat.

“So I didn’t really know what was coming.”

Topics: tennis

New Zealand set for ‘scrap’ with India on slower pitch, Santner says

Updated 07 March 2025

AFP

March 07, 2025 08:20

New Zealand set for ‘scrap’ with India on slower pitch, Santner says

The two teams clash on Sunday to decide the winner of the eight-nation tournament held in Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
Rohit Sharma’s India are playing all their games at the Dubai International Stadium after they refused to tour hosts Pakistan

Updated 07 March 2025

AFP

March 07, 2025 08:20

DUBAI: New Zealand skipper Mitchell Santner on Thursday said a slower pitch in familiar territory for India in Dubai will make for a tight contest in the Champions Trophy final.
The two teams clash on Sunday to decide the winner of the eight-nation tournament held in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates.
Rohit Sharma’s India are playing all their games at the Dubai International Stadium after they refused to tour hosts Pakistan because of political tensions.
They beat Australia in the first semifinal.
New Zealand defeated South Africa in the second semifinal in Lahore on Wednesday and now move back to Dubai where they lost the last group match to India by 44 runs.
“I guess finals cricket is different, but for us what we have been doing to get us to this point has been good,” Santner said on his arrival in Dubai.
“But obviously we have come against a good side, who have played all their games in Dubai and know that surface and we will be better for the run we had the other day against them,” he said.
“Obviously the surface will dictate a little bit of how we want to operate. Will be slower than what we got in Lahore, might be more of a scrap.”
The tournament’s tangled schedule, with teams flying in and out of the UAE from Pakistan while India have stayed put, has been hugely controversial.
The pitches have been vastly different in the two countries.
Pakistan tracks produced big totals — the Black Caps posted a Champions Trophy record 362-6 before restricting South Africa to 312-9 in the semifinal in Lahore, in contrast to the slow and turning decks of the Dubai stadium.
But Santner said the team has taken the travel in their stride.
“It’s all part of the challenge,” said Santner. “We have been to every place here obviously into Pakistan and Dubai. But I think the guys understand that it’s part of it these days.”
New Zealand won a tri-series tournament in Pakistan with South Africa as the third team and had many of their players in top form getting into the 50-over tournament.
Left-hander Rachin Ravindra hit his second century of this tournament in the semifinal clash and put on 164 runs with in-form Kane Williamson, who hit 102.
“Obviously that tri-series before — the tournament was handy in guys getting in form, especially into one of these tournaments which are quite short, three games and you’re into the semis,” said Santner.
“We have had a bit of a roll on and hopefully it continues.”
The captain added: “We are here now and boys are pretty excited for the challenge ahead. One day off at training but the boys be fizzing and ready for the main event.”

Topics: ICC Champions Trophy 2025 ICC Champions Trophy Champions Trophy 2025 India vs New Zealand

With Messi sitting out again, Suárez and Allende score to lead Inter Miami past Cavalier FC 2-0

Updated 07 March 2025

March 07, 2025 04:37

With Messi sitting out again, Suárez and Allende score to lead Inter Miami past Cavalier FC 2-0

He didn’t travel with Miami to Houston for a Major League Soccer match against the Dynamo on Sunday night, which Miami won 4-1
Inter Miami beat Jamaican club Cavalier FC 2-0 in the first leg of a CONCACAF Champions Cup group of 16 match

Updated 07 March 2025

March 07, 2025 04:37

FORT LAUDERDALE: Luis Suárez and Tadeo Allende scored second-half goals with a healthy Lionel Messi on the bench, and Inter Miami beat Jamaican club Cavalier FC 2-0 on Thursday night in the first leg of a CONCACAF Champions Cup group of 16 match.
Messi sat out his second straight game. He didn’t travel with Miami to Houston for a Major League Soccer match against the Dynamo on Sunday night, which Miami won 4-1.
“For us, we feel it when we don’t have Leo,” first-year Inter Miami coach Javier Mascherano said. “I think any team in the world that doesn’t have Leo will feel that.”
Allende retrieved a pass from Sergio Busquets and beat Cavalier goalkeeper Vino Barclet from 12 yards out in the 61st minute, with his shot landing inside the left post.
Suárez connected in the 83rd minute. He retrieved a ball deflected off Cavalier defender Shamar Watson’s foot and blasted a shot from 20 yards.
“We played with fire and when you play with fire, you are likely to get burned,” Mascherano said. “We didn’t play with the rhythm we planned for in the first half. There was no intensity. In the second half, we attacked much better and dictated the game.”
An apparent goal by Cavalier forward Shaquille Stein late in the first half was overturned because of an offside infraction after a video review that lasted seven minutes.
“Our fitness level dropped to start the second half, probably from the disappointment of not having the goal allowed,” Cavalier coach Rudolph Spied said.
The second leg will be on March 13 in Kingston, Jamaica.
Mascherano reiterated that Messi is not injured but has experienced some fatigue after playing three games in six days before the two-match absence. Messi, the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner, participated in the two practices that preceded the match.
But he was not in the lineup that was announced an hour beforehand. Messi watched from a private box.
“Not having the best player is complicated but we have to take a step forward and learn to play without him,” Mascherano said.
Cavalier, which won the Jamaican Premier League title last season, advanced to this phase of the Champions Cup after winning the CONCACAF Caribbean Cup in December. The club remains scoreless in the Champions Cup after 2-0 and 4-0 losses against FC Cincinnati last year.

Topics: Messi Miami FC

Neymar recalled by Brazil for World Cup qualifiers against Colombia and Argentina

Updated 07 March 2025

March 07, 2025 07:44

Neymar recalled by Brazil for World Cup qualifiers against Colombia and Argentina

Neymar recently returned to action with Santos after an ACL injury in October 2023
Brazil, fifth in South American qualifying, will host Colombia on March 20 and travel to leader Argentina five days later at Monumental de Nunez Stadium in Buenos Aires

Updated 07 March 2025

March 07, 2025 07:44

RIO DE JANEIRO: Former captain Neymar has been recalled by Brazil after an absence of almost 1 1/2 years.

The 33-year-old striker was included in the national squad by coach Dorival Junior on Thursday for World Cup qualifiers against Colombia and Argentina this month.

Neymar recently returned to action with Santos after an ACL injury in October 2023.

He left Saudi Arabia’s Al-Hilal in January and signed a six-month contract with his boyhood club.

Brazil, fifth in South American qualifying, will host Colombia on March 20 and travel to leader Argentina five days later at Monumental de Nunez Stadium in Buenos Aires.

“He played two matches at Santos for 90 minutes. He has also been spared in the last minutes of some matches,” Junior said. “Let’s see how he performs in the run up to our matches.”

Brazil:

Goalkeepers: Alisson (Liverpool), Bento (Al-Nassr), Ederson (Manchester City).

Defenders: Vanderson (Monaco), Wesley, Leo Ortiz, Danilo (all Flamengo), Gabriel Magalhães (Arsenal), Marquinhos (Paris Saint-Germain), Murillo (Nottingham Forest), Guilherme Arana (Atletico Mineiro).

Midfielders: Andre (Wolverhampton), Bruno Guimaraes (Newcastle), Gerson (Flamengo), Joelinton (Newcastle), Neymar (Santos).

Forwards: Estevao (Palmeiras), Joao Pedro (Brighton), Raphinha (Barcelona), Rodrygo, Vinicius Júnior (all Real Madrid), Savinho (Manchester City), Matheus Cunha (Wolverhampton).

Topics: sport World Cup Neymar Brazil Columbia

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