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^^^ Yes, our forum owner/administrator Dhruv has been handling it. Some security vulnerability that needs to be fixed, if I understood it right. He is still working on it. It may crash again for short periods, so just bear with us....

Sumit and Yuki will not make it to Olympics together. The cut-off at Tokyo olympics was combined rankings was 76. Even if it falls a little it is not going to go down below 80-85 or so. No chance for Sumit- Yuki who have a combined rank of 136 right now. Oh I didn't remember that it was that high. ...

A typical claycourt humdinger lasting 3 hours and 21 minutes. Manas was down a break in the final set, then came back to take a 5-4 lead, had 6 MPs on his opponent's next two service games, and eventually won on the 7th one. He clearly dominated the final set from about 2-3 onwards, but was having ...

Chirag Duhan and Dev Javia qualified in, so they also play R1 tomorrow (Wednesday). Manish Sureshkumar went down today in the R1 and so did Sai Karteek in the Q2.

RamK lost the doubles R1 too...

[R1] (4) Ray Ho (TPE)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l. Remi Bertola (SUI)/ Antoine Escoffier (FRA), 46 36

He is rusty, I guess.

So any points from Cagliari for Sumit will be added back when the rankings are next updated in 2 weeks. Yes, and the Bordeaux challenger follows later, for one more chance at playing lower ranked players with higher probability for some wins. He needed to mix in some good challengers, because you c...

^^^ 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...