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Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 10:04 am
by suresh
18 year old Manish Sureshkumar wins his first professional title at the US$ 15K event in Colombo. He was seeded fifth in the event. The complete results for this week are as follows.

At $15K Sri Lanka F3 Futures 2018, Colombo

[R1] (5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt Sharmal Dissanayake (SRI,1347) 60 retd.
[R2] (5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt Diego Matos (BRA,1980) 61 76(2)
[QF] (5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt (3) Michal Dembek (POL,667) 63 63
[SF] (5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND,1098) 36 64 64

Singles Final
(5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt (6) Vladyslav Orlov (UKR,863) 76(6) 06 61

He is expected to the enter the top 600 from his current ranking of 732 and will also be one of the top 10 Indian players.

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 12:30 pm
by jayakris
This was a breakthrough tour for Manish in Sri Lanka. With the upset of the third seed and the win against the 6th seed, he also showed that a top-600 ranking will be legit too. These weren't the toughest three futures, but not the cheapest ones either. His upcoming top-600 ranking would have made him a third seed in the three events -- so 34 points from the sequence, which seems to be the most points by anybody in the field, is a job very well done!

He will also be top-10 in the world among under-19 players in the world, in a couple of weeks. It's all very positive. He needs to keep the momentum going, and work even harder to go further up. He will need to serve a few more aces than he did this week, for instance (he served only 3 aces in the 5 matches, though he had only 8 double faults, which means he was pretty steady). The second serve winning percentage was 36% in the upset of the third seed earlier, and 44% today against the 6th seed, but 60% or more against the three other easier opponents. Those are the kind of things I look at, to see how effective the serve might be. One just cannot live without a good one these days, in the upper levels of ATP. I have not seen him play, to know what kind of a serve he has, but I guess he will have to make it stronger without losing accuracy.

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 12:58 pm
by sameerph
Thanks Suresh for doing the honours for opening a thread for your namesake. Hope this thread goes long. Any idea who is coaching Manish ?

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 6:40 pm
by jaydeep
Thanks Suresh for starting this well deserving thread for Manish ... I have updated scores in your first post, hope you don't mind.
I think, he trains at Nvk Tennis Academy and his coach is listed as Sureshkumar (his father?).

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:10 pm
by Sin Hombre
Glad that Manish won his first title and breaks into the top 600. Up to #22 on 99 borns and later, and 3rd amongst the Asians!

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 1:33 am
by suresh
Thanks Jaydeep for editing my post.

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 4:48 am
by vatsal323
sameerph wrote: Sat Jun 30, 2018 12:58 pm Thanks Suresh for doing the honours for opening a thread for your namesake. Hope this thread goes long. Any idea who is coaching Manish ?
Manish is coached by Suresh Kumar Sir in Chennai.

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:30 am
by sameerph
Thanks, Vatsal. I hope he also gets to train at some academy abroad like RamK did early on if he has good financial support.

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 1:34 pm
by PKBasu
Vatsal, any idea whether Mr Sureshkumar (the father) was a tennis player or trained coach himself?

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 1:49 pm
by Kevin
PKBasu wrote: Mon Jul 02, 2018 1:34 pm Vatsal, any idea whether Mr Sureshkumar (the father) was a tennis player or trained coach himself?
PKB, Coach Suresh Kumar is not Manish’s father. He has been coaching in chennai for more than 20 years.

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:00 am
by sameerph
Manish turns 19 today and is ranked at a career high ranking of #552. Last week, he was ranked #11 in those below 19 years. Now, of course he is outside top 20 for those under 20 years. Hopefully, over the next year he regains his position. For that he will have have to aim for top 300 in next 1 year which is a big step to take. Hope he takes that step to stay on course to be our potential next top 100-150 player.

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2018 4:43 pm
by sameerph
Manish won the Premjit Lal invitational tennis tournament in Kolkata.

These are the results of this tournament -

Singles (final): Manish Sureshkumar bt Arjun Kadhe 6-3, 6-4;

Semifinals: Manish Sureshkumar bt Saketh Myneni 1-6, 6-2, 6-2; Arjun Kadhe bt Vijay Sundar Prashanth 2-6, 6-2, 6-1.

Quarterfinals: Saketh Myneni bt Purav Raja 6-4, 6-2; Manish Sueshkumar bt Vishnu Vardhan 6-1, 6-1; Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Sidharth Rawat 6-3, 6-4; Arjun Kadhe bt Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-3, 6-4.

This was just a invitational event but still good wins by Manish against Vishnu, Saketh and Arjun here. Hopefully, Manish will take a leap to being a challenger level player.

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:10 pm
by arjun2761
Nice wins by Manish! Hopefully, he has a breakout year in 2019. He is still young, so the ceiling on him is still pretty high...

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 3:21 am
by PKBasu
Those are very impressive wins by Manish, particularly beating Saketh Myneni in the SF and Arjun Kadhe in straight sets in the final.

Re: Manish Sureshkumar

Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:05 pm
by Dinesh
Manish upsets former top-80 ATP player Marsel Ilhan at the $25K Thailand ITF this week.

M25 Nonthaburi, Thailand

1st Round
Alexander CRNOKRAK (AUS) 6-3 6-2 Sidharth RAWAT (IND) [6]
Naoki TAJIMA (JPN) 6-4 4-6 6-1 Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND)
Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND) [8] 4-6 6-3 6-3 Kunal ANAND (IND)
Abhinav Sanjeev SHANMUGAM (IND) 7-6(2) 6-3 Emiliano MAGGIOLI (ITA)
Arjun KADHE (IND) [2] 6-3 2-6 6-4 Kasidit SAMREJ (THA)

2nd Round
Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND) [8] 6-3 6-4 Abhinav Sanjeev SHANMUGAM (IND)
Vladyslav ORLOV (UKR) 6-2 7-6(7) Arjun KADHE (IND) [2]

Quarterfinal
Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND) [8] 3-6 6-4 6-1 Marsel ILHAN (TUR)

Semifinal

Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND,590) [8] vs Vladyslav ORLOV (UKR,266 ITF)