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^^^ Sumit and Yuki may even qualify on S+D rankings (I have not checked, but I think they might make it in a 32-size draw). In that case, we can actually have two pairs, like, say RB and RamK for one and Yuki-Sumit for another. Actually Yuki-Sumit might even work quite well...

Mukund is in a funk. Pretty clear to me that it is all a mental issue. He has the game, at a topnotch top-200 level, and we can clearly see it at various points in any match he plays. He just does not have the winner's instincts anymore and seems to make a while lot of poor shot selections and mista...

So, here is Sumit's schedule for 5 weeks starting next week, based on where he has entered. After a 16 day break since April 11, he should be getting to Cagliari by end of this week around Apr 27/28. Then it is every week from there on. Apr 29 - Cagliari Challenger 175 main draw (probably as a low s...

At the W50 in Wuning, China (Hard),

[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,364) vs (WC) Chenting Zhu (CHN,1330)

In doubles,

[R1] (4) Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Paige Hourigan (NZL) vs Yiming Dang (CHN)/ Jing-Jing Lu (CHN)

In this week's KAZ M15 in Shymket, the qualifying top seed Chirag Duhan, 8th seed Dev Javia and 12th seed Sai Karteek Ganta won the Q1 and are in final qualifying round on Tuesday. The main draw has SDPD as the 7th seed, Karan Singh as the 8th seed, Manish Suresh Kumar, and two junior exempt entries...

Manas Dhamne (IND,1342) qualified into the M25 in Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy (clay) with a 63 61 win over Alexander Ferdinando Robin Fragasso (GBR,1871) in the Q1 and a 76(3) 63 win over Pasquale De Giorgio (ITA,1694) in the Q2. In the main draw R1, Manas plays a wildcard Maximilian Figl (ITA,1...

The big J300 in Kuching, Malaysia, starts on Tuesday. A good contingent of Indians are there. Rethin, Kriish, Aarjun and Hitesh (with Aradhya Kshitij, Kandhavel Mahalinam and Vishal prakash in the qualies) on the boys' side and Krisha and Maaya (with Rishitha Basireddy in the qualies) on the girls'...

^^ True, but we do celebrate any top-8 performance at Olympics, especially in athletics, much more than we celebrate the challenger doubles titles! It is just that we can do it only every four years

Dhruv, please take your time. We can wait if the forum goes down. Don't let it cut into your regular job time!

All said and done, this forum has had very little downtime over the years, so we can't complain at all...

RamK plays the Q1 today (Monday) at Shenzen. In doubles,

[R1] (4) Ray Ho (TPE)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Remi Bertola (SUI)/ Antoine Escoffier (FRA)

Mukund made the Qualifying draw at the Challenger 75 in Shenzen, China (Hard) as an ALT. He had finished 4th out from the main draw list. [Q1] (ALT) Mukund Sasikumar (IND,448) vs (WC) Linang Xiao (CHN,723) As he took the top qualifying seed's spot, it is not a bad draw. Will play 8th seed #359 Majch...

I don't think Bops wants to play with RamK. I think he is okay with Yuki and may even play one or two prep events with him. So the option of trying with RamK probably doesn't exist.

^^^ RamK, if Bops would ever try playing with him for a few events (and if RamK were focusing only on doubles). But that is not an option, so Yuki is the best in my opinion. If not Yuki, then it should be Balaji and then Niki, as they who both have their serve and ground strokes at a decent top-600 ...

^^^ At this point Bops will have to team up with Yuki at the Olympics. Can't justify picking any of the others who are all below 90 and have not done anything like Yuki recently. Also because they have a decent chance to be among the 8 seeds, which is also important to avoid facing top teams too ear...

Very good win by Arnav Paparkar over a home favorite Turkish top seed ranked #342 (who was inside top-300 earlier this year too), though wins at the J30 level is what we should expect from him. He went to Turkey to play only a J100 (lost in the R2 last week) and a J30 and is going to the Doha for tw...