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That would be awesome! I work with data, so I can write some queries and such. I am in!

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I'm also in with $ but have no coding contribution to make.
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The only thing I am willing to put in $$ is some charity which helps Indian tennis players with coaching et al.
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gbelday wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2017 7:44 pm Vishnu, can it be added to the special projects bucket at Google? :)
Or, why don't we do it? A group of us chip in our time and $$? I am willing to put down some $$ for this. No other expectations but it could lead to something bigger...
On further lookup, there are quite a few established data providers (paid) in the market. Opta, Stats LLC and so on. Relevant links below (using Stats.com as an example)

Overview of Sports / Leagues: http://developer.stats.com/docs/read/tennis
Sample on how the data is structured: http://stats.mashery.com/files/API_DD_P ... TENNIS.pdf

Lot of major online properties use these providers for their Sports coverage needs. Coming to Google, the experience is broken as probably each Product has its own priorities / focus area leading to lack of cohesive sports experience. Its getting there though.

Google Search already provides us with the upcoming matches of all ITF players. Based on how things are shaping up, Google Now app will likely be the ultimate home for all our needs in this area. For example, I searched for Leander Paes - it showed me his overview + recent results (and upcoming matches if scheduled already). There is an option to follow him (Link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/NAHQYM5BRaYXXYGU2). It doesn't work well yet but if I follow him, Lee's live scores / upcoming matches should show up and for each player I can set whether I should be notified/buzzed. Hopefully in the future, if the match is on YouTube - it will point me there and will also block time-slot on my Calendar based on my settings.

Given that probably it may or may not be the focus for the individual Google teams at present, interesting to see how it shapes up but am sure Google/Tech companies will get there in couple of years.

Note: I just gave examples with Google given that am heavy Android user but we can apply similar approach to Apple / MSFT products.
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Just putting here our top mens players schedule for the 3 weeks following this week -

Sept. 18 - Yuki, RamK, Prajnesh at $75K Columbus Challenger, Ohio, US
Sumit, Vishnu, VSP, Sid Rawat at Asian indoor games in Turkeministan,
Others at Coimbatore futures

Sept. 25- RamK, Prajnesh at $100K Tiburon challenger in California,US,
Sumit, Vishnu, VSP, Sid Rawat at Asian indoor games in Turkeministan -
Week off for Yuki

Oct. 2- RamK at $100K Stockton challenger in California,US,
Yuki and Sumit at $125K(+H) Kaohsiung Challenger in Taiwan,
Balaji, Vishnu, VSP, Sasi are in qualies at Taiwan.

So, Yuki will stay only 1 week in US post davis cup and then return to Asia. There are lots of big challenges in Asia post Taiwan in Uzbekistan,China, Vietnam in October. It seems RamK will stay on in US to play challengers. Sumit just scraped in as last direct acceptance in Taiwan.
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RamK is a masochist?
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He is fit and rarin' to play. Doesn't want to miss any week of action while the season is on...
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Sorry, I did not say what I had in mind clearly. I do not mind him playing consecutive weeks. I was saying that while there is more points on offer and potentially weaker opponents in the Asian cycle, he chose the US challengers where the competition is going to be tougher for less rewards. But, what he has shown after playing cupcake futures for a while, in the recent past he has not looked that much at the rankings and just wants to play good competition. You improve by playing good competition. Or at least, figure out what you need to improve in the upcoming off-season.
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I don't like to use the word "hard" or "easy" because I don't believe there anyone gives you anything on a plate on the pro circuit. However, I do sign up to the theory that playing against better opponents (i.e higher ranked) makes you a better player. That philosophy works for me at club level.
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Updated schedule now for futures in October 2 week and challengers in October 9 week-

Sept. 18 - Yuki, RamK, Prajnesh at $75K Columbus Challenger, Ohio, US
Sumit, Vishnu, VSP, Sid Rawat at Asian indoor games in Turkeministan,
Others at Coimbatore futures

Sept. 25- RamK, Prajnesh at $100K Tiburon challenger in California,US,
Sumit, Vishnu, VSP, Sid Rawat at Asian indoor games in Turkeministan -
Week off for Yuki

Oct. 2- RamK at $100K Stockton challenger in California,US,
Yuki and Sumit at $125K(+H) Kaohsiung Challenger in Taiwan,
Balaji, Vishnu, VSP are in qualies at Taiwan.
Sasi,Sid Rawat, KU Singh in Thailand F7 futures

Oct. 9 - RamK at $100K Fairfield challenger
Yuki at $150K(+H) Tashkent challenger

So, Yuki will pay 2 higher level challengers in Asia in first 2 weeks of October which is good planning.
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Thanks to Sameer, Jaydeep, Vatsal - I have got a handle on this over the past few weeks and have been helping Vatsal a bit on the fb tennis page. Here is the schedule for this week. Thanks again guys!

