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Close loss for Yuki and Olivetti.

[SF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Albano Olivetti (ITA) l. (2) Aklexander Erler (AUT) / Lukas Miedler (AUT) 57 63 7-10

Yuki had a double fault and an error on critical points on his serve at 6-7 in super tie break.

Prarthana and her Greek partner Valentini won the W75 title this week. At ITF W75 Split, Croatia (Clay) [R1] (1) Valentini GRAMMATIKOPOULOU (GRE)/ Prarthana G THOMBARE (IND) d. Nigina ABDURAIMOVA (UZB)/ Veronika MIROSHNICHENKO (RUS) 64 76(6) [QF] (1) Valentini GRAMMATIKOPOULOU (GRE)/ Prarthana G THO...

Balaji and Begemann follow up their upset of top seeds by thrashing Jeevan and Arjun.

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Andre Begemann (GER) d. Jeevan Nedunchezyan (IND)/ Arjun Kadhe (IND) 60 63

Next,

[SF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Andre Begemann (GER) vs. (4) Max Purcell (AUS)/ Jordan Thompson (AUS)

They will be up against second seeds next.

[SF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Albano Olivetti (ITA) vs (2) Aklexander Erler (AUT) / Lukas Miedler (AUT)

Yes, I had read that. I think in that case Mukherjees need to be played as they would mostly have better chance to win their match as against Sreeja/Manika win their singles matches- Mukherjees are ranked 14th in doubles with 2 different country pairs ranked ahead of them and 4 Chinese pairs. So, th...

^^^ Correct. Mens doubles and womens doubles are only 1 match out of the 5 matches in team events. Our only unlikely hope I think is womens team event- Manika, Sreeja and Ayhika and Suthirtha Mukherjee have all shown that on their day can pull off big upsets. Still we would be underdogs in mostly al...

Yes, Arnav Papakar should absolutely have been there. Previously they used to just select the team based on top 3 in AITA rankings, this time they had trials with 6 being called for trials. So, that is a welcome change. But, while doing this they should have called all those who are good in ITF rank...

^^^ Looks like RamK will only play in Shenzhen challenger, China starting from April 22. He is in the qualifying entry list there. There are 3 challengers in China starting from that week and a challenger in Taiwan in fourth week. Have never seen RamK take this much of a break anytime in his career ...

As per details in the tournament thread, Sumit won a round in his first tournament on clay this year in Marrakech and lost in a close match in second round against 4th seed. He is 8 out from qualies draw at Monte Carlo ATP 1000 next week. I doubt if we will see that many withdrawals in a couple of d...

VSP and Anirudh lost in the QF after winning the first set.

[QF] Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND)/ Anirudh Chandrashekhar (IND) l. Max Purcell (AUS)/ Jordan Thompson (AUS) 63 36 5-10

Bala and Begemann upset top seeds.

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,94) / Andre Begemann (GER,184) d. (1) Rajeev Ram (USA,7) / Austin Krajicek (USA,1) 36 76(5) 10-6

Sumit lost in doubles too.

[R1] (ALT) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Aleksandar Vukic (AUS) l. Boris Arias (BOL)/ Federico Zeballos (BOL) 76(5) 46 3-10

So, Yuki remains for us here.

[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Albano Olivetti (ITA) vs. (3) Nicolas Barrientos (COL) / Roberto Matos (BRA)

Yes, she looks much taller than everyone else in the picture. With Maaya in this team, team should stand a good chance of qualifying for world group.

Rajiv wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 1:37 pm A match which Sumit should have won , and got broken when he was 40-15 up

Yes and in earlier game Sumit had 2 breakpoints at 4-3, 40-15 and he could not break and than lost his serve from 40-15 up at 4-4. Those 2 games made all the difference in otherwise very close match.

Sumit won the first set 26 but is down 24 in the second set.