$75K(+H) Karshi/Samarkand Challengers, May 7-20 2018

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Re: $75K(+H) Karshi/Samarkand Challengers, May 7-20 2018

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Congratulations to Vishnu and Balaji on their title. Will it get them closer to qualifying for doubles at Wimbledon?
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Re: $75K(+H) Karshi/Samarkand Challengers, May 7-20 2018

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Congratulations to Vishnu/Balaji for yet another Challenger title. Balaji rises to a career-high of 104 in the live doubles rankings, and Vishnu is at 100 (just shy of his career-high of 99).
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Re: $75K(+H) Karshi/Samarkand Challengers, May 7-20 2018

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Congratulation to Vishnu and Bala for their one of the big challenger title win ... They received walkover from Elgin-Istomin due to Elgin medical condition(?).

At $75K+H Samarkand Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[SF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (4) Timur Khabibulin (KAZ)/ Vladyslav Manafov (UKR) 76(1) 63

Doubles Final
(1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) w/o
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Re: $75K(+H) Karshi/Samarkand Challengers, May 7-20 2018

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vishalg wrote: Sat May 19, 2018 9:37 am They won the semifinals 7-6, 6-3 and got a walkover in the finals.
So title for this pair, biggest one of their career?
Not their biggest. They won $125K+H challenger in Chengdu,China last year. This is their fifth title together since last year.
suresh wrote: Sat May 19, 2018 11:25 am Congratulations to Vishnu and Balaji on their title. Will it get them closer to qualifying for doubles at Wimbledon?
Yes, I think they should be able to play Wimbledon qualifying this year. As per reports they are getting back to India to get the visas done and will play a couple of warm up challengers on grass before Wimbledon qualies.
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Re: $75K(+H) Karshi/Samarkand Challengers, May 7-20 2018

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Yes, they will definitely be able to play the Wimbledon qualifiers. Playing the grass challengers makes perfect sense, and I think they have a very good chance of making the main draw.
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