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Heres a breakdown of how you can watch and follow the entire day.Watch
every matchAt 11 a.m. ET, the first wave of matches for the day will
begin on ESPN3. Click to watch.?At 1 p.m. ET, ESPN and WatchESPN begin
coverage. Click to watch.?To view starting times of upcoming days at the
US Open, click here.?Live scoringOur real-time scoreboard, updated
stats and social handles can be found on one spot, US Open
CourtCast.?BracketsFind out whos moving on (and whos not) with our US
Open mens and womens brackets. ?Fridays key matchesNo. 9 Jo-Wilfried
Tsonga vs. Kevin Anderson, first match on the Grandstand (Watch)Expect
nothing less than first-to-last ball power from both players in this
one. The seeds suggest Tsonga is the favorite, but Anderson had his best
Grand Slam showing last year at the US Open, where he reached the
quarterfinals, a run that included a win against Andy Murray. Tsonga has
not played well since Wimbledon. But after his last match, he said the
small imperfections in his game have been fixed.No. 7 Marin Cilic vs.
No. 26 Jack Sock, second match on Louis Armstrong (Watch)Cilic is
perhaps the last player anyone wants to run into right now. The 2014 US
Open champ thrives on the hard courts of New York. Plus, hes coming off
an impressive title run at the Western & Southern Open two weeks
ago. Cilic has been broken just twice in his first two matches at the US
Open this year. As for Sock, after a thrilling five-set win against
fellow American Taylor Fritz in his opener, he settled in nicely. On
Wednesday, Sock dismantled Mischa Zverev in less than 90 minutes.Ryan
Harrison vs. Marcos Baghdatis, second match on Court 17 (Watch)Once the
front-runner to be the Next Big Thing in tennis, Harrison had fallen on
hard times, toiling in the anonymity of Challenger events. But
Wednesday, he scored the biggest victory of his career, a four-set win
against No. 5 and Wimbledon runner-up Milos Raonic. Harrison entered the
US Open ranked a lowly No. 120 and made the main field only by
qualifying. He credits his mental maturity as one of the reasons for his
rebound. His opponent, Baghdatis, is equally interesting. One of the
most charismatic players on tour, the Cypriot was also one of the games
highly touted future stars; in 2006, he made the Australian Open final
but hasnt delivered anything close to that performance since. Baghdatis
beat Harrison in their only previous encounter, the 2012 Brisbane
International.No. 13 Johanna Konta vs. No. 24 Belinda Bencic, second
match on the Grandstand (Watch)No question Konta has to be worried about
her physical state after a frightening incident Wednesday. Midway
through her match on a hot, humid day, the Brit began to hyperventilate
and ultimately collapsed to the ground, shaking and shivering. After a
lengthy delay, Konta recovered and won. She is hopeful that with some
TLC, Ill be good to go. On Friday, she will face Bencic, who has had a
dismal summer. In her previous five events, she won only a single match.
However, Bencic is coming off an impressive win against Andrea Petkovic
on Wednesday.No. 20 John Isner vs. Kyle Edmund, fourth match on Louis
Armstrong Stadium (Watch)The big question for Isner wont be whether
darts will be flying off his racket or his desire to thrill the New York
crowd, but rather how his legs will hold up. In two matches, the
6-foot-10 American has been on court for 6 hours, 21 minutes over nine
sets. He was lucky to get by Frances Tiafoe in his opener, and his
second match, against Steve Darcis, was a physical struggle from the
beginning. It wont get easier for Isner. His next opponent, Edmund, is
responsible for taking out No. 13 Richard Gasquet on Monday. Isner beat
Edmund in the second round of the French Open earlier this year.No. 2
Angelique Kerber vs. CiCi Bellis, second night match on Arthur Ashe
Stadium (Watch)?What a fairy-tale story it would be if 17-year-old
Bellis could upset the No. 2 player in the world. Bellis loves the
energy from the New York crowd. She has a growing legion of fans who
call themselves Team CiCi. Its not the first time the California teen
has stolen the spotlight in New York; two years ago, she stunned former
Aussie Open finalist Dominika Cibulkova in the first round. Kerber, of
course, will be a much more difficult test. She won her major, in
Melbourne, earlier this year and then reached the Wimbledon and Olympics
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GAP, France -- Hurtling too fast for comfort down a twisty, turning
foothill of the Alps, Tour de France leader Chris Froome faced a
high-speed choice between risk and reward.
The Briton knew that 10 years previously almost day for day on exactly
the same descent, Joseba Beloki shattered his leg, elbow and wrist bones
rounding a corner too fast and Lance Armstrong plowed into a field to
avoid the prone Spaniard howling in pain.
