A year that began with a shock win over world number one Andy Murray at the Australian Open has take. But of course, we have brought in youngsters in the team. Between Rach and Oltmans came Ric Charlesworth, Jose Brasa, Michael Nobbs, Terry Walsh and Paul van Ass. FAR BEHINDIsrael missed a chance to move within four points of Italy after a 1-0 home loss to Macedonia. Champions League last season, made him a certain starter in the qualifier against Italy. Just 10 minutes later, it was Gacinovic from the right who did the same for Kolarov to tap in from close range. The United States and Honduras both have eight points and 2-3-2 records, but the Americans hold the tiebreaker, a plus-1 goal difference to Honduras’ minus-7. The veteran striker took his national record tally of international goals to 30. That was the first time in the 36-year-old Federer’s career that he opened a Grand Slam tournament with two consecutive matches that lasted five sets. ”Federer improved to 13-0 against Lopez and 33-1 in night matches at Flushing Meadows, so perhaps the lopsided nature of this shouldn’t be all that surprising.