Jose Brasa expressed surprise at the removal of Roelant Oltmans. Her preparations had been quiet and two days before she began her campaign, India physio C Kiran was stretching her after a hard workout on the main courts. He leaves his fans searching for him exiting in a super car with tinted glass. 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. Chinese Zhang was the more aggressive player from the start, frequently rushing to net and stepping . No 1 Son Wan Ho, the non-Chinese ones offer their commiserations: “Lin Dan and Chen Long would’ve been worried about him. Hockey India sacked Roelant Oltmans despite a largely successful four-and-half-years stint in India. ed if he committed a “major offense” during his first-round singles loss. The radios are buzzing with the Glasgow club’s demolition of Kazakh side Astana and the World Championships week straddles the away leg which doesn’t end too bad at all. Badminton in Asia comes with its superstitions and a Japanese expat believes fans ruined Long’s campaign by chasing him for autographs.