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We have quite a big contingent in Kazakhstan M15 for next 2 weeks. Dev Javia qualfied thru with a couple of good wins, one over higher ranked player in Q2. So, we had 6 players in main draw- SD Prajwal Dev and Karan Singh being 6th and 8th seeds with Manish Sureshkumar, youngsters Yuvan Nandal and A...

Excellent upset win by Yuki and Albano against a pair which won Monte Carlo Masters last week. At Munich ATP 250 (clay) [R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Albano Olivetti (ITA) d. (3) Sander Gille (BEL) / Joran Vliegen (BEL) 47 76(5) 10-6 Next, [QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Albano Olivetti (ITA) vs. Robert Gallo...

Excellent win by Rutuja continuing on her good form from last week. Xinyu Gao had won the title at the same venue last week without dropping a set.

Vidit had a good win over Nakamura in round 9, Prag and Gukesh drew with each other. In round 10, Prag and Vidit drew with each other and Gukesh drew with Nepo. So, after round 10, Gukesh and Nepo still in joint lead with 6 points, Prag with Nakamura and Caruna at 5.5 points, Vidit at 5 points clear...

As per this article, Sumit is going to take a break of 2-3 weeks- Sumit Nagal hits career-high ATP ranking of 80 But then, after non-stop travel and tennis, he needs a break. He will not be playing for the next two weeks. “I will be training for the next two or three weeks and then play again,” Naga...

Selection will anyway depend on performances in 2 set of trials which will be conducted by NRAI this month. Top 5 in each category will participate in those and in 10M women pistol, mostly Manu, Esha and Rhythm are likely to be their along with Palak and Sainyam who reached final here. I think if on...

Palak wins bronze and since Armenian shooter who already has a quota finished ahead of her, she got our 20th quota for Paris Olympics. We now have full slate of 16 out of 16 possible quotas in rifle and pistol.

Gukesh beats Vidit and with Nepo drawing his match, Gukesh is back in joint lead with Nepo at 5 points with Pragg and Nakamura at 4.5 points. I guess anyone can win among these 4.

In women, Humpy at 6th spot and Vaishali at 8th.

Mukund again lost in first round of qualifying.

At Gwangju Challenger 75, Korea (Hard)

[Q1] Mukund Sasikumar (IND,452) l. (6) Rio Noguchi (JPN,343) 46 46

Yuki played in Madrid Challenger 100 this week along with new partner Ariel Behar of Uruguay but lost in first round 36 64 7-10 against Demoliner and Luz. Next week he is back with Albano Olivetti at Munich ATP. At Munich ATP 250 (clay) [R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Albano Olivetti (ITA) vs. (3) Sander ...

Arjun and Jeevan win the title in Mexico.

At Morelos Open Challenger 75, Mexico

[F] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) d. (2) Piotr Matuszewski (POL) / Matthew Christopher Romios (AUS) 76(5) 64

6th challenger title for Arjun and 12th title for Jeevan.

Final olympic qualifiers for rifle and pistol shooter began today in Rio De Janerio, Brazil. We have only 1 quota remaining to be taken in rifle/pistol - 1 in womens 10M Air pistol. Today qualfiers took place and our 2 shooters, Asian games gold medalist Palak and junior world cup winner Sainyam bot...

Amit Panghal is selected for the final qualifers-

World Olympic qualifier India squad: Amit Panghal makes comeback amidst drastic changes

At Morelos Open Challenger 75, Mexico

[F] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs. (2) Piotr Matuszewski (POL) / Matthew Christopher Romios (AUS)

Arjun at # 106 in live rankings, Jeevan at #128. Niki and Rithvik both at career high rankings of #122 and # 133 respectively.

Starting this thread as we have 2 all Indian pairs playing doubles in Mexico this week and next week we should have these 2 pairs and also Anirudh is in the entry list and we can continue in this thread all year long for challengers in North America. This week Arjun and Jeevan have reached the final...