WTA Charleston – Family Circle Cup: Serena Williams beats Venus Williams 6-1 6-2 in semi-final

Posted on April 7, 2013 by adminsports

Serena shows big sister Venus tough love with straight-sets thrashing in Charleston

By
Steven Donaldson

PUBLISHED:

20:18 GMT, 6 April 2013

UPDATED:

20:54 GMT, 6 April 2013

Serena Williams demolished her older sister Venus 6-1, 6-2 in a one-sided semi-final at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston.

At times it was painful to watch, with Serena appearing uncomfortable with how she dismantled her sister – at one point not even challenging a ball that was called in when clearly wide – and the whole affair was over in 54 minutes.

Venus was constantly troubled by her serve, producing eight double faults, and it took until the third game of the second set for the former world No 1 to hold. Serena led applause for Venus after the match and chose to speak of her sister's return after a back injury which forced her withdrawal from March's Sony Open.

Thrashed: Serena Williams shakes hands with sister Venus after beating her 6-1, 6-2Thrashed: Serena Williams shakes hands with sister Venus after beating her 6-1, 6-2

Thrashed: Serena Williams shakes hands with sister Venus after beating her 6-1, 6-2

Speedy: Serena needed just 54 minutes to win on the clay in Charleston

She said: 'It's really exciting…it's hard on our bodies. We're doing great and we were just excited that one of us was going to the final.'

It was the first time the sisters had faced each other since 2009 and while Serena has been in the ascendancy for some years, the first game gave no hint of the steamrollering to come.

Instead, Serena seemed to be going through the motions and her serve was not its usual formidable weapon, although the world number one held. A fierce cross-court shot gave Serena break point in the following game which had set the tone for the match with regards to Venus' serve, a double fault bringing up 2-0.

Outclassed: Venus had no answer to her younger sister and won just three games

The younger sister was getting into her stride, a 110mph serve produced en route to 3-0 in contrast to Venus. Serena was quicker to everything and she moved to a 4-0 lead by passing Venus as she came into the net with a looping shot.

Venus finally got on the scoreboard in the fifth game when a fearsome forehand down the line gave Serena no chance.

However, Serena immediately broke back when Venus produced two successive double faults and she went on to win the set to love.

Rivalry: Serena and her sister faced each other for the first time since 2009

The crowd were urging Venus on but initially it had little effect as Serena took a 2-0 lead in the second. Venus held to the delight of the stands and she was certainly moving her sister around the court more, but the match was moving towards an inevitable conclusion.

The decisive break came in the seventh game as Venus netted with Serena going 5-2 up, and a long return saw her win to love.

Serena said: 'I felt great. I am really looking forward not only to tomorrow but the rest of the clay court season.'

Serena will meet Jelena Jankovic in the final after the Serbian beat unseeded Stefanie Voegele 6-4 6-7 (6/8) 6-2 in a match lasting two hours eight minutes.

Ortensia is the queen of Nunthorpe after claiming impressive victory at York

Posted on August 25, 2012 by adminsports

Ortensia is the queen of Nunthorpe after claiming impressive victory at York

UPDATED:

20:02 GMT, 24 August 2012

Ortensia, the other Australian
sprinting mare to race in Britain this summer, emulated her more
illustrious compatriot by claiming a last-ditch Group One win in the
Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes.

Overshadowed by the great Black
Caviar at Royal Ascot when she won the Diamond Jubilee Stakes in June,
Ortensia's British adventure has taken time to ignite but she produced
fireworks on the Knavesmire with a near last-to-first run under William
Buick in the final two furlongs to cut down Spirit Quartz by a neck.

Impressive: Ortensia ridden by William Buick (right) beats Spirit Quartz ridden by Frankie Dettori to win the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes

Ortensia had boiled over in the preliminaries when unplaced in the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot and then got stuck in the mud when fourth to Mayson in the July Cup at Newmarket.

Victory in the King George Stakes at Glorious Goodwood had shown what she was capable of but trainer Paul Messara had been in despair and close to pulling her out when the heavy showers hit York on Thursday.

ALL THE RAGE

Qahriman has been cut from 9-1 to 6s by Hills for Saturday's Betfred Ebor Handicap at York after securing a place in the line-up following the withdrawal of Harlestone Times.

