No good players go through a phase like Karan is going through now. And very few decent players regress between the ages of 19 and 22.sunitarao wrote: I am surprised that some of the forum members have raised eye brows at Karan getting some financial support from BCCI .
Its obvious that Karan is not playing his best tennis right now. However, it happens with even the best players. They go through the lean phase.
Karan struggled to defeat an injured and out of form Mankad, who is only top-225 at the best of times.Even during this lean phase, Karan has defeated , one of the most crafty players, HM, not once but twice.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda. Kedryuk is no great shakes anyway.In Delhi future he lost to Kedryuk, from a winning position.
"Losing comprehensively" would be closer to the mark than this.In fact that has been his story past few months _ losing to hot player , from winning position.
Credit to KR for blooming early, but much more is required for him to succeed as an adult. Some of his peers, including Vivek, had and have more potential. Sanam also is much more talented than Karan and is more likely to achieve a good ATP ranking.That does not take away anything from Karans profile. Our best junior since Lee:
By all accounts, Yuki has a lot more potential than Karan did/does.Though Yuki is coming along, but he will take some time to catch up with Karan_ even for junior level.
Somdev and Sanam are much better than Rastogi. Vivek (who is a year younger) is no worse.Even at pro level KR has pretty good record better than any of his contemporary
Rastogi can't seem to beat anyone decent outside his home turf._ winning satellite and four or five futures, including that clay court win in Morocco.
He beat Thiago Alves, who was horribly jet lagged. Rastogi would be blown off the court by Alves under normal circumstances.And ,of course , defeating a top 100 player at atp chennai,
Just by Rastogi's standards. By anyone else's, it was a comprehensive 4-6 1-6 straight sets loss.playing big match against nadal
This statistic seems inflated.and defeating about six or seven top 200 players.
Bad logic. First of all, Isner is ranked #94 and will likely be top-50 by the time he finishes a complete year on tour. Furthermore, he beat great players very soon after Somdev beat him in the NCAA final. I believe Greul achieved his good ranking much later and hadn't beaten anyone exceptional around the time Karan beat him.How can we forget his win against Greul, who reached a career high rank of top 70. IF SKD defeating Isner is a great acievement, simply because Isner reached a top 110 ranking, then Karan defeating greul is more imp because greul reached top 70 and Karan beat him when Karan was only 18 or 19
In summary, Karan's potential is small and until he shows some semblance of fire in his belly he is unlikely to make even the top-400.