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This week our doubles pairs are playing in 3 different challengers. At Sanremo Challenger 125, Italy (Clay) [R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) vs. (3) Roman Jebavy (CZE) / Adam Pavlasek (CZE) At Lille Challenger 100, France (Hard) [R1] Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/ Vijay Sundar P...

I don’t think that there is much prestige with winning these early age group events. Primary benefit is development opportunities for the players in playing against other top players in their age group. If Vihaan or Manas are getting sufficient competitive opportunities at the right level than thes...

I also few games of the first set and Sahaja was making very few errors and after few shots her opponent could not cope up with consistency and made an error. That was nice to see. So, in main draw- [R1] (4) Ankita Raina (IND,226) vs, Peangtarn Plipuech (THA,314) - Head to head 4-2 for Ankita [R1] R...

Bad start for our under 14 boys. They lost to Taiwan 0-3 today in first group match. Taiwan is not even seeded and we did not even win a set against them. We were the seeded team in our group along with Hongkong. So, the way we lost to Hongkong better not to keep any hopes from this team. Not surpri...

So, 10 Indians directly into main draw. 4 wild cards may have gone to Rishi Reddy ( who is from Karnataka), Madhwin Kamath, maybe they have given one to India junior #2 Aryan Shah who was just outside qualifying entry list. Overall, this week we should at least 18 Indians in main draw of 32. 6 Indi...

If he (Sumit) has decided to continue training at the academy then it is bit too unusually long period of break during what is business end of the season. It's been nearly 4 weeks since he last played a tournament and such long extended breaks normally are meant for off season activity, not when th...

This week world cup was held at Bhopal. It was a more competitive world cup than the last one in Cairo with all Chinese fully back in competition. These are the medals won by our shooters in olympic events- Golds - (1) 10M Air Pistol- Men- Sarabjot Singh Silver- (1) 10M Air Pistol Mixed team - Varun...

There are alternates who are ranked lower than Sumit who have made it to the qualifying draw at both of those challengers. So, there may be some other reason why Sumit did not make it at either places.

This week Bops and Ebden got bundled out in first round in Miami.

At ATP Masters 1000, Miami, USA

[R1] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND) / Mathew Ebden (AUS) l. Kevin Krawietz (GER) / Fabrice Martin (FRA) 57 64 4-10

We beat Hongkong 2-0 again to finish 5th overall. In third place match, Australia easily beat Kazakhstan. So, Japan, Korea and Australia were the 3 teams which qualified. And it looks like even if we had somehow beaten Kazakhstan, top 3 team would have been the same. Our team was decent but not real...

Aniruddh/VSP win their second consecutive title playing their third consecutive challenger final after 2 India challengers. At the Challenger 75 in Les Franqueses Del Valles, Spain (Hard) [F] (3) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/ Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) d. (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) 75 ...

What is surprising -- and a bit disappointing -- is that Yuvan Nandal, Aryan Shah et al don't play any pro tournaments. At 17, they should be doing that, preparing the transition to the pro circuit, by at least playing the home M15s and M25s. The level of competition is perforce more intense than i...

For next week's M25 at Mysuru, the entry list becomes slightly weaker, top 4 seeds of this week who are all foreigners are still there as is Indian 5th seed Mukund. But, 3 lower foreigner seeds are out next week, so RamK, Digivijay and Sid Rawat will be seeds 6th to 8th. Apart from these 4 seeds- 6 ...

Aman Dahiya, now 18, who reached 62 in the junior rankings in Jan'22, seems to have faded now. Not playing juniors or pro events. Sad! Aman Dahiya completed 18 years last August. So, eligibility for ITF juniors ended last year. Not sure why he is not playing current series of Indian futures. But, i...

Yes, J30 is previous Grade 5 which was later renamed as J5 and now J30 based on points offered to the winner (30).