The four-year-old, a course and distance winner in June, is trained in Newmaket by Luca Cumani, who landed his second winner of the Ebor meeting and sixth in the last seven days when top weight Kirthill hauled in Martin Chuzzlewit to land the Sky Bet Mobile Stakes by half a length.

Winning jockey Kieren Fallon said: 'Qahriman has been working well and while I am not saying he has been beating them, he has been working with our best horses.'

Cumani has a good record in the Ebor having won the race three times with Vicious Circle (1999), Mephisto (2004) and Purple Moon (2007).

Ebor favourite at 11-2 (Hills) is Sir Mark Prescott's Motivado, who has been backed down from doublefigure odds since before the five-length Glorious Goodwood victory this month which earned the 4lb penalty to ensure his place in the line-up.

Hills also report support for French-trained Hammerfest (into 8-1).

A stake in Jim Crowley's mount has been acquired by Qatar Racing Limited, which currently invests heavily in European racing, since his second to another of Saturday's runners, Camborne, at Royal Ascot.

He said: 'I was very pessimistic. She is best on top of the ground. I walked the track this morning and thought it would be too soft for her. It was very hard for her to find traction early on. William had to let her wind into it and get her confidence.'

Commenting on the marathon European trip for his mare, Messara added: 'Sometimes persistence breaks resistance so we decided to stick around and see what we could do. Now, we'll probably go for Haydock's Sprint Cup.'

The 7-2 joint favourite benefited from a furious pace set by Hamish McGonagall, who added a third-place finish to his second in the race 12 months earlier.

The pace was too hot for the other 7-2 favourite Bated Breath, who was sixth. Also taken off his feet was previously unbeaten Pearl Secret, who finished ninth of the 19 starters.

Hamish McGonagall was overhauled in the last 100 yards by Frankie Dettori on Spirit Quartz, who looked sure to give trainer Robert Cowell his second Group One win until Ortensia flew from the clouds.

Buick said: 'I don't know how she won, to be honest. I don't think I've been quicker in a race before.'

On a mixed day for Dettori, he landed the Group Three Strensall Stakes for the eighth time on Mahmood Al Zarooni's's Dubai Prince and fortunately escaped injury when Al Zarooni's Brave Command was fatally injured in the Convivial won by Richard Hannon's Wentworth.

Kevin Ryan's Bogart faded to 18th in the Nunthorpe but his half-brother Blaine landed the Gimcrack Stakes. Owner Matt Morgan will now have the honour of giving the address at the historic Gimcrack dinner in December.

He was accompanied by friend, and former Test cricketer Dominic Cork, who he introduced to racing. He has his first runner as an owner with Clubland at Beverley on Sunday.

Wimbledon 2012: Expert view on the final

Posted on July 9, 2012 by adminsports

The expert view: Murray missed his big chances

UPDATED:

21:24 GMT, 8 July 2012

They all sat on Centre Court analysing every forehand and backhand, enjoying every point of a great match.

Sportsmail put the key questions to Andy Murray's former coach Brad Gilbert, 1977 Wimbledon champion Virginia Wade and former British No 1 Tim Henman.

Brad Gilbert

Virginia Wade

Tim Henman

Slowed: Wade says Murray was mentally tired

Why did Murray lose the match

GILBERT: There are a lot of peaks and valleys in a match. He got off to a good start for the first time in a Grand Slam final but missed break points at 2-2 and 4-4 in the second, which were vital.

You then sensed Federer was gaining momentum.

Then in the third set, a simple game that Murray was leading 40-0 turned into a 20-minute ordeal that he lost. It changed the match.

Federer won the key points, seized the momentum and that was the difference.

WADE: He played really well and it was extremely close throughout.

Federer was a little tight in the first set but halfway through the second he just began to loosen up and Murray began to get a bit tired mentally.

Murray hit some unbelievable shots but there were more from Federer.

On top of that, Murray's serve wasn't quite as good in the final two sets.

HENMAN: You cannot accuse Murray of losing it. He got off to a great start and did such a good job at the beginning, getting that break of serve to win his first set in a Grand Slam final.

Then, at 5-6 in the second set, Federer played two great points at 30-30, finishing off with that great drop shot.

