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<t>^^^^Well time will tell since there does not seem to be evidence to indicate that will happen.<br/> <br/> In badminton, there is no one from the US in the top 100 among men. There is a #18 in women (Beiwen Zhang) who grew up in CN and SG before coming to the US as an adult. Iris Wang is at #88 bu...

Depends on what you mean by competitive. I think they could have a top 10 player or so from the immigrant population as you note but I really doubt that will be able to challenge the might of China, Japan, or S Korea in either of these sports.

Why bang the head, Sanjay? It turned out to be better than expected for Ramkumar. Sumit, well…. My assessment of his ranking is well documented in this or players’ threads. So, no surprise there for me. Sorry I was updating my comment while you wrote this as I was checking the point by point analys...

Absolutely. It's their national sport I just checked. TT, like badminton, is mostly an Asian sport even though it is played in many countries globally at least recreationally. In many non-Asian countries (e.g., the US), TT (and badminton) are primarily recreational (backyard or basement) activities.

Oh I see. Can they get the top seed also ? In tennis, I believe they can. The seedings are done based on the current rankings when the draw is made (and not based on the rankings when the entries closed) and generally the WCs will be in the draw at that time and can be seeded even if they entered a...

Disappointing effort by Karan after his SF run in the previous week. Hopefully, he can show more consistency going forward to stay at the current level before he moves further up.

Right now he is just collecting pay checks. At some point, he will need to get back on clay (or the slower hard courts) to collect points to make sure that he can make the grand slam main draws because that is where the bigger money is.

^^^^ According to a random internet source ( :D ), the hard court speeds on the ATP tour (GS/Masters) is as follows. Shanghai is the fastest of them all. Tournament Court Pace Index Australian Open 38 Indian Wells 27.9 Miami 30.4 Canada Open 35.2 Cincinnati 40.2 US Open 35.4 Shanghai 42.9 Paris 39.1...

Looks like Shanghai is a fast court with lower bounce. Will be tough for Sumit to do well here but good luck to him.

Hopefully, Ramk can pull off another win here as the courts here should help his game as shown his two excellent wins in the qualies.

That happens in tennis when the players do not enter the tournament in time and need wild cards to enter. Perhaps, similar reason in TT?

^^^^Who is he referred to above? Agree with the premise that playing poorer teams like Pakistan will help them more than us. Playing the top 10 teams is where our focus should be. The FIH Pro League is a good league for us to play the other top teams. To take full advantage of it though we should pl...

Nishesh loses the final in straight sets. I’m not sure that this a mental issue as he has a somewhat limited game so that someone who is hot at the challenger level is fully capable of beating him.

I think Yuki also had an elbow injury which impacted him significantly. In general, the stronger your core and lower body is, then you can generate most of your power from there and lessen the strain on your arms. Let’s hope Karman is able to come back stronger as she has top 200 ability which she h...

I don’t think Nishesh is going to to be a GS event threat. He is basically in the Sumit mold with slightly bigger game but perhaps not as quick. I’d guess he has perhaps top 50-70 potential as of right now. However, players like Brandon Nakashima who was slightly ahead as a junior but also without a...

The article indicated that each person was not being opposed but not sure if they were all the incumbents. I don’t know whether the elected slate is publicly known or only known within the AITA.