Nigeria Men's $25K+H ITF - April 2019

[Dinesh]

Three $25K+H tournaments scheduled to start from next week in Nigeria. Arjun Kadhe, Suraj Prabhod, and Kunal Anand appear in the entry list for the first week. VSP joins the trio from the second week.

Good luck to our boys!

[suresh]

Three $25K+H tournaments scheduled to start from next week in Nigeria. Arjun Kadhe, Suraj Prabhod, and Kunal Anand appear in the entry list for the first week. VSP joins the trio from the second week.

Good luck to our boys!

Is this a new account for you, Dinesh (aka bujilover)?

[Dinesh]

Is this a new account for you, Dinesh (aka bujilover)?

Yes, because I couldn't remember the old password.

[Tolamu]

Dinesh, you forgot your password because of your user name 'Bujilover' as Buji is now "out of sight, out of mind".

[sameerph]

Hope Arjun can pick up a lot of ITF points at least from these 3 weeks in Nigeria ( as ATP points on offer are not that great - 5 points for winner, 3 for runner up). A good ITF ranking can get him into ATP challengers and ultimately winning rounds there can lift his ATP ranking. With new system, the climb up the ladder has become really difficult for the players ranked between 300 to 500. Climbing up the ATP ranking by winning series of futures is not possible now.

Siddharth Rawat and Manish Sureshkumar are playing couple of $25K's in Kazakhstan in next couple of weeks.

[Dinesh]

Main Draw Round 1:

Kunal ANAND (749 IR) vs Li-Wei TAN (TPE,797 IR)
Suraj PRABODH (655) vs Guy Orly IRADUKUNDA (BDI,620)
[3] Arjun KADHE (393) vs [q] Hugo LARGO (ESP, 912 IR)

Arjun is the top seed in doubles with Austrian Maximilian Neuchrist.

[Dinesh]

Poor performances from our players except for Arjun (who, being the top seed in doubles lost the QF).

ROund 1:
Li-Wei TAN (TPE) 6-2 6-2 Kunal ANAND (IND)
Guy Orly IRADUKUNDA (BDI) 7-5 6-4 Suraj R PRABODH (IND)
Arjun KADHE (IND) [3] 6-4 6-3 Hugo LARGO (ESP)

Round 2:
Arjun KADHE (IND,393) [3] 6-2 6-2 Guy Orly IRADUKUNDA (BDI,620)

Arjun plays Zimbabwean Benjamin Lock in the QF.

[sameerph]

Arjun takes his appointed place in the SF.

[QF] (3) Arjun KADHE (IND,393) d. (6) Benjamin LOCK (ZIM,548) 63 36 76(4)

Next,

[SF] (3) Arjun KADHE (IND,393) vs. (2) Sadio DOUMBIA (FRA,389)

[PKBasu]

Arjun lost the semifinal 67(5) 67(0).

[sameerph]

Arjun did drop his serve in the match but overall Doumbia had better stats in the sets which finally reflected in him winning the 2 tie breaks.

Arjun gets only 1 ATP point here for reaching the SF. He gets 67 ITF points which will get his ITF ranking to around 230. Of course, he needs to get that ITF ranking into top 50 to get into challenger main draws thru that route.

[sameerph]

Disappointing week this in Nigeria.

R1
Danylo KALENICHENKO (UKR) 6-4 7-5 Suraj R PRABODH (IND)
Dominik PALAN (CZE) 6-3 3-6 6-3 Arjun KADHE (IND) [3]
Kunal ANAND (IND) 6-0 6-0 Uche OPARAOJI (NGR)
Dan ADDED (FRA) 6-3 6-1 N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND

R2

Tom JOMBY (FRA) [4] 6-3 6-4 Kunal ANAND (IND)