Five-time champion Roger Federer withstood early pressure to beat Australian Nick Kyrgios in three sets and reach the US Open last 16.

Federer, 37, saved four break points in a mammoth seventh game in the first set, going on to hold and then break at 5-4 for the opener.

After that, Kyrgios lost focus as Federer wrapped up a 6-4 6-1 7-5 win in one hour 44 minutes.

The Swiss second seed will next face Kyrgios’ compatriot John Millman.

Federer, who has won a record 20 Grand Slam titles, has not triumphed in New York since 2008.

After losing in the Wimbledon quarter-finals, he took a break from competitive action as he made regaining the US Open crown a “bigger priority”.

So far it has paid dividends as he has reached the last 16 for a 17th successive time without dropping a set (not including 2016 when he missed the tournament).

Kyrgios, the 30th seed, failed to go beyond the third round at Flushing Meadows for a sixth time.

Hold saved the first set – Federer

The first potential five-set match between Federer and 23-year-old Kyrgios threw up an intriguing battle between two of the sport’s most contrasting personalities.

Kyrgios, often erratic and regularly courting controversy, had said he could cause problems for Federer over the longer format and, briefly, it looked as though he might.

Federer’s serve came under pressure in a rapid start as Kyrgios dropped only one point in his first three service games.

Then Federer came through a stern examination in game seven, one which ultimately enabled him to turn the set – and the match – in his favour.

Leading 40-0, Kyrgios produced two unforced errors on his way to wasting three break points and then another in deuce when an accurate first serve from Federer was followed by an inch-perfect inside-out forehand down the line.

Although he kept fighting with an aggressive approach that yielded a pair of brilliant winners, Federer had enough guile to see out a vital hold after nine minutes and 18 points.

“He came out firing a lot of aces, I was struggling with my backhand earlier on,” Federer said.

“If he breaks then he would probably have run away with the first set. So it was particularly crucial.”

Outrageous shots show why Federer is not ready to retire

Federer, who made his Flushing Meadows debut in 2000, laughed off more questions about retirement after beating France’s Benoit Paire on Thursday, saying he had heard “the R word” for much of the past decade.

And the Swiss continued to defy the ageing process against one of the most talented players of the younger generation.

His speed of thought and flight of foot remains as impressive as ever, illustrated perfectly by two winning shots which led the crowd on Arthur Ashe Stadium to rise to its feet.

As Kyrgios started to unravel and trail 4-0 in the second set, Federer ended a brief rally at 15-30 with a dart from the behind the baseline to reach a drop-shot with a swooping backhand which he pushed across the court to safety.

Remarkably, it was only his second best shot of the match.

That was topped by an outrageous forehand which he whipped around the net post from a few inches above the ground at 3-3 in the third set, leaving an astounded Kyrgios only able to offer congratulations to his opponent in response.

Federer even allowed himself a wry smile.

At that point Kyrgios was making a fight of the third set, thriving on the charged atmosphere to keep it on serve.

However, his service games were becoming increasingly difficult and he buckled as Federer broke for a 6-5 lead.

Federer hit an ace down the middle on his first match on point to seal an authoritative victory.

It’s not just that Saturday’s win came against Texas. For a Maryland team reeling from a dreadful offseason, any win in the season opener is cause for celebration.

It had been one body shot after another for the Terrapins, starting with the death of offensive lineman Jordan McNair this spring during a workout conducted by the Terrapins’ strength and conditioning staff.

In one of the great moments from this Saturday’s action, Maryland honored McNair by lining up with 10 players on the first play of its opening possession. The Terrapins waited for a delay of game to be called before bringing on an 11th offensive player. Credit Tom Herman and Texas for declining the ensuing penalty.

Last month, media reports described a culture of intimidation within Maryland’s football program. Combined with the controversy surrounding McNair’s death, the university decided to place head coach DJ Durkin on leave. Durkin’s future with the program remains in doubt.

