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[R1] (7) Ankita Raina (IND,306) d. Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty (IND,344), 63 62

Ankita remains very difficult for Indians to dislodge from her top Indian spot, and Shrivalli remains a slightly different player outside India than in India... This brings up,

[R2] (7) Ankita Raina (IND,306) vs ...

I think they are basically of exactly the same height. Look at the jaw line, neck, and shoulders. Just about 6. Not sure if Manas will put on a half inch more; possible at his age. But this is a good enough height in tennis. Their wingspans also seem identical.

It was raining today at Lapota and the Shrivalli vs Ankita R1 match is now postponed to tomorrow. Doesn't look like they will have any play today, as the matches with a 5 pm revised start have also not started as of 6:30 there. So I guess it is a rain-out.

Jay, you do not have to starve them at one go. You can say that we will cut off 5% or 10% of the water every year unless the terrorist network is dismantled.

No problem saying any of those things. I said threatening them with the possibility of even committing a war crime the world has never ...

Jay, when should India respond with all its might? If Mumbai, parliament attack, Uri, Pulwama, Pathankot, etc. weren’t serious enough, what could be the trigger event? Assassination of a high value target? Because that’s all there’s left.

India can respond. I didn't say we shouldn't. But war ...

By the way, India should NOT resort to violating the terms of the Indus agreement, even if the agreement is suspended now. Keep the threat on, but violating it and causing flood or drought in Pakistan is the easiest way to lose any sympathy the world is giving India now. Even if we don't do anything ...

Here is the doubles update. Fourth seeds SDPD and his Georgian partner upset the 2nd seeds to reach the final but went down in a close affair to the team that had earlier upset the 3rd seeds Sai Karteek and Adil in the SF.

[QF] (3) Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta (IND)/Adil Kalyanpur (IND) d. Herbert Jody ...

Bad news on Zeel in the final at the ITF W15 in Monastir, TUN (Hard)

[F] (5) Zeel Desai (IND,654) l. (3) Anastasiia Gureva (RUS,639), 06 02 RET.

Manas Dhamne (IND,750) has won two rounds in a pre-qualifying tournament to earn a wildcard to the qualifying rounds of a big $227K ATP Challenger 175 in Estoril, Portugal.

In the Prequalifying round 1, he beat Joao Luis Silva (POR,1504) 62 63... He then beat Francisco Rocha (POR,712), 64 75, today ...

Sahaja withdrew a couple of days ago from the qualifying list for next week's WTA 100 in Bonita Springs, FL, USA :( ... Actually I think she would have made the main draw, had she not withdrawn.

She told me that she has no injury issue, but feels she needs to do some physical training. Hopefully ...

At the ATP CH 75 in Gwangju, S. Korea (Hard):

[SF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Aoran Wang (CHN) l. (2) Vasil Kirkov (USA)/ Bart Stevens (NED), 16 67(1)

^^^ Oh yeah. Arithmetic is tough for us old Engineering professors ... So 675.5 total now. Somewhere around #85 in ranking. A title will put him inside top-70 which would be tremendous at his age. Among the top-25 of players born after 2007.

Arnav's 63 26 64 win against Hitesh today and this whole run has been really great. The singles final and doubles SF gives Arnav 104+(60/4) = 119 extra points, taking his points total to 617.50 and his ranking up to around #95... That is in the top 35 for players born in 2008 or later who have ...

Vaishnavi's mini-run ended

[SF] (5) Vaishnavi Adkar (IND,628) l. (1) Yuki Naito (JPN,524), 57 26