IRISH SETBACKJust four minutes into the game in Tbilisi, things looked bright for Ireland as Shane D. Dolgopolov’s best Grand Slam showing was a run to the Australian Open quarterfinals in 2011. The Real Madrid forward, who played as a false striker in the Spanish attack, struck again in the 40. The introduction of Woodburn came as a surprise because the striker has not featured for Liverpool t. The result left Spain in control of Group G with 19 points, three more than Italy, with three games left in European qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. 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. xpects a tougher challenge from Querrey, who reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon. Nadal won earlier Saturday, although for the second match in a row, he needed to shake off a poor opening set that he dropped. By comparison, there was less than a second separating the top five in Belgium – the longest circuit of all – in qualifying. The Ivorians eased some of those bad memories on their return to the country, with second-half goals.