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NEW YORK -- Australian wildcard James Duckworth pulled off the biggest win of his career on Monday night to set up a second-round meeting with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the US Open.Defying the heat and humidity at Flushing Meadows, Duckworth fought back from a set and a break down to beat Dutchman Robin Haase 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.The 24-year-old, who dropped to 195 in the rankings this year after missing four months of the season with elbow and wrist injuries, will face the ninth-seeded Frenchman on Wednesday.The watching Australia Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt will have approved of his compatriots performance, with Duckworth beating world No. 64 Haase in three hours, 31 minutes.Earlier on Monday, Australias?Jordan Thompson lost to qualifier Steve Darcis after leading by two sets in their first-round match.The world No. 91, playing his first match at Flushing Meadows, failed to take two match points as he went down 5-7, 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-4, 7-5 to the 32-year-old Belgian.Darcis, ranked 106th, edged a third-set tie-breaker before forcing a decider and closing out the win after four hours, 11 minutes.The match was played in searing temperatures which Thompson compared to?something like Vietnam or Bangkok, and the 22-year-old cramped up in the final game.Its hot, humid, the suns out, theres no shade. I was hurting in that last game. No doubt I struggled a bit at the end, Thompson told reporters.Thompson, who had progressed to the second round of a Grand Slam for the first time at this years French Open,?served for the match at 5-4 in the third set.I just felt like I left myself down, let other people down. Its not good, he said.Just the people in the box there supporting me, Ive worked with those people for a long time and its what you work towards -- to be playing here and winning matches and I let it slip away.Everythings a learning curve at this age. Wholesale Air Max . -- Al Jefferson found a groove just in time for the Charlotte Bobcats. Air Max Outlet .Y. - Rob Manfred was promoted Monday to Major League Baseballs chief operating officer, which may make him a candidate to succeed Bud Selig as commissioner. http://www.chinaairmaxcheap.com/ . Marincin has played in two NHL games so far this season with two penalty minutes. The 21-year-old has three goals, four assists and a plus-5 rating in 24 games with the American Hockey Leagues Oklahoma City Barons this season. Cheap Nike Shoes China . They were putting most of their energy into a record-setting offensive display. The ICC is keen to increase the number of teams playing cricket at the highest level to 15-16, and is working towards that under the leadership of Shashank Manohar, according to chief executive David Richardson.The ICC has a strategy to have more competitive teams playing at the highest level, Richardson said in Sri Lanka, where he was at the invitation of SLC and Asian Cricket Council (ACC) president Thilanga Sumathipala to discuss the global development of the game. For too long we had 10 Full Members. If we are honest with ourselves, there are eight, probably nine, teams that can play cricket at the highest level.We like to increase that number to 15-16 countries [with] the likes of Afghanistan, Nepal, Malaysia and various other countries in the Asian region. Its very important that we can develop their cricket to a level where they can play against the big boys on an equal basis.Richardson said the global governing body was on the verge of putting forward some proposals that would do wonders for international cricket. Those proposals would cover governance and a new revised financial model, which would hopefully provide all the Full Members with a bigger slice of the cake than what it is currently envisaged, he said.In early 2014, a constitutional revamp of the ICC had given the boards of India, England and Australia greater authority and a larger share of the revenue, an episode dubbed the Big Three takeoverr by the media.ddddddddddddSoon after he became ICC chairman in November 2015, Manohar had criticised the imbalance of power triggered by that revamp, and said he wanted to end the bullying in the games administration.Richardson said he was confident the game will not be affected by another such power war under the current administration. The international game has gone through a period of turbulence, where the governance, the financial model, the playing [of the game] was in turmoil by the resolutions passed by the ICC in 2014. What happened in 2014 took place because unfortunately countries like South Africa, Sri Lanka and New Zealand were not able to stand up to the big boys. I dont think that will happen again.He said the ICC also wanted the ACC to use its resources to develop the game, and the global governing body would provide it with guidance and strategy. Obviously we [the ICC] are responsible for global development, but our resources are limited. Its important that the ACC, with the resources they have both from a financial and a HR perspective, make best use of those. We want to provide the guidance, principles, overall strategy. [It is important that] the activities that we can carry out at global level are supplemented by what the ACC can afford to do on a regional basis. ' ' '