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This week Riya made it to the QF of W35 in Orlando.

At ITF W35 Orlando, Florida (US) (Clay)

[R1] (3) Riya Bhatia (IND,541) d. Gabriella Broadfoot (RSA,929) 63 64
[R2] (3) Riya Bhatia (IND,541) d. (Q) Salma Loudili (MAR,931) 61 60

[QF] (3) Riya Bhatia (IND,541) l. Dasha Plekhanova (CAN,638) 36 ...

Yes, maybe our latest top 100 player, Sumit is good indication of where to set expectations from current younger crop.

At the same age as Manas ( 17 years and 5 months), Sumit was ranked outside 1500, at the same age Aryan (19 years and 6 months), Sumit was around 360. So, Manas is ahead, Aryan a ...

Looks on the way to that. 2 pairs involving Indians have reached finals in different challengers.

Balaji and Ryes-Varela have reached the final at Skopke Challenger 75 and will meet all Czech pair of Andrew Paulson and Michael Vrbensky who beat all Indian pairing of Rithvik and VSP in the SF.

In ...

Srikanth pulls of a gritty win over #18 T J Popov of FR! Since when did France start playing badminton?😀



France is having some good talent in mens singles now. In fact their 20 year old talent Alex Lanier is now ranked #9 and is the youngest player in top 10 and than they have Popov brothers ...

Both the K's come thru with straight sets wins in the QF.

[QF] (1) Karan Singh (IND,501) d. Igor Kudriashov (RUS,1310) 76(3) 30 retd

[QF] Kriish Tyagi (IND,1164) d. Maxim Shin (UZB,1734) 76(3) 76(4)

And they meet each other in the SF.

[SF] (1) Karan Singh (IND,501) vs. Kriish Tyagi (IND,1164)

Aryan lost in straight sets against a very good player.

At the ITF M25 in Coquimbo, Chile (Clay)

[QF] (7) Aryan Shah (IND,445) l. (2) Lautaro Midon (ARG,313) 16 46

After looking down and out at 16 04, all of a sudden, Aryan took the next 4 games to level at 4-4 in second set, only to lose the ...

Top seeded pair of RamK and Sid Banthia are in the SF of Kachreti (Georgia) Challenger 75.

In Skopke Challenger 75, top seeded pairing of Balaji and Ryes-Varela and third seeded pairing of Rithvik Chaudari Bollipalli and Vijay Sunder Prashanth are both thru to the SF.

Live streaming of Aryan's match is here -

Aryan Shah vs. Lautaro Midon

Aryan is an early break down at 1-2.

In the Malyasian Masters 500, in mens singles 4 Indians made it to the second round- Satish Karunakaran upset third seed Taiwanse Tien Chen Chou, Ayush Shetty had a win over 30th ranked Wang, Kidambi Srikanth upset 13th ranked Chinese Lu Guang Zhu and Prannoy too won his match.

Today in second ...

And the final year end rankings came out and DKS is ranked #6 in singles ranking. I think one of highest rankings achieved by an Indian.

He will now have a chance of taking Special exempt main draw spots at challenger level starting July ( 6 or 8 depending upon if he continues in college or not.

Kriish upsets the 8th seed and Karan comes thru after a tough 3 setter.

[R2] (1) Karan Singh (IND,501) d. (WC) Damir Abdusamadov (UZB,NR) 67(6) 65 62

[R2] Kriish Tyagi (IND,1164) d. (8) Aristarkh Safonov (RUS,1018) 36 64 64

[R2] Atharva Sharma (IND,1745) l. (7) Aleksandr Lobanov (RUS,945) 26 16 ...

One side loss for Vaidehi.

At ITF W35 Andong, Korea (Hard)

[R2] Vaidehi Chaudhari (IND,355) l. Janice Tjen (INA,301) 26 06

So, end of this forgettable tour for Vaidehi.

A dominating win for Aryan in the QF.

At the ITF M25 in Coquimbo, Chile (Clay)

[R2] (7) Aryan Shah (IND,445) d. Thiago Cigarran (ARG,861) 61 62

Next one will be real test for Aryan.

[QF] (7) Aryan Shah (IND,445) vs. (2) Lautaro Midon (ARG,313)

Rethin Pranav (IND,70) lost to Luis Guto Miguel (BRA,35) 06 36 in second round of J500 in Milan, Italy. Indian-American Ronit Kirki had a good upset win over 11th seed in first round and is thru to third round here.

In J200 in Romania, second seed Arnav Paparkar has gone on to reach the SF with an ...

As I expected only 3 Indians make it to round of 16.

Karan wins 76(3) 75, Kriish wins 76(5) 64 and Atharv Sharma wins in 3 sets. All others lost, Looks like Yuvan Nandal

Next,

[R2] (1) Karan Singh (IND,501) vs. (WC) Damir Abdusamadov (UZB,NR)

[R2] Kriish Tyagi (IND,1164) vs. (8) Aristarkh ...