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Deepak Punia would have qualified if not for the Dubai desert floods. We still have the last qualification tournament at Istanbul from May9th, don't we stand any chance of qualifying 1 or 2 men there? The same set of wrestlers seem to be going to Istanbul. I would not say Deepak would have surely q...

Rutuja wins first round in both singles and doubles. At the W50 in Wuning, China (Hard), [R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,364) d. (WC) Chenting Zhu (CHN,1330) 60 62 In doubles, [R1] (4) Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Paige Hourigan (NZL) d. Yiming Dang (CHN)/ Jing-Jing Lu (CHN) 57 63 10-5 Next, [R2] Rutuja Bhosale (...

We already had 7 last time, so 5 would be considered an underachievement. Let Sinhombre do the detailed projections but as of now I think anything more than 5 depends on shooting. Based on merits and performances over last 1 year, couple of medals should be there in shooting but than in last 2 olymp...

Sahaja upset Kayla Day in first round of WTA Mumbai, but that of course was on familiar courts and in familiar circumstances for Sahaja. On this green clay , the way Shrivalli struggled, I would be surprised if Sahaja even puts up a fight.

Sin Hombre wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:35 am sameer - we should update the predictions this weekend.

Yes, looks like projections would go down with mens wrestling, badminton (HSP/Sindhu) and to an extent from mens boxing and athletics (Sreeshankar).

This is a nice article on how Vinesh fought hard to get into 50kg category and won a quota for Olympics-

Vinesh Phogat describes ordeal the night before Paris Olympics qualifiers: Felt suffocated, skin got burnt, coach wanted to cut my hair

It is not others gaining points but Sumit is losing 79 points in 2 weeks time from the Rome Challenger title which he won from last year and also 11 points this week.

Just read this on twitter from someone who watched today's match- Ramkumar Ramanathan was just robbed of a match by a terrible chair umpire who in the tiebreak made a terrible correction call, two bad serves by Noguchi called in, and a shot off the line called in Thats a four point swing . That is b...

^^^ 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... Sumit and Yuki will n...

Done. Discussion related to Olympics Tennis pairing moved to Paris Olympics thread-

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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. He next plays 8th seed. At M25 in Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy (clay) [R2] (Q) Manas Dhamne (IND,13...

This was likely what we would have done previously but it gets harder with Sreeja in the top-40 now. Sreeja is now new India #1 at #38 , 1 spot ahead of Manika who is at #39. That makes selection of our womens team even more difficult, we will have to see if Manika along with one of the Mukherjees ...

Another disappointing one sided loss for Ankita in first round of W50 in Georgia, She lost Catherine Harrison (USA,485) 26 06.

Her game seems to be totally off right now.

Disappointing loss for RamK in Q2.

At the Challenger 75 in Shenzen Louhou,CHN (Hard)

[Q1] (9) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,358) l. (3) Rio Noguchi (JPN,323) 26 67(5)

He lost in Q1.

At Challenger 75 in Shenzen, China (Hard)

[Q1] (ALT) Mukund Sasikumar (IND,448) l. (WC) Linang Xiao (CHN,723) 75 46 46