In the other purple group match, elina svitolina. Beat Karolina Pliskova in straight sets. 7 6, 6 4 it finished in favour of the ukrainian, who won the tournament last year. Roger federer has withdrawn from this weeks Paris Masters in order to pace himself, with next months atp finals in london on the horizon. The 38 year old is playing in his 22nd season on the atp tour and won a record extending 10th swiss indoors title on sunday. But, a home favourite is through to the second round. Jo wilfried tsonga, who won the title in 2008, took advantage of his wildcard entry. He came from a set down and saved a match point in the second to beat Russias Andrey Rublev and thrill the french support. Spains Fernando Verdasco is also through to the second round after fighting back from a set down to beat croatias borna coric. He will face sixth seed Alexander Zverev next. The world series is back in houston for game 6 after an extraordinary turnaround by the astros. They had lost both games in tex
Donation of 1 million. The details on his report at least initial 6 billiondollar request. Harvey wrecking havoc on the energy sector. Gas prices surging long lines forming at the pump. Major impact ahead on the busy travel weekend coming up. Futures are showing gains across the boards, dow, s p 500 and the nasdaq there, the dow and s p up in august, that was the fifth straight month of gains and the nasdaq up two months in a row. The nasdaq closed at alltime high yesterday. Investors, of course, eyeing the august jobs report due two and a half hours from now. Economists are expecting 180,000 jobs were added last month, tun employment rate Holding Steady at 4. 3 . We will bring you special coverage of the job report beginning 8 00 a. M. Eastern time. In the meantime, in europe lets check stocks there, england, france and germany we have gains across the board firing on all cylinders around the globe. In asia overnight markets were mixed with nikkei and shanghai heading higher. At home