’Algeria may regret the decision to allow Riyad Mahrez to leave the team camp to sort out his club future. Mayer briefly threatened a comeback when he pulled a break back for 5-3 in the fourth set but Nadal served it out at 5-4 with Mayer sending a forehand long on match point. But even after Zambia’s Fashion Sakala was sent off for a second yellow card in the 56th, Algeria couldn’t score again despite a man advantage for over 30 minutes. in injury time, but it was substitute Benjamin Woodburn who rescued his country just five minutes after coming off the bench. The introduction of Woodburn came as a surprise because the striker has not featured for Liverpool t. He is one of India’s best all-round fielders and a terrific runner between the wickets. Open began, the idea that a German man named Zverev would be in the last 16 would barely have raised an eyebrow. Of the rest, only in six innings his strike-rate had been in the 90s. Isco continued to delight the crowd in the second half. And it probably won’t sink in for a long time.