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by PKBasu
Thu Nov 07, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: Tennis Tournaments
Topic: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024
Replies: 103
Views: 1895

Re: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024

[R2] 7-Nick Chappell (USA,681) d. Q-Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND,1366) 63 64

So Nick Chappell takes the last of the QF slots, and will play Prajwal Dev.
by PKBasu
Thu Nov 07, 2024 8:27 am
Forum: Tennis Tournaments
Topic: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024
Replies: 103
Views: 1895

Re: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024

5 Indians in the singles QF, with an Indian teenager guaranteed to be in the SF. The match-ups are: [QF] 1-Dalibor Svrcina (CZE, 285) vs. Dev Javia (IND, 707) [QF] Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar (IND, UNR) vs. 8-Aryan Shah (IND, 621) [QF] 5-Karan Singh (IND, 521) vs. 3-Bogdan Bobrov (RUS,424) [QF] S D ...
by PKBasu
Thu Nov 07, 2024 8:16 am
Forum: Tennis Tournaments
Topic: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024
Replies: 103
Views: 1895

Re: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024

Other results: [R2] (Q) Yash Chaurasia (IND,NR) l. (3) Bogdan Bobrov (RUS,424) 16 16 [R2] (7) Nick Chappell (USA,681) vs. (Q) Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND,1366) 63 00 [R2] (Q) Rohan Mehra (IND,NR) l. S D Prajwal Dev (IND,783) 46 03 (retd) [R2] (1) Dalibor Svrcina (CZE,258) d. Manas Dhamne (IND,1081) 75 63...
by PKBasu
Thu Nov 07, 2024 7:59 am
Forum: Tennis Tournaments
Topic: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024
Replies: 103
Views: 1895

Re: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024

Exciting results from several Indian youngsters: [R2] Dev Javia (IND, 707) d. 6- Siddharth Vishwakarma (IND, 601) 63 61 [R2] 8- Aryan Shah (IND, 621) d. Sidharth Rawat (IND, 986) 75 63 [R2] 5- Karan Singh (IND, 521) d. M. Fiqri Fitriadi (INA, 1040; CH 530 Mar'24) 61 62 [R2] WC- Rethin Pranav Senthil...
by PKBasu
Wed Nov 06, 2024 12:10 pm
Forum: Tennis Tournaments
Topic: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024
Replies: 103
Views: 1895

Re: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024

Other singles results today: [R1] W- Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar d. Q-Raghav Jaisinghani 63 62 [R1] Q- Nitin Kumar Sinha d. Q-Vishnu Vardhan 64 63 [R1] SD Prajwal Dev d. 2- Sasikumar Mukund 61 26 63 [R1] Dev Javia (IND, 707) d. JE-Adithya Ganesan (USA, 872) 61 57 61 Good to see the national champion...
by PKBasu
Wed Nov 06, 2024 11:57 am
Forum: Tennis Tournaments
Topic: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024
Replies: 103
Views: 1895

Re: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024

Nice win for the 16 year old over the 25 year old former India #4:

[R1] Manas Dhamne (IND, 1081) d. Manish Sureshkumar (IND, 919; CH 508)
by PKBasu
Tue Nov 05, 2024 12:57 pm
Forum: Tennis Tournaments
Topic: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024
Replies: 103
Views: 1895

Re: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024

Aryan Shah is ranked 624 (CH 621) at age 18, which is very decent. These M25s are a big opportunity for him to aim for the top-500. Next up, though, is a key test in the form of Sid Rawat, who has a career high of 430.
by PKBasu
Tue Nov 05, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: General Chit Chat
Topic: U.S. Politics
Replies: 247
Views: 32767

Re: U.S. Politics

There is a mini-industry of conspiracy theories about what happened to the INA's gold. The mystery has never been completely resolved. Subhas Bose did not take much gold on his journey to Taipei from Saigon, leaving the gold in the charge of his cabinet -- or a specific cabinet member -- in Bangkok....
by PKBasu
Tue Nov 05, 2024 12:43 pm
Forum: General Chit Chat
Topic: U.S. Politics
Replies: 247
Views: 32767

Re: U.S. Politics

Actually, being backed by gold was the norm until 1970. It was the era of fixed currencies, with each one linked to a specific weight of gold (although the system had broken down in much of the world after 1930). All currencies were fixed against the US$ after 1945 in the Bretton Woods system, with ...
by PKBasu
Tue Nov 05, 2024 12:36 pm
Forum: Tennis Player Forums
Topic: Indian Origin Players Thread
Replies: 193
Views: 27086

Re: Indian Origin Players Thread

:Offtopic: Continuing the above discussion, Robert and Maggie Amritraj gave all 3 of their sons Hindu names -- Anand (bliss), Vijay (victory/victorious), Ashok (happy -- i.e., never sad). But their Christian links proved helpful when Vijay and Anand started playing in the US, and were virtually adop...
by PKBasu
Tue Nov 05, 2024 12:14 pm
Forum: Tennis Tournaments
Topic: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024
Replies: 103
Views: 1895

Re: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024

2 Q vs Q matches involving Indians:
Vishnu Vardhan vs. Nitin Kumar Sinha
Rohan Mehra vs. Hitesh Chauhan

And a couple of Q vs WC matches:
W-Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar vs Q-Raghav Jaisinghani
Q-Yash Chaurasia vs. W-Pratyush Mohanty
by PKBasu
Tue Nov 05, 2024 12:07 pm
Forum: Tennis Tournaments
Topic: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024
Replies: 103
Views: 1895

Re: ITF M25 Series, India Nov 2024

I don't think we can argue that any Indian player is over-ranked at the moment, since there haven't been too many tournaments in India over the past 6 months. They have mostly earned their rankings the hard way -- overseas -- albeit occasionally in "easier" locales, eg, Africa.
by PKBasu
Tue Nov 05, 2024 11:00 am
Forum: The Cricket Forum
Topic: Virat Kohli thread
Replies: 29
Views: 4691

Re: Virat Kohli thread

Success inevitably goes to players' heads. Very few can keep their heads and stay humble amid all the success and adulation (clearly Tendulkar and Gavaskar could, and Dravid -- but he never had that kind of adulation). I remember seeing Azharuddin with the Indian team at the Bombay Gymkhana Club dur...
by PKBasu
Tue Nov 05, 2024 10:53 am
Forum: The Cricket Forum
Topic: New Zealand in India, 2024
Replies: 140
Views: 2795

Re: New Zealand in India, 2024

I have not used the term all-rounder to mean bowlers who can bat or batters who can bowl. Using these loose definitions, we can find a lot more including Agarkar, Srinath, and Zahir as Mr. Raj has suggested. However, I wanted to see people who could genuinely bat and bowl at a certain level. I wasn...
by PKBasu
Tue Nov 05, 2024 10:39 am
Forum: Tennis Tournaments
Topic: Asian Challengers 2024
Replies: 141
Views: 6967

Re: Asian Challengers 2024

And RamK and Saketh win the title in Seoul. At the ATP Challenger 100 in Seoul, S.Korea (Hard): [F] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) d. Vasil Kirkov (USA) / Bart Stevens (NED) 64 46 10-3 Third challenger title for the pair of the year. They had won Chennai and Bengaluru titles in Febr...