ven stopped celebrating, a cheer erupted from the other side of the course when Glover matched the feat with an eight-iron from 177 yards at the par-three 16th. “I’m sure there’s always pressure on every player that plays, but more so, on someone like Jinks, when he goes out to bat in the shorter formats. Isco continued to delight the crowd in the second half. “The second to last lap was OK at the beginning, but then I backed out of it, hoping that I’d get one more lap,” said the 32-year-old. Wilmots was brought in as coach after Ivory Coast, the defending champion, crashed out of the African Cup of Nations in Gabon in the first round at the beginning of the year. It all added up to a straightforward 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 victory over 31st-seeded Feliciano Lopez in the t. In the tiebreak, he took a mini-break for 3-2 when Nadal inexplicably netted a routine backhand and then sealed it with an unreturnable serve. Open could be top-seeded Rafael Nadal, whose 15 Grand Slam titles include two at Flushing Meadows. Look at Jose Brasa, Terry Walsh and Paul van Ass… There are people who fund these programmes. 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.