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The big J300 in Kuching, Malaysia, starts on Tuesday. A good contingent of Indians are there. Rethin, Kriish, Aarjun and Hitesh (with Aradhya Kshitij, Kandhavel Mahalinam and Vishal prakash in the qualies) on the boys' side and Krisha and Maaya (with Rishitha Basireddy in the qualies) on the girls'...

^^ True, but we do celebrate any top-8 performance at Olympics, especially in athletics, much more than we celebrate the challenger doubles titles! It is just that we can do it only every four years

Dhruv, please take your time. We can wait if the forum goes down. Don't let it cut into your regular job time!

All said and done, this forum has had very little downtime over the years, so we can't complain at all...

RamK plays the Q1 today (Monday) at Shenzen. In doubles,

[R1] (4) Ray Ho (TPE)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Remi Bertola (SUI)/ Antoine Escoffier (FRA)

Mukund made the Qualifying draw at the Challenger 75 in Shenzen, China (Hard) as an ALT. He had finished 4th out from the main draw list. [Q1] (ALT) Mukund Sasikumar (IND,448) vs (WC) Linang Xiao (CHN,723) As he took the top qualifying seed's spot, it is not a bad draw. Will play 8th seed #359 Majch...

I don't think Bops wants to play with RamK. I think he is okay with Yuki and may even play one or two prep events with him. So the option of trying with RamK probably doesn't exist.

^^^ RamK, if Bops would ever try playing with him for a few events (and if RamK were focusing only on doubles). But that is not an option, so Yuki is the best in my opinion. If not Yuki, then it should be Balaji and then Niki, as they who both have their serve and ground strokes at a decent top-600 ...

^^^ At this point Bops will have to team up with Yuki at the Olympics. Can't justify picking any of the others who are all below 90 and have not done anything like Yuki recently. Also because they have a decent chance to be among the 8 seeds, which is also important to avoid facing top teams too ear...

Very good win by Arnav Paparkar over a home favorite Turkish top seed ranked #342 (who was inside top-300 earlier this year too), though wins at the J30 level is what we should expect from him. He went to Turkey to play only a J100 (lost in the R2 last week) and a J30 and is going to the Doha for tw...

The big J300 in Kuching, Malaysia, starts on Tuesday. A good contingent of Indians are there. Rethin, Kriish, Aarjun and Hitesh (with Aradhya Kshitij, Kandhavel Mahalinam and Vishal prakash in the qualies) on the boys' side and Krisha and Maaya (with Rishitha Basireddy in the qualies) on the girls' ...

Yes, nothing new, but frequent logins have been needed for a few years. Not a big deal though; I got used to it. I think Dhruv has left it that way to keep the forum safe, as he is not constantly monitoring things on an hourly basis...

atula wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:21 pm Its all Sumit,so much so that we forgot that Yuki Bhambri has made the doubles Final inthe BMW Open at Munich..

Actually, Sameer was updating the scores from there in Yuki's thread (as he was the only one at that event) - http://www.sports-india.com/phpBB/viewt ... 1#p4466141

Another doubles title for Prarthana. Seeded 2nd with Arianne Hartono (INA) as partner, she won the title at the W50 in Shenzen, CHN . They beat Ji-Hee Choi (KOR)/ Beatrice Gumulya (INA), 64 61, then Rutuja and YeXin Ma (CHN) in the R2, 63 63. The SF against the 3rd seed Chia Yi Tsao (TPE) and Wushua...

^^^ I think it was some technical issue with some sort of service attack or something. Those things happen. We alerted Dhruv, who found time to fix it.

After a 4-week break, RamK gets back to action soon this weekend.

At the Challenger 75 in Shenzen Louhou,CHN (Hard)

[Q1] (9) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,358) vs Dominik Palan (CZE,375)

He is also playing doubles with Ray Ho (TPE) and they should be the 4th seeds when the draw comes out.