hello, i'm tulsen tollett, and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: tunisia's malekjaziri displays all the skills as he knocks alexander zverev out of the china open and progresses to the quarterfinals. it's a two—way lead after the opening round of the alfred dunhill links championship in scotland between australia's marcus fraser and england's matt wallace. and krasnodar shock five—time winners sevilla in the europa league, taking a 2—1 victory in russia to move top of group]. hello, and welcome to the programme, where we start with tennis, and the news that us open champion naomi osaka is through to the quarter—finals of the china open in beijing, but there was a shock defeat for the wimbledon champion angelique kerber. jim lumsden rounds up thursday's action. for those bemoaning the lack of

depth in women's tennis look no further than naomi osaka, the form player. last month she stunned serena williams in a memorable us open final. she has confirmed in next month's tour finals and her progress in beijing continued on thursday. the 20—year—old eighth seed was rarely troubled, racing through the match 61, 6—2 in little over an hour. the japanese player has only dropped four games in the last two rounds, and next in the osa firing line is naomi osaka, who knocked out angelique kerber. the player took the first set 6—1 before the number two seed made it one set all, but that took all her power and zhang won the third set 6—0 to move into the quarter—finals. the australian open champion wozniacki

had lost, but not today, the world number two cruised through the second set 6—4, and she will play cibulkova in the last eight. in the men's draw, there was a shock defeat for the number two seed alexander zverev. he was beaten in three sets by malekjaziri. the tunisian won the first set on a tie—break, and even though he lost the second, he did manage to conjure up the point of the match and was generously appluaded by his opponent zverev. jaziri, who's ranked 61 in the world, took the deciding set 6—4, which zverev wasn't so happy about. jaziri will play now nikoloz basilashvili in the quarter—finals. in tokyo, the quarter—final line—up at the japan open is now in place, and among those through to the last eight is kevin anderson. the number two seed from south africa beat frances tiafoe of the usa in three sets, taking the decider 6—2 to seal his place in the quarter—finals.

anderson will now face richard gasquet in the last eight. the number eight seed from france beat australia's nick kyrgios in straight sets, with both sets going all the way to tie—breaks. gasquet sealed his victory with an ace. india's new star pritvi shaw has become the country's youngest batsman to score a century on debut. shaw, who isjust 18, made 134 during the opening day of their first test against west indies in rajkot, and it only took him 154 balls, reaching his 100 off just 99 deliveries. india ended the day on 364 for four. england are in sri lanka for a tour that takes in all three formats of the game as they build towards next yea r‘s world cup in the united kingdom. this tour will see them take in five one day internationals along with a one off t20 and test match. eoin morgan's side will also be out to banish the memories of their last

odi series in sri lanka four years ago when they were beaten 5—2 and then—skipper alastair cook was sacked. neither side go into the series fresh, sri lanka's asia cup ended with defeat to afghanistan just under three weeks ago, while a number of england's players took part in the gruelling five—match test series against india which ended around the same time. you have got to take a step back, ta ke you have got to take a step back, take a step away and refreshed, and comeback excited about playing your cricket and that's exactly what we had to do these last two weeks because coming into a tour with the heat and conditions, it is going to be tough, we know that. it will be mentally and physically tough, and coming into it fresh and excited about it is the main thing. there's a tie for the lead in the alfred dunhill links championship heading into friday's second round between england's matt wallace and australia's marcus fraser. the defending champion tyrrell hatton, who's chasing

a third successive title, is two off the pace at this event which is played across three courses in scotland. adam wild reports. somewhere under the rainbow, breaking par was no easy task, of the 168 strong field only 24 managed it. one of them was matt wallace and after the disappointment of not being picked for europe's ryder cup tea m being picked for europe's ryder cup team the englishman impressed. his round of 68 at st andrews was the best of the day. further up the scottish coast australia's marcus fraser was the player to catch. this was one of his five birdies at carnoustie. he shares the lead with wallace on four under par. over at kingsbarns, tyrrell hatton did his best to cope with the conditions. the defending champion aiming for a third straight win in the event, two off the lead. as is another ryder cup player, american brooks koepka

keeping pace with the leaders. players will change courses over the next two days. those who make the cut we'll head back to saint andrews for sunday's final round. —— will. on to football, and thursday was matchday two in the europa league, with 24 matches played across the 12 groups. the results included a shock defeat for sevilla, who've won the trophy a record five times. they were beaten 2—1 by krasnodar in russia. elsewhere, celtic lost 3—1 at red bull salzburg. munas dabbur scored twice for the austrians as they made it two wins out of two in group b. arsenal enjoyed a comfortable 3—0 win in azerbaijan, to maintain their perfect start in group e. patrick cutrone scored twice for milan as they beat olympiakos 3—1, with gonzalo higuain also scoring for the rossoneri. rangers scored twice in the last five minutes as they beat rapid vienna 3—1 at ibrox. it's two wins out of two for chelsea in group l. alvaro morata scored the only goal of the game as the 2013 winners beat the hungarian side vidi at stamford bridge. it has been very hard. the first

