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Aragone is not featured in the Columbus CH main draw. Pretty sure he has decided to take his chances flying all the way to Melbourne, being the next alt. No signs of players withdrawing in the past few hours, seems impossible for Saketh now.

More WDs and the QD cut off is down to 251. I believe Saki (#259) needs 3-4 more withdrawals to get in. Here is the list of alternates that could be above him (taken from the ranking chart and NOT the actual AO entry list). 254 JC Aragone 255 Mikel Ymer 256 Florian Mayer (retired) 257 Dennis Novikov...

jaydeep wrote: ↑Sat Jan 05, 2019 11:44 am Saki skips this challenger, may be due to injury which kept him away from the main-draw match at Pune

Or is he in Australia hoping to get a spot into the qualifying draw? Currently, the cut off is down to 249. He must need 10 more withdrawals within the next 2 days.

Pospisil withdrew today. If Sock gets in due to another WD, the USTA wildcard will go to Tommy Paul. But our guy needs 4 more players to withdraw.

Yuki is out, as expected. The MD cut-off is now down to 420 on the ATP rankings and 39 on the ITF rankings.

Yuki is out of AO (Source: Some reliable dude on Twitter). Looks like he might skip next week's Vietnam Challenger, too.

Great first day of the year for Nitin Kumar Sinha with 2 great wins at the Anning ITF.

R1 Nitin Kumar SINHA (IND,888) 6-1 6-7(3) 6-3 Soichiro MORITANI (JPN,718) [7]
R1 Wei-De LIN (TPE) / Nitin Kumar SINHA (IND) 6-1 6-7(5) [10-2] Chenhe LI (CHN) / Yecong MO (CHN)

Knew this coming, Juan Martin Del Potro is out of AO as he continues his recovery from a fractured kneecap. That puts Prajnesh 6 out of main draw (including Jack Sock). 5 more withdrawals seem tough at this point

Week 1: $15,000 USD Anning Futures, China (Clay) [6] Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,746) vs Wei-De LIN (CHN,1073) Nitin Kumar SINHA (IND,888) vs Soichiro MORITANI (JPN,718) Anirudh CHANDRASHEKAR (IND,1048) vs [1] Ti CHEN (TPE, 629) VSP and Anirudh are the 2nd seeds in the doubles draw. Good luck to ou...

VSP, Nitin Kumar Sinha and Anirudh Chandrashekar have entered these $15K Futures in Anning for the next 2-3 weeks. The main draw cut off is 922 which is nothing unusual but this direct acceptance also included 4 junior players through their top-100 junior ranking. Hopefully, some of our young player...

Q-draw is out. Have to say this is a pretty strong draw compared to previous years.

Sasi faces Italian Gianluigi Quinzi (who featured in the maiden NextGen Finals as a wildcard) and Saketh plays Jason Jung. Both are winnable opponents with some home support.

Omkara wrote: ↑Sat Dec 22, 2018 4:50 am Still don't see him with a racquet in hand

Don’t worry. He’s not going to forget how to play tennis.

Per Prajnesh’s Instagram story, he has received one of the MD WCs. Not surprising but curious to know who the other recipients are.

EDIT: Wildcards announced Looks like Yuki needs to qualify for the MD, if they decide to give the 3rd WC for Arjun.

Mahak is through to the QF with a 7-6 6-1 win in R2.

At Solapur QR1, this wildcard Amreen Naaz got ousted by British player Eden Silva in 32 minutes, winning just 4 points to 48. When will these organizers ever learn to select the right players for WCs especially when the entry list is full of foreign players?