Algeria are virtually out of the race after having qualified for the 2010 and 2014 finals, where they reached the round of 16. The coach was not able to motivate the team so we felt a change we needed,” Olympian BP Govinda, a member of the committee, said. Hockey India selection committee chairman Harbinder Singh too vouched for John and said the Australian has everything in him to produce results. 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. It’s the first final he’s lost since 2005 — to Taufik Hidayat, something that most have forgotten about. A general view of the main show court during the semi finals on day six of the 2017 BWF World Badminton Championships at the Emirates Arena, Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday Aug. ’Mijat Gacinovic scored his second international goal in two games to help Serbia edge closer to nex. The 23rd coach to be shown the door in as many years and the fourth foreigner in last four years. John’s appointment as the high performance director earlier this year created two power centres. “You have to understand digital market is growing very rapidly.