European Challengers 2022

[sameerph]

This week Jeevan-Purav and Bala are playing doubles in Turin Challenger in Italy. There will be few more of our players who will keep playing in Europe especially doubles. So, opening a common thread for these.

Both started with R1 wins.

At Turin Challenger 80, Italy (Hard)

[R1] Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) / Purav Raja (IND) d. Franco Agamenone (ITA) / Juan Pablo Fichovich (ARG) 57 62 10-1

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Antonio Sancic (CRO) d. Marco Boltolotti (ITA) / Sergio Martos Gomes (ESP) 76(4) 63

Both have tough matches against seeds later today.

[QF] Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) / Purav Raja (IND) vs (3) Sander Arends (NED) / David Pel (NED)

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Antonio Sancic (CRO) vs. (2) Roman Jebavy (CZE) / Andrea Vavassori (ITA)

[sameerph]

Both pairs lost in QF.

At Turin Challenger 80, Italy (Hard)

[QF] Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) / Purav Raja (IND) vs (3) Sander Arends (NED) / David Pel (NED) 36 46

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Antonio Sancic (CRO) l. (2) Roman Jebavy (CZE) / Andrea Vavassori (ITA) 26 46

Next week in a challenger in Italy Balaji in entered along with Divij and Jeevan with a new Polish partner.

[sameerph]

Both our pairs lost in first round this week.

At Roseto Deguli Abruzzi Challenger 80, Italy

[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND) / Divij Sharan (IND) l. (WC) Andrea Del Federico (ITA) / Giorgio Ricca ((ITA)

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) / Karol Drzewiecki (POL) l. Andrej Martin (SVK) / Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) 36 67(6)

[sameerph]

This week Divij played with a new partner but again lost in first round. But, RamK and Jeevan are playing together and upset the second seeds in first round.

At Roseto Deguli Abruzzi Challenger 80(2), Italy

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND) / Chu-Hsin Tseng (TPE) l. Andrez Martin (SVK) / Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) 76(4) 26 2-10

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) d. (2) Roman Jebavy (CZE) / Phillip Oswald (AUT) 64 67(1) 10-4

Next,

[QF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) vs. Andrez Martin (SVK) / Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT)

[arjun2761]

Ramk is an absolute terror on the doubles court. Pretty much he is winning with whoever he is playing with. I wonder if he will be our next great doubles ace (top 10/top 5 etc.)

[sameerph]

This time he lost though.

At Roseto Deguli Abruzzi Challenger 80(2), Italy

[QF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) l. Andrez Martin (SVK) / Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) 46 46

[sameerph]

Jeevan-VSP played in Croatia this week but lost in first round.

At Zadar Challenger, Croatia (Clay)

[R1] Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) / Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND) l. (4) Marco Bortolotti (ITA) / Sadio Doumbia (FRA) 26 36

[Omkara]

Can we just name this thread as Challenger 2022 and discuss all challenger matches here.....if the tournament is organised outside India

[sameerph]

I think it will become too long a thread if we discuss all challengers in one thread. If someone wants to come and check the thread later it becomes too unwieldy. So, I think we can stay with the rule that if 2 or more Indian players play in one tournaments discuss it in an appropriate thread if the tournament is one country or 1 region. If there is only 1 Indian player discuss in player thread.

Our new pairing of VSP and Aniruddh Chandrashekhar had a good start this week with an upset win.

At St. Brieuc Challenger 80, France (Hard)

[R1] N. Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND) / Aniruddh Chandrashekhar (IND) d. (4) Neil Oberleitner (AUT) / David Pichler (AUT) 57 72 10-8

Next,

[QF] N. Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND) / Aniruddh Chandrashekhar (IND) vs. Theo Arribage (FRA) / Harold Mayot (FRA)

[prasen9]

I think every tournament should have a thread. If people do not want to create new threads due to laziness that is another matter. But, otherwise, we should put the results in different threads. Personally, I do not like putting things together under European Challengers because my information need becomes something like who won Stella Artois in 2013 and if that tournament is put under Grasscourt Season or something like that then the search does not work out very well. I suppose search engines could find the name of the tournament under the thread and we can directly go to a page. Maybe it is just that I like different tournaments to be under their own thread. It just seems a bit more organized and easier to find things if we are searching manually.

[sameerph]

Ok, so we stay somewhere between your view of opening a thread for every tournament and Sumanta's of one thread for all challengers for now. Everyone is of course free to open a thread for any tournament.

At St. Brieuc Challenger 80, France (Hard)

[QF] N. Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND) / Aniruddh Chandrashekhar (IND) l. Theo Arribage (FRA) / Harold Mayot (FRA) 16 36 6-10

[jayakris]

Ok, so we stay somewhere between your view of opening a thread for every tournament and Sumanta's of one thread for all challengers for now. Everyone is of course free to open a thread for any tournament.

Sounds right! Basically what we have been following for a while. We go with a gut-feeling on when to have a combined/continuing thread and when to start a new tournament thread.

[Omkara]

Ok. Let's keep it going like we have been doing.

[sameerph]

At Rome1 Challenger 80, Italy (Red Clay)

[R1] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Sergio Martos Gomes (ESP) vs. Altuh Celikbilek (TUR) / Ergi Kirkin (TUR)

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs. (2) Jasper De Jong (NED) / Bart Stevens (NED)

[Rajiv]

Next week at Aix-en-Province France, Ram will have a brand new dbls partner in Yuki.