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His replacement on an interim basis, former LSU assistant Matt Canada, proved himself up to the challenge of weathering the storm and getting the Terrapins ready for a neutral-site rematch against the Longhorns.

This one was closer than last year’s win, which came on the Longhorns’ home field, and demanded a late interception of Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger to seal the win. But the 34-29 victory showed Maryland’s fortitude in the face of a challenge unequaled in the Football Bowl Subdivision – the death of a teammate followed by a shakeup of the coaching staff.

Here are the rest of the winners and losers from the first full Saturday of the college football season:

Winners

Auburn

Any list of the best teams in the Southeastern Conference begins with Alabama and Georgia. In comparison, Auburn spent the offseason largely overlooked. But a hard-fought 21-16 win against Washington paints the Tigers as a very real contender for the national championship. It’s the sort of win that looks outstanding today but will look even stronger come early December, after the Huskies win the Pac-12 title.

TIGERS ROAR: No. 10 Auburn takes down No. 6 Washington with late score

Kirk Ferentz

The longtime Iowa coach won his school-record 144th game in the Hawkeyes’ impressive 33-7 victory against Northern Illinois. He passed Hayden Fry, who was his boss when Ferentz was an assistant in Iowa City during the 80s.

Kyler Murray

Oklahoma’s new starting quarterback looked the part in an easy win against Florida Atlantic, with more than 200 passing yards and two touchdowns in less than a half of play. Murray will find himself on most Heisman Trophy lists heading out of the weekend.

FAST START: Oklahoma, Murray look dominant in Florida Atlantic opener

Illinois 

It’s hard to call Illinois a winner after needing every ounce of energy to outlast Kent State, one of the weakest teams on the Group of Five level. But such is the state of affairs for Lovie Smith and the Illini that any win, however ugly, is cause for celebration. So congratulations, Illinois, and enjoy the feeling of ending your 10-game losing streak. Wins may be few and far between in 2018.

Ryan Day

Ohio State’s interim replacement for a suspended Urban Meyer had the Buckeyes ready to go against Oregon State, especially on offense. While Oregon State is awful, check out the offensive totals: Ohio State scored 77 points, gained 721 yards and averaged 7.1 yards per rush. Sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins looked the part in his first career start.

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West Virginia

If you believe in West Virginia as a title contender – and many do – you had to expect the Mountaineers to roll past Tennessee. Maybe the 40-14 win wasn’t as impressive as it seems, considering how the Volunteers hung around in their first game under Jeremy Pruitt. The win was still a good sign for WVU. Those with faith in Dana Holgorsen and the Mountaineers were rewarded.

Losers

Texas

Don’t look so surprised. What about the Longhorns’ recent past made you think this year would be any different? Maybe the Longhorns turn it around and become a factor in the Big 12 race. Maybe not. But the idea that Texas warranted a spot in the preseason Amway Coaches Poll was always ridiculous.

NO SURPRISE: The latest Texas loss to Maryland is big disappointment

Texas Tech

Ole Miss is going to score in bunches on more opponents that not in 2018, so Texas Tech giving up 47 points in another bad loss wasn’t too unexpected. That doesn’t mean this sort of loss won’t raise the temperature under Kliff Kingsbury, who badly needs to indicate some progress to increase his somewhat tenuous job security.

Penn State

A win is a win, even against a team from the Sun Belt Conference, and Penn State will happily take Saturday’s overtime win against Appalachian State and move its focus to next week’s matchup with rival Pittsburgh. But that the win demanded every ounce of the Nittany Lions’ strength will undoubtedly raise questions about the team’s ability to win the Big Ten.

BIG SCARE: No. 9 Penn State survives upset bid by Appalachian State

The Pac-12

Washington’s far from done in the playoff chase. The Huskies are clearly talented enough and have the leadership necessary to run the table from here and be a factor come December. The loss to Auburn still does a number to the national reputation of the Pac-12, which suffered from last year’s disaster of a showing in bowl play and really needed a win from UW to regain some respect from the other Power Five leagues. And, most of all, from the playoff selection committee.

