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AFP Sports Agenda for Thursday, January 30 (all times GMT): Twitter: @AFP_Sport + Djokovic v Federer in Australian Open semi-finals + Barty v Kenin and Halep v Muguruza for final places + Koepka, Johnson in Saudi International field + Build-up to Sunday's Super Bowl in Miami + Barcelona eye Spanish Cup quarter-finals TENNIS -- Seven-time champion Novak Djokovic faces six-time winner Roger Federer in the first of the men's semi-finals at the Australian Open (0830). Coverage by Martin Parry, Peter Stebbings and Talek Harris. Picture (TENNIS-AUS-OPEN) -- Top seed Ashleigh Barty meets Sofia Kenin in the women's singles semi-finals (0300) with Simona Halep and Garbine Muguruza also playing for a place in Saturday's final (0430). Picture (TENNIS-AUS-OPEN) FOOTBALL -- Spanish Copa del Rey round of 16: Barcelona v Leganes (1800), Mirandes v Sevilla (2000) and Real Sociedad v Osasuna (2000) Picture (FBL-ESP-CUP) -- French Cup round of 16 (1955): Nice v Lyon. Picture (FBL-FRA-CUP) CRICKET -- Zimbabwe are 62-1 in their second innings, a lead of 175 runs on the fourth day of the second Test against Sri Lanka in Harare. (0735) Picture (CRICKET-ZIM-SRI) GOLF -- Dustin Johnson starts the defence of his EPGA Saudi International title at King Abdullah Economic City with world number one Brooks Koepka and British Open champion Shane Lowry also in the field. Coverage by Joy Chakravarty. (GOLF-EPGA-KSA) -- PGA Phoenix Open gets underway at Scottsdale with Jordan Spieth and Jon Rahm amongst the top names (GOLF-USPGA) AMERICAN FOOTBALL -- Build-up to Sunday's Super Bowl in Miami between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs. Coverage by Rob Woollard (AMFOOT-NFL-SUPERBOWL) BASKETBALL -- Six games in NBA. Picture (BASKET-NBA) afp
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