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PKBasu wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 11:20 am
Looking forward to an all-Indian final. I think Arjun can turn the tables on Boluda-Perkiss this week, even if it is on clay!
Delighted that my prediction turned out to be perfectly right!! Fabulous to have an all-Indian final, especially to see Arjun turn the tables on the dominant Boluda-Perkiss.
Arjun Kadhe is really looking good: we thought he would do well on grass and hard courts; who thought he could do it on clay too?
And Arjun and VSP win the doubles title for third consecutive week.
[F] (2) Arjun Khade (IND)/Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) d. (1) Caio Silva (BRA)/Thales Turini (BRA) 67(5) 64 10-7
With that title, Arjun will be around 350 in the doubles rankings and VSP will be around 220. With a little bit of improvement in Arjun's ranking this pair can play together at challengers.
sameerph wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:17 am
Excellent win by Arjun over a top 300 Spaniard on clay.
Arjun is racking up points in this futures circuit which will help him move up to challenger level soon. Nothing against VSP but I will root for Arjun in the final being a younger guy with more upside potential. And root for both in doubles final later today.
Is this red clay or the faster green clay? Or perhaps some other Indian top surface?
So glad for VSP and a great reward for his positive attitude having still battling it out with the younger players unlike his friends who quit singles and turned doubles pros.
Great 4 weeks for Arjun nevertheless. The lad has more places to go and more tours to win this year.
S_K_S wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2018 1:47 pm
It would be nice to see consistency from the leading players as a stepping stone to challengers. 2 semis and 2 finals and 1 win would be the dream but that is probably me being very optimistic. Fingers crossed.
So Kadhe got a W, RU, QF and RU. Mission accomplished I would say.
This was in Thiruvananthapuram. Kerala is able to maintain some charming venues despite the communist influence. Nice!
I think Arjun especially needs to play some higher level ($25K+H) Futures over the next couple of months, build up his points, and then target playing on grass during the 5-6 week grass season. There are Futures and Challengers available, and he has the game to do well on the surface.
PKBasu wrote: ↑Sun Mar 25, 2018 2:16 am
This was in Thiruvananthapuram. Kerala is able to maintain some charming venues despite the communist influence. Nice!
Why are you mixing Sports with Politics? As long as China remains India 's neighbor there will be a hell lot of communists in Kerala,West Bengal and Tripura. Okay. Communists are neither dinosaur nor Hitlers. Btw Kerala has almost 100% literacy rate. Good job done by the Communists. Don't compare Stalin to Hitler. It's the job of western media. History is written by the victors.
PKBasu wrote: ↑Sun Mar 25, 2018 2:16 am
This was in Thiruvananthapuram. Kerala is able to maintain some charming venues despite the communist influence. Nice!
The communists are hardly modernizers. There are some charming places in Cuba, etc. The only things that they may have actively taken down is temples and churches in Russia and China. In fact, globalization is a much greater risk to heritage sites in the erstwhile communist states. I doubt there is any significant link between the Chinese communists (who practice a weird sort of communism) and the Indian ones. Or for that matter whether the Indian communists are communists anyway.
