$50K(+H) Pune/$100K(+H) Bengaluru Challengers Nov 13-26, 2017

[jayakris]

Didn't his new trainer (Somdev's old) say something on the lines that Yuki had no injuries and it was more of a mental thing for him at this point?

I don't remember him saying it like that. The mental thing was about the feeling of fatigue in the third set and all that. I think he put it in the reverse form, like he feels confident now in longer matches, as he has done the right training to avoid (which probably hints that he had a mental issue about it earlier). I think he was saying that the mental issue is no longer there.

[Sin Hombre]

^^^^ I had this quote in mind

It’s helped clear Bhambri’s injury-prone body of ailments that have hampered him in the past. The youngster still wears a brace around his elbow though. “It’s a precaution because he sometimes feels it when he’s serving. But it’s more a mental thing,” Abhimanyu says. “He’s absolutely fine.”

[jayakris]

^^^ Ah, so he did say what you said.

[sameerph]

But he said that about wearing brace around elbow and that injury. Not sure if he said that mental thing about Yuki's injuries in general.

That could be true to some extent though.

[S_K_S]

Sorry I couldn’t watch the livestream of the final: it started later than expected, and then I was hosting my wife’s (50th) birthday party.

PKB - You need to get your priorities right!

[jaydeep]

VSP and Sidharth qualified for the main draw taking advantage of a weaker draw ... VSP is facing Sumit and Sid is facing Jay Clarke.

In the doubles, our seeded pairs and all top doubles players r in the top draw ... So, chances r high of Indian pair in the final from the top draw ... Sood twins have received a wild card but facing 2nd seed pair.

At $100K+H Bangalore Challenger 2017, Karnataka, India

[R1] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,513) vs Mario Vilella Martinez (ESP,395)
[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,328) vs (Q) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,622)
[R1] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,137) vs N.Sriram Balaji (IND,352)
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran(IND,253) vs (6) Evan King (USA,197)
[R1] (5) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,150) vs Hugo Grenier (FRA,431)
[R1] (Q) Sidharth Rawat (IND,527) vs Jay Clarke (GBR,288)
[R1] (WC) Suraj R. Prabodh (IND,1219) vs (4) Elias Ymer (SWE,146)
[R1] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND,912) vs (WC) Dalwinder Singh (IND,1015)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Geoffrey Blancaneaux (FRA)/ Jay Clarke (ENG)
[R1] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Elias Ymer (SWE)
[R1] (3) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Pedja Krstin (SRB)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs (WC) Suraj R. Prabodh (IND)/ Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND)
[R1] (WC) Kunal Anand (IND)/ Anvit Bendre (IND) vs Ivan Sabanov (CRO)/ Matej Sabanov (CRO)
[R1] (WC) Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) vs (2) Brydan Klein (GBR)/ Marc Polmans (AUS)

[bujilover]

[SF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Elias Ymer (SWE)

OOPS! He did it again lol.

[jaydeep]

[SF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Elias Ymer (SWE)

OOPS! He did it again lol.

Ha ha ... Updated.
P.S. Guys, do an update, I m becoming old ...

[PKBasu]

Sorry I couldn’t watch the livestream of the final: it started later than expected, and then I was hosting my wife’s (50th) birthday party.

PKB - You need to get your priorities right!

You’re right about priorities. But the first priority is to survive from day to day

[PKBasu]

So Yuki appears to be playing in Bangalore. Three cheers to that!

[jayakris]

So Yuki appears to be playing in Bangalore. Three cheers to that!

Well, he could still withdraw with a medical reason... Hope he doesn't.

[PKBasu]

I hope he doesn't withdraw after the tournament begins -- the way Andy Murray did at the US Open this year -- thereby upsetting the draw in ways that are unfair to the other participants. But the speculation in this forum about him not playing in Bangalore was probably based on one or two sentences from an interview that some here over-interpreted/parsed.

[sameerph]

[SF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Elias Ymer (SWE)

OOPS! He did it again lol.

Ha ha ... Updated.
P.S. Guys, do an update, I m becoming old ...

All of us are getting old, Jaydeep. One typo here and there does not matter. Continue updating.

[nitin28]

From this article it seems Yuki wants to play bangalore and win it to reach top 100
https://m.timesofindia.com/sports/tenni ... 713825.cms

[jayakris]

^^^ Phew!! That was a lot of belly-aching by us for nothing, it seems. Go Yuki, Go.