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Top seed Mukund is thru SF of Jakarta futures this week with 3 easy wins including 60 61 win over Duck Hee Lee today. Other than Mukund, there are 3 Japanese in the SF. SD Prajwal Dev upset a seed in first round and lost in a close 3 setter against Japanese second seed in QF. Third seeded Manish got...

Zeel lost in second round.


At ITF W25, Parnu, Estonia (Clay)


[R2] Zeel Desai (IND,576) l. (5) Elena Malygina (EST,414) 36 57

Close but no cigar for Sahaja.

At ITF W25 Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan (Hard)

[R2] Sahaja Yamalapalli (IND,573) l. (5) Daria Kudashova (RUS,559) 36 64 67(9)

They are comeback kings, Yuki and Saki. So many matches they have pulled off like this in last few months from losing position. That was a tough pairing to play against Saville and Thompson.

Sreeshankar ended 6th with a jump of 7.94M at Monaco Diamomd league. A jump at same level as his CWG mark of 8.06 would have taken him to 4th place. Top 3 which included Tokyo Olympic gold and bronze medalists were all above 8.30M though.

Zeel started with a decent win in a 25K in Estonia against a similar ranked player.

At ITF W25, Parnu, Estonia (Clay)

[R1] Zeel Desai (IND,576) d. Melanie Klaffner (AUT,581) 46 63 62

Next,

[R2] Zeel Desai (IND,576) vs. (5) Elena Malygina (EST,414)

At ITF W60, San Bartolome de Tirajana, ESP (Clay)

[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,434) l. (5) Nadia Podoroska (ARG,190) 06 67(2)

Podorska was ranked in top 40 till last year and was a French open 2020 semi finalist. So, no surprise there.

Another excellent win for Sumit;. At Meerbusch Challenger 80 (clay), GER [R2] (PR) Sumit Nagal (IND,504) d. Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA,195) 75 76(2) In the first set he was up a double break early 3-0 only to be back on serve but then saved a couple of breakpoint at 4-4 to hold and then won that set. In ...

Sahaja is playing $25K tournament in Kazakhstan and started with a win.

At ITF W25 Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan (Hard)

[R1] Sahaja Yamalapalli (IND,573) d, Kira Pavlova (RUS,847) 64 75

Next,

[R2] Sahaja Yamalapalli (IND,573) vs. (5) Daria Kudashova (RUS,559)

Rohan/Matwe again run into Shapavalov in first round in Montreal and start with a win. At ATP masters 1000, Montreal, Canada [R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND) / Matwe Middlelkoop (NED) d. Denis Shapovalov (CAN)/ Karen Khachanov (RUS) 76(5) 46 10-6 Next, [R2] Rohan Bopanna (IND) / Matwe Middlelkoop (NED) vs. ...

Looks like 2 bronze medals for us in both open and women section, somewhat disappointing I guess in open section- Chess Olympiad 2022 round 11 Highlights: India wins two bronze medals; Uzbekistan wins open gold, Ukraine Women take top honours We must have got some individual board medals too but not...

Are we ranked even lower than Pakistan currently ? We seem to have really regressed in volleyball where few years back we looked to be getting among top teams in Asia.

Murali Sreeshankar will be competing in Monaco Diamond league tomorrow, August 10 where current olympic champion and host of other top long jumpers will be participating. It will be good exposure for Sreeshankar against good level of competition.

He already has won 1 big event (India open) this year and 2 runners-up in all england and german open. This dude is the future of India in badminton. He already won bronze in wc and gold in thomas cup team event. Even Sindhu/Saina didn't achieve at his age. Currently, he is ranked 10th bcoz of rank...

Sumit would play Italian Arnaboldi who upset 6th seeded Frenchman in first round. At Meerbusch Challenger 80 (clay), GER [R2] (PR) Sumit Nagal (IND,504) vs. Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA,195) Arnaboldi is 34 year old but has reached career high ranking of only 153. So, looks like challenger level player for...