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^^^ For the above analysis, I assumed that TPR for India would have remained the same even if test penetration had been higher (on par with more advanced countries).

Jai: I think best to keep the scope to best player for GOAT discussion. As a long time tennis fan, I agree with you 100%. You make a good point about Maria Sharapova. I'm going to use that to challenge my friend's criterion. His thinking was that a player that transcends tennis to attract casual sp...

Basically, only half of India's actual cases have been found (because of lack of penetration of testing into some areas) - compared to what we would have found if we had the healthcare personnel/infrastructure penetration like in Europe or the USA. [ I am not talking about the "infections"...

Under reporting of deaths always happens. However, Telangana's scale of under reporting is the issue. How can we be sure that ALL of the excess deaths were due to Covid-19? Apparently dengue fever, suicides and murders have been rampant in the past year, especially in agricultural communities, and ...

Imho the GOAT. He clearly has he most balanced game. Most debates about GOAT Tennis Player end up being a debate about criteria. So, I am curious, what criteria do you use to decide for yourself that Djokovic is GOAT? Not disagreeing, BTW. I'm just interested to know how you arrived at your conclus...

My heart wanted Djokovic to win. My intuition told me that Tsitsipas would win. My mind said logically Nadal should win. My heart is happy that Djokovic is the first to beat Nadal AND win the FO AND be the first man in over 50 years to win every Grand Slam twice. And he's won every Masters 1000. One...

It took a peak Djokovic playing at an insanely high level for 4+ hours to beat Nadal, who might have had a slightly off day given the heavy & slow conditions that did not help his topspin to fly and kick up as high as in warmer, drier day sessions. How often do all these factors come together to...

suresh wrote: ↑Sun Jun 13, 2021 12:54 am This is what I have been worried about -- it taking way too long for the numbers to go under 40-50K.

If you want the numbers to go below 40-50K there is one very effective way. Just go back to doing 1m tests per day like in Feb.

Yes, Wimbledon is intriguing. Because of the very short grass court pre-season (unlike clay or hard court) it is difficult to assess the forms of different players to see who might be favoured to do well at Wimby. Big servers like Isner, Hurkacz, and Opelka have the potential to cause upsets. I look...

Looks like after a long time we dropped to #2 in daily casecount. Brazil ahead of us with 86K cases, did not know that Brazil is still reporting so many cases, in fact 3 of the top 4 nations barring us are all from South America- Brazil, Argentina and Colombia. Also Peru, Paraguay, Chile are in top...

The pundits kept saying that beating Nadal at Roland Garros is the toughest task in ALL of sport, not just tennis. Novak "No Joke" Djokovic battered Nadal physically yesterday like I've never seen anyone else do to Rafa. In fact, it's Rafa that inflicts such sanctioned physical torture on ...

^^^ The concept of viruses mutating when mass vaccinations are done is not a new idea. It is based on evolutionary micro biology. It is akin to bacteria developing antibiotic resistance. During this pandemic, highly credentialed voices have indeed been speaking about. But they have been ignored. Unt...

Kumar wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 11:48 pm Nasal over Zverev in 4 sets.

Good thing "Nasal" is not playing Istomin ... because he "aMy" need an anti-istomin.

What are your predictions? Mine are final between Nadal and Tsitsipas and winner is Tsitsipas. I'm going to give you a convoluted answer. :D So what are my predictions? Depends on which part of me you ask. My intuition agrees with you i.e. Tsitsipas wins FO 2021 over Nadal in the final in 5 sets af...

Once again I bemoan the travesty that are the men's seedings at this year's FO. What might happen is that Nadal-Djokovic pummel each other for a brutal 5 sets. If that happens then the victor is going to be so bruised that he is likely to not recover in time for the final. Which is going to make it ...