Yuki Bhambri

[Y2K]

Seems like Yuki won't be playing any clay court tournament before french open.
https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/spo ... 873511.cms

[PKBasu]

There's actually no indication in that interview that he won't play any clay tournaments before Roland Garros! Just that he plans to get there early enough to practice a lot on those courts.
Interesting factoid is that his many of his best wins over the past 9 months have been over French players -- Lucas Pouille, Gael Monfils and Nicolas Mahut...!

[vparam]

Ofcourse he will play; only reason the tournament was set up. Anything else is just smoke and mirrors.

Murray officially ruled out of the Glasgow challenger.

[bujilover]

Ofcourse he will play; only reason the tournament was set up. Anything else is just smoke and mirrors.

Murray officially ruled out of the Glasgow challenger.

And the source is here: Murray Out

[Rajiv]

After the Glasgow indoor , Looks like Yuki may be shuttling between Europe and Asia back and forth,
From Glasglow might head for the Korean Challengers and finally some clarity on his Clay court preparation which will be in Geneva before the FO.

[nitin28]

Yes yuki plans to play in geneva open starting 21st May, also he has been nominated for arjuna award by AITA.
Link for the article http://www.rediff.com/sports/report/how ... 180426.htm

[PKBasu]

Bizarre indeed that Saketh has got the Arjuna Award before Yuki (who has just been nominated for one)!

Not clear from this interview whether Yuki will actually play in Glasgow next week. The interview suggests only that he will play in Korea before going to Geneva (the latter, I think, is a good idea). It would make sense to play in Glasgow only if he is planning to stay on in Europe and play the Masters qualifiers. I'm surprised he is skipping the latter.

[sameerph]

I get a sense he may be skipping Glasgow. We will know in a day or two.

I don't know how he will play Geneva too if he goes deep in Busan Challenger the week before. He is way off the main draw entry cut off in Geneva and will need to play qualies there unless of course he has been promised a main draw wild card. Not sure if that will happen for an Indian player in an European ATP tour event.

[PKBasu]

Menstennisforum still shows Yuki as the highest-ranked entrant in the Glasgow Challenger (which still seems a good one to play at to earn big points in a relatively weak field). But he is also the 3rd-ranked entrant in the Gimcheon Challenger ($50K+H) the following week and the big Busan Challenger ($150K+H) the week thereafter. There is no way he will be playing all three. May make sense to play Glasgow (and Busan, skipping Gimcheon); but if he wins the Glasgow title, he should just stay on in Europe, practice on clay and try qualifying into the Rome Masters or the Geneva ATP.

[PKBasu]

At Geneva, the lowest-ranked acceptance is Jiri Vesely (#65), so Yuki is likely to have to play the qualifiers there. This tournament starts the week before the FO (May 20th), so if Yuki is to play there he cannot be at Busan the previous week. As usual, Yuki's schedule is a mystery inside an enigma

[sameerph]

The way the cut is dropping at the ATP 250 tournaments next week, Yuki would have made the main draw at both Estoril and Istanbul ATP tournaments even with his earlier ranking of 105.
Would have been a good chance but since he entered Glasgow challenger next week, he cannot get into ATP tournaments.

[arjun2761]

I suspect Yuki will do the cross-continental shuttling only if he feels fully fit. Otherwise, it makes sense for him to simply play the KR challengers and then move to Europe (either for the French Open or for the Geneva qualifiers).

I wonder if he entered the Glasgow event because it was indoors and felt that it was an opportunity to gain easier points which isn't as necessary now. The only other way it would have made sense was if he played Glasgow and then stayed on in Europe and played the masters qualifiers. In any case, Yuki tends to do well in the Asian challengers, so the Glasgow entry doesn't make much sense if he was going to play the KR challengers also.

[vparam]

Won’t it be nice one day to not see the word Challenger when it comes to Yuki’s schedule? Hope he can permanently make the transition to the ATP tournaments!

[bujilover]

Well, a bit of surprise as Yuki has entered $50K(+H) challenger in Gimcheon,Korea in the week of May 7. He has entered this would also mean he will in all probability play the bigger $150K(+H) challenger the week after in Busan.

So, now this looks like his schedule till French open -

30 Apr - $100K Glasgow Challenger (indoor hard)
7 May - $50K(+H) Gimcheon Challenger
14 May - $150K(+H) Busan challenger
21 May - ? Either week off or play an ATP qualies in Geneva or Lyon(only if he loses early in Busan) or Mestre challenger
27 May - RG

I do not see him playing 4 straight weeks before RG. I guess he may not play Glasgow at all as he mentioned first week of May as his return date in an interview which Arjun posted earlier.

Yuki is not playing the Glasgow Challenger after all. So it looks like the 2 Korean challengers followed by Geneva Q(?) and RG.

[sameerph]

Yes, that was expected. Did not understand in the first place the logic of entering Glasgow next week if he was to play Korea challengers for subsequent 2 weeks. The decision was made before he won the Taiwan challenger and ensured his French open and Wimbledon main draws. So, probably it was to try to get some points to ensure Wimbledon main draw. But, then he could have entered $100 (+H) Seoul Challenger next week instead of Glasgow. That would have been logical sequence before 2 more Korea challengers. But, it is hard to find logic behind Yuki's scheduling as always.

Now, let us see how squeezes in Geneva between 2 Korea challengers and French open.