Indian tennis player rankings

Giuseppe Anselmo · Post by **Giuseppe Anselmo** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:17 pm

dev varman is a good tennis-player, but he don't play....however, in the USA he can play the Univeristy circuit and the futures/satellite of the USA. He will find tournaments enough difficult.
Rastogi would have to play over India.

PKBasu · Post by **PKBasu** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:59 pm

Somdev Dev Varman is the top-ranked freshman among US college tennis players.
Karan Rastogi will be a top-200 player by the end of the year. He was the top-ranked player in the world in his age-group when he was 13, 14 and 15.

gvhvhg · Post by **gvhvhg** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:01 pm

Karan Rastogi will be a top-200 player by the end of the year.

Wow thats bold. In his interview with Kumar KR himself said 500 in the next 6-7 month.And he isn't focussing so much on the ranking right now. Remember, even our top guys HM and PA arent in the top 200 as we speak.

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:18 pm

The ever-optimist PKB is often right than wrong.

gvhvhg, do send a note to PKB in December 2005 when Karan's ranking is around 200.

I hope Karan will not read this discussion until he reaches the top 200.

gvhvhg · Post by **gvhvhg** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:35 pm

Hey id love for it to be true. I sure hope that in December I will be doing just that.

Giuseppe Anselmo · Post by **Giuseppe Anselmo** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:55 am

PKBasu wrote:Somdev Dev Varman is the top-ranked freshman among US college tennis players.
Karan Rastogi will be a top-200 player by the end of the year. He was the top-ranked player in the world in his age-group when he was 13, 14 and 15.

I don't know.....more player was top-ranked in their age-group, but.......

Does he play only in India?If he wants to be a top-200, must play in Europe, where the level is higer, and he plays challenger. what's his preferred surface?

jaydeep · Post by **jaydeep** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:22 am

Top 10 Indian players ranking ...

INDESIT ATP Entry Ranking (As of Monday, 4/4/2005)

270 Mankad, Harsh (IND) 139
323 Amritraj, Prakash (IND) 103
353 Sipaeya, Sunil Kumar (IND) 92
505 Kannan, Vijay (IND) 45
508 Sridhar, Vinod (IND) 45
553 Uppal, Vishal (IND) 39
576 Ramaswami, Ajay (IND) 35
645 Bopanna, Rohan (IND) 26
658 Rastogi, Karan (IND) 25
693 Ghouse, Mustafa (IND) 23

Karan enters first time in Top 10 players list and with his recent form it looks his ranking will going to improve ... After Uzbek future hopefully Kash also in Top 300.

Jaydeep.

PKBasu · Post by **PKBasu** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:38 am

Actually, I think Karan was ranked among India's top-10 in the second half of 2003 -- until he decided to focus on junior events in the second quarter of 2004. So he has now regained that India ranking, and will quickly move up much further as he has very few points to defend from last year. However, this is indeed his career-high pro ranking: in early-2004, Karan had a top-10 India ranking although he was only ranked in the 800s. Now a lot of Indian players have much more decent rankings, so the top-10 India ranking means a bit more!

kiran r more · Post by **kiran r more** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:30 pm

Hi Anselmo, Karan has been our best junior player since Leander Paes.He reached a career high junior ranking of no. 3 when he played aus open semi final in 2004.In fact last year he played in Italy grade A junior tournament where he played doubles final and singles 3rd round.He has started playing pro circuit just few months ago.In Jan his atp rank was about 1040.In just three months his ranking has jumped to around 650 i.e. a jump of almost 400 nos.As he has no points to defend,he can improve his ranking very fast,the way he has been playing recently.PKB may not be off mark in his prediction.But Karan has a long way to go.

