Roland Garros (French Open) 2014 - Clay

[prashanthm]

Only Somdev will be in the Men's Singles main draw...
Yuki has withdrawn from the Qualifying and none of the other players seem to have any chance of getting into the Qualifiers... Saketh would have had an outside chance, but he withdrew as well...

On the doubles side only Bopanna, with Aisam, will have entry into the Men's Doubles Main draw...
Lee out with personal issues and possibly because Radek isn't at the FO...
Mahesh not playing here, but will end his career at the Big W...
Divij partnering Rameez Junaid is 4 out of the Main draw... Divij's AO 2014 partner Lu is partnering Benjamin Becker...
Purav partnering Somdev is 10 out of the Main draw...
Michael Venus who partnered Yuki in AO 2014 to make his GS debut is pairing up with Ken Skupski and is in the Main draw...

Sania/Cara would be one of the Top-5 seeds in Women's doubles draw...

It'll be interesting to see whom Rohan & Sania will be partnering in the Mixed Doubles...

On the Juniors,

Sumit is way off the Qualifying cut-off...
Ojasvinee is Alt #9 for Qualifying, while Pranjala has withdrawn...

[Sathya]

Hello all, after a gap of 2 years I am posting (in fact logging in) ....

All the Best Somdev

Will Nishikori go all the way to win? I am very impressed with his recent play.

[Atithee]

Welcome back. I noticed the difference in your avatar, which I believe is a picture of your son. I remember his earlier (infant) image was one with a tilak on his forehead.

[Varma]

Welcome back, Sathya!

- Varma

[bujilover]

Somdev plays Alexander Nedovyesov .Hope he doesnt disappoint us.

[sameerph]

Yes, decent draw for Somdev at least in first round.

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,95) vs. Alexander Nedovyesov (KAZ,99)

Somdev beat Nedovyesov in Delhi challenger final in February. Since that match, Nedovyesov has won only 1 out of 8 matches he has played. This is at the same time when Somdev himself is struggling to find his form but he could not have got a better draw than this. 70 points to defend and hope he can at least win a round here to recover some of them because beyond first round draw is too tough for him.

[Prashant]

As Sameer suggests, the draw after round 1 is very difficult, because Somdev would meet Tomas Berdych [6]. Berdych is one of those players that has both weapons & consistency, and I don't see Somdev taking a set off him. But, let's hope he can win R1.

[vatsal323]

Berdych faces a qualifier in the first round. We can hope that he draws Kokkinakis and loses to him. And then Somdev can try to beat Kokkinakis. Highly optimistic.

[Ravishankar Krishnan]

Kokkinakis lost in to pavic in the way qualies.

[Prashant]

Berdych faces a qualifier in the first round. We can hope that he draws Kokkinakis and loses to him.

If Berdych loses to *any* qualifier in the first round, I will buy you a beer if I ever meet you. That's almost a post-PKB level of optimism.

[PKBasu]

what is that...?

[sameerph]

Somdev's match is first up on court 17 tomorrow. (Sunday) at 11 am local time. (2.30 pm India time).

[prasen9]

... post-PKB ...

I am speechless. That is a huge loss for the forum

[sameerph]

Somdev won the first set 75.
Is there any live stream anyone able to watch ?

[Saniapower]

not a show court