 

The first Old Firm match of the Scottish football season pits Brendan Rodgers’ all-conquering Celtic, on their longest unbeaten derby run, against revitalised Rangers, led by Steven Gerrard.

For two seasons, the Ibrox side have lusted for a derby win as Celtic swept all before them en route to successive domestic trebles. The Gers fans are imbued with the belief that this time, with Gerrard at the helm, they can end their 11-game wait for Old Firm glory.

How will the former Liverpool captain and his new-look squad handle the occasion? After a frustrating summer, can Celtic continue their city dominance?

Rodgers v Gerrard

Once united in pursuit of a Premier League title, Rodgers and Gerrard meet as rival managers for the first time.

Gerrard is unbeaten in 12 outings as Rangers boss and has unquestionably improved the rudderless group he inherited.

Rodgers, formerly his manager at Liverpool, has won everything on offer in Scotland since arriving in 2016, and has never lost an Old Firm derby.

The prevailing perception is that Rangers have narrowed the gap on their city foes with a summer overhaul. Whether that is true remains to be seen.

How does it feel to be an Old-Firm newbie?

Former Celtic and Scotland manager Gordon Strachan

When kick-off comes, the noise, colour, everything makes you go, “wow, this is brilliant”. Then you hear some of the things that are being said and shouted…

The next 90 minutes is usually quite enjoyable, whether you’re up or down. The madness erupts if you’ve not won after the game when you’ve got to explain to everyone what went on.

You find it enthralling, exciting, a wee bit disappointing because of the behaviour.

Can Gerrard handle the Old-Firm heat?

Former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy

Stevie was sent off in just his second Liverpool v Everton contest for a stoppage-time, thigh-high lunge on Kevin Campbell.

In the 31 Merseyside derbies he played subsequently – and likewise the numerous grudge matches with Manchester United – he learned how to control his emotions. How to channel them into affecting what happened on the pitch. Mostly, anyway.

So when he steps out of the tunnel at Celtic Park he’ll know exactly how he should behave.

And he’ll know how big a marker he can set down by leading Rangers to their first 90-minute win over Celtic in six years.

What’s happening at Celtic?

The past month has been the toughest of Rodgers’ reign. He has brought lavish success to Celtic – those back-to-back trebles, electric Champions League nights, and a thunderous, deafening dominance over Scottish football.

Lately, though, fractures have emerged. Indications that all is not well between Rodgers and the club’s board.

The manager has been unable to address his squad’s shaky central defence – a deficiency exposed by AEK Athens that meant for the first time under his stewardship, Celtic failed to reach the Champions League group stage.

Rodgers publicly let his frustrations at the lack of transfer activity be known after the club missed out on several targets.

Earlier this month, centre-back Dedryck Boyata declared himself injured for a League Cup tie, despite the manager saying he was fit. It seemed the Belgian international was agitating for a move.

Then came the saga of Moussa Dembele, Celtic’s French striker, involving late-night tweets and reluctant training sessions before he eventually sealed a £19.7m deadline-day switch to Lyon.

The 22-year-old has so often been Celtic’s man for the big stage. He’s scored against Manchester City and Paris St Germain, and found the net seven times in nine matches against Rangers. It will be up to Odsonne Edouard or Leigh Griffiths, both of whom have bagged derby goals, to lead the line on Sunday.

Any derby debutants?

Summer signings Connor Goldson, Nikola Katic, Ovie Ejaria and Jon Flanagan are likely to experience their first Old Firm match in the blue of Rangers.

Kyle Lafferty and Allan McGregor, back at Ibrox for second stints, are seasoned competitors in this fixture.

For Celtic, Filip Benkovic could feature after the centre-back completed a loan move from Leicester City, as may former Kilmarnock midfielder Youssouf Mulumbu, another deadline-day addition.

