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Sania/Mary started with a flourish, winning the first set 6-3, but then appeared to disintegrate in set 2, losing it 1-6. This is becoming a bit of a pattern with Sania (and actually has occasionally been a problem with the volatile Mary Pierce too). Perhaps Sania needs to work a bit on her mental s...

The match is the fourth on Centre Court (expected around 7pm IST) on Thursday. Pierce plays her singles match there first up, followed by Tulyaganova. Mary should be a tad better rested!

Manisha's qualifying into the event is also a pretty big story, although she only beat a player ranked 299 in the final round to do so. Isha, of course, did a big favour to Manisha by removing the seeded player from her section of the draw, but Manisha still had to win three matches to get in -- and...

Nobody is comparing her with Hingis just yet. It is probably a good thing that she isn't quite where Capriati and Hingis were at the same age (look at Hingis now, and Capriati during the second half of the 1990s) -- but to talk of her in the same breath is compliment enough... There has been NO Indi...

I think it's a bit too early to make a clean break with junior tennis, especially at the Slams. It is not pointless to participate in junior tennis -- to see how you are doing relative to your contemporaries -- especially since young players below 16 are, I believe, still limited to only about 15 pr...

A tough but not impossible final match-up in the Qualifier for Manisha.
Now that her partner has pulled out due to injury (and presumably she hasn't been able to replace Chanda Rubin too quickly), she should be extra-motivated to win...

This probably gives LP (and MB!) the best chance to get some singles points so that his official ranking doesn't keep languishing near 1000. If he wants to play singles seriously, he will have to ask David Rikl to excuse him for a couple of weeks during the crucial clay season in Europe (when they w...

Are there still points available for winning a round in a WTA tournament qualifier? (bonus points have presumably been eliminated)? This is a classy way for Isha Lakhani to enter the ranking lists...Archana Venkatraman's win too was pretty impressive, for one of our "older" players who has...

My heart agrees whole-heartedly with Jay's view, especially if one were to consider "all-round" tennis performances (in singles, doubles and mixed). Especially given Leander's Olympic performance (unmatched by anyone else -- but Ramanathan, Vijay, Ghouse Mohamed, Dilip Bose didn't have tha...

Ramanathan was the greatest singles performer from India, no doubt, but he played before the professional era, and we can't be sure how he would have done as a pro (against Rosewall, Hoad, etc., who had already turned pro by the time Krish sr began to reach the top). Ramesh gets my (purely singles) ...

Jay: I noticed that we don't have the MxD titles on the mast-head for Leander. However much we might denigrate MxD, a Grand Slam title is a Grand Slam title. LP has two of those, as does MB -- and those certainly add to their lustre. I would suggest, if you have no objections, that those should be m...

It's not yet the 26th in the US. But of course, it was already Republic Day in India when LP stepped onto the court. Nice little touch of extra good news on the day. (It is also National Day for Australia; they won't have much to celebrate...with Hewitt out, and Woodbridge on the losing side in the ...

Leander Paes and Martina Navratilova won the Mixed Doubles final in richly deserving fashion, beating Woodbridge-Daniilidou 6-4, 7-5 in the final. They had defeated the defending champions, Ullyett-Hantuchova in the semi-final, the 3rd seeds in the second round, and a tough pairing of Bhupathi-Tulya...

I agree with Jay's points. If Tim and Tom Gullikson could have coached Sampras to the top, I don't see why Srinath's career rankings (close to 300, and I think briefly inside the top-300) should count against him. The Gulliksons were never ranked much higher than about 20-30 in the world, but they w...

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