What we do know is that high performance director David John, who started in India as an exercise physiologist and scientific advisor to Nobbs, will be the interim coach. tsmarted the Italian defense with a low shot just before halftime at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. What about players Sardar, the recent Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, has been a fading force for the past few years while Sreejesh has been out injured. The German was India’s first tryst with a foreign coach in a sport where eight Olympic gold medals were supposed to mean the country needed no outside help. Nadal won earlier Saturday, although for the second match in a row, he needed to shake off a poor opening set that he dropped. raine to the top of Group I with a 2-0 victory over Turkey on Saturday in World Cup qualifying. “I think my baseline game was not good enough, so I had to choose Plan B, which was serve and volleying to try to be successful on the court,” Zverev said. With just one match remaining, at R Premadasa Stadium on Sunday, Rahane is the only one not to get a game yet. In what is the tightest European group, Ukraine is heading to Iceland on Tuesday, while Turkey hosts Croatia. Moreover, all of them were left frustrated either by the federation, Sports Authority of India or the quality of players at their disposal.