European Challengers 2023

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Re: European Challengers 2023

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There could be an all-Indian final in the doubles final at the Spain Challenger.
Good to see Ramkumar/Balaji making the semifinal in Biel as well.
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Unfortunately, they lost... At the Challenger 100 in Biel, SUI (Hard)

[SF] (4) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l. Victor Vlad Cornea (ROU)/ Franko Skugor (CRO), 57 36
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All-Indian doubles final at the Spanish challenger woohoo

Love watching Anirudh’s game, but I think the experienced team of Purav-D will have an edge over the talented Tamil team. May the better team win tomorrow :D
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Yes, all Indian doubles final in Spain. :D

At the Challenger 75 in Les Franqueses Del Valles, Spain (Hard)

[SF] (3) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/ Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) d. Jay Clarke (GBR)/ Lorenzo Giustino (ITA) 75 62
[SF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) d. (2) Marco Bortolotti (ITA)/ Sergio Martos Gornes (ESP) 62 76(4)
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Good win by both pairs in SF! May the better pair win tommorrow!
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Great to see an all-Indian doubles final at a Challenger in Spain! The Wimbledon doubles champion was in the doubles draw but lost early (although, as top seed in singles, he is still alive in the singles SF).
The two Indian pairs were seeded 3rd and 4th, so by definition they've done better than their seedings!
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Aniruddh/VSP win their second consecutive title playing their third consecutive challenger final after 2 India challengers.

At the Challenger 75 in Les Franqueses Del Valles, Spain (Hard)

[F] (3) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/ Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) d. (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) 75 61

Aniruddh moves to #135 and India #7, VSP enters top 150 and is India #10 now ahead of Purav.
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Happy for this kid, Anirudh. Hope he keeps learning and gets to the top-100 level this year. :goodluck:
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This week our doubles pairs are playing in 3 different challengers.

At Sanremo Challenger 125, Italy (Clay)

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) vs. (3) Roman Jebavy (CZE) / Adam Pavlasek (CZE)

At Lille Challenger 100, France (Hard)


[R1] Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/ Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs. Luke Johnson (GBR) / Sem Verbeek (NED)

[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Igor Zelenay (CZE) vs. (4) Andrew Harris (AUS) / John-Patrick Smith (AUS)

At Girona Challenger 75, Spain (Clay)

[R1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Saketh Myneni (IND) vs. Zvonivir Babic (CRO) vs. Piotr Matuszewski (POL)

[R1] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs. (WC) Eduard Esteve Lobato (ESP) / Alvaro Lopez San Martin (ESP)
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YukiSaki start out with a straight set win!
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At Sanremo Challenger 125, Italy (Clay)

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) l. (3) Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Adam Pavlasek (CZE), 36 36

At Lille Challenger 100, France (Hard)

[R1] Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/ Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) l. Luke Johnson (GBR)/ Sem Verbeek (NED), 36 16
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Igor Zelenay (CZE) d. (4) Andrew Harris (AUS)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS), 63 36 [10-3]

At Girona Challenger 75, Spain (Clay)

[R1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) d. Zvonivir Babic (CRO)/ Piotr Matuszewski (POL), 63 64
[R1] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) d. (WC) Eduard Esteve Lobato (ESP)/ Alvaro Lopez San Martin (ESP), 76(4) 63
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Re: European Challengers 2023

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That’s an impressive win for Arjun with another random partner. Hope he can build up on this upset win to gain more points this week.
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At the Lille Challenger 100, France (Hard)

[QF] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Igor Zelenay (CZE) l. Luke Johnson (GBR)/ Sem Verbeek (NED), 67(4) 46

At the Girona Challenger 75, Spain (Clay)

[QF] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) d. Orlando Luz (BRA)/ Marcelo Zormann (BRA), 46 76(5) [10-8]
[QF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Laurent Lokoli (FRA)/ Fabian Marozsan (HUN), Thursday
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€450 each for reaching qf
€740 each for reaching sf. Some costs managed
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Re: European Challengers 2023

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Purav and D gave a walkover. Wonder what is up?!

YukiSaki plays a formidable pair of Francisco Cabral/Joao Sousa in the semis. Don’t expect this to be an easy match.
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