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Is it because of lack of funds? Or was it injuries? Sorry, at this old age, I remember nothing.
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I had a chat with Sumit yesterday. He said he's extending his off-season to around March, which is when he would start playing tournaments this year. The reason for this is he's prepping his body to be ready for the physicality of the Challenger Tour.
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Not sure if I get that. I never understood his strategy of trying to qualify in tough european challengers exclusively either.

At his age, he needs to play a lot more competitive tennis, and also play enough in Asia to scoop up ranking points which will open up a lot more opportunities for him.


Last 2 years have been train, train, train, play q in Europe, repeat.
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He's thinking long-term. He's never been one of those ultra-talented kids who would make it big on the ATP Tour right away, to be honest!
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The only explanation is that he thinks these long training stints help him improve his game. Who knows!
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Last year too Sumit played very little till end April. Presumably , he took longish training break that time and came back playing at a much higher level challenging top 200 players on European clay.

So, it will be great if he can do the same this year.

One good thing is tournaments in first 2 months of the year are much lower and Sumit does not have too many points to defend too.

So, this would be the best time to take a break if he has to.
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These are our top 5 doubles rankings this week -

28 Rohan Bopanna
55 Divij Sharan
61 Purav Raja
64 Leander Paes
86 Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan

Leander Peas is now 4th in the doubles rankings and should no longer be the first choice for our davis cup team. The earlier the AITA realises this better.
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I think AITA has already realized this. That is why they have Leander for this game and Mahesh as the non-playing captain after this match.
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Yes, it looks they are realising this. This is from latest article -

Make way for young players: AITA to Leander Paes
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Hrinmay Chattejee is quite a character
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"Considering the current scenario, it is going to be tough for the selection committee to pick him for the next tie. It wouldn't be fair on the other players who are ranked higher than him," he added.
Chatterjee said: "I spoke to Paes informally on retirement. He is fully aware of the situation. But we will give him an opportunity to take a call."
Just be open in saying that Paes is getting this chance for creating his DC record, and for the next tie selection will be based on the form and rankings of the players at that time. Why on earth would that be tough for the selection committee?

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Yes, that was clear from the decision to bring back Mahesh from the next match. They should have just said it, had a grand retirement party for LP, and be done with it. Who knows why they did not do the obvious? Maybe LP does not want to go away? So, what? Just tell him they will move on.
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This week Leander jumped up over Divij and Purav to become our #2 again.

These are our top 10 doubles rankings this week-

28 Rohan Bopanna
56 Leander Paes
57 Divij Sharan
60 Purav Raja
76 Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
247 Ramkumar Ramanathan
249 Saketh Myneni
275 N. Sriram Balaji
294 N. Vijay Sunder Prashanth
311 Vishnu Vardhan
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With Yuki's China challenger points and Indian futures points updated for others, these are the revised top 10 ranking for Indians-

267 Ramkumar Ramanathan
284 Bhambri, Yuki
287 Gunneswaran, Prajnesh
306 N. Sriram Balaji
334 Myneni, Saketh
377 Sumit Nagal
396 Vardhan, Vishnu
436 Sasi Kumar Mukund
524 Prashanth, N Vijay Sundar
562 Siddharth Rawat


Saketh and Sumit keep falling in the rankings as they are injured and out of action for a while. RamK is more or less at same level in last couple of months while others have improved due to performances in Indian futures .
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There has been some good improvement in our top players ranking this week. These are the top 10 rankings as of today -

231 Bhambri, Yuki
247 Ramkumar Ramanathan
271 Gunneswaran, Prajnesh
295 N. Sriram Balaji (CH)
370 Sumit Nagal
414 Sasi Kumar Mukund (CH)
423 Myneni, Saketh
453 Vardhan, Vishnu
543 Prashanth, N Vijay Sundar
608 Sanam Singh

Balaji and Sasi are at their career high rankings and now we have 4 players in top 300 which is great to see. Hope Sumit and Sasi can get to that level soon and Saketh will come back and make it there.
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