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For Chandigarh, last week's Delhi doubles champion pair (Vishnu Vardhan/Sid Banthia) has broken up. Vishnu is seeded second, partnering Manish Sureshkumar (who was part of the runner-up pair last week), and SidB is partnering Karan Singh. In singles, Ramkumar took one of the wildcards, and is seeded...

Yuki is in Miami. Perhaps he has a wildcard due to his former IMG connection? Nope, got in with Michael Venus whose regular partner Jamie Murray made a late withdrawal. So, Yuki making his madtees series debut in Miami. He is making his Masters series DOUBLES debut at Miami. He has of course played...

Bopanna/Ebden are at the top of the entry list for the doubles at the Miami Masters this week, and Yuki Bhambri/Michael Venus are also in the doubles draw. (Venus/Jamie Murray had withdrawn, but Venus was able to "re-pair" with Yuki). Sumit is into Q2 of the men's singles, after this: [Q1]...

Ramkumar now at 351 in the live singles rankings. I was at the DLTA courts for the final, and he absolutely demolished Karan Singh, although the latter made it a lot easier by missing 90% of the shots at the net (I know that is probably not the stat, but that's what it looked like!). Overheads, voll...

On a different topic, it is really irritating that the term "chinaman" to describe Kuldeep Yadav's stock ball is no longer usable for some political-correctness reasons. The Chinese should be flattered that there is a term in cricket that comes from a cricketer of Chinese origin inventing ...

SaniaFan, Pant has to show that he has overcome his injury. It cannot be assumed, given the life-threatening accident he had, that he can automatically return to being the batsman or 'keeper he was before the injury. This is true of any sportsperson returning from injury, but particularly for Pant, ...

If all the Indian players were available (i.e., excluding Pant, whose fitness and form cannot be automatically assumed after his grievous injury), what would the XI look like now? Kohli and Shami come in automatically for tests (home or away), so for home tests (against NZ and Bangladesh for instanc...

Gavaskar, Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Kohli, Pant, Jadeja, Kapil, Ashwin, Shami, Bumrah. Of the first four, whom would you kick out and with whom? Last 15 years, we have 6 in my team. Third spinner: Kumble replaces Shami in India. I'd take Kapil's batting and fielding. I agree with the team. Yashasw...

There really is no question about this. Padikkal should have replaced Patidar even for the last test. That he finally did replace him here was fortuitous, and we've got a much better batsman coming in, who also happens to be much younger. Patidar's test career has proven to be short, much as Suryaku...

Superb innings this morning from Rohit and (especially) Gill. We got the better weather -- it was sunny (so much so that there was a glorious view of the snow-capped, actually snow-filled, Dhauladhar peaks) this morning, while it had been somewhat cloudy yesterday (and hence more conducive to swing)...

I don't understand why few people are unhappy with Patidar being dropped. Does anyone really think he would have scored any runs? Would you rather have just 10 players in the team? Does same thing was thought about Bharat ? If yes then why 7 test for Bharat & only 3 for Patidar Because Bharat's...

19 year old Vaishnavi clearly looks like one to watch out for in the near future...

Nice to see Yuki/Robin finally gelling and on a small winning streak (4 matches in Dubai). Can we hope for a Yuki vs Rohan final here?

Sadly, she faded thereafter, and Vaishnavi too lost:

[R2] Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty (IND,482) l. 7-Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (SWE,455) 61 36 67(5)
[R2] Vaishnavi Adkar (IND,831) l. 1-Dalila Jakupovic (SLO,214) 67(1) 36

Splendid first set from Shrivalli:

[R2] Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty (IND,482) vs. 7-Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (SWE,455) 61 22