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Unfortunately, they lost... At the Challenger 100 in Biel, SUI (Hard)

[SF] (4) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l. Victor Vlad Cornea (ROU)/ Franko Skugor (CRO), 57 36

^^^ Back to reality for Aditi?

Krisha lost 57 36 to the 16th seed Taylor Goetz (USA,218). She has reached the doubles QF also, and has picked up enough points to move up about 70 spots to around #315 as the highest ranked Indian born in 2007 or later (Shruti, Suhita, Sonal and Madhurima ahead of her but they are older). Krisha M...

PVL 2023 Final, Ahmedabad Defenders wins title, beats Bengaluru Torpedoes 3-2 from Sportstar Ahmedabad Triumph as India's Prime Volleyball League Champions (Asian Volleyball Confederation) The final was at Kochi. There were FIVB people there. FIVB keen to invest in the National team, wants to see I...

Mw=eanwhile, an interesting articleon the Prime Volleyball League which had its second edition - PVL 2023: Kerala the flagbearer of volleyball in India (Sportstar)

I didn't know that more than 35 of the 100 players in PVL were from Kerala. Glad to see these guys getting into some limelight.

I had some thought on the above posts but forgot to write those... Will do that later and move posts.

Some friendlies coming up for us in late March (22/24/26) in a tri-nation tournament India to play Myanmar and Kyrgyzstan in friendlies as Manipur plays host in March (PTI in Sportstar) Kyrgyz Republic is #94, India in #106 and Myanmar is #159 in FIFA rankings. The dates look weird though. Two of t...

That is good to know. If the mom is there with him, things should be fine even if he is going through a bad patch in his matches lately (generally speaking, from knowing how youngsters at that age are!)

Yeah, I was surprised that Vihan took an SE spot and played this week too. Why not, I guess. The matches have been easier than practice sets for him so far, except that shocking drop of one set the other day :) ... A kid listed under Spain is there this week. Victor Mohanram. He was in India earlier...

^^^ It is the same old AITA with their "do nothing" plan for self-preservation. The country's performance is not their interest. It has never been. Just do enough and have some simple (or simplistic) rules and explanations for what they do, so that they cannot be attacked on the basis of rules. That...

^^^ I wonder if Prisha Shinde should have been in the team. It is difficult to say at this age though. She has looked good in the ITF events she has played. Has reached the semifinal today at the Bhilai J30 (where she is the 4th seed) with dominating straight sets wins.

At the Challenger 75 in Les Franqueses Del Valles, Spain (Hard) [QF] (3) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/ Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) d. Fajing Sun (CHN)/ Volodoymyr Uzhylovskyi (UKR), 63 64 [QF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) d. David Jorda Sanchis (ESP)/ Bruno Pujol Navarro (ESP), 64 63 Very...

At the Challenger 100 in Biel, SUI (Hard) [QF] (4) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) d. Marek Gengel (CZE)/ Petr Nouza (CZE), 76(6) 62 so [SF] (4) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Victor Vlad Cornea (ROU)/ Franko Skugor (CRO) Cornea/Skugor upset the top seeds Queres...

^^^ Yes, that is Vedant Mohan. But it wasn't exactly quitting the jobs. I think the Covid period caused some airline layoffs in the Gulf and the dad lost his pilot job at Oman air, so they decided to take off to Spain and not waste time. They reportedly lost all their personal savings, so a bold dec...

Mukund won 62 76(3) over Rishab Agarwal, Sid Rawat lost 16 26 to the 2nd seed Oliver Crawford, and Manish lost 26 57 to the 3rd seed Donskoy. So 3 of the 6 Indians lost in the R2. But thanks to the good show from two wildcards Sid V and Karan, we have three guys in the QF, which is quite good, consi...