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[F] Rohan Bopanna (IND) / Mathew Ebden (AUS) d (1) Wesley Koolhof (NED) / Neil Skupski (GBR) 6-3 2-6 10-8. Rohan Bopanna becomes the oldest man to win an ATP 1000 Masters doubles title replacing Nestor who held the previous record. Edit: Fixed an erroneous statement that Rohan was the oldest to win ...

Aren't the courses in the LPGA tour longer than the ones in Europe? That will be a test of Aditi's improvement in length.

prasen9 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 8:51 am Or maybe, this difficulty was resolved in languages that evolved from Sanskrit and thus those languages, being just more handy, replaced Sanskirt as the spoken language?

Was Sanskrit ever spoken by the masses?

ssp wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 10:48 pm We will lose to Australia 9/10 times and England about 7/10. Doesn't really matter on batting order or players picked.

All we need is the 1/10 event to happen in the SF.

Aditi is back!!! This is good to see. Her short game is her strength. @prajgolf Has her long game improved? Thanks for regularly updating the golf thread -- I read it all the time but comment very rarely.

Just when you start to think that Bops may be getting done, he would say, "not so fast, my friend" :) I didn't think that he was/is done. It is just that he tends to fold at important points (in a match) something Leander or Sania don't do. I believe that if had that mind-set, he would have had a m...

jayakris wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 8:33 am I wasn't going to let PKB break the rules and start a thread for a 19 year old. So I did it ...

Yes, a star is born.

Yes, it is a good win for Prajnesh. However, he stays way too much at the baseline. He needs to come in once in a while to add variety. Next up


[F] (4) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,339) vs. Khumoyun Sultanov (UZB, 491)

Prajnesh lost the second set 2-6. [SF] (4) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,339) vs. (2) Benjamin Hassan (GER,298) 6-4, 2-6 Set 3 1-0 Breaks Hassan at love to go up 1-0 in the decider. 2-0 Praj hold serves after a couple of deuces. No ball boys, almost no crowd. Praj winning long rallies but there is no va...

From Wikipedia:

Benjamin Hassan (born 4 February 1995) is a Lebanese-German tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 293, achieved on 12 August 2019. Hassan represents Lebanon at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 10–6..

The name made me check his background.

Our under-19 women's team has made the finals of the T20 World Cup and will face England in the final. India beat NZ in the semi-final.

India to face England in the Final

Interesting. No Mumbai, Delhi,TN, Hyderabad!

Rohan was a terrible let-down, unfortunately. He just doesn't have the temperament for the big match. This is easier said than done, but involves that ineffable quality that separates champions (Sania, Leander, Mahesh) from others. I wanted to make the same point but somehow held back. I watched th...

The wrestlers, who had said during their three-day protest at Jantar Mantar that they will not compete in any national or international tournament till the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) is disbanded and its chief is sacked, had communicated their decision about non-participation on the day of...

One of my earliest memories of Sania playing is her match Heidi El Tabakh (at the FO juniors?) which I followed online.