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Good to see Manisha finding a partner and making the draw anyway, after Chanda bailed..

Jay

I think the UNI report I saw earlier was wrong. No extra qualifier spot. The withdrawal came after the qualifying draw was made, but BEFORE the matches started, so they simply moved Andrea Vanc up from the qualies to the main draw.

Jay

Same here, Dhruv. Too many things going on all over the place today! .. My PhD student's dissertation needs to be corrected, and he will be here with a gun soon otherwise

Jay

Man, what an incredible upset win by Isha Lakhani ! .. I simply do not believe it. I am stunned. :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: Here are the Indian's matches with rankings. Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND,384) d. Maki Arai (JPN,647) 61 63 6 J...

Per PTI, "The other players who opted out from the tournament include Yoon Jeong Cho (Korea), Jana Kandar (Germany) and Maria Elena Camerine (Italy) while the new entrants are Akiko Moringami (Japan) and Tzipora Obzilar of Israel." "The seeds are: 1 Clarisa Fernandez (Arg), 2 Tamarine...

The sad thing is that the injury and withdrawl came after the qualies started, and so they could not even use the wildcard they had for Chanda on somebody else. Now there are 5 qualifier spots. One lucky loser will also make it in from the qualies, according to PTI. This is a real injury and withdra...

I have been waiting to confirm Vishal's double scores too. Tennisaustralia messed up and have another copy of the singles draw posted at their site where the doubles draw should be - so I haven't seen the official doubles scores except at SteveG's. As he is normally right, I guess he lost.

Jay

Quite a lot of them read the notes, I am told. Occasionally I get an email from somebody too. I guess they simply miscalculated. It is just not that often for the qualies draw cut to fall at a WTA event to #650 .. What I felt was that if I were playing (and eating, drinking and breathing tennis for ...

Hey, the sooners right now have a better coach. Hands down. That's all there is. Mack Brown is among the top 5 or 6 coaches out there and has proven it on many occasions. Stoops is better on game-days and is among the top 2 or 3, and you can't do anything about it, till he runs out of ideas and ever...

Go bug, Go! :wink: :wink: :wink: Yes, I voted for the bug. Actually I generally agree with BBS. It is actually the second point, about the home vs abroad business that really "bugs" me a lot. I don't remember during the 70s and ealry 80s thinking about India's chances abroad being all that...

OK, I split the topic, Dhruv. Cool. I love the moderator power! Anyway, on the qualifying draw .. Can you believe that Kateryna amd Valeria Bondarenko made the qualifying draw but the three Indians above them, Radhika, Sonal and Sheetal didn't ? What happened? Did they not even try to take a chance....

Thursday news from Deccan Herald Good to know that Sunitha Rao is there for the qualies. Isha and Megha would be two expecting qualifying wildcards, I suppose... Jay ====================== Preparations for WTA Open are in full swing Hyderabad, Jan. 30: Preparations for the WTA Indian Open to be held...

I vote for Leander Paes. Because I like him. So sue me! Jay PS: Actually I vote for him because nobody that I know of in tennis has ever done as much better than his normal record while playing for his country, than Leander. I know that is not what the poll asked for. But like I said, sue me .. 8-)

Thanks Dhruv. I didn't expect any of them to really make the main draw, except for Vishal Uppal who has never been as good in singles as he is in doubles, despite being known as a fighter with good temperament. I was curious about Ashutosh Singh also. He is very inexperienced as yet, so it would be ...

Thanks for reminding. I had simply forgotten to add the MxD titles in, that's all. I will add them today after the super bowl party

Jay