Doha ATP 250/Dubai ATP500- February 18-March 5, 2023

[Sanjay]

Yes, it is unethical but not illegal.

[jayakris]

At the Dubai ATP500 (Hard):

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Matthew Ebden (AUS) vs (1) Nikola Mektic (CRO)/ Mate Pavic (CRO)
[R1] (WC) Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Daniel Evans (GBR)/ John Peers (AUS)

No question which team will be the favorites in Dubai. India-Pak jai jai!! .... Glad to see RamK with Aisam. Bops got a tough draw.

[rajitghosh]

The Dubai organizers have ensured the expat crowd turns up in good numbers. They should have organized a mixed doubles exhibition as a farewell for Sania where she could have played alongside our mixed doubles specialist Rohan.Heard that is happening in Hyderabad now with Rohan/Sania taking on Bethanie Matteck-Sands and Ivan Dodig. So 3 of her former partners play in her farewell match.

[prashanthm]

I hope Yuki/Saki are sticking around to see if an LL spot opens up in the Doubles draw....

[Dinesh]

^^^ Zverev played a 3 set match today and took a MTO at the end of the 2nd set. Maybe he will consider withdrawing?

[sameerph]

I hope Yuki/Saki are sticking around to see if an LL spot opens up in the Doubles draw....

LL spot opened up, in fact 2 LL spots opened up. Yuki-Saki are beginning their match against Melo and Zverev just now.

RamK-Aisam will play other LL pair of Gille and Villegen after some time.

[sameerph]

Yuki-Saki win the first set 6-3. Again important thing is to keep it going.

[sameerph]

And they complete a very good win.

Rohan and Ebden lost a close one against top seeds.

At Dubai ATP 500

[R1] (LL) Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Saketh Myneni (IND) d. Marcelo Mello (BRA) / Alexander Zverev (GER) 63 75

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Matthew Ebden (AUS) l. (1) Nikola Mektic (CRO)/ Mate Pavic (CRO) 57 64 7-10

Aisam and RamK are a break down 3-5 in first set.

[Dinesh]

Career high rankings for both Yuki (73) and Saki (74).

[jayakris]

[R1] (WC) Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l. (LL) Sander Gille (BEL)/ Joran Vliegen (BEL), 46 63 [5-10]

I think they lost 3 of 4 points off Aisam's serve in the STB and 1 of 4 from RamK. Only took one mini off the other guys, while dropping 4 on their serve. That won't do

[Dinesh]

[QF] (LL) Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Saketh Myneni (IND) vs (3) Lloyd Glasspool (GBR) / Harri Heliovaara (FIN)

[Omkara]

What a big surprise for Yuki Saki. Ever since Karan lost out on his Lucky Loser spot, I feel relieved everytime, one our player/players gets one!!!

They won >$12k for this. Plus singles qualies money. Great going.

[prashanthm]

Ha ha, what a turnaround of sorts.... Good for Yuki/Saki... It's not an easy thing to beat Melo/Zverev even if they are not regular doubles partners...

Next up against 3rd seeds, Glasspool/Heliovaara...

Sad for Ramk and Bops as their teams lost close matches in STB....

[jayakris]

Ever since Karan lost out on his Lucky Loser spot, I feel relieved everytime, one our player/players gets one!!!

Karan? You mean Karan Rastogi at the LA ATP? Man, good memory if so...

[arjun2761]

What a big surprise for Yuki Saki. Ever since Karan lost out on his Lucky Loser spot, I feel relieved everytime, one our player/players gets one!!!

They won >$12k for this. Plus singles qualies money. Great going.

Yes, around 12K each for making QF and pretty much doubles every round onwards.
https://www.perfect-tennis.com/prize-money/dubai/