[Tennis] Misc. Results for Indians abroad...

[PKBasu]

[R1] Q-Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta (ITF-2093) l. [1] Dragos Nicolae Madaras (SWE,393) 16 63 36
[R1] Q-Adil Kalyanpur (IND, 1544) d. Dev Javia (IND, 1137) 75 63
[R1] Q-Rishi Reddy (IND, 1391) d. [LL] Preston Brown (USA,1545) 06 64 64
[R1] Rishab Agarwal (IND, 1003) l. [5] Oscar Moraing (GER,737) 06 26

[PKBasu]

[R2] Q-Adil Kalyanpur (IND, 1544) d. 5-Oscar Moraing (GER,737) 61 76(4)
[R2] Rishi Reddy (IND) l. 3-Martin Krumich (CZE) 63 16 26

Good job by Adil Kalyanpur in making the QF in Qatar, beating the fifth seed who had thrashed Rishab Agarwal in R1. Rishab's continuing collapse in singles is sad to see. Adil plays 4-Beibit Zhukayev (KAZ, 728) in the QF.
Partnering Preston Brown (USA), Adil Kalyanpur is also in the SF of the doubles.

[PKBasu]

Adil Kalyanpur lost the QF to the 4th seed, Beibit Zhukayev of Kazakhstan, 26 46.

He plays Zhukayev (partnering Ray Ho of Taiwan) in the doubles SF too.

[gbelday]

Rishab's continuing collapse in singles is sad to see.

Is Rishab the guy who had a long injury break. I was speaking to someone recently who knows Rishab well and he was talking about a finger injury or an injury to the web on his playing hand that kept Rishab out for a while. Unless I am confusing him for another player..

[Dinesh]

^^^ Rishab Agarwal was out between March 2020 to March 2021. Not sure if it was because of covid related lack of tournaments, or any injury.

[knarayen]

As for me, the continuing collapse of Indian tennis is sad to see. Not seeing any light at the end of a long tunnel……..


Prof

[PKBasu]

Prof, things aren't quite as bad as that. There was a time 2 decades ago (as Leander began focusing on doubles) when we were struggling to have any players in the top-200 (with our next best player, Fazaluddin, ranked in the 300s) -- until Rohan Bopanna and Harsh Mankad came along (they were ranked around 220 at their best), and Sania made her big breakthrough in 2005. Now we have 4 men (RamK, Prajnesh, Sumit, Yuki) playing the Slam qualifiers, and at least 1 woman (Ankita) doing so (with 2 others capable of breaking through to that level this year, Karman and Pranjala). It could be better, but not really disastrous. This thread focuses on the second and third string players, who struggled during the pandemic (as did most Asian tennis players) because of the dearth of tournaments in Asia. They are slowly wending their way back as well.

[sameerph]

Prof, things aren't quite as bad as that. There was a time 2 decades ago (as Leander began focusing on doubles) when we were struggling to have any players in the top-200 (with our next best player, Fazaluddin, ranked in the 300s) -- until Rohan Bopanna and Harsh Mankad came along (they were ranked around 220 at their best), and Sania made her big breakthrough in 2005. Now we have 4 men (RamK, Prajnesh, Sumit, Yuki) playing the Slam qualifiers, and at least 1 woman (Ankita) doing so (with 2 others capable of breaking through to that level this year, Karman and Pranjala). It could be better, but not really disastrous. This thread focuses on the second and third string players, who struggled during the pandemic (as did most Asian tennis players) because of the dearth of tournaments in Asia. They are slowly wending their way back as well.

I agree. Indian tennis at top level is in better shape than in 2000 decade. But, I am worried about future. Careers of Prajnesh and Yuki on mens side and Ankita on womens side is slowly winding down. After that we have only RamK and Sumit left on mens side and Karman/Pranjala will have to put aside their injury woes in women. There are not too many bright prospects coming up post Sumit. There has been a lull.

[knarayen]

Yes this is my concern, beyond RamK and Sumit. I see that lots of tennis academies have sprouted up including the one being run by Bops in Yelahanka ( just outside Bangalore). I’m not hea4ing any great news about prospects 3merging from these academies. Maybe the ITD folks are tracking these players?

[Rajiv]

Yes this is my concern, beyond RamK and Sumit. I see that lots of tennis academies have sprouted up including the one being run by Bops in Yelahanka ( just outside Bangalore). I’m not hea4ing any great news about prospects 3merging from these academies. Maybe the ITD folks are tracking these players?

Agree Prof , beyond Ram and the rest there is nothing much to be really excited about , And an Indian #1 with an ATP ranking of 185 is the lowest ATP rank we have had in the past years , and honestly about Ram I am still going to wait for next 2 -3 months and see the results if they translate in to his new found hype surrounding him at this moment.

[PKBasu]

15 year old Rushil Khosla is ranked 152 among juniors. He is supported by the Virat Kohli Foundation, and is a solid left-handed prospect. He won a J4 tournament in Kenya 2 months ago.
14 year old Manas Dhamne is ranked 464 among juniors, and is training in Europe since he was 10 or 11 years old. Very exciting prospect.
16 year old Yuvan Nandal is ranked 139 among juniors, and looks another decent prospect.

[sameerph]

Last 4 weeks lots of Indian men and women tennis players have been playing in Thailand- 4 weeks of 15K for men and 2 weeks of 25K/ 2 weeks of 15K for women. But, so far the best result by an Indian in this series was QF by Sid Rawat in second week of M15.

But, finally this week an Indian has reached the singles SF. S.D. Prajwal Dev is showing some good progress of late- reached final at India futures couple of months back. In this series he qualfied into main draw winning 3 matches and won a round in main draw in one of the weeks. This week he has beaten top seed Chinese Yan Bai and sixth seeded Japanese to reach SF.

At M15 Chiang Rai, Thailand

[R1] S.D.Prajwal Dev (IND,799) d. Connor Ferren (USA,880) 63 75
[R2] S.D.Prajwal Dev (IND,799) d. (1) Yan Bai (CHN,409) 62 67(5) 62
[QF] S.D.Prajwal Dev (IND,799) d. (6) Yuta Shimizu (JPN,539) 75 63

Next,

[SF] S.D.Prajwal Dev (IND,799) vs. Makoto Ochi (JPN,790)

[Atithee]

Those are some good wins.

[sameerph]

He lost in the SF though.

At M15 Chiang Rai, Thailand

[SF] S.D.Prajwal Dev (IND,799) l. Makoto Ochi (JPN,790) 36 63 26

[Dinesh]

Not sure if this was posted anywhere in the forum, but Dev Javia has reached the doubles finals at the M25 ITF in Croatia this week.

At M25 Osijek, Croatia

R1 Dev Javia/Lukas Pokorny (SVK) 3-6 6-4 10-6 [1] Vladyslav Orlov (UKR)/David Pichler (AUT)
QF Dev Javia/Lukas Pokorny (SVK) 7-5 6-1 Alen Moritz Hodzic (GER)/Frame Ninevic (CRO)
SF Dev Javia/Lukas Pokorny (SVK) 6-2 6-3 Simon Carr (IRL)/ Matyas Fuele (HUN)
F Dev Javia/Lukas Pokorny (SVK) versus [2] Luka Mikrut (CRO)/ Mili Poljicak (CRO)

Dev, seeded 8th in singles, lost in the second round in 3 sets.