lin dan, looking for a sixth career world title this week recovered to win in three. —— lin dan.und of 16 can pick and friday will be the quarter—finals with the medal matches over the weekend. chris froome has extended his lead in the vuelta a espana, following wednesday's fifth stage. the stage was won by alexey lutsenko from kazakstan. the astana rider sprinted clear to win by more than a0 seconds from eritrea's merhawi kudus. meanwhile, froome finished safely in the pack, and he's extended his overall lead to ten seconds from the american tejay van garderen. finally, to tennis, and zhang shuai is through to the quarter—finals of the connecticut open in new haven. the world number 29 from china beat the polish qualifier magda linette in three sets. zhang won 63, 6—7, 6—3, and will now play another qualifier, elise mertens of belgium, for a place in the last four. that is all from us for now. you can get all the latest sports news at our website. that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello there. as we head towards the bank holiday wee

although malaysian leejohn wade is traditionally lin dan's major opponent there is a new man in town.ranking for most of 2017 and is the top men's single seed in glasgow. he began his bid for a first major title with a comfortable 21-14, 21-6 team first major title with a comfortable 21—14, 21—6 team when in the round of 64. translation: i'm happy to win the first competition at the beginning andi the first competition at the beginning and i think i'm adjusting to this environment well so i hope the result of the following competition is good as well. most of the top—seeded players begin their campaign on tuesday having received by buys in the first round and that will include spanish 0lympic champion who is looking for a hat—trick of world titles after su ccesses hat—trick of world titles after successes in 2013 and 2015. britain's chris froome has taken the red jersey and leads the vuelta a espana as italy's vincenzo nibali won the third stage. the four—time tour de france champion finished third on the stage with spain's david de la cruz in second. the team sky rider is aiming to b

denmark's victor beat lin dan of china in glasgow. it was 22 — 21. the first major for him.e. hello. temperatures are coming down in the week ahead, make the most of any warm sunshiny hub on monday. the bulk will be across parts of england and wales, for scotland and northern ireland, weather fronts close by. winds picking up and some wet weather to come. this band of rain pushing south during the day. not too much wet weather into eastern scotland. with it, windy, some cloud increasing. north—west england into wales. for the pennines and east wales, very warm sunshine. once this green band has pushed through northern ireland in scotland, especially in the evening, brightening up again from the north. one or two showers, a spell of rain for a glasgow and fringing into edinburgh through the afternoon. to the south, staying dry for the bulk of the day across northern england. venturing into the lake district in snowdonia, low cloud and drizzle around. for eastern wales across the midlands, east anglia, southern england, long and sunny spells. for some, unbroken sunshine. that

with the fellow legend, lin dan, of china, going towards the end of his career, this could be known asan the men's singles tennis. that is it for me. you can get all the latest sports news at our website. that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hi there. yesterday was a pretty humid day, wasn't it? we did have some sunshine coming through. the best in southwest england, temperatures climbing to 25 degrees in bute. it was not sunny everywhere, a couple of inches of rain in northern ireland, 15 millimetres in just four hours in county tyrone. rain not just heavy but also thundery. thunderstorms rumbling north—east across northern ireland through the night. to the start of friday, the band of rain has moved away from northern ireland and into scotland. a soggy start with some wet weather swinging into north—west england. mild and muggy to start for many of us, 16—17 degrees. wet weather still with us for a good part of the morning across scotland. for eastern areas, low cloud with fog patches around the coast and hills. an improving picture in north

scotland's kieran merrilees was beaten by two time olympic gold medallist lin dan from china.tournament at a time, see where that gets me, concentrate on training. it is paying off so far this year and i will try to do it again. shaun murphy is into the china championship final after a 6—4 victory over ali carter. murphy trailed carter 4—2 in the best of ii semi—final, but he bounced back, winning four frames in a row, to make tuesday's final in guangzhou. he'll play luka brecel in tomorrow's final. that's all from sportsday. find out more about all the day's sports stories on the bbc sport website and app. that is it from me. thank you forjoining us. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the defence and security editor for the daily mail, larisa brown and jim waterson, political editor at buzzfeed uk. returning to us. let's have a look at some of tomorrow's front pages. the metro leads with spanish police shooting dead the main suspect in the barcelona van attack. one of the stories

received much more time in prison had it gone to trial and ralph lin was much more set to take the deal than his wife. for the i team, danoise, abc 7 news. >>> for the first time the parking lots at either end of the golden gate bridge will be closed for more than just a single holiday weekend. they will close the east lot every saturday and sunday this months through labor day to prevent traffic waiting for parking spaces to back up on the bridge. tax season ride shares are allowed in the east lot but only for pick ups and drop offs. >> there was a severe thunderstorm warning on lake tahoe pfs west shore. you can see it at heavenly valley resort, the national weather service in reno advised them to get off the lake. >> well, people are going to want to be near the pools right about now. >> meteorologist drew tooma is here. >> not only today but that heat is lasting another day tomorrow. live doppler 7 along with satellite. some high thin clouds are surging in from the south at this hour and tomorrow we will have a mixture of cloud cover out there but that's going to do little to calm the heat. a live look from our roof