With chief selector MSK Prasad confirming a middle-order role for KL Rahul before the series, Rahane becomes Dhawan’s shoo-in. What makes Oltmans’ ouster, the latest departure, curious is that some of his own wards were party to the execution. “It was incredible to see a player as good as Isco up in the flesh, he’s a great player and he did very important things tonight,” said losing coach Ventura. Rahane is not a limited-overs misfit, which his IPL record – 111 matches, 3,057 runs at a strike-rate of 120. Rafael Nadal will next face Ukraine’s Alexandr Dolgopolov. The brief news conference went on but Osaka, who admitted she had been ’emotionally unstable’, teared up after the third question. What makes the left-handed Zverev stand out is his playing style, almost a throwback to a previous generation when serve and volley tennis was the norm. At the end of the match I was creating more space but at the beginning I failed to convert several chances with my forehand. With Verstappen taking a 20-place grid penalty for Sunday’s race, and Ricciardo dropping 25 af. as he reached the fourth round at Flushing Meadows for the third time in four years.