Vishnu Vardhan thread...

[gbelday]

Sorry Jaydeep! I was just messing with you.

[jaydeep]

Hey Gautam, no problem ... No need to say sorry.

[RohitG]

Vishnu is in the entry list of the Beijing Challenger which begins on July 8.
http://www.tennisalternative.com/forum/ ... #post_1079

[PKBasu]

That is good news indeed. He needs to play more (and preferably at the Challenger level), and regain his form from a year ago.

[sameerph]

This looks to be a virtual Asian-Oceanian challenger. 17 out of 22 direct acceptances are Asians , 2 from New Zeland & 1 from Australia.There are only 2 acceptances from Europe & none from Americas ( North & South). I have never seen such sort of field dominated by 1 continent at challenger level. This one off week coming in the middle of US hard court & ongoing Euoropean clay season seems to have precluded those from US & South America in making the trip.

With such a week field , few more Indians could have made the main draw here. Unfortunately, at that point of time many Indian players would be either in US ( Somdev,Saketh, Prakash,Sanam, probably Yuki) or Europe ( Jeevan, Balaji ) . So, difficult to make such a long trip just for 1 week.

[sameerph]

Vishnu got engaged to women tennis player Sonia Dayal from Mumbai this week. He posted photos on his facebook page. Sonia was ranked top 200 in juniors & was also ranked in WTA. But, seems to have given up playing now.

Hope this brings bak luck for Vishnu in his tennis career.

[Atithee]

Far from it. In my theory, it is an admission of reaching the peak. Time will tell.

[PKBasu]

Vishnu has started a tennis business on the side, and the marriage to a fellow-tennis player should help with that. The lull in his quality of play this year is also perhaps explained by the distractions from his personal life flowering. But I hope he doesn't abandon his pro career just yet -- and instead uses this opportunity to recharge and come back stronger.

[prasen9]

I'm with Atithee on this one.

[RohitG]

I agree with PKB. He will be 26 a few weeks later and I think he should take this as an opportunity to recharge because he still can play a lot. He should solve his fitness issues. This is a nice article on atpworldtour site about Vishnu. I still feel he should take cue and be motivated for Rio and try to make it there again.
http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis ... yssey.aspx

[prasen9]

I agree with PKB. He will be 26 a few weeks later and I think he should take this as an opportunity to recharge because he still can play a lot. He should solve his fitness issues. This is a nice article on atpworldtour site about Vishnu. I still feel he should take cue and be motivated for Rio and try to make it there again.
http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis ... yssey.aspx

I do not have that much respect for those who are just happy to play in the Olympics. Tennis players worth their salt don't play for the Olympics. I do not think he will make it to the next Olympics anyway. He should work hard and get his ranking up. He is going nowhere.

[Omkara]

2013 Beijing Challenger

R1: Artem Sitak (NZL, 436) vs Vishnu Vardhan (IND)

[sameerph]

Also in doubles -

[R1] (4) Vishnu Vardhan (IND) / Hiroki Kondo (JPN) vs. Kaden Hensel (AUS) / Luke Saville (AUS)

Hope that Vishnu will do better on hard courts.

[sameerph]

Rain has badly affected the Beijing challenger. Many of the first round singles matches are completed including Vishnu's match. So, it looks most of the players will have to play 2 matches tomorrow.

They got done doubles first round matches indoors today & Vishnu won his match alongwith his partner.

At $75K Beijing Challenger, China

[R1] (4) Vishnu Vardhan (IND) / Hiroki Kondo (JPN) d. Kaden Hensel (AUS) / Luke Saville (AUS) 64 36 10-2

Next,

[QF] (4) Vishnu Vardhan (IND) / Hiroki Kondo (JPN) vs. Yu Chang (CHN) / Ze Li (CHN)

[Omkara]

It doesn't show that Vishnu's match is over