The team was to leave for the tournament on July 13 but applied for visa just three days prior to their departure. Top seed Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, the pre-tournament favourites, are in the top half of the draw. Stranded, the federation put out a SOS signal to Damien Jacomelli, a French wrestling coach who is now privately involved with a few Indian grapplers. The three leading teams all avoid each other in Monday’s games, when Poland can reassert itself with a home game against the last-place Kazakhs. Narsingh, who was preferred over two-time Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar as the country’s quota. However, for the shorter formats, young Rishabh Pant took over the reins. His role as defensive midfielder has freed Pogba and allowed the Frenchman to pull the strings in United’s attack. We have given everything to the players now and there shouldn’t be an excuse that ‘we didn’t get this, we didn’t get that’. Their forwards started the match on an attacking note and made some threatening sallies into the opposition half. Slovakia’s goal came in the 81st minute from Adam Nemec, who failed to score for New York City FC in a 2015 spell in MLS.