Match stats show Celtic’s supremacy

• Celtic are currently on their longest unbeaten streak over Rangers in the Scottish Premiership, going nine games without a loss (W7 D2).
• Rangers have won just one of their last 11 league trips to Celtic Park (D4 L6), a 3-1 victory in October 2010.
• Celtic have lost three of their last eight league games, having only lost two of their previous 72 top-flight matches.
• Celtic’s defeat by Aberdeen in the final game of last season is their only home defeat in the league under Brendan Rodgers (W30 D9).
• Since a run of three consecutive away defeats in the league in February 2017, Rangers have lost just three of their last 26 Scottish Premiership games away from home (W14 D9).
• Rangers have failed to score in just two away games in the league since the start of last season; both of these occasions were at Celtic Park.
• Rangers’ Kyle Lafferty scored exactly once in all four of his league games against Celtic for Hearts last season. He last scored in the Old Firm derby in the league in September 2011 in a 4-2 Rangers win.
• Celtic’s Odsonne Edouard has been directly involved in four goals in just two league appearances against Rangers for Celtic (three goals, one assist).

The family of a Tennessee man sued TriStar Centennial hospital Thursday alleging a surgeon left a needle inside his body during a heart surgery last year and was unable to retrieve it in a second operation.

John Burns Johnson, 73, of Lafayette, died approximately a month after the surgery, the lawsuit says. His health steadily worsened after the needle was lost in his body.

“Mr. Johnson’s condition continued to deteriorate over the next thirty days,” the lawsuit states. “He was critically ill and never saw his home again.”

The lawsuit, filed in Davidson County court, states that Johnson underwent open heart surgery at TriStar Centennial on May 2, 2017. After approximately nine hours of the surgery, a surgeon closed Johnson’s chest and rewired his sternum, then discovered that one of his surgical needles was missing. An X-ray then confirmed that the needle had been accidentally left inside Johnson’s body.

The surgeon then reopened Johnson’s chest cavity to retrieve the needle but was unable to remove it. The lawsuit does not make it clear if the needle could not be located or if it was unable to be removed for another reason. Regardless, after approximately three hours of additional surgery, the surgeon closed Johnson’s chest and rewired his sternum, leaving the needle inside.

The needle was finally removed more than a month later, after Johnson’s death, during his autopsy. The lawsuit alleges that Johnson suffered in his final month of life and describes his death as “painful, unnecessary and wrongful.”

In a statement released Friday afternoon, TriStar said it was only recently made aware of the lawsuit and was not yet prepared to respond to its specific claims. The Nashville hospital is part of the TriStar Health chain, which is owned by HCA Healthcare, the largest hospital company in the country.

“We take the responsibility of properly caring for our patients very seriously and empathize with the understandable grief being felt by the family,” the TriStar statement said.

The lawsuit alleges the troubled surgery was performed by Dr. Sreekumar Subramanian. Subramanian has no discipline cases recorded by the state and has a 5-star rating on TriStar’s website. He began work at the hospital in 2015.

Medical objects being left in a patient’s body is a rare but not unheard of mistake, and the consequences can be severe. These incidents occur in about 1 of every 5,500 to 7,000 surgeries, and about 10 percent of the items left behind are surgical needles, according to a 2014 study published by the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. About 2 percent of the incidents are fatal.

The lawsuit was filed by Johnson’s widow, son and daughter. Their attorney did not immediately return a request for comment.

Brett Kelman is the health care reporter for The Tennessean. He can be reached at 615-259-8287 or at brett.kelman@tennessean.com. Follow him on Twitter at @brettkelman.

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There are two big questions heading into Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix.

One, can Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton do anything about the two Ferraris in front of him on the grid? And two, will Ferrari try to engineer a win for Sebastian Vettel, who starts second behind team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, but who is locked in a title fight with Hamilton in which the Finn is not involved?

