The Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is finally showing the world, especially America, what they are made of. The President of the Glorious Nation makes a joke about women every year, I think on International Women's Day. Methinks those jokes have spurred these hordes of Khazakhi women/girls to make benefit by beating up and eating up hapless, haggard, and sometimes hopeless Indian kids to show the world what they are made of: heavy steel.
More seriously, the billionaire Bulat Utemuratov has tried to make Khazakhstan into a tennis nation. Maybe his efforts are paying dividends. How many of these are imports though a la Rybakina?
Bulat and Borat make Khazkhstan great again!
ITF Junior circuit 2023 India
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Re: ITF Junior circuit 2023 India
^^^ 
4 of the 5 Kazakh girls won the QFs at the Dehradun J30. The two Indians and the Indian American Aanya Choubey could not win even a set. On the boys' side Vihan keeps on trucking. A double bagel over qualifier Keshav Goel today. I mean, it is unfair for 16 year olds to have to play 13 year olds like this ... All four semifinalists are Indians.
4 of the 5 Kazakh girls won the QFs at the Dehradun J30. The two Indians and the Indian American Aanya Choubey could not win even a set. On the boys' side Vihan keeps on trucking. A double bagel over qualifier Keshav Goel today. I mean, it is unfair for 16 year olds to have to play 13 year olds like this
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J30s are the lowest level junior tournament now, it seems. The equivalent of what used to be called a G5 junior tournament (can Sameer or someone else confirm that my understanding is correct?).
The only reason we should be a bit interested is because there is a 13 year old Vihaan Reddy (#1177j) and a 14 year old 3rd seed Samarth Sahita (943j) playing in the singles SF, respectively against 16 year olds Q-Kashit Nagrale (UNR, hence perhaps playing his first tournament) and 7-Fateh Singh (#1083j).
The only reason we should be a bit interested is because there is a 13 year old Vihaan Reddy (#1177j) and a 14 year old 3rd seed Samarth Sahita (943j) playing in the singles SF, respectively against 16 year olds Q-Kashit Nagrale (UNR, hence perhaps playing his first tournament) and 7-Fateh Singh (#1083j).
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Yes, J30 is J5. J60 is J4, J100 is J3, J200 is J2, J300 is J1. Basically the finals points itself is used for the grade now. J500 is Grade A, grand slams at 1000 pts.
PKB, look above, there is a good discussion of Vihan in the previous 2 pages from this post onward. Basically a kid who grew up in America, who is very high (like #1 in in his age group) in the USTA rankings. We are unsure if he will play under Indian colors later, but he seems bound to be among the highest ranked in his age group pretty soon.
PKB, look above, there is a good discussion of Vihan in the previous 2 pages from this post onward. Basically a kid who grew up in America, who is very high (like #1 in in his age group) in the USTA rankings. We are unsure if he will play under Indian colors later, but he seems bound to be among the highest ranked in his age group pretty soon.
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Vihaan thrashed another qualifier Kashit Nagrole 61 61. Up in the final against 7th seed Fateh Singh who beat third seed Samarth Sahita.
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13 year old Vihaan Reddy is clearly a huge talent. If AITA had any sense, they would reach out to him, and urge him to keep his Indian passport and turn out for India. He and Manas could indeed be a formidable pairing for India -- a la Shapovalov and Auger-Aliassime for Canada. (OK, I know I'm getting a bit ahead of myself... ).
I know so many kids like this who have mixed-up identities and nationalities. A good friend's son, Sahil Prakash, has been brought up in Singapore by parents whose hearts are deeply Indian (and Sahil himself sees himself as Indian). But he happened to be born in the US, and so has "USA" as his country of representation -- while playing in Singapore and neighbouring country tournaments mainly. He could beat me when he was 13, and clearly was a great talent at 15, but his mother wants him to focus on studies, so he can't give much time to his tennis game -- which has deteriorated a bit as a result. He doesn't get as many wildcards as he would if he had a Singapore passport, and of course he gets no help in India (and hasn't played any tournaments in India yet either). And he hasn't played in the US either, despite that passport. Falling between stools a bit...
). I know so many kids like this who have mixed-up identities and nationalities. A good friend's son, Sahil Prakash, has been brought up in Singapore by parents whose hearts are deeply Indian (and Sahil himself sees himself as Indian). But he happened to be born in the US, and so has "USA" as his country of representation -- while playing in Singapore and neighbouring country tournaments mainly. He could beat me when he was 13, and clearly was a great talent at 15, but his mother wants him to focus on studies, so he can't give much time to his tennis game -- which has deteriorated a bit as a result. He doesn't get as many wildcards as he would if he had a Singapore passport, and of course he gets no help in India (and hasn't played any tournaments in India yet either). And he hasn't played in the US either, despite that passport. Falling between stools a bit...
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Never had any doubt about this result. Vihaan Reddy beat 16 year old Yash Singh 64 62 in the final. Did not drop a set this week. Won first 2 tournaments he played in ITF juniors at 13. He is clearly a special talent. Remains to be seen if he plays for India when time comes for him to choose.
As per article from Kamesh, he will play only these 2 tournaments in this series and then move to US for Easter Bowl- under 14 ( and maybe under 16 event).
As per article from Kamesh, he will play only these 2 tournaments in this series and then move to US for Easter Bowl- under 14 ( and maybe under 16 event).
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True. It was about as sure a title as I have ever felt for anybody in a tennis event. For you and I to feel that in just the second tournament of a thirteen year old kid, is something amazing, isn't it? The kid was unranked last week but, he will be around top-800 in the world and in the Indian top-25 junior rankings on Monday. The youngest in that list with everybody else but Manas being 2 to 4 years older.