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PORTLAND, Ore. -- The odds stacked against his underdog side, Croatian captain Zeljko Krajan was brimming with confidence Sunday morning before the reverse singles match in the Davis Cup quarterfinal tie against United States.Marin Cilic and Borna Coric backed up their captains belief in a stirring rally, winning matches to give Croatia a 3-2 comeback victory at the Tualatin Hills hard courts.Today, I knew they were going to bring the quality, Krajan said.Cilic got in started, beating John Isner 7-6 (11-9), 6-3, 6-4. Coric then topped Jack Sock 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.The U.S. lost for the fourth time in 161 tries when leading 2-0 lead in a Davis Cup tie.After the United States swept the singles matches Friday, Cilic and Ivan Dodig kept Croatia alive Saturday with a four-set victory over twins Bob and Mike Bryan in doubles.Its really unbelievable, Krajan said. I would say shocked from this win. Looking back on Friday and being 2-love down and then playing against the Bryans yesterday, it didnt look very positive for us.Croatia will host France -- a 3-1 winner at the Czech Republic -- in the World Group semifinals Sept. 16-18. Croatia reached the semifinals for the first time since 2009. It won its only Davis Cup title in 2005.In the other semifinal, defending champion Britain will host Argentina.Cilic set the tone for the comeback against Isner, a decision that was closer than the score indicated. Cilic won a marathon tiebreaker in the opening set, then broke Isners serve once in the next two sets to pull out the win.The opening set was riveting. Isner was hot, allowing Cilic to win only one point during his first 25 serves. But the American was unable to break Cilic, forcing a tiebreaker. Cilic won a couple points off Isners serve late in the tiebreaker to pull out an 11-9 win, setting off a torrent of emotion along the Croatia sideline.That was definitely a tough task, but I stayed in there mentally, Cilic said. I was very, very focused.Isner was clearly disappointed he didnt get the jump on Cilic.The first set was critical. Felt like I definitely was the better player in the first set. Didnt get paid off, but thats on me. He came up with the goods when he needed it. That gave him a lot of confidence, I think, Isner said.U.S. captain Jim Courier disagreed that momentum swayed in Croatias favor after Cilic pulled out the first set.Thats not the way we look at it. First sets can be critical ... these matches are won on small margins. There are a couple points that go our way, and were sitting here with a smile on our face instead of a little disappointment, Courier said.Unlike Fridays first singles match, when Cilic lost after leading Sock by two sets, the worlds No. 12-ranked player finished off Isner by breaking him in the ninth game to pull out a 6-4 win.Cilic is 6-0 against Isner.The 19-year-old Coric is becoming a reliable closer for Croatia. It was the second time this year Coric won a fifth and deciding match to win a Davis Cup tie.I have to be honest. I like that kind of situation, Coric said. I like it more than playing on Court 27 somewhere, somewhere far away from the crowd. I just like the big stage more, when its more important.After splitting the first two sets against Sock, Coric won the final two sets by breaking the Americans serves four times. Corics performance was decidedly stronger than his three-set loss to Isner on Friday.I was much more relaxed, Coric said. 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MINNEAPOLIS -- The NBA will have a new distributor for its statistical information and its player tracking data starting in the 2017-18 season under a deal that will also spread real-time statistics to legal betting houses around the world.The league announced deals with Sportradar and Second Spectrum on Thursday that it said will greatly expand the distribution of its statistics. Sportradar, a global company with domestic headquarters in Minneapolis, will distribute statistics for the NBA, WNBA and the D-League to people in more than 80 countries.In addition, the NBA will switch from SportVU to Second Spectrum for player tracking information. Second Spectrum will spend this season installing tracking cameras in every arena in the league. It can provide highly detailed data on player movement, including how much ground they cover, where they touch the ball most and the ability to guard the pick-and-roll.If you just consider how sports data was presented or what was available five years ago, the amount of data is simply exploding, said Ulrich Harmuth, Sportradars managing director of digital sports. In these days when you have tracking information and you know the exact position of every player on the court, you have a huge amount of data. But the data itself doesnt have a meaning yet. So we will invest significantly into science and machine learning tools in order to distill story telling elements and meaning out of the core data that makes it accessible to the fans.Sportradar, which provides statistical data for the NBA and other major sports to The Associated Press, has expanded into a company with more than 1,500 employees across the world on the strength of its dealings with sports gambling. It also has deals with the NFL and NHL and distributes that data to media, fans and bookmakers internationally.NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has been as progressivve as any leader in sports when it comes to sports betting, calling the legalization and regulation of the industry inevitable.ddddddddddddBut the current agreement prohibits Sportradar from sending the data to domestic bookmakers, which adheres to the current laws governing gambling in the United States.All the betting content is only applicable outside of the U.S. markets, Harmuth said. There were no discussions around what might happen in the U.S. markets going forward.Sportradar also has integrity services that include widespread monitoring of betting patterns at more than 550 bookmakers worldwide to try to detect any irregularities in betting habits that could indicate match fixing. The NBA has had similar measures in place for more than a decade.This NBA deal really kind of cements the position and the credibility of what we do in the integrity sports space for sports around the world, said Alex Inglot, director of global communications and public affairs for Sportradar.Sportradar will start distributing data to international bookmakers beginning with the upcoming season, but wont start distributing statistics to media and fans until 2017.The two sides started negotiating when Sportradar expanded to the U.S. two years ago, and part of the negotiations included the NBAs desire for Sportradar to bring a player tracking system with it. In 2013, the NBA became the first American sports league to use player tracking in every game.Were thrilled to partner with a forward-thinking league like the NBA, Second Spectrum CEO Rajiv Maheswaran said. As a former professor, its great to live in a time when machines can deeply understand sports. Were excited to bring this state-of-the-art technology to the entire league and its partners. ' ' '