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. without him Juergen Klopp’s side have impressed and he is unlikely to go straight into the team, particularly so soon after travelling back from South America. ’Alexander Ring scored a stunning early free kick for Finland as they beat Iceland 1-0 in Tampere on. nd coach Darren Lehmann admitted the players had been stung by the level of condemnation of the team’s performance. Zhang did not roll over, however, and broke Pliskova to take an early 2-0 lead in the third but Zhang’s mistakes soon started piling up. so that their names are uttered perfectly at next month’s Japan Open and in the lead-up to Tokyo. “When it comes to something special, we haven’t quite got that,” former England captain Terry Butcher told the BBC. And a Prince without ostentatious pomp … there was more to last week’s badminton World Championship than the action on court. Bangladesh came agonisingly close to beating England in Chittagong last year when they needed 33 runs on the fifth day with two wickets in hand. On Thursday, they were overrun by the group leaders French at the Stade de France in their heaviest defeat for more than half a century.