But in the first set Andy took his chances, whereas in the second set he didn't take any of four break points.

Federer was really looking to run round Murray's second serve and target it.

Once Federer starts dominating with his forehand you think you've got to keep going for more and it's like a vicious circle.

That's why he's so difficult to play against.

Cover up: Murray (right) serves to Federer under the roof

Did the roof change the match

GILBERT: Yes. Federer averaged five miles per hour more on his serve under the roof.

He played more aggressively and did a great job of then coming into the net more, playing attacking tennis.

WADE: I don't think the roof changed the game – it's just an excuse some people use.

The momentum of the match had already changed by then. If anything you could have argued that Federer's momentum would have been disrupted by the rain break.

HENMAN: Yes. It was probably as good a time as you could have a rain delay, with it being one set all, but under the roof Federer's ball-striking and timing was just immaculate.

His third and fourth sets were faultless.

What has Murray learnt from this Wimbledon campaign

GILBERT: He did a great job of managing himself, not getting down on himself and not losing it on court. He had a cry but that was after the match.

Ivan Lendl and he will now study the match, because you learn from winning but you really have to learn from losing.

Learning curve: Ivan Lendl will look at the tape

WADE: One thing that has been noticeable is that he doesn't look as afraid to make errors as he used to.

I think that has come from Ivan Lendl. Murray used to play a bit safe and got angry with himself when he made errors – he doesn't like making mistakes – but he's more aggressive now and that means hitting more winners.

He has also learnt not to be too high or low emotionally on court.

Again, that has come from Lendl.

HENMAN: I think it's much better he tried to play the big points on his own terms. If he hadn't, you would have said he wasn't aggressive enough.

But that's where the pressure is – playing someone like Federer you know you have to take every opportunity – and Andy will learn from that.

Can he ever win a Slam and what does he have to improve to take that final step

GILBERT: The three guys in front of him have won 29 of the last 30 Grand Slams.

Nadal is 26, Djokovic is 25 and Federer is the youngest almost 31-year-old ever.

But Kim Clijsters lost her first four and then won four. Ivan Lendl lost his first four and won eight.

So I believe that whenever he wins the first one, the floodgates will open.

He's closer than ever but winning that first one is so difficult.

A couple of times after losing Slam finals, he's had dips in form.

He can't have that now because it's the Olympics and the US Open.

I'm sure Ivan will make sure that doesn't happen.

Trio of greats: Murray unlucky to play in the same ear as Djokovic (left), Nadal (right) and Federer

WADE: I don't know what more he can do. He was brilliant.

It is so, so tough when you have Roger, Nadal and Djokovic in front of you.

If you play tennis at a time when there is one phenomenal player, you can accept it.

Two is unlucky but three is just so tough. But he should still make more finals and each time he will have more experience.

He just has to hope it is not against one of those guys.

HENMAN: Yes, he will win one. We all believe that but the key thing is it's important that Murray does, too.

It's going to be very difficult for him in the short term but he's doing the right things and playing the right way and if he keeps doing that, he'll have more opportunities in the future.

But this will be a tough loss, a devastating loss.

Devastating loss: Murray may find it difficult to bounce back

Age no barrier: Federer can achieve more

How much more can Federer go on to achieve

GILBERT: Andre Agassi blossomed in his early thirties. I have a feeling Federer is going to play great until he is 35.

He's never injured, he knows how to manage his schedule and it is not unrealistic he could win 20 Grand Slams.

The last eight winners of Wimbledon have been No 1 at the end of the year.

He will be determined to make it nine.

WADE: Federer looked as fresh as a daisy when he came off court. I know how much he wants to win again at the Olympics and how great would that be

It would be an unbelievable achievement but I don't think it is possible.

HENMAN: His achievements in the game are just phenomenal.

A lot of people were trying to write him off because he had reached the age of 30 and the list of people who have won after that is very small.

You also felt that Djokovic and Nadal were separating themselves from him, but he's had other ideas.

I think he's still the player to beat.

I wouldn't be surprised if he came back to Wimbledon in 12 months' time and that was still the case.

I think he's going to be No 1 for quite some time.

