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Karan Singh (IND,696) is the 4th seed at the Monastir M15 this week. He plays a qualifier Jae Hwan Kim (KOR,1865) in the first round.

Ankita is playing doubles with Snehal Mane this week, which surprised me. They just won the first round at the Lopota W50, Christine Gouws (RSA) and Georgia Kalamaris (FRA) in a dominating fashion too, 61 61. Actually Ankita and Snehal had played doubles together once, over 4 years ago at the Jodhpu...

This week at the Monastir W15 (hard), #783 Vaishnavi beat Le Yi Liu (CHN,986), 76(3) 61 and 4th seed #585 Zeel beat a Merna Rafat (EGY,858), 16 75 61 n a ice comeback in the R1 today. Zeel plays Vaishnavi tomorrow in the R2 so we are assured of a QF there. I am calling a Vaishnavi upset, on current ...

#783 Vaishnavi Adkar and #585 Zeel Desai are at Monastir. Last week at the Monastir W15 first round, 19 year old Vaishnavi had won won round with a good 16 62 63 upset of veteran Shiho Akita (JPN,601) who was a top-250 player once, but fell in the R2 against Gyeong Seo Lee (KOR,795), 57 64 46... Gye...

[Q2] (8) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,364) l. (13) Thasaporn Naklo (THA,397), 64 46 26

This was a bad loss, even money-wise, this being a W100 event.

I don't have a list or anything and did not even know that Sports Management was a topic at many Indian Universities... But here is one I came across... only because I saw upcoming junior tennis player Dev Jhavia as one student who gave compliments to them LJ Institute of Sports Management, Ahmedaba...

Any of these Sharmas related to the late Parthasarathy Sharma?

This week at the ITF W100 in Bonita Springs, FL, USA (Clay)

[Q1] (5) Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty (IND,428) d. Sia Cariov (USA,1499), 60 60
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[Q2] (5) Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty (IND,428) vs (15) Victoria Osuigwe (USA,697)

At the W75 in Charlottesville, VA, USA (clay) Last week, [Q1] (5) Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty (IND,428) l. Gabriella Price (USA,866), 26 26 Gabriella is very talented and was once considered a phenom, 5-6 years ago when she was 14, but she had injury issues and did not become tall enough for the...

At the ITF W100 in Bonita Springs, FL, USA (Clay)

[Q1] (1) Sahaja Yamalapalli (IND,309) d. Isabella Barrera Aguirre (USA,1128), 60 62
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[Q2] (1) Sahaja Yamalapalli (IND,309) vs (16) Christina Rosca (USA,777)

^^^ I found my post. It was about 3 years ago. I didn't think it was that far back. Here is what I said and Mugu's response. http://www.sports-india.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=4434276&sid=6b263d763bf11a1d577a78ff4bcdb374#p4434276 She is still at least 3 or 4 years away from peak performance years...

Time for Ankita to focus on doubles. There is really no point in playing singles, unless things improve fairly quickly, like in a month or two. If not, quit and save your body for 3-4 (or more) years of good doubles.

By the way, any news on Shaili Singh? Has she been improving? Sometime back, maybe a year or more ago, I had said that she needed to get a better coach than the unproven Bobby George and that I would be happy if Bobby made me eat crow. Is she getting better, and should I look for crow? (Has she qual...

I certainly celebrate top-8 at Olympics. In fact, I was keeping a count of the number of top-8 finishes at the last few Olympics, as it is a better measure of overall improvement in sports for India.

His drop shots amazed me the most! Perhaps more so because I have not seen many Indians do it well enough on the circuit. Same here. "Not many" is quite gracious. In fact, no other Indian hits drop shots well at all. Manas is the only one I have seen doing it well consistently. Amazing. H...