2020 and the men's competition at least as being devalued because those three have dominated the sport in recent years, but even though there are still concerns about quarantine, particularly the players concerned about whether they will have to quarantine when they fly back to europe, clay hock season after the us open, my feeling is this will be resolved. a number of really big teams will be there. not everybody but i think the us open is viable and i do think it will go ahead. that's what the term and organisers will be hoping for. russell fuller life for us tonight, many thanks. the second round of the uspga is under way. the first major of the year taking place without fans at harding park in san francisco. former winner australia's jason day topped the leaderboard going into friday's second round on five under. he tees off later. i feel like the momentum that i've had over the last three starts has come you know, kind of seeped into this week. the funny thing is that every day i'm excited to go back to the golf course and play, whereas before, i was struggling to get up and going, you know, do i want to put myself through this again? to be honest, it... i'm excited to get out and play every week now. and looking confident, why not. sarah mukerins has been following all the action. has anyone made a move on the leader today? we're looking at china's player. he's a very good round so far. these three ahead of where those overnight leaders were. a good couple of birdies for him early on, so he's moving very well today. good word as well for a couple of the english interests with casey and tommy fleetwood. we had seen them in the later stages last night, they were playing really well, tommy fleetwood ended last night, they picked up four shots already. easter now, for under, that's also the same score at the moment for paul casey. he started the day to wander, so he's picked up a couple of shots, just a big talking point, absolutely because of the strength of his long drives that he has now. out on the course at the moment. it's a bit up firm, lots of birdies, lots of bogies, so he's 100 so farfor firm, lots of birdies, lots of bogies, so he's100 so farfor his round, so that's moving him to 300 so round, so that's moving him to 300 so far. i was going to ask home interests, could they come as far as that challenge. justin rose the most impressive on day one. tommy fleetwood and paul casey with the strength that we know when americans engulf at the moment, there could be some hope for the british contingent. absolutely. i think everybody was really pleased to see how he did yesterday, he was one of the later starters today because he hasn't shown an awful lot of form. you looked really well yesterday. it's also a similar story for the likes of tommy fleetwood and paul casey. paul casey missed the cut last week. adjusting back to life in the usa. he was one of the players to go to the usa a little bit later. he's been looking for a little bit of rhythm and form was topsoil think both of them will feel quite good about how they are showing this morning and then the likes of mathew fitzpatrick. he didn't have a great round yesterday, one of the later starters. both have been in good form coming into its, both of those we re form coming into its, both of those were struggling a little bit, so we will see how they do later. a little bit closer to home, perhaps more worryingly, we saw some alarming scenes at the rose ladies challenge event today at wentworth where play was postponed because of a really serious fire on the chorus, the images look terrible. yeah, yeah, we saw this come out in the last couple of hours, wildfire around it, really thick smoke, as you can see there lots of incidence of fire there. basically what's happened as it has come overfrom there basically what's happened as it has come over from there and come over the railways and towards the tenth tee on the chorus, so once that smoke was infiltrating, obviously, emergency services round the scene dealing with it, the clubhouse was evacuated, play has been suspended. they are going to recommence tomorrow while they deal with it all. the thing about it is, today was the grand finale for the series which had been set up for the top female players in the uk who couldn't play professional golf amidst the pandemic. it was set up byjustin rose amidst the pandemic. it was set up by justin rose and amidst the pandemic. it was set up byjustin rose and his wife, kate, and it was also pretty historic as well today because this was the first professional ladies tournament that was being played on the iconic west course at wentworth. so you know, they have just had no luck really, but it will recommence tomorrow. as they say, it doesn't rain it pours. many thanks indeed for that. alarming scenes there we ntworth for that. alarming scenes there wentworth today. still to come on sportsday... 25 years on from his record breaking jump in gothenburg — jonathan edwards tells us of the surprise that his record has stood for so long. it's been a busy day on and off the track at silverstone ahead of this weekend's formula one 70th anniversary grand prix. lewis hamilton and valtteri bottas took it in turns to top the time sheets, but the bigger news involves their mercedes team who say they have concerns over "legal, commercial and sporting" issues in the contract f1 want them to sign to take part next season. they've got till wednesday to agree a deal. second practice came to a premature end when sebastian vettel‘s ferrari suffered engine failure. it was also a tough day for racing point after sergio perez tested positive again for coronavirus and they were fined and docked points for copying parts on their car from mercedes. three time champion mark williams is through to the quarter finals of the world snooker championships in sheffield. the welshman endured a lengthy tussle with another former winner in stuart bingham. williams eventually winning by 13 frames to 11. and another three time champion is also through to the third round.