Euro 2012: Ronaldo penalty error could have been avoided – Graham Poll

Posted on June 29, 2012 by adminsports

Ronaldo penalty gaffe could easily have been avoided

UPDATED:

23:09 GMT, 28 June 2012

According to the laws of the game, Cristiano Ronaldo could have taken any of Portugal's shootout kicks.

Custom has it that teams provide the names and the order in which the kicks will be taken, but that can be changed without permission from the match officials.

Paying the penalty: Ronaldo could have taken any of the spot kicks

So Nani could have stayed in the centre circle and allowed Bruno Alves to take the third kick that he walked up to take. And knowing that a miss would mean there'd be no fifth penalty, Ronaldo could have taken No 4.

So long as each kick is taken by a different player, there is no issue.

Euro 2012: Mario Balotelli has image created in Italian field

Posted on June 25, 2012 by adminsports

Balotelli spurred onto glory by giant crop circle of his head in Italian field

UPDATED:

07:34 GMT, 25 June 2012

Italy and Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli was spurred onto glory against England by a unlikely tribute before the game in Kiev.

An artist in his homeland ploughed a field to show show the back of the strikers head.

Dario Gambarini has used tractors to similar effect to create images of Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela among others in the past opted to create Balotelli ahead of the big game.

Support: Italian artist Dario Gambarin shows the back of the head of Mario Balotelli cut into a wheat filed near Verona

The 2,700 square metre piece was created in Castagnaro, near the artist’s native Verona.

Rather than show Balotelli’s face, however, Gambarini broke with tradition to portray the Manchester City striker’s trademark Mohawk haircut, with the word ‘Italia’ visible at the top of his shirt.

Sky high: The Balotelli creation was clear for all to see

'I wanted to pay homage to all the Azzuri,’ Gambarini said. ‘But it seemed ideal to reproduce the blonde Mohawk of Balotelli on a field of threshed wheat.'

Balotelli scored the first penalty in Italy's 4-2 shoot-out win over England on Sunday night.

Serena Williams beats Lucie Safarova to win Family Circle Cup

Posted on April 9, 2012 by adminsports

Williams claims her 40th singles title after beating Safarova to win Family Circle Cup

UPDATED:

21:57 GMT, 8 April 2012

Serena Williams won the 40th WTA title of her career by crushing Lucie Safarova 6-0 6-1 in the final of the Family Circle Cup in Charleston.

The fifth seed overwhelmed the ninth-seeded Czech in just 58 minutes as she continued the impressive form which did for Sam Stosur in an equally one-sided semi-final on Saturday.

The American won the first nine games of the final to move into a 6-0 3-0 lead and, although Safarova did at least get on the board, Williams quickly wrapped up the title.

Big winner: Serena Williams celebrates with the trophy

The 13-time major winner, who beat second seed Stosur 6-1 6-1, does not want the form she has shown in her last two matches to come to an end.

'I hope I can make it three and four and five and six and more and more and more,” the 30-year-old said on the WTA website.

'I definitely want to continue this. I've never played consistently at such a high level with low errors like this, and the scary thing is I could have served so much better.'

Winning with ease: Williams won in straight sets

The victory moved Williams up a place in the world rankings to ninth and she feels she can climb further over the grasscourt season.

'I do have nothing to defend,' she added: 'Wimbledon I didn't do anything and Eastbourne I won one match, so that doesn't count. I did pretty well in the summer, but then I dropped off again until this tournament. So I really am like a floating bird.

'It's motivating for me to go home and work harder, because I know Lucie and Sam and everyone else is going to work hard, too. Now they know what to expect even more when they play me. So this is just a battle, and I want to continue to win.'

Tiger Woods is cheap, petty and ruthless, says former coach Hank Haney

Posted on March 23, 2012 by adminsports

Tiger He's cheap, petty and ruthless, claims former coach Haney

UPDATED:

23:50 GMT, 22 March 2012

Obsessive: Tiger Woods

Sportsmail has been given a sneak preview of the book set to shock the sporting world by lifting the lid on the real Tiger Woods. In The Big Miss, former coach Hank Haney admires Tiger the golfer but is shocked by Woods the man…

What is Tiger Woods really like His former coach Hank Haney believes
this to be the most unsatisfactorily answered sports question of the
last 20 years.

