eliver better results than Roelant Oltmans as interim coach after the Dutchman was sacked as chief coach of the men’s national team following a string of unimpressive showings. The strategy paid off as she broke Pliskova in her first two service games to take a 3-1 lead and captured the first set with an emphatic overhead smash. Liverpool insist that Saturday’s claim by director Albert Soler that the club offered to sell Coutinho for 200 million eurosis false. With McLaren’s Honda engine, Alonso has only finished three of the 10 races he started this season. And a Prince without ostentatious pomp … there was more to last week’s badminton World Championship than the action on court. But they started out with rolling out massive posters of the established faces from many years. The Spaniard said officials in India lack knowledge of the game. ’Renault should have an engine competitive enough to break the Formula One dominance of Mercedes and Ferrari next season, former world champion Jackie Stewart said. ’ She ended with a surprise bronze — though neither the city, nor Kiran are particularly surprised. The Dutch are fourth in their group on 10 points, one place and two points behind Bulgaria, but a maximum return from their final three games could still secure a top-two finish.