For Hamilton, it will not be easy. As was demonstrated by a thrilling battle for pole at Monza which ended with all three drivers smashing the previous record for the fastest ever Formula 1 lap, the Ferrari has a small but crucial pace advantage over the Mercedes at this stage of the season.

As in Belgium last weekend, there is no reason to think that will not transfer into the race.

Hamilton, then, needs to try to at least get in between the Ferraris at the start. But how, when the Ferraris are consistently excellent off the line?

“That is going to be a focus,” the world champion said. “That is going to be an opportunity to at least split the cars.

“I will have to study hard and work out how to get through Turns One, Two, Three, Four and Five, to get ahead of one of the Ferraris. It’s great Valtteri (Bottas, his team-mate) did a great job and we can put pressure on the Ferraris.

“I need to somehow bring some of the old-school moves back from karting to get in between. It is going to be hard. They have great starts. We’ll see how it goes.”

Vettel v Raikkonen

During qualifying, Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo, starting from the back with an engine penalty, was asked by BBC 5 live’s Jennie Gow who he thought would be on pole.

“Oooh,” he said. “I’m gonna say Vettel. Actually, you know what, I am going to say Vettel has all the weight on his shoulders. He’s quite a little guy. Lewis is going in with no pressure and he’s gonna just get him. By 0.009secs. If it goes through, you need to buy me pizza.”

After the first runs, with Hamilton ahead, Ricciardo looked like he might be right, but as it turned out, Jennie’s dinner date was off.

Afterwards, Vettel was not happy. “We’ll talk about it later,” he said to his engineer when told of the result.

He would not say what he meant but it seems as if it might have been a reference to the fact that while Raikkonen, whose turn it was to go out second, benefited from a tow from his team-mate, Vettel was not close enough to Hamilton in front to get one from the Mercedes.

Vettel also admitted he had made mistakes on his final lap, with which he was “not entirely happy”.

“To be honest it was not a tidy lap,” he said. “The other laps were actually better.

“I lost a bit in the first chicane, the second chicane, the Lesmos, pretty much a bit everywhere. I think the last sector was OK but also not fantastic. It was just not a good lap and not good enough.

“Obviously lucky to get second instead of third but… yeah. Just not good enough.”

Now Raikkonen is on pole, will Ferrari find a way to get Vettel ahead to boost their best chance of winning the title since 2008?

Vettel was asked directly after qualifying whether Raikkonen would be allowed to race for the win. The question was a direct consequence of the German Grand Prix, when Ferrari reversed the position of their drivers in the race after their off-set strategies had allowed Raikkonen to get in front of Vettel, who had led the early laps.

“Well,” Vettel said, “if he’s starting from pole, I guess he’s allowed to win. It’s a long race. Obviously he wants to win, I want to win. Hopefully one of us will win.”

Ferrari were faced with the same situation in Monaco last year, Raikkonen’s last pole. Raikkonen led the first stint but when he pitted, they left Vettel out – on the so-called over-cut strategy – and the German used it to leapfrog ahead over the pit-stop period. Raikkonen, although he measured his words carefully, was seriously unhappy about that at the time.

There is an interesting dynamic here, because Raikkonen does not yet have a contract for next year and on Friday, Louis Carey Camilleri, Ferrari’s new chief executive officer following the death of former president Sergio Marchionne, held a news conference and said they were in no hurry to make a decision. It’s between Raikkonen and the highly promising Sauber driver Charles Leclerc.

One can imagine the conversations that might take place in the Ferrari motorhome overnight.

Vettel is 17 points behind Hamilton at the moment – largely because of his error in throwing away victory in the wet in Germany, not that that was his only mistake this year.

“How much do you want this title?” Raikkonen might conceivably say. “You want me to let him past? You give me the drive in 2019.”

Stroll finds his form but what happens next?

One of the stars of qualifying was Williams driver Lance Stroll, who put his car eighth in second qualifying and 10th on the grid, the struggling team’s best position of the year.

