undoubtedly a performance worthy of claiming the all-time pole position record,” said the Austrian. The German was India’s first tryst with a foreign coach in a sport where eight Olympic gold medals were supposed to mean the country needed no outside help. After the World League we all were very disappointed so we clearly changed a couple of things in our approach and the boys adapted fantastically to that. 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. Asked what the TIU has told him about its work, Dolgopolov replied: “I don’t know. Macedonia, second-to-last in the group, got the winner with a goal by Goran Pandev midway through the second half. Looking at the last couple months, he is maybe not ranked top 10 in the world, but he’s somebody who played really good tennis in the last couple months. Austria appears to be out of realistic contention for a top-two finish. That group is looking into a match he played against Thiago Monteiro at a hard-court event in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Aug. He averaged 62 errors in each of those outings, against 19-year-old American Frances Tiafoe and 35-year-old Russian Mikhail Youzhny.