half we had opportunities for scoring. we didn't do it. and so the second half has been very hard. i think it was important, three points. we have created a lot of goal opportunities, but we have conceded two or three opportunities to the opponents and i think we have to the opponents and i think we have to do better. and for us, each match is very important for us to take the responsibility, to take confidence for the players. i responsibility, to take confidence

for the players. lam responsibility, to take confidence for the players. i am very happy with how they are responding on the pitch. ferrari driver sebastian vettel says he hasn't had a dominant car this year as he prepares for the japanese grand prix in suzuka this weekend. after winning last week's russian grand prix, lewis hamilton leads vettel by 50 points with five races left. hamilton has won three of the last four races at suzuka, but vettel whose team unveiled their new car livery on thursday has had his own success at suzuka, winning four times between 2009 and 2013, but the german knows his team needs to improve. well, within a week you can't do too many things differently, so we hope that the tracksuits us a bit better —— track suits us a bit better and we have a better trip than we did in russia. i think nevertheless we managed to squeeze everything out of the car. i think in race pace hopefully we will be a bit closer. the philadelphia 76ers and the dallas mavericks play two nba preseason games in china over the coming days. they'll play the opening match

on friday in shanghai followed by a rematch on monday in shenzhen. 76ers coach brett brown made the headlines last year stating his squad's goal was to make the play—offs and they reached the second round of the postseason. while the mavericks have been boosted by the arrival of 19—year—old luka doncic from slovenia. we have a goal of trying to play in the nba finals, you know. we want to come out of the east and represent the east and play in the nba finals. that is a very big goal. i understand the magnitude of that comment, but i own it. we accept it. we are trying to grow a young team and think like that. let's just stay in north america because the colorado rockies are playing the first of the national league division series against milwaukee, 2—2 in what could be caught extra time, the 10th inning at the top, it is two apiece and

atla nta at the top, it is two apiece and atlanta are at the la dodgers and the dodgers lead 1—0 at the bottom of the first innings. indianapolis are losing to the patriots at the end of the first quarter. until next time, it is bye for now, goodbye. hello there. we're going to end the week on quite a stark temperature contrast across the country. many northern areas, scotland and northern ireland, much cooler and fresher on friday, whereas further south it really will be quite warm, particularly where we see the sunshine. and the reason for it, well, we've got these weather fronts straddling central portions of the country, and by the end of the night, that cooler air will make inroads across scotland and northern ireland, whereas further south, we move into that very mild air mass. so rural temperatures starting the day off at 11—14 degrees, whereas further north, low single figures, perhaps a touch

of frost in one or two of the glens, with some mist and fog. and as we head to friday itself, that weather front barely moves. it stays static through central parts of the country, with brighter weather to the north and to the south. so we'll see outbreaks of rain throughout the day on friday throughout northern england, maybe the north midlands, into wales, scotland and northern ireland. bright, fairly breezy, but on the cool side. the south certainly will be dry, sunny and pretty warm. could see the odd shower around, maybe, across the western side of scotland. otherwise it's going to be mostly dry here, that cloud bringing outbreaks of rain to northern parts of england, into wales and the midlands southwards. a pretty glorious afternoon, in fact, with light winds, and that sunshine is going to feel more like summer than autumn. those temperatures topping out at around 22, maybe 23 degrees in the south—east. around the mid to upper teens celsius under that cloud, and for scotland and northern ireland, temperatures here ten to 12 degrees. so it will feel very different. now, as we head on into the start

of the weekend, this weather front peps up, and in fact an area of low pressure develops. looks like it could bring quite a lot of rain to parts of england and wales, but some areas could have a washout of a day. maybe an inch or more of rain as we head into the afternoon. it becomes more confined, slowly, to the south and the east of england, whereas further north, actually a lovely start to the weekend, with lots of sunshine around, but again feeling quite cool here. but much cooler across the south and east compared to friday. now, hopefully that area of low pressure eventually moves away into the near continent. a ridge of high pressure builds in, to settle things down, but then we see another weather system pushing into the north—west corner of the country, so here it'll turn wet and windy through the day. could be a bit of a hang back of cloud across the far south—east. eventually it should clear away, and a better looking day sunday for england and wales. some good spells of sunshine. but it turns increasingly wetter across scotland, perhaps into the far north of england later in the day, and feeling a little bit warmer across—the—board,

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