hello. this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: rafael nadal is through to the us open semifinals after a straight sets win over andrey rublev. the women's world number one is out though as coco vandeweghe beats karolina pliskova to keep alive hopes of an all american semifinal line up. and india win their one—off twenty 20 match against sri lanka in colombo with skipper virat kohli leading the way for the tourists. hello and welcome to the programme where we start with tennis and the news that men's world number one rafael nadal is through to the semifinals of the us open after a crushing straight sets win over 19—year—old russian andrey rublev. the spaniard, a twice winner of this event needed just 96 minutes for victory as he ruthlessly took apart his opponent dropping just five games against a player who idolised nadal growing up. next he'll face the winner of the quarter—final clash between five—times champion in this

event roger federer orjuan martin del potro, the 2009 winner. iam i am excited to win the semifinal, more than anything. i am happy with how it went today and let's see what will happen tonight. let's see who i will happen tonight. let's see who i will face in the semifinals. if it is said of course i will be excited and it is always special to play against him here in new york, it will be the first time in our career. if has never happened before and that estranged because we play together in important events all over the world. i will be very excited to play that match. in the women's draw coco vandeweghe made it three americans through to the semi finals after she was a straight sets winner over world number one karolina pliskova. the 25—year—old from new york was strong enough to take

the tie—break 7—4 in the opening set before winning the match when pliskova committed a 21st unforced error to hand her the win in front of a partisan crowd in arthur ashe stadium. defeat for the czech also ensures spain's garbine muguruza will move top of the wta rankings. what was going through my mind in that moment was that i am a big believer that my grandparents are still with me so it was morejust looking up and feeling the love of everything that was going on and really ha p py everything that was going on and really happy with how i was able to close out the match and the fashion that i did and in front of the crowd today. and it's now americans who occupy all the places in the semi—final line up. that's after 15th seed madison keys was a straight sets 6—3, 6—3 winner over estonia's kaia kanepi in the past half an hour taking just 68 minutes. she joins vandeweghe, venus williams and sloane stephens

in the last four. which means it'll be the first time since 1981 that four americans have reached the women's semi—finals. 36 years ago, the last four were chris evert, martina navratilova, tracy austin — who went on to win the title, and barbara potter. andy murray, the three—time grand slam champion and former world number one, has ruled himself out for the rest of the season due to a hip injury. the briton hasn't played since losing his wimbledon quarter—final to sam querrey injuly, and our tennis correspondent russell fuller has been explaining murray's thinking. i think most of us expected that he would not play again this season and even though he has left the door fractionally ajar saying it is possible he may play in paris, i think it is unlikely. and the fact

that he has chosen breast and rehabilitation over surgery is not a surprise. his back surgery was a big success surprise. his back surgery was a big success but it took him a year to get back to his best. there is no guarantee that hip surgery will be successful, and at 30 it is a huge decision to make. he is putting his faith in rest and rehabilitation. there are no guarantees that it will work but by making this decision now it is almost certainly going to be six months between competitive matches. he lost the wimbledon quarter—finals injuly matches. he lost the wimbledon quarter—finals in july in matches. he lost the wimbledon quarter—finals injuly in his next match, assuming he is fit, will be in the first few days of 2018 in brisbane. fifa have ordered a world cup qualifier between south africa and senegal to be replayed after the court of arbitration for sport upheld a lifetime ban for the refereejoseph lamptey. the ghanaian official awarded a penalty to south africa in their 2—1 victory last november, but replays showed the ball hit a senegalese defender on the knee. in march, the referee was banned for "match manipulation" — and that ban has now been upheld by cas.

the match has been annulled — and will be replayed in november's international window. as a result, south africa are now four points adrift at the foot of the table. only the group winners will qualify for the world cup. captain virat kohli led india to victory by seven wickets in the one—off twenty 20 match against sri lanka in colombo as they made it nine wins out of nine across all formats. sri lanka were put into bat and made 170 for seven from their 20 overs. dilshan munaweera top—scored with 53 for the home side which included four sixes. in reply, virat kohli laid the foundations for india's victory by smashing 82 off 5a balls. manish pandey hit an unbeaten half—century, including the winning runs, as india reached their target with four balls to spare. they'd already whitewashed sri lanka 3—0 in the tests and 5—0 in the 0ne—day internationals. australia hold a first innings lead of 72 heading into the fourth day of the second test against

