Meanwhile, USA’s Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens also made it into the next round. Germany can seal qualification by beating Norway in Stuttgart on Monday, and if Northern Ireland fails to win. Clubs can ultimately be kicked out of European competition for flouting the rules although until now UEFA has tried to negotiate settlements with offenders. However, the 13th-seeded Czech was in complete control from the start, never surrendering a break point the entire match. “The investigation will focus on the compliance of the club with the break-even requirement, particularly in light of its recent transfer activity,” UEFA added. It was only the second time in the match that they had levelled the scoreline and they made it count. 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. The flurry of unforced errors continued but in the 12th game, the Russian broke to bag the opening s. And if anything like last year happens, we will handle as and when the situation arises,” Madan Lal said. “Of course it would be something very special to win here – also given the anniversary &.