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| - AFP Sports Agenda for Friday, September 4 (all times GMT): Twitter: @AFP_Sport Instagram: @afpsport + Djokovic, Osaka eye US Open last 16 + Italy, Netherlands in Nations League action + Yates in yellow at Tour de France + England host Australia in first T20 match + Tour Championship offers $15 million prize + Opening practice at Italian Grand Prix TENNIS -- At the US Open, top seed and world number one Novak Djokovic faces Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff while fellow former champion Naomi Osaka plays Ukrainian teenager Marta Kostyuk for places in the last 16. Coverage by Peter Hutchison. Picture (TENNIS-USA-OPEN) FOOTBALL -- UEFA Nations League: League A, Group 1: Italy v Bosnia and Herzegovina; Netherlands v Poland (both 1845); League B, Group 1: Romania v Northern Ireland; Norway v Austria (both 1845); Group 2: Scotland v Israel, Slovakia v Czech Republic (both 1845); League C, Group 4: Lithuania v Kazakhstan (1600); Belarus v Albania (1845). Picture (FBL-EUR-NATIONS) -- Monitoring developments in Lionel Messi's conflict with Barcelona. Coverage by Tom Allnutt (FBL-ESP-LIGA-BARCELONA-MESSI) CYCLING -- Seventh stage of Tour de France is 168km from Millau to Lavaur with Briton Adam Yates in the race leader's yellow jersey. Coverage by Damian McCall. Picture. Video. Graphic (CYCLING-TOUR-FRA) CRICKET -- England v Australia at Southampton, first T20I in a three-match series. (1700) Coverage by Julian Guyer. Picture (CRICKET-ENG-AUS) BASKETBALL -- NBA playoffs in Orlando, Florida: The Milwaukee Bucks look to fight their way back into the Eastern Conference semi-finals in game three after falling behind 2-0 against the Miami Heat (2230); Houston Rockets and LA Lakers open their Western Conference semi-final series (0100 Saturday). Picture (BASKET-NBA) FORMULA ONE -- Opening practice for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix at Monza (0900 and 1300) Picture (AUTO-PRIX-ITA) GOLF -- Tour Championship in Atlanta, the season-ending FedEx Cup event which features 30 players at East Lake where a $15 million playoff prize awaits the winner. -- LPGA CP Women's Open, Vancouver (GOLF-LPGA); European Tour at Andalucia Masters, Valderrama (GOLF-EPGA-ESP) RUGBY UNION -- Opening game of French Top 14 season: Montpellier v Pau (1845). Picture (RUGBYU-FRA-TOP14) -- English Premiership: Northampton v Exeter (1845), Worcester v Bristol (1700). (RUGBYU-ENG-PR) RALLYING -- World Rally Championship resumes in Estonia after six-month interruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Picture (AUTO-RALLY-EST) ATHLETICS -- The Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, a Diamond League exhibition event, includes Mo Farah trying to break the one-hour world record. Picture (ATHLETICS-DIAMOND-BEL) afp
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