So Froome wanted to go easy. Trouble is, Alberto Contador didnt. Against
his better instincts, Froome chased after his Spanish rival who rode
hell for leather on the treacherous downhill with asphalt made gooey and
slippery by the July heat.
Just like Armstrong, flirting with disaster nearly cost Froome the Tour.
Contador crashed as he rounded a right-hand corner, forcing Froome to
swerve around him off the road, onto the grass and to put a foot down to
stay upright.
Unlike Contador, who bloodied his right knee, Froome escaped with just a
fright. Still, this drama on Tuesdays Stage 16 proved a point that
Froome and his Sky team have made time and again: despite his big lead,
Froome wont savour victory until hes on the cobbles of the
Champs-Elysees in Paris on Sunday.
"One second you could be going for the finish and about to win a race
and the next youre lying in a ditch somewhere, with a broken bone,"
Froome said.
"I knew it was the descent where Beloki crashed so I was purposefully
laying off a little bit and trying to take it easy but at the same time
also trying to keep touch with the Saxobank guys who were really pushing
the limits."
By that, Froome meant Contador and his Saxo-Tinkoff teammate from the
Czech Republic, Roman Kreuziger, who are third and fourth in the overall
standings but more than four minutes off the lead.
Opportunities for them to claw back time are fast running out. The
finish line in Paris is now just 668 kilometres (415 miles) and five
days away. To their credit, they arent simply accepting defeat but are
harassing Froome all the way. If Froome wins, the way his rivals have
repeatedly tested the British rider over the three weeks should give him
the extra satisfaction of a victory hard-earned.
Stage 16 wound from Provence past vineyards, lavender fields and
villages clinging to hillsides to the town of Gap, a staging post for
what promises to be a grand finale in the Alps for the 100th Tour.
For a long while, it seemed that the 168-kilometre (104-mile) trek to
Gap from Vaison-la-Romaine, a charming town with old ruins near the Mont
Ventoux where Froome won on Sunday, would be one of those Tour stages
that dont amount to much.
Apparently keeping their powder dry for the Alps, Froome and other main
protagonissts allowed 26 riders -- none of them a podium threat -- to
escape far ahead.
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The stage winner, Rui Costa, later emerged from that group, riding away
on the days last climb, a 9.5-kilometre (6-mile) long ascent to Col de
Manse, and then zipping down to Gap.
Although the Manse climb is less arduous and less steep than the
Ventoux, where Froome blasted past Contador, the Spaniard and Kreuziger
used to it test the Briton and his Australian wingman, Richie Porte.
Several times, Contador tried accelerating away. Kreuziger did, too. But
Porte and then Froome alone wouldnt let them get away.
To cool the asphalt, authorities doused the top of the climb with water.
But Porte said the road down from there was sticky and slippery -- just
as it was in the heat wave of 2003, when Belokis back wheel slid away
from him on a bend, hurling him to the ground. Armstrong went on to win
that Tour -- only to have that and all six of his other victories in
cyclings premier race stripped from him last year for doping.
On Tuesday, touching their brakes caused wheels to slip, Porte said.
"All of us had a bit of a moment coming down there, losing the front
wheel, back wheel," he said.
Yet Contador was flying, with Froome in his wake.
Rounding a sharp right-hander, "the bike got away from me," Contador
said.
"It was really difficult. In normal conditions I wouldnt have slipped
like that, but it was very difficult terrain," said the 2007 and 09
champion, who was stripped of his 10 title for a failed doping test.
"Sometimes you have to go for it, whether its at the start or the end of
a stage."
Froome said Contador "was taking too many risks."
"All teams are starting to get desperate now and theyre taking
uncalculated risks," he said. "In my opinion it was a bit dangerous from
Alberto to ride like that, its not good."
Worryingly for Froome, theres worse to come. Thursdays Stage 18 not only
includes a double ascent to the ski station of Alpe dHuez, with its 21
hairpin bends, but also a harrowing descent that several riders have
voiced concerns about.
Having seen that Froome wasnt completely comfortable chasing after
Contador on Tuesday, the risk now is that his rivals could try to
unsettle him again on Thursdays downhill from Col de Sarenne.
"It is a very dangerous descent. The road surface is not great," Froome
said. "And there arent any barriers on the corners, so if you go over
the corner then you will fall down a long way. Its a dangerous descent
and I hope the riders are aware of that, that they dont take risks like
they did today."
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AP Sports Writer Jerome Pugmire contributed.
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