In a meeting with the sports ministry after the Games, the federation said Mestvirishvili had ‘outlived his usefulness’ and had to be replaced. Harkeerat won the third game 11-8 before Aariv pocketed the fourth and final game 11-9 to win the title. entry for Rio in the 74 kg class after he secured it in Las Vegas in 2015, was thrown out of the Games a day before his opening bout by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. After a scrappy 7-5 7-5 win over former world number one Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in her opener on . The selectors, however, will have to decide whether to have him as a captain or purely as an opening batsman. Their efforts soon paid dividends when Sonu scored a field goal in the 16th minute of the match. The flurry of unforced errors continued but in the 12th game, the Russian broke to bag the opening s. Another said, “You cannot describe the passion, you can only live it. “They are pushing us and the expectation is very, very high,” Arrivabene said of the fans, affectionately known as “tifosi. I think even yesterday, it was only Thursday but we were feeling, all the team, the drivers, the vibe of the tifosi and they were pushing us.