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More important, it would keep the Bruins, ranked second in the Bowl Championship Series standings behind Tennessee, in the running to play in the first BCS championship game in the Fiesta Bowl.

Her teams spent 40 consecutive weeks ranked in the top 25.

The shorter balls allowed Van de Zandschulp, who is ranked 80th in the world but beat Carlos Alcaraz at the US Open, to pick off his opponent.

At the start of the 12-nation finals in Malaga, Britain were the second-lowest ranked team and given little chance by many people on the outside of finally landing the trophy.

Nadal, ranked 154th in the world, arrived in Malaga on Thursday and has been practising with the other members of the team over the past three days.