There seems to be something about Monza and Stroll.

He qualified the Williams fourth here in the wet last year, and started from the front row alongside Hamilton after the Red Bulls were demoted because of engine penalties.

In his second season, the Canadian had been out-qualified by rookie team-mate Sergey Sirotkin eight-five before this weekend. But on Saturday Stroll was a chunky 0.238secs quicker.

The secret is partly to do with the track. First, there are lots of long straights for the Mercedes engine to stretch its legs, and only six corners to show up the Williams’ inadequacies.

Equally, of the corners, with the exception of the final Parabolica, all of them are short-duration, and the shorter the corner, the less chance the Williams’ fundamental mid-corner aerodynamic instability has to manifest itself.

When it does, Stroll tends to make mistakes. But he is relatively comfortable with an unstable car at a track where a bit of rear-end instability is quite helpful, because it helps the driver rotate the car into corners.

Williams have been glued to the back pretty much all year, but given their inexperienced driver line-up there have been questions about whether the car really is as bad as it looks. After all, Felipe Massa was about 0.7 seconds quicker than Stroll on average last season.

But Williams insiders say Stroll has definitely improved this season – most importantly in his ability to get closer to the limit of the car with his first lap in qualifying following the two-hour break after final practice.

Last year, he was often a long way off Massa on these first laps, and quite often ran out of time to get up to the right level. Over the winter, Williams worked hard at this with Stroll and the feeling is that he has improved by in the region of half a second a lap.

The sense of a settled future has also helped this weekend, some believe, in terms of getting him into a calm and relaxed mindset.

Stroll’s father, the billionaire businessman Lawrence Stroll, heads the consortium that rescued Force India from administration over the summer, and it is no secret that dad wants junior to move from Williams next season.

The problem at the moment is how that will happen.

Williams have an option on Stroll for 2019, when sources say his contract means he would pay a reputed 10m euros – down from 20m euros in 2016 and 15m euros in 2017.

Williams are losing sponsors at the end of the year and need the money, so there will need to be a financial settlement. But that’s not the end of the story because technically both Force India drivers have contracts for 2019 already.

Or do they? Force India is legally a new entity – and that is how the team was allowed back on to the grid last weekend in Belgium after the administration process.

The sense is that Sergio Perez will keep his drive – not least because he brings a chunk of Mexican money with him – but that would mean Esteban Ocon was out of work, and the Frenchman is a Mercedes junior. Does Stroll want to annoy Mercedes in that way, especially as they were the largest creditor and therefore had an involvement in the administrator settling on Stroll’s consortium?

Ocon could be found a berth elsewhere, but first choice McLaren – who are interested – are playing hardball and say they don’t want him if he is still tied to Mercedes.

Wolff said on Saturday that he would consider releasing Ocon if it was the only way to secure him a seat (after all, he could always sign him again later should he choose to, once his McLaren time had run its course).

But McLaren also say Perez is on their list as a potential partner for Carlos Sainz next season, following Fernando Alonso’s decision to retire. While the feeling is that their first choice right now is to promote their reserve driver Lando Norris.

This is also tied in with dissatisfaction at some teams – including McLaren – as to the process by which Force India were allowed back in, and the intention to let them keep the prize money earned by the former entity. At the moment, McLaren are playing hardball on this, too.

Stroll Sr is said to want his son in a Force India as soon as possible – before the end of this season. He’ll be in a Force India sooner or later, but it may take a little while to unpick this one.

After attending the Washington memorial service for the late U.S. Sen. John McCain on Saturday, his fellow senator from Arizona sent out a tweet with a not-so-subtle message.

“Decency Wins,” Flake tweeted, along with a broadcast image showing the past three U.S. presidents and two of their wives.

Flake’s barb was aimed at current President Donald Trump, a longtime critic of McCain, who was one of the few of the nation’s political elite who had not been invited to the memorial service at Washington National Cathedral.

Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush eulogized McCain, and former President Bill Clinton also attended the service.

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Many of the speakers praised McCain’s civility and bipartisanship, along with his sacrifice and service to the country.

Meghan McCain’s tribute to her beloved father included some thinly veiled critiques of Trump, a man with whom her father had feuded over policy and a man who had denigrated her father’s military service.

“The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great,” Meghan McCain said from the lectern at the Saturday service, carried live on national news and broadcast networks.

She took a handful of jabs at Trump and his campaign motto, all without mentioning him by name.

During his presidential campaign, Trump said McCain was “not a war hero” even though he had spent more than five years as a POW in Vietnam. “I like people that weren’t captured,” Trump said.

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In defiance of Trump, McCain had cast a deciding vote last year against a final effort for a “skinny repeal” of the nation’s Affordable Care Act.

Trump also was slow to issue a statement after McCain’s death.

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Flake also has exchanged insults with Trump frequently, on the Senate floor and in other public forums.

Flake’s overarching theme has been that Trump’s behavior cannot be normalized. 

“We must turn away from this brand of poisonous politics, the kind of poison that has the president slinging insults like a bad comic at a cheap roast,” Flake said in a speech in New Hampshire in March. “Yes, the pendulum swings, thank goodness, and the people themselves will show us the way out of here. If this sounds like a call to new politics, it is. But it is just as much a call to the old politics, the best traditions of America, of true leadership and vision, of Lincoln’s malice toward none and charity for all.

“… Let’s take the high ground again.”

Flake also has emphasized the ideal of country over political party.

RELATED: Where’s Trump? At golf club during service

In October, Flake abandoned his 2018 re-election campaign after concluding he was so out of step with the pro-Trump voters who dominate Arizona’s Republican primary that winning renomination for the Senate would be difficult if not impossible.

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England’s Jonny Bairstow is “sulking” because he is not keeping wicket in the fourth Test against India, says former captain Michael Vaughan.

Bairstow, who fractured a finger when keeping in the third Test at Trent Bridge, is playing as a specialist batsman at Southampton.

He made six in the first innings and was bowled first ball on day three.

“I’m not sure where Jonny’s mentality is,” Vaughan told BBC Test Match Special.

“It looks like he’s got the ‘poor old me’s’ because he wants to be keeping.”

Bairstow also made a golden duck in the second innings of the defeat at Trent Bridge, batting down the order with a broken middle finger on his left hand.

Jos Buttler, who is keeping at Southampton, made 69 as England closed day on 280-6, a lead of 233.

Bairstow ‘not good enough to bat higher than seven’

Bairstow, who has made all five of his Test centuries as a keeper, said he wanted to keep at Southampton if passed fit.

He was caught behind off Jasprit Bumrah in the first innings and had his leg stump removed by Mohammed Shami as he attempted to drive the first ball after lunch on day three.

Vaughan, who captained England in 51 of his 82 Tests, said: “If he’s going to be a batsman he is going to have to bat up the order. You can’t just be a batsman but bat in the middle order where he wants to.

“He’s just got to have a look in the mirror, ask himself a couple of questions and get his mentality back on track.”

Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott added: “Bairstow is a number seven at Test level. He’s not good enough to bat higher than that.”

Bairstow has been fantastic – Buttler

Buttler, who was recalled as a specialist batsman at the start of the summer, took the gloves after Bairstow was injured at Trent Bridge and was named as keeper at Southampton.

“We’ve played a lot of cricket together both with him wicketkeeping or me wicketkeeping – in one-dayers and Test matches – and it has not been a problem at all,” said Buttler, England’s regular one-day keeper.

“Jonny’s not fit to keep in this match, which is frustrating for him because he has been fantastic in the last few years for England.

“Whatever happens moving forward doesn’t affect me or Jonny.

“For me, being back in the Test side is fantastic, so gloves on or not doesn’t matter.”

England lead 2-1 in the five-Test series.