at the africa cup of nations. victory in the vendee for france and armel le cleac‘h. play is underway on day 5 of the australian open in melbourne and among those in action later will be the men's top seed and world number one andy murray. he's now the clear favourite to win the title, following novak djokovic‘s shock exit on thursday. murray plays on hisense arena against the american sam querrey and, after novak djokovic‘s defeat on thursday, murray doesn't want to be on the wrong end of another shock. yes, i haven't played for quite a while, it is obviously —— he is obviously a dangerous player, big serve, goes for it. he had a big win against novak djokovic in the third round not long ago. the women's top seed angelique kerber is also in action on friday.

she continues the defence of her title against kristyna pliskova of the czech republic. i played once against her, i think a few years ago, and i know that she has a great serve as well. yeah, i am looking forward to playing against her. kerber against pliskova is the second match on the rod laver arena. at the moment, canada's eugenie bouchard is playing coco vandeweghe of the united states. it is currently one set all. bouchard is a break up in the third set. and still to come, the former champion stan wawrinka plays viktor troicki of serbia. in the evening session, ashleigh barty will have the support of the home crowd against mona barthel of germany. and then it's roger federer against tomas berdych, who haven't met this early in a tournament since the beijing olympics of 2008. federer is still feeling his way back to fitness after his knee injury.

if: got to -: — if: got to g- if: got to s— be honest. i didn’t play a lot, to be honest. i didn't say anything, it put it that way. he was playing at the same time. i thought he would have a tougher time. it is superbly in the draw and the court plays fast and he has caused difficulties for me in the past, on faster courts. the olympics, wimbledon. so i know what he has got. i do need tell you where he has got. i do need tell you where he has got. i do need tell you where he has beaten me. then again i played him here and on many occasions and i've just got to play my tournament and be focused on my own service game. obviously there was this kind of

risk before the tournament, before the draw, because his ranking is 17. so somebody has to get him. unfortunately it gets to me. that's fine. ijust need to take that, this challenge. we're going to play a little earlier than the years before, but i don't think that matters. we just need to —— ijust need to bring my game and go for it. at the africa cup of nations, senegal have become the first team to qualify for the quarter finals with a game to spare. they beat zimbawe 2—0. liverpool striker sadio mane on the score sheet. tunisia beat algeria 2—1, to put them in the running to finish as the best placed runner up, but they could still be caught. second place will be decided heading into the last round of matches. let's get the latest then from gabon, our reporter ed harry is there. africa's top—ranked team have won

theirgroup africa's top—ranked team have won their group with africa's top—ranked team have won theirgroup witha africa's top—ranked team have won their group with a game to spare. sadio mane opened the scoring and zimbabwe thereafter were never allowed to build the kind of momentum that had given algeria such a fright last weekend. the algerians now need an unlikely combination of results if they are to progress, including a zimbabwe victory over tunisia. in the encounter between the great rivals tunisia took a second—half lead, courtesy of an on goal. they extended their advantage from the penalty spot and a late reply from algeria in stoppage time just wasn't enough. in spain, atletico madrid and barcelona are both on course to reach the semi finals of the spanish cup after impressive wins in the opening legs of their quarter final ties. antoine griezman was on the scoresheet in the first half for atletico, one of his side's three goals against eibar at the vicente calderon. neymar scored a penalty, midway through the first half, and that proved to be enough

as barcelona won 1—0 away at real sociedad, and take a slim led into the second leg. elsewhere, the belgian radja nainggolan scored twice for roma as they beat sampdoria 4—0. just the one leg in italy, so, with that win, they are into the quarter finals where they'll be at home to the second division side cesena. so roma you would fancy will reach the semi finals against the only non serie a side left in the draw. india have won the one day series with england, following victory in the second odi in cuttack. it gives them a 2—0 lead in the thee match series. yuvraj singh and ms dhoni laid the foundations. yuvraj top—scored with 150, and dhoni weighed in with 134 as india made 381—6 from their 50 overs. despite a century from england's captain eoin morgan and 82 from jason roy, the tourists were restricted to 366 for eight in reply, as india won by 15 runs. yes, it feels great. it it has been

