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Top seed Rafael Nadal and defending champion David Ferrer return to action on Friday in Brazil. The quarter-finals of the Rio Open will be live on Sky Sports 3 HD at 4.30pm, featuring the top players at the tournament.Nadal, the 14-time Grand Slam winner, will meet the veteran Alexandr Dolgopolov in the final match of the evening with a semi-final berth at stake. The clay courts of Rio de Janeiro have provided Nadal with the perfect warm-up for the upcoming French Open, a Grand Slam that he has dominated in modern history with nine wins.Ferrer, who won the 2015 Rio Open, is taking on fifth seed Dominic Thiem on Friday evening. The first match of the evening sees qualifier Daniel Gimeno-Traver take on Guido Pella. Federico Delbonis, meanwhile, takes on Pablo Cuevas. David Ferrer will be in action before Nadal The semi-finals of the annual Brazilian competition will take place on Saturday.Watch the quarter-finals on Friday live on Sky Sports 3 HD at 4.30pm. Also See: ATP schedule Tennis on Sky Latest scores Get a NOW TV pass Video Gino Cappelletti Jersey . -- Derrick Rose shook off poor shooting early to hit clutch shots late and Carlos Boozer had 20 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 104-95 preseason victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night. Shaq Mason Jersey . Philadelphia is 2-0 against the Senators this season and scored five goals in each victory. The Flyers recorded a 5-0 win in Ottawa on Nov. 12 and then earned a 5-2 home decision on Nov. 19. The Flyers have claimed three straight and four of the last five encounters with the Sens overall and Philly has won two in a row and three of its past four tests in Canadas capital city. https://www.patriotsjerseysale.com/321p-ted-karras-jersey-patriots.html . The Redskins announced Monday that the quarterback who led the team to the Super Bowl championship in the 1987 season will serve as a personnel executive. Jason McCourty Jersey . Defenceman Yannick Weber scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period and the Canucks breathed a sigh of relief with a 2-1 win on Saturday night. Willie McGinest Jersey . In the response filed Wednesday to the complaint by 30-year-old Alexander Bradley, attorneys say the former University of Florida player is invoking his Fifth Amendment right that protects people from incriminating themselves. VIENNA -- Top-seeded Andy Murray overcame a slow start against Gilles Simon?before winning 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 and progressing to his 13th quarterfinal of the season at the Erste Bank Open on Thursday.The Scot, who improved to 16-2 against Simon in their career matches, clinched his 12th straight win of the season after taking back-to-back titles in Beijing and at the Shanghai Masters, where he beat the Frenchman in the semifinals.Murray broke Simon in the opening game of the match, but then struggled for rhythm as he dropped his first two service games.The world No. 2 broke back when Simon missed a set point and failed to serve out the set at 5-3, but then lost his own serve for a third time.Murray held off six break points early in the second set and finally looked to settle when he reeled off four straight games to level the match. From 2-2 in the final set, he did the same to close out the match.Murray, who is 11-1 in quarterfinals this season, takes on John Isnner for a place in Saturdays semifinals.ddddddddddddEarlier, Viktor Troicki advanced to his seventh quarterfinal of the season by defeating third-seeded Dominic Thiem 6-2, 7-5.Troicki, from Serbia, held serve throughout against the ninth-ranked Austrian but needed to save seven break points in the second set.The 28th-ranked Troicki will next play Spains David Ferrer, the defending champion, or Portugals Joao Sousa.Also, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga came back from 5-3 behind and saved a set point for Germanys Philipp Kohlschreiber in the opening set before beating him 7-6 (6), 6-2. The sixth-seeded Frenchman, who won the event five years ago, improved to 10-1 against Kohlschreiber.Tsonga next plays Spains Albert Ramos-Vinolas, who was a break down in the second set but won nine consecutive games to defeat Austrias Jurgen Melzer, 3-6, 6-4, 6-0. ' ' '