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Mark Martin has another pole in his race to win the Chase.

Martin turned a lap of 175.758 mph on a cool, windy Friday in Kansas City, Kan., on the 1.5-mile oval at Kansas Speedway, earning his career-best seventh pole of the season.

The 50-year-old will start on the front row with Dale Earnhardt Jr. in Sunday's Price Chopper 400, the third of 10 races in the Chase for the championship.

Martin has won five times this season and holds a 10-point lead over three-time defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, who qualified 11th. Brad Keselowski qualified third.

TENNIS

BANGKOK OPEN: Viktor Troicki, the number four seed, beat eighth seed John Isner of Greensboro, 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 in the quarterfinals of the Bangkok Opne. Troicki had 13 aces in the victory over the Page alumnus. Troicki will play top seed and defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who beat Marco Chiudinelli 6-7 (7), 6-3, 6-4.

SOCCER

UNDER-20 WORLD CUP: The United States lost to South Korea 3-0 in its final first-round match at the Under-20 World Cup in Suez, Egypt, but still can advance. The United States (1-2) finished third in Group C with three points, ahead of Cameroon (1-2) on goal difference and trailing Germany (2-0-1) and South Korea (1-1-1). Four of the six third-place teams go to the second round, and the Americans will find out today whether they continue.