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Glad that there will at least be one Indian in the QF.

Meanwhile, at the AO juniors qualies, Aditya Govila is the 13th seed and Kriish Tyagi is the 16t seed. Two rounds to make the main draw. On the girls' side, 14 year old Maaya Rajeswaran made it in as the very last entry! She plays the 15th seed. Indian-Americans Rohan Belday and Maya Dutta are also...

^^^ I stopped watching at that point and Ankita won :bounce: 1-6 1-5 to 1-6 7-5 6-1 :notworthy: Next: Despite being the favorite (in terms of ranking), I hope Rutuja manages to beat Shimizu considering Asian players, especially Japanese perform well in these Indian ITFs. Ankita awaits the winner of ...

Ankita seems to be struggling with something. Down a set and 1-3 in the second. At this rate, I’d be surprised even one Indian player goes to the second round,

sameerph wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:54 am In the meantime, Bublik withdraws from his doubles match and Balaji gets in as alternate along with Vlad Cornea.

Excellent news! Balaji/Cornea will play Arnaldi/Pellegrino. Not impossible to beat.

Meanwhile Yuki Bhambri double faults his way to lose the first round doubles after winning the first set quite comprehensively. 6-1 6-7(8) 6-7(7).

Incredible

More on Sapfo: she probably has the weirdest serve of all time?!

Sapfo serve

Vaidehi’s opponent - Sapfo played as many as 50 weeks of tennis in the ITF circuit last year. And she’s back on with that streak playing in her 3rd tournament already this year. She’s 20 years old: maybe she has the genetics for it - to be able to travel week in, week out and compete at a decent lev...

Thanks, Sameer. That’s really nice of AO organizers to acknowledge the next best (full) Asian team from the alternates list. Here’s hoping AniVJ gets their first win against a couple of singles specialists. And that Balaji gets to sneak in.

Slam main draw debut for VSP and Anirudh as they made it to the AO doubles draw (being #6th on the alternates list). I don’t find Balaji in the draw thought since him and Cornea were the first one on the alts.

What happened to Yuvan Nandal who was supposedly playing junior events until he turned 18 to gain JE entries?

And Sid VISHWAKARMA upsets former top-250 player Ly Nam 6-1 6-4 to become the second Indian semifinalist . Can Madhwin make it a clean sweep for us?

Karan Singh upsets the top seeded South African in straight sets. 6-3 6-3

Incredible start to this new season. Let’s go, Sumit!!

Hope he draws one of Tabilo/Cachin/Halys/Shapovalov/Kwon in the main draw.