bangladesh in chittagong. david warner made it consecutive test match hundreds as bad light stopped play with 13 overs remaining after rain washed out the entire first session. warnerjoins a select group of 12 australian cricketers who have scored 20 or more test tons but bangladesh lead the two match series 1—0. former west indies pace great michael holding hopes the stunning victory over england at headingley does not turn out to be just "a blip" in the west iindies decline as a test force. jason holder's young team rebounded from a humiliating first test defeat, where they lost 19 wickets in a single day, to claim a five—wicket victory that levelled the series. the third test starts at lord's on thursday and joe wilson looks ahead. this summer was always going to be a learning experience forjoe root as the new english text captain and there are few things in hindsight he

may have done differently during the second test match. he said he loved the opportunity to play in the ipl next year but it cannot look much further than here and now and so toby rowland joe plays for england, not necessarily because he is a better player but because it will give england a better chance of winning this test. mason crane, the young leg spinner bowled in the practice that she and that he will not play in the test match, even if it goes to the ashes. so when i spoke to the captain i wondered if this match was a missed opportunity to experiment. i think it would be easy to look at things like that but when you come into this week and the situation is we are one all and need to make certain that you choose the tea m to make certain that you choose the team that you think will win. what will be the best, give us the best chance of coming out this series on top. this is what we have gone with andi top. this is what we have gone with and i am looking forward to hopefully another good week and finishing off what has been an

exciting year of test cricket in england. west indies practice tee today with a very clear goal in mind. they have the opportunity to win this series. the captain may insist he always believed his team could do that but if he had made that claim after the first test match, i don't think many people would have taken him seriously. these players are also well aware of the horror came across in the caribbean and that is serious on an entirely different level. we definitely do think about our families back home. again, there is not much we can do but i hope that everybody stays safe. there are many decent views at lord's everybody stays safe. there are many decent views at lords and the west indies players chose one of the most famous fruit team photograph you today. if they win this series they will be amongst the most famous west end is touring teams of all time. the result will be noticed in london, in the caribbean absolutely. but it will also be noticed with the

ashes in mind in australia. chris froome will take a lead of one minute and 16 seconds into thursday's stage 18 of la vuelta a espana. the briton who's looking to become just the third person to win the tour de france and the vuelta in the same year, and the first since 1978 lost a huge chunk of his advantage on stage 17's steep final climb with austrian stefan denifl winning the stage. froome struggled on the special category climb to alto de los machucos, with italy's vincenzo nibali cutting his overall lead by 42 seconds. veteran spanish rider alberto contador came in second, clawing back more than a minute on froome to keep alive the race for the red jersey you can get all the latest sports news at our website the final of the men's quarter—finals of the us open is about to take to the court. that his roger federer againstjuan martin

del potro. the winner of this will go on to face the world number one. 0n the other side of the draw it is kevin anderson against tableau. and we also have the four semifinalists for the women's draw decided, all—american, the first time that has been since 1981. good morning. there is wind and rain in the forecast for the british isles over the next few days but nothing like the wet and windy weather that is being brought in the caribbean by hurricane irma. during the day ahead the storm will move away from puerto rico, just clipping the north of the dominican republic and haiti and moving towards the eastern side of cuba late in the day.

back home we have our own area of low pressure, a far less potent one, obviously. isobars beginning to squeeze together, showing that the wind will be picking up as the day goes on. we will also see some outbreaks of rain. central and eastern areas particularly it could be a fairly dry and bright start but further north and west cloud will thicken and outbreaks of rain slide across northern ireland, scotland and northern england with increasingly blustery winds. at four o'clock in the afternoon, a lot of cloud for the likes of belfast, temperatures around 16 degrees. the rain turning heavier cross western the rain turning heavier across western areas of scotland and even some outbreaks of rain across eastern scotland and temperatures in aberdeen just 13 degrees. that rain stretching across northern england from newcastle to manchester and down into the midlands. we will see cloud and showers into the afternoon. similar weather for wales, cloudy weather with showery rain at times. 17 degrees in cardiff. a grey afternoon in prospect in the south—west of england. again, with showers coming and going times and the wind increasing building here.

even here cloud thickens up with a couple of showers into the afternoon. as we go on through the night we will see bands of rain progressing erratically southwards and eastwards, getting stuck across southern areas by the end of the night. temperatures dropped to 10 degrees in aberdeen and 15 in plymouth. during friday, this band of rain will get stuck across southern areas and some rain could be quite heavy. there will be blustery wind around as well but the further north and west you are, the better the chance of seeing some sunshine albeit with some very thundery downpours mixed in. as we go into the weekend, things look decidedly unsettled and dare i say autumnal. cool windy weather with some rain at times. the rain on saturday coming in the form of showers. some of these could be heavy, fairly breezy, the wind not coming from a warm direction at all so the temperature just 16—18 degrees. a bright start on sunday towards the south—east, heavy rain pushing in from the north—west and late in the day western areas particularly will turn

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