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We are not going down that easily... Comeback from 1-5 to 4-5 with 2 breaks and serving. Wow, some spirited tennis suddenly from us. We saved 3 or 4 match pts earlier (which were playoff points for Korea too, as they anxiously wait for us to lose) At 5-6, we saved 2 more match pts from 15-40 and fin...

It is all over guys. Ankita has nothing left. Thank you, Ms. Shalini Thakur. I cannot believe Ankita herself would be so foolish and do this to the country. 16 13 in doubles. China is not tanking. They are shellacking Korea 60 30 in doubles. But Korea will advance thanks to Shalini/Ankita foolishnes...

Korea took a singles match in a surprise, and are at 1-1 against China. If they beat China in doubles, they advance even if we win the doubles (on a 3-way tie among CHN, KOR, IND with 4-1 records)

^^^ There isn't. You cannot candy this up, to use the old Texas phrase. It is a disgrace how Ankita and Shalini have screwed this up. We should be so easily advancing, considering the great form Rutuja and Prarthana are in. Instead, we may not. Let us just pray that Ankita can somehow muster up some...

Ankita vs Lulu. If this tie goes to the doubles rubber, beating Erin Routliffe is not going to be an easy task. The mindless idiocy continues. Ankita down 2 breaks at 1-5. Don't we have any brain cells at all? I cannot believe that we have Shalini Thakur as the captain and she does not have the aut...

What was the score of the Rutu match? I had to step away when she got broken at 62 44 and it looked like she was letting it slip.

EDIT: Okay... 62 76(5)... Wow, nice comeback at the end, Rutuja!!

Looks like the games are moved indoors? The link Sameer posted now takes us to an indoor court.

Are we really going to trust Ankita in singles when we could field either one of Shrivalli or Sahaja? :damn: I think she can still replace Ankita with Sahaja, because Sahaja is higher ranked than Rutuja. If Rutuja loses, we probably have to send in Ankita for us to stay alive, hoping for a miracle ...

Well, if he withdrew, he would have withdrawn from all. The question is why he is not listed as withdrawn, right? That is the question. I think players disappear from the QUALIFYING entry list with ATP (not even shown as "withdrawn") only when they get a wildcard somewhere. They show up i...

Nah, what I just said is not correct. Win tomorrow, and we will be 4-1 in ties and we will advance over 3-2 KOR. Lose tomorrow, and KOR will advance on 10-5 match score in a 3-way tie among IND, NZL and KOR with 3-2 records. So, head-to-head and all does not matter. Just win tomorrow and we advance....

I wonder what the tiebreaker is for the 2nd spot. KOR will finish 3-2 and 10-5 in matches, assuming CHN will beat them 3-0. India is 7-5 in matches now and will need to beat NZL 3-0 to get to 10-5 and advance over Korea on head-to-head. Taiwan is 3-9 in matches now, and will finish 6-9 after playing...

Yeah, I was watching the doubles match. It got scary at the end. Needed the 2-3 mistakes from Koreans in the end, because we were totally out of gas, with even Prarthana choking on a few points. Phew!

Well, if he pulled out, it will be shown as "withdrawn" in the ALT lists. It is not shown that way now. Weird.

She lost it 26 26, right? At least it was not a 3-setter. She should have enough for doubles. But now watch. Shalini will decide that Shrivalli/Prarthana should play doubles. She will stick to the original lineup. I can guarantee it. They may win, but it was much less risky to have Ankita and Prarth...

I don't think Sumit had any direct entry to an ATP that he withdrew from. He was an Alternate or in the qualies as an Alternate. No Sajay, he made the entry by THU afternoon to both Bucharest and Munich, as the cuts dropped several spots into the ALT list for the main draws (pretty much the same pl...