The end comes fast. A moment and it's all over.
There's something strange, slightly unreal about the moment when a team is knocked out of a tournament, however many times you experience it. On Monday night, as the sun set on Bisham Abbey and the media made its way to the exit, leaving the Spain team to complete the rest of the evening session without them, there were farewells. This place alongside the Thames, with its 13th-century manor house and its manicured lawns, had been home for two weeks, but they knew they might not be back.