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Good win by Manas and good to see that he came thru a long 3 setter. In the recent past in these kind of long matches, he has had fitness issues and he either retired or lost the third set cheaply. Just as you felt, Manas ran out of gas after the long 3.5 hour match yesterday and a close first set ...

Aryan with a terrific upset of the 4th seed!! Scores updated above. 22 yr old Dev Javia is playing a good match too now (he seems to have got back to good form lately, after some 3 years in the wilderness) Update: Dev upset Lomakin as well... He was down 15-40 while serving for the match, but won th...

Sahaja is at the W75 in Charlottesville, but got no favors from the Draw [R1] Sahaja Yamalapalli (IND,309) vs (1) Kayla Day (USA,84) It is on the grey US clay. Not too comfortable for Sahaja, I am sure... Let us see how she does here. In doubles there, Sahaja and Kateryna Volodko (UKS) lost the R1 t...

First round matches at the Shymket M15, KAZ (Hard) [R1] (8) Karan Singh (IND,696) d. Hanyi Liu (CHN,722), 62 75 [R1] (7) S D Prajwal Dev (IND,670) d. (WC) Damir Zhalgasbay (KAZ,NR), 64 63 [R1] (JR) Aryan Shah (IND,1167) d. (4) Sergey Fomin (UZB,697), 75 60 [R1] (Q) Dev Javia (IND,1377) d. Grigoriy L...

So, all doom, and maximum 3 or 4 medals to look for?

Yeah, let us leave it there, PKB. It is a perfectly correct word. Our own minds being in the gutter should not be a reason to change the title...

^^^ 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...