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I think a lot of the top players boycotted that Wimbledon, so winning would have an asterisk although Kodes was a top 15 player. Later that year, Vijay made the QF of the US Open in a full field, so that was a more impressive performance by him. There is no such asterisk in reality, it is just a ma...

1973 was one time Vijay had a decent chance of winning Wimbledon. So close yet so far.

He is already playing Manzanillo today. Seems like he needs to take a break. Maybe he is off from next week.

Nishesh wins!

4-4 in S2. Was a break up and lost it. Nishesh seems to be the gusse-waala type. He gets angry and looks like he is about to throw his racket. This happens many times. When he misses an easy one, he winds up as if he wants to hit the ball deep into the stands. Needs to curb these tendencies, being n...

Nish up 6-3, 1-2 on his serve in the Final.

Yeah he is pretty consistent at the Chall level. Next is to make a move up into the ATPs

It is more and more apparent that he is a 1 dimensional player. Very good on clay but poor elsewhere. If that is the case, then he should play to his strengths and plan his schedule accordingly.

If you look at UTRs (which is more reliable than rank), Nishesh is a better player than Sumit right now and will beat him.

Great progress from Nishesh over the past few months!

Yes, very weird scoreline. He was blanked in S2 but came back strongly in S3. It did look like he tanked S2 when he didn't try to return a few serves. Not sure what was happening, maybe buying time to recover for S3.

Either way a W is a W.

Go NB. Win this!

Missed the match but was watching the recording.

In S2 down 0-3, Nishesh just walked as the serve came in and got a code violation for not trying hard enough. He didn't seem to be well during the set.

On twitter many are calling him a match fixer.

The chap Edaa Butvilas who defeated Nishesh Basavareddy at the Charleston Challenger final by 6-4 6-3 score now defeated Sumit Nagal by 6-3 7-5 score in R1 of the clay challenger today :damn: Nishesh is getting better every day. He still needs to improve his stamina for finals. Sumit I have my doub...

That is irrelevant. You can be enrolled at a college while turning pro. However, under NCAA rules you can’t play collegiate sports if you turn pro. So he would have to leave the tennis team if he turned pro. Yes good point. So the question is since he is a pro now, he won't be able to play for Stan...

He probably has a liking for Indians.

Sumit lost again to some scrub.

I am sure the clay season can't get here any quicker for him. He absolutely is terrible on anything else.