Roelant Oltmans was, surprisingly, sacked as India coach on Saturday. ’ And that’s what he did today,” said Paddy Lowe, Williams chief technical officer. Substitute Alvaro Morata scored Spain’s third goal in the second half. Oltmans has been in India for a fairly long time, and the team’s performance in his last assignment – the European tour – was decent. 5 finisher in a home-and-home playoff in November for another berth, which could mean a trip to Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia or Australia, or perhaps a match against Syria in Malaysia. 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. 217;s runner-up in New York, “but I’m still in the draw, actually, so I’m not going to be that sad. Of the rest, only in six innings his strike-rate had been in the 90s. Twice a semi-finalist on French Open clay, Thiem was slow to find his footing on the New York hardcourts. And wasn’t it just over a year ago that Oltmans was being credited with guiding India to podium fini.