awhile since i got 100. i came back after recovering from cancer. the first couple of years were hard. i have to work hard on my fitness. i was able to get a spot and there was a point where i thought whether to continue or not to continue. a lot of people have helped me throughout this journey. never of people have helped me throughout thisjourney. never giving of people have helped me throughout this journey. never giving up of people have helped me throughout thisjourney. never giving up is i think my theory. so, never give up, keep working hard and hopefully time will change. we weren't the best today with the ball. we took early wickets, which isa ball. we took early wickets, which is a good sign, but letting two experienced guys get in like that and struggue—zéfsirrr ’ 7,7 ’ ' experienced guys get in like that and struggue—zijust ; i' ' experienced guys get in like that and struggue—zijust ; is“? ' ’” ” 5&5; :2 ff ’ 7” ;:,.,, , , , eteel'f engage 1 ~ f— fiffi out fiffi our best performance or reduce our best performance or anywhere near it with the ball at

this game and the last, which is disappointing. so, yeah, and then chasing 380, we had an incredible amount of belief in the changing i’ooiti. amount of belief in the changing room. and then we went far—off and i don't think we battered that well. australia beat pakistan by seven wickets in the third one—dayer in perth. baber azam top—scored with 84 as the tourists made 263—7 from their 50 overs. steve smith hit an unbeaten century for the home side, as australia reached their target with five overs to spare. it means they go 2—1 up in the five—match series. it's the most gruelling solo ocean race in the world. after ten weeks at sea, and barely any sleep, armel le cleac‘h saw off a late challenge by britain's alex thomson to win the vendee globe. look at these incredible pictures. the whitewash of dozens of speedboats as le cleac‘h steers his 60 foot yacht towards the finish in les sables d'olonne. after finishing second in 2009 and 2013, le cleac‘h,

finally won it in a record time of 7a days, three hours, 35 minutes and 46 seconds. having crossed the finish line, the tears flowed as he became the eighth frenchman to win the gruelling race. translation: it is enormous. an incredible emotion. i don't realise what is happening to me. the last few days have been very intense. i realise i have done something enormous. it is great. just great. golf now and henrik stenson leads going into the second round of the abu dhabi championship. the world numberfourfrom sweden, who won the european tour's race to dubai last year for the second time, opened up with an 8—under—par 64 in abu dhabi, and his round included that superb chip for a birdie at the 14th. this is the only event on the european tour's ‘desert swing', which stenson has never won, and he's two shots clear of the field. last year's winner rickie fowler

made a slow start to his title defence with a level par round of 72, eight shots behind the leader, stenson. phil mickelson described his first round of competitive goal for three months as phenomenal. he had operations for esports hernia —— esports hernia. he said his game is rusty, but his body feels good. the former world number one is four shots behind the leader. he had a round of i; " at 14th. shot ‘ of 1ath. on shot ‘ of 14th. on aggshot- if if eee ee’eeee'ee'eje-eee eee ee eee . eee ee’eee‘eee‘eje‘eee eee ee ee . to eee ee’eeeeee‘eje‘eee eee ee ee . to pla_ that eee ee’eeeeeeejeeee eee ee ee . to pla_ that he % 3? 722 2227 but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello. wherever we have had clear skies over the past few days,

my word, the temperatures have really dropped away. you certainly know it's january. there have been clear skies around here. you can see this picture during the course of thursday. we have had a great zone through the heart of the british isles where it has been a murky affair with leaden skies. come further south, this is where we have had the best chance of sunshine. that's the temperature profile as we start friday, but at its extreme, you could be looking at —3 in the north or —6 somewhere in the south. generally speaking, certainly below zero, quite a widespread frost for the southern counties of both england and wales. stretching up to the midlands and the southern parts of norfolk. we still have the cloudy zone all the way from northern ireland, north of wales and northern england and into the central southern parts of scotland. again, there will be one or two spots across northern scotland that will get away to a bright start with sunshine, a touch of frost and then again, some cloud as we go towards the northern and western isles as well. not a good deal changes on friday

with the notable exception, at last, at last, we will push some of the murk out of wales the midlands and maybe coming up to the southern parts of yorkshire.