PKBasu · Post by **PKBasu** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:06 pm

Here are the top 11 doubles rankings for Indians at the moment:

Rank Name Points Rank-move Tourneys-played

10 Bhupathi, Mahesh (IND) 3360 0 22
11 Paes, Leander (IND) 2685 0 22
188 Mankad, Harsh (IND) 250 -6 15
193 Ghouse, Mustafa (IND) 246 +1 30
280 Uppal, Vishal (IND) 160 +32 12
292 Ramaswami, Ajay (IND) 155 +34 13
363 Sipaeya, Sunil Kumar (IND) 120 +11 17
395 Amritraj, Prakash (IND) 109 -1 10
470 Kannan, Vijay (IND) 85 +96 6
531 Mathew, Jaco (IND) 70 +3 11
538 Bopanna, Rohan (IND) 68 +149 7

gvhvhg · Post by **gvhvhg** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:41 pm

Harsh is also in the Top 10 of Asian Tennis players. He has made a big jump, he was barely in the Top 20 before the British Satelittes.

Here are the top 10 Asian Rankings and then those who are of relevance to us. Pakistan and Uzbekistan (Davis Cup):

1 Srichaphan, Paradorn (THA) 34
2 Lee, Hyung-Taik (KOR) 58
3 Lu, Yen-Hsun (TPE) 152
4 Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo (TPE ) 157
5 Suzuki, Takao (JPN) 167
6 Motomura, Gouichi (JPN) 216
7 Qureshi, Aisam-Ul-Haq (PAK) 218
8 Udomchoke, Danai (THA) 219
9 Chen, Ti (TPE) 268
10 Mankad, Harsh (IND) 270
12 Dustov, Farrukh (UZB) 318
13 PA-323
16 SKS-353
19 Aqeel Khan-369
28 Vijay Kannan-505
29 Vinod Sridhar-508
31 RB (IPR)-525
32Kutsenko, Vadim (UZB ) 548
33 VU-553
34 AR-576
37 RB-645
39 KR-658
42 MG-693
43 Istomin, Denis (UZB)-707

Apart from Having MB-LP up at the top HM is Asia's #8 Doubles player and Mustafa #9.

Harsh is one of four Asian top ten in both singles and doubles. The other three are Lee, Lu, and Qureshi.

gvhvhg · Post by **gvhvhg** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:04 pm

Here are our latest Womens Rankings

75 MIRZA, SANIA
135 UBEROI, SHIKHA
372 CHAKRAVARTHI, RUSHMI
482 BHAMBRI, ANKITA
535 JAYARAM, SAI JAYALAKSHMY
558 BHAMBRI, SANAA
579 REDDY, PUNAM
632 VENKATARAMAN, ARCHANA
684 MANOHAR, GEETA
703 LAKHANI, ISHA

Doubles

272 MIRZA, SANIA
300 JAYARAM, SAI JAYALAKSHMY
325 CHAKRAVARTHI, RUSHMI
328 UBEROI, SHIKHA
444 BHAMBRI, ANKITA
488 BHAMBRI, SANAA
539 DHAWAN, SHRUTI
558 PEREIRA, LIZA
662 PHADKE, SONAL
662 GOSWAMI, PARUL

Sania is the #8 Asian Singles Player and #37 in Doubles.

Rushmi is #42 and #45.

Sai is number 40 in doubles.

Shikha would be #12 and #46.

Giuseppe Anselmo · Post by **Giuseppe Anselmo** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:52 pm

kiran r more wrote:Hi Anselmo, Karan has been our best junior player since Leander Paes.He reached a career high junior ranking of no. 3 when he played aus open semi final in 2004.In fact last year he played in Italy grade A junior tournament where he played doubles final and singles 3rd round.He has started playing pro circuit just few months ago.In Jan his atp rank was about 1040.In just three months his ranking has jumped to around 650 i.e. a jump of almost 400 nos.As he has no points to defend,he can improve his ranking very fast,the way he has been playing recently.PKB may not be off mark in his prediction.But Karan has a long way to go.

Good. how he plays?

Sandeep · Post by **Sandeep** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:03 pm

He plays with hand Giuseppe

. Just joking. As Kiran mentioned he is teh best junior we have got since Leander. He is a baseline player with pretty solid ground strokes.

Giuseppe Anselmo · Post by **Giuseppe Anselmo** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:41 pm

nothingnew wrote:He plays with hand Giuseppe . Just joking. As Kiran mentioned he is teh best junior we have got since Leander. He is a baseline player with pretty solid ground strokes.

The junior ranking is more relative.