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ATP World Tour Finals debutants Gael Monfils and Dominic Thiem meet on Tuesday afternoon knowing a victory is crucial to their hopes of progressing at The O2. The pair suffered defeats on the opening Sunday of the event, Thiem slipping to a three-set defeat against former world No 1 Novak Djokovic having claimed the opening set, while Monfils gave big-serving Milos Raonic little to worry about in a 6-3 6-4 defeat.With just one more game to play, both players know a win is all-important particularly with Djokovic the dominant force in the group, the Serbs win over Thiem means he has won all 24 matches played against his rivals in the Lendl group. Ivan Lendl Group W-L Sets Games Milos Raonic 1-0 2-0 12-7 Novak Djokovic 1-0 2-1 18-9 Dominic Thiem 0-1 1-2 9-18 Gael Monfils 0-1 0-2 7-12 Thiem suffered on opening game defeat to Novak Djokovic in London Thiem will be the happier with his opening display having claimed a first set tie-break against Djokovic and with his final match against a Raonic who has struggled with injury, he will feel he is still in with a chance of making the last four on his first appearance at the season-end event.Monfils could not muster anything against Raonics powerful serve and knows the match against Thiem may be his best chance of keeping his hopes alive with Djokovic still to come.The Frenchman is up to a career high No 6 in the world rankings, while Thiem has claimed four titles this year, only Djokovic and world No 1 Andy Murray have claimed more. Thiem won the opening set against Djokovic before suffering defeat Both can claim to be enjoying their most consistent year on tour and their only 2016 meeting saw Thiem awarded the victory when Monfils was forced to withdraw from their last 16 encounter in Cincinnati.Their only other career meeting saw Thiem emerge victorious from a three-set battle on clay in 2015 but the conditions at The O2 are likely to level up an even-looking contest. Monfils was beaten in straight sets by Milos Raonic in their first game of the ATP World Tour Finals Opening up Tuesdays action in London will be the doubles match between Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares who face Bob and Mike Bryan in the Edberg/Jarryd group. Edberg/Jarryd Group W-L Sets Games B Bryan/M Bryan 1-0 2-0 13-6 J Murray/B Soares 1-0 2-0 13-9 T Huey/M Mirnyi 0-1 0-2 9-13 I Dodig/M Melo 0-1 0-2 6-13 Both pairs kicked off their campaigns with straight sets victories on Sunday and another win should assure them of a place in the last four.Second seeds Murray and Soares are looking to regain the No 1 ranking while the Bryan brothers are chasing a fifth success in the season-end championship having last claimed the title in 2014.All the action from the World Tour Finals between November 13-20 will be live on Sky Sports across the week and if you are out and about you can follow on our Sky Sports apps and the website via our live blogs. Full schedule here. Live Tennis: ATP World Tour Finals November 15, 2016, 12:00pm Live on Get Sky Sports Get a Sky Sports pass Also See: Gael force coming 2016 ATP season in stats Tour Finals at The O2 Shots to watch Comprar Asics Baratas . Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey last Sunday. 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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- After 10 minutes, Michigan had already made five 3-pointers, and when halftime arrived, the number was up to nine.By the time the game ended, the Wolverines had set a school record from beyond the arc. Two of them, in fact.We knew they were going to play a matchup 2/3 zone going into the game, so we knew we were going to have a lot of opportunities to have open 3s, Michigans Zak Irvin said. Thats what were known for -- kind of a zone buster-type team.Irvin scored 16 points, and Michigan made a school-record 19 3-pointers in a 97-53 rout of Central Arkansas on Tuesday night. The Wolverines also set a school record with 45 attempts from 3-point range, easily handling that zone.Michigan (8-3) even made its first 11 field goal attempts from inside the arc -- its first miss from there didnt come until early in the second half.Jordan Howard scored 14 points for Central Arkansas (1-9). The Bears have played only one home game all season.I didnt think that we came out with the focus and energy, Central Arkansas coach Russ Pennell said. This is our Super Bowl. If you cant get excited playing at a place like this and against this type of competition, you dont need to be playing Division I basketball. So were trying to change a culture, and sometimes youve got to get your backside kicked pretty good in order to get their attention.Moe Wagner had 18 points and seven rebounds for Michigan. Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman scored 14 points and Duncan Robinson added 12. Irvin, Abdur-Rahkman and Robinson made four 3-pointers each.The Wolverines broke the school record of 17 3-pointers in a game when Ibi Watson connected from the left wing with 3:58 to play. By then, Michigan had gone deep into its bench.The previous school record for 3-pointers came against Bryant on Dec. 23, 2015, and the record for attempts was 42, set Dec. 22, 22008 against Florida Gulf Coast.ddddddddddddBIG PICTURECentral Arkansas: The Bears have played a tough schedule, and games like this are about trying to show improvement. In that sense, it may have been beneficial for Central Arkansas to test its zone against Michigans sharp shooters -- but that matchup didnt make for a particularly competitive game.Michigan: The Wolverines were coming off a 102-84 loss at UCLA. They did as they pleased offensively against Central Arkansas with little resistance from the Bears, and Michigan can be fairly happy with its defense in the first half, when the Wolverines allowed only 20 points.PLEASEDMichigan coach John Beilein often goes out of his way to compliment opponents. That was a tough sell after his team routed Central Arkansas so easily, but he pointed out that the Bears took Arkansas-Little Rock down to the wire. Also, their loss at Butler earlier this month was reasonably competitive until the last 10 minutes.We caught them at the right time, Beilein said. Weve got a lot of guys who can make shots from the outside, so a zone sometimes can be a tough defense to play against us, and our kids really played well.TOUGH ROADBeilein was also happy about how his team played coming off the long trip back from the game at UCLA on Saturday.Were in exams, too, Beilein said. We had three papers due today.UP NEXTCentral Arkansas: The Bears return home to face in-state rival Arkansas State on Friday night.Michigan: The Wolverines continue an easier stretch of their schedule with a home game against Maryland-Eastern Shore on Saturday.---More AP college basketball: www.collegebasketball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 .---Follow Noah Trister at www.Twitter.com/noahtrister ' ' '