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Yuki played in Madrid Challenger 100 this week along with new partner Ariel Behar of Uruguay but lost in first round 36 64 7-10 against Demoliner and Luz. Next week he is back with Albano Olivetti at Munich ATP. At Munich ATP 250 (clay) [R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Albano Olivetti (ITA) vs. (3) Sander ...

Arjun and Jeevan win the title in Mexico.

At Morelos Open Challenger 75, Mexico

[F] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) d. (2) Piotr Matuszewski (POL) / Matthew Christopher Romios (AUS) 76(5) 64

6th challenger title for Arjun and 12th title for Jeevan.

Final olympic qualifiers for rifle and pistol shooter began today in Rio De Janerio, Brazil. We have only 1 quota remaining to be taken in rifle/pistol - 1 in womens 10M Air pistol. Today qualfiers took place and our 2 shooters, Asian games gold medalist Palak and junior world cup winner Sainyam bot...

Amit Panghal is selected for the final qualifers-

World Olympic qualifier India squad: Amit Panghal makes comeback amidst drastic changes

At Morelos Open Challenger 75, Mexico

[F] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs. (2) Piotr Matuszewski (POL) / Matthew Christopher Romios (AUS)

Arjun at # 106 in live rankings, Jeevan at #128. Niki and Rithvik both at career high rankings of #122 and # 133 respectively.

Starting this thread as we have 2 all Indian pairs playing doubles in Mexico this week and next week we should have these 2 pairs and also Anirudh is in the entry list and we can continue in this thread all year long for challengers in North America. This week Arjun and Jeevan have reached the final...

Yes, unfortunately, Ankita has to take major blame for this loss. Lost matches against Taiwan, Korea and NZ. Matches we she would have won in earlier years. And to coach to keep on playing her in singles and doubles even after that.

Sahaja and Shrivalli were totally wasted.

So, seems like no change from coach Shalini Thakur.

Rain stopped play with Rutuja leading 2-1 in first set.

This is the live stream link for today-

https://wx.vzan.com/live/page/571645837 ... &jumpitd=1

I just hope that this break is due to Sumit wanting to rest and not due to any injury issue. We have had too many player get to their best level and had injuries in the recent past.

Sathiyan and Manika lost in QF itself today against a Malyasian pair 1-4. Just no fight.

Losses continue in Australia, 1-2 loss in third match and 1-3 loss in fourth match.

The only good thing that happened at this Asian badminton championships or rather after it is that Tanisha and Ashwini have now mathematically qualified for Paris Olympics. Otherwise it was disamal. Prannoy shows no signs of getting back to last year's form, Sindhu is up and down, Priyanshu is stuck...

Great.

Now real chance of advancing to the play offs. NZ beat Taiwan today. So, they wont be a pushover tomorrow.

Ankita lost 2-6 3-6.

Unfortunately, for the first time Ankita is proving to be our weak link in singles in Fed cup and coach is compounding it by keeping on playing her.

Yes, it was pretty clear yesterday that Ankita was no in kind of singles form to do much. And it is not that this time like in earlier years we had no options. Both Sahaja and Shrivalli have shown in recent months that they have it in them to win against players at this level. So, one of them should...