In The Big Miss, the most eagerly-anticipated golf book to be published
for at least that long and which hits the streets next week, he becomes
the first man to step outside Tiger's inner circle and offer an honest
response.

It is hardly surprising the Woods camp are incandescent with rage. Haney
believes Tiger to be the best golfer who ever lived. But cheap, petty,
ruthless and selfish are also words he uses to describe him.

There has never been a golf book that
has divided opinion quite like this one. The juicy bits drip-fed on to
Golf Digest's website with all the salacious relish of a red-top has led
to other players recoiling with horror. They feel the relationship
between player and coach is akin to the pact of confidentiality any
doctor undertakes with a patient.

Perhaps it is just as well that Haney has no intention of working with another tournament pro. The feeling is mutual.

Happy days: Hank Haney (left) and Tiger Woods

The tit-bits released suggested Haney had
undertaken the project as an exercise in revenge for the ending of
their six-year partnership in 2010. But the book does not read like
that.

At 250 or so pages it is not long and
vast screeds are spent analysing Woods's swing. But it is the insights
in between that offer the most value. Haney does not hide his admiration
for Woods the golfer, nor his alarm at Tiger the dysfunctional human
being.

The most jarring sentence in the whole book is the startling revelation
that not once during their time together did the pair have a substantive
conversation about anything but golf.

The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods, by Hank Haney

Long emails from Haney are routinely ignored. A 'no television' rule
introduced by Tiger's ex-wife Elin at meal-times fails to elicit the
desired effect of dinner conversation. Time and again Woods goes to the
fridge for a popsicle without ever once asking Haney if he'd like one.

Then there is the golfing obsessive. A man who spends more than four
hours looking at his swing in a mirror; who replies to the doctor who
has told him he has a broken leg and his anterior cruciate ligament is
about to snap: 'Just patch me up doc. I've got a US Open to win. I can
deal with the pain.'

Given there is no common bond between them but their chosen sport, it is
easy to take Haney at his word that he knew nothing about Tiger and his
extra-marital affairs. He was not there at the 2009 Open at Turnberry
when Elin was supposed to have shown up unannounced and the pair had a
blazing row because Haney was going through a divorce of his own.

There is a poignant scene when Woods decides to go back to work
following his celebrated mea culpa in February 2010 and they meet on the
practice ground. Elin is there, too, with their two small children.

Haney writes: 'After a bit of small talk about how the kids were
growing, she gave a wave and said she was taking them to a playground.
After she left, Tiger was visibly relieved.'

The end for Haney came about the same time as the marriage. When it was
over he could reflect on the six majors they won and a better overall
winning percentage than Woods had enjoyed during his more celebrated
period with Butch Harmon.

Happier times: Woods and former wife Elin Nordegren

Happier times: Woods and ex-wife Elin Nordegren

What is Tiger Woods really like Ultimately, Haney answers the question
with an unflinching page where he talks about 'the package', the sum of
all Woods's qualities, both good and bad.

'Those qualities, foremost among them an extraordinary ability to focus
and stay calm under stress, also included selfishness, obsessiveness,
stubbornness, coldness, ruthlessness, pettiness and cheapness,'
concludes Haney.

'When they were all at work in the competitive arena, they helped him
win. And winning gave him permission to remain a flawed and in some ways
immature person.'

The Big Miss will be just that among the players. But there is plenty to
interest anyone with a fascination about perhaps the most talked-about
sportsman of the age.

Dereck Chisora v Vitali Klitschko: Welcome to the weird world of Del Boy

Posted on February 16, 2012 by adminsports

Antiques, assaults and Mugabe. Welcome to the weird world of… Del Boy Chisora!

Walking the walk: Chisora with his pet chihuahua, Killer on the streets near his home in Finchley, North London

Walking the walk: Chisora with his pet
chihuahua, Killer on the streets near his home in Finchley

Dereck Chisora is as British as red phone booth, black taxis and those old yellow-and-green-flag parking meters.

How can this be true of someone born in Zimbabwe who did not come to live in London until he was 16 Because he has collected all those items of our national memorabilia… and then some.

Del Boy, as this devotee of Only Fools And Horses nicknames himself, drives a vintage Robin Reliant, 'just loves' a frame hung on his wall which contains original 5, 10, 20 and 50 notes and is in the market for a traditional pillar box.