Week of 25th September, 2017

Asian Indoor & Martial Art Games - Turkmenistan
Mens: Sumit Nagal, Vishnu Vardhan, Sidharth Rawat, Vijay Sundar Prashanth. Coach: Ashutosh Singh
Womens: Dhruthi Tatachar, Ankita Raina, Riya Bhatia, Prarthana Thombare. Coach: Ankita Bhambri

Womens
WTA $2.3M Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open, China (Premier 5)
- Doubles: Sania Mirza (IND)/ Shuai Peng (CHN)

ITF $25K Oklahoma - USA (Hard)
- Main draw: Karman Kaur Thandi (315)

ITF $15K Egypt (Clay)
- Main draw: Kanika Vaidya (901); Qualifying: Dhwani Kumar (UNR), Sitara Prabhu (UNR)

ITF $25K Thailand (Hard)
- Qualifying: Pranjala Yadlapalli (614), Natasha Palha (757), Sowjanya Bavisetti (790), Sai Samhitha Samarthi (988), Rishika Sunkara (991), Nidhi Chilumula (853), Nithya Raj (UNR), Saumya Vig (UNR), Isha Budwani (UNR)

ITF $15K Turkey (Clay): Qualifying: Shivani Manchanda (UNR)

Mens

ATP Doubles
ATP $1M Chengdu Open 2017, China - Main draw: Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)
ATP $731K Shenzhen Open 2017, China - Main draw: Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND)

ATP $100K Challenger San Francisco, California - USA (Hard)
- Main draw: Ramkumar Ramanathan (153), Prajnesh Gunneswaran (244)

ITF $25K - Italy (Clay): Qualifying: Adil Kalyanpur (1585)
ITF $15K - Egypt (Hard): Qualifying: Medhir Goyal (UNR), Sagar Ahuja (UNR)
ITF $15K - UK (Hard): Qualifying: Shahbaaz Khan (1664)
ITF $15K - Spain (Clay): Qualifying: Gnana Bhaskar Paramatmuni Venkata (UNR)
ITF $15K - Turkey (Clay): Qualifying: Tathagat Charantimath (UNR)
ITF $15K - USA (Hard): Qualifying: Akshay Kishore (UNR), Varun Luthra (UNR)
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Fantastic Vishnu. I've been following Vatsal's Indian Tennis Page on FB as well.
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Updating the schedule for next 3 weeks -

Sept. 25- RamK, Prajnesh at $100K Tiburon challenger in California,US,
Sumit, Vishnu, VSP, Sid Rawat at Asian indoor games in Turkeministan -
Week off for Yuki

Oct. 2- RamK at $100K Stockton challenger in California,US,
Yuki and Sumit at $125K(+H) Kaohsiung Challenger in Taiwan,
Sasi,Sid Rawat, KU Singh in Thailand F7 futures
Others could be at Fenesta nationals

Oct. 9 - RamK at $100K Fairfield challenger
Yuki at $150K(+H) Tashkent challenger
Prajnesh at $25K+K futures in Lagos,Nigeria
VSP, Sid Rawat, KU Singh in Thailand F8 futures

Oct. 16- RamK at Antewerp ATP 250 qualies
Yuki at Moscow ATP 250 qualies
Sumit at $15K Ningbo challenger, China
Prajnesh at $25K+K futures in Lagos,Nigeria (likely)

Interesting that both RamK and Yuki chose different ATP qualies in the week of October 16 instead of challengers. Sumit seems to be finally going for tougher challenger circuit from next week in Taipei and then following up with challengers in China.
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prasen9 wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2017 5:32 am RamK is a masochist?
Darn. I wanted to be proven wrong. Is RamK really fatigued because of his schedule?
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I am totally convinced of that. While it may be true that he is by far the best of all Indians in terms of keeping himself injury free, it is crazy to play these many weeks. Not even Leander in his younger days may have played this much of singles. He should consider slowing down and spread his training and playing weeks more wisely to benefit the most. Doing so will give him chance to have an extended career. After all, human body can only take so much of pounding.

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