Even then, a win looked highly improbable until the last five minutes in which Bengal turned the game on its head. In a bottom half of a draw without a grand slam finalist and where American John Isner is now the hi. While playing for the Foxes, the pair had forged a strong midfield partnership that helped the minnows win an unprecedented Premier League title in 2015-16. Top seed Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, the pre-tournament favourites, are in the top half of the draw. Only Karolina Pliskova and Elina Svitolina can deny the 2016 Roland Garros winner from reaching the top spot for the first time in her career. Cilic, the highest seed in a clear bottom half of the draw, eventually paid the price for his lack of match practice after skipping the U. Meanwhile, USA’s Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens also made it into the next round. “I did not see the ball too well at the beginning of the match, I wasn’t getting the shots that I wanted,” she said. After a scrappy 7-5 7-5 win over former world number one Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in her opener on . When contacted, Shah said that he would not comment on the matter as he was no longer a part of the SCA governing council.