Algeria is eight points behind runaway group leader Nigeria with three games remaining in qualifying. from Max Gradel and two from Seydou Doumbia taking Ivory Coast back to the top of Group C ahead of Morocco. No one on the other side has ever been to a Grand Slam final, let alone one such a title. “I know I cannot play very well always, and not the whole match. Karolina Pliskova saved a match point in the second set and came all the way back to get past No. All of them came with great fanfare and were touted as having the perfect credentials for the job. Twice a semi-finalist on French Open clay, Thiem was slow to find his footing on the New York hardcourts. What makes Oltmans’ ouster, the latest departure, curious is that some of his own wards were party to the execution. time and then you say I am not a result-oriented coach…According to the committee, you said reaching the semifinals was a target for next year’s Commonwealth Games. “I was the first one to come there and try to give them all the information, so they can investigate it faster,” he said.