HIGHLIGHTS-Day six at the U.S. Open

Open tennis championships on Saturday (all times GMT):

1710 RADWANSKA PULLS AHEAD

Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, the women's fourth seed, won the first set against Caroline Garcia of France at the Louis Armstrong Stadium.

1645 THIEM BATTLES BACK TO ONE-SET LEAD

Men's eighth seed Dominic Thiem of Austria opened up a one-set lead against Pablo Carreno Busta after losing the first, leading the Spaniard 1-6 6-4 6-4.

1635 BABOS STRIKES BACK AGAINST HALEP

Hungarian Timea Babos battled back to force a deciding set against women's fifth seed Simona Halep of Romania, taking the second set 6-2 after losing the first 6-1.

1625 SUAREZ NAVARRO BEATS VESNINA IN STRAIGHT SETS

Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro, the women's 11th seed, beat Russia's Elena Vesnina of Russia 6-4 6-3 at the Louis Armstrong Stadium.

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1542 HALEP TAKES LEAD AGAINST BABOS

Simona Halep of Romania, the women's fifth seed, won the first set against Timea Babos of Hungary 6-1 at the Arthur Ashe Stadium.

1530 THIEM LOSES FIRST SET TO BUSTA

Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain has won his first set against men's eighth seed Dominic Thiem of Austria 6-1 on the Grandstand court.

1500 PLAY GETS UNDERWAY

Play gets underway on the main showcourts on a partially cloudy day at Flushing Meadows.

ORDER OF PLAY ON THE MAIN SHOWCOURTS:

Arthur Ashe Stadium (1500 GMT/11 AM ET)

31-Timea Babos (Hungary) v 5-Simona Halep (Romania) (1700 GMT/1 PM ET)

1-Serena Williams (U.S.) v Johanna Larsson (Sweden)

Paolo Lorenzi (Italy) v 2-Andy Murray (Britain)

(2300 GMT/7 PM ET)

26-Laura Siegemund (Germany) v 6-Venus Williams (U.S.)

14-Nick Kyrgios (Australia) v Illya Marchenko (Ukraine)

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Louis Armstrong Stadium (1500 GMT/11 AM ET)

11-Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) v 19-Elena Vesnina (Russia)

4-Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) v 25-Caroline Garcia (France)

Juan Martin del Potro (Argentina) v 11-David Ferrer (Spain)

Daniel Evans (Britain) v 3-Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland)

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Grandstand (1500 GMT/11 AM ET)

8-Dominic Thiem (Austria) v Pablo Carreno Busta (Spain)

Ana Konjuh (Croatia) v Varvara Lepchenko (U.S.)

10-Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) v 17-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia)

6-Kei Nishikori (Japan) v Nicolas Mahut (France) (Compiled by Simon Jennings in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)