As a curator of all things historic and symbolic of his adoptive country, Chisora is also about to buy an old London double-decker bus. Exactly what his neighbours will think of him setting it up as a playroom for his kids will be interesting to discover.

'Oh well,' he says. 'I am the only black man living in Hampstead.' Not statistically true and his home is more urban Finchley than Garden Suburb but we know what he means.

It is his contrary – and sometimes truculent – nature which fills his 28-year-old heart with hope as he goes into a fight in Germany this Saturday night which few outside his immediate circle expect him to win.

Chisora is up against Vitali Klitschko, the older but tougher of the two giant Ukrainian brothers who hold all the world heavyweight titles between them.

'I ain't scared like David Haye,' he says, in blunt reference to his fellow Londoner's depressing display against the younger Klitschko sibling, Wladimir, last year. 'Eight is my lucky number and that's the round in which I'm going to knock out Vitali.'

Shape of his life: Chisora at an open training session in Munich on Wednesday

If he pulls off that upset he will not only win the WBC heavyweight championship but begin banking enough money to buy a whole fleet of London cabs, which is another of his ambitions.

It will also help put further behind him his conviction for assaulting a girlfriend after he apparently found messages from another man on her mobile phone. He fulfilled his community service and the terms of probation and he was lucky to a avoid a prison sentence.

That was not his first brush with the law following a much bigger escape – the one from Robert Mugabe's oppressed Zimbabwe when he followed his mother to London.

Chisora, grateful that the authorities here gave him the benefit of the doubt over some petty offences, decided to channel his anger into boxing at the Finchley gym. He tried to walk out when hurt in his first sparring session 'but a trainer told me this was boxing and to get back in there so I did. And look at me now.'

Packs a punch: The Zimbabwean-born British heavyweight with his coach Don Charles (left)

We are looking at someone who says: 'I'm really a nice guy even if I can be a rude person at times.'

We are looking at an unlikely, 17-fight novice challenger for a world title who has lost two of his last three bouts but who says: 'I am ready to give this Klitschko a nightmare. He's 40 and that's 12 years older than me. He won't be able to keep up with the pace I'm going to set. Remember the number – Lucky Eight. That's when Michael Buffer (the ring announcer famous for his Let's Get Ready To Rumble introduction) will proclaim me as, from London, England, the new heavyweight champion of the world.'

We are looking at a man nostalgic for his home city of Harare but who will wear our Union flag into the ring at Munich's Olympiahalle and who says: 'You always miss where you grow up, I know all Africa will be cheering for me and I still speak Shona. But I'm a Londoner now.' That and a proud British citizen who promises not to let down this country or himself ever again.

Fearsome opponent: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko awaits Chisora on Saturday

The first of those two defeats occurred when he turned up out of shape to face Tyson Fury and promptly lost his British and Commonwealth titles. Never again, he swore.

Good as his word, Chisora was fighting fit when he challenged Finnish heavyweight prospect Robert Helenius for the European championship in Helsinki. This was our reformed ex-adolescent's turn to find out what it is like to be robbed, as Helenius benefited from a blatant home-town decision.

Now he is 'fitter than ever' and even fuller of himself: 'The Klitschkos are good but boring. Most people in the world want me to end their tedious reign and I'm going to do it with my magical right hand.'

Fighting talk: Chisora predicts he will knock out Klitschko in the eighth round

If so, Del Boy will add the most memorable piece of all to his curious collection of antiques – the old green and gold WBC belt previously worn not only by Vitali Klitschko but Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Rocky Marciano and Joe Louis among a myriad of legends in heavyweight history.

Wish him luck. Eight times over.

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WTA Charleston – Family Circle Cup: Serena Williams beats Venus Williams 6-1 6-2 in semi-final

Ortensia is the queen of Nunthorpe after claiming impressive victory at York

Wimbledon 2012: Expert view on the final

Euro 2012: Ronaldo penalty error could have been avoided – Graham Poll

Euro 2012: Mario Balotelli has image created in Italian field

Serena Williams beats Lucie Safarova to win Family Circle Cup

Tiger Woods is cheap, petty and ruthless, says former coach Hank Haney

Dereck Chisora v Vitali Klitschko: Welcome to the weird world of Del Boy