East Asian Challengers, 2019
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Re: East Asian Challengers, 2019
Looks like Prajnesh has given a walkover to Tung-Lin Wu in the R3 at the Liuzhou challenger. No reason is shown at the ATP site yet. The match was supposed to start a few minutes ago and wasn't started. Yikes. Nothing going right, and everybody is injured or something. Damn!
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Re: East Asian Challengers, 2019
At the $54K+H Liuzhou Challenger 2019, China (hard)
[QF] Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) d. Christopher Eubanks (USA)/ Kaichi Uchida (JPN), 62 67(4) [12-10]
[SF] Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Denis Istomin (UZB), Saturday afternoon
[QF] Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) d. Christopher Eubanks (USA)/ Kaichi Uchida (JPN), 62 67(4) [12-10]
[SF] Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Denis Istomin (UZB), Saturday afternoon
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Re: East Asian Challengers, 2019
The official reason for the walkover mentioned on the draw sheet is "left wrist"
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Re: East Asian Challengers, 2019
Hopefully, this is a precautionary withdrawal. Don't believe this is related to his recent injuries, so hopefully he'll be fit to play soon...
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Re: East Asian Challengers, 2019
Yeah, hopefully precautionary. He must have felt some wrist issues in the recent matches, which might explain the lack of sharpness in some losses. I had mentioned that the forehand never worked in the loss last week, so a left wrist issue makes perfect sense. As he played fine in the last match, it can't be a terrible injury issue though. Maybe he felt that the wrist problem wasn't going away, after he played the R2 this week. It is always better to see the player withdrawing BEFORE the match rather than during the match, when it is clear that the match made an issue worse.
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Re: East Asian Challengers, 2019
Prajnesh has not withdrawn from next week's Shenzhen Challenger. So, hopefully it not serious. 2 more tournaments to play for Praj this year- Shenzhen and Pune. Hope he can earn as many points as possible in those 2 although ending in top 100 now looks difficult.
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Re: East Asian Challengers, 2019
At the $54K+H Liuzhou Challenger 2019, China (hard)
[SF] Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l. Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Denis Istomin (UZB), 46 63 [7-10]
[SF] Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l. Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Denis Istomin (UZB), 46 63 [7-10]
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Re: East Asian Challengers, 2019
Shenzen Draw
Prajnesh is not in the draw for Shenzen open. The injury clearly serious enough to mandate such a decision. RamK is the 10th seed and Sidharth plays Sultanov of Uzb in R64.
Prajnesh is not in the draw for Shenzen open. The injury clearly serious enough to mandate such a decision. RamK is the 10th seed and Sidharth plays Sultanov of Uzb in R64.
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Re: East Asian Challengers, 2019
If he isn't playing this week, then the wrist issue is serious enough. Things like wrist tendinitis can sometimes take a very long time to go away, and need surgery etc. Del Potro had one of the worst cases of it, where he was even asked to drop his two-handed backhand shot altogether. Hopefully not anything that serious for Prajnesh. But unfortunate timing for this.
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Re: East Asian Challengers, 2019
I think, most probably this will be the end of this season for him ... All the best wishes for his wedding.
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Re: East Asian Challengers, 2019
Ram is playing in this Chinese challenger and he is seeded 10th ... Sid is facing the top-375 ranked Sultanov.
In the doubles, Jeevan and Adil r the 3rd seed and they r facing a local wild-card pair ... Vishnu is playing with Matsui and they r facing Gabashvili and Jaziri ... Ram has found a good partner in Mikhail Elgin, they r facing Oliveira and Fajing Sun.
At $135.4K+H Shenzhen-2 Challenger 2019, China
[R1] Sidharth Rawat (IND,528) vs Khumoyun Sultanov (UZB,359)
[R1] (10) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,193) bye
Doubles
[R1] Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS)/ Malek Jaziri (TUN)
[R1] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs (WC) Jie Cui (CHN)/ Hao Wu (CHN)
[R1] (PR) Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Goncalo Oliveira (POR)/ Fajing Sun (CHN)
In the doubles, Jeevan and Adil r the 3rd seed and they r facing a local wild-card pair ... Vishnu is playing with Matsui and they r facing Gabashvili and Jaziri ... Ram has found a good partner in Mikhail Elgin, they r facing Oliveira and Fajing Sun.
At $135.4K+H Shenzhen-2 Challenger 2019, China
[R1] Sidharth Rawat (IND,528) vs Khumoyun Sultanov (UZB,359)
[R1] (10) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,193) bye
Doubles
[R1] Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS)/ Malek Jaziri (TUN)
[R1] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs (WC) Jie Cui (CHN)/ Hao Wu (CHN)
[R1] (PR) Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Goncalo Oliveira (POR)/ Fajing Sun (CHN)
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Re: East Asian Challengers, 2019
RamK still able to hang in there as a seeded player, with his ranking that too in a 125 challenger. Wonder if change in continent can change the course for him
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Re: East Asian Challengers, 2019
True, now winning Pune Challenger too will not be enough to get him to stay in top 100 or even inside 105 to make AO main draw. So, most likely he will skip it too and try to fully recover from his injury by end of the year.