So Ram finally listens to the Jakarta option albeit 6 months later and enters Jakarta M25 next week after Chennai Futures.Rajiv wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 5:41 amFor a ranking which is in free fall ITF's are a safe quick fix medicine to address that problem immediately and stop the situation from further deteriorating which I was after him to enter the futures last year in USA at which even Prajnesh also was playing but didn't
Few months later in Oct forced and made sure he entered Jakarta +India futures to maximize 60 points which were on offer at these futures, and Jakarta was no visa issue as visa is on arrival but like Mysuru withdrew at the last moment
Not only it helps with valuable points but gets you the all important confidence back again after notching few victories and Somdev did it , Prakash did it and now even Donskoy a former top 100, too is now heavily embroiled in the Futures tour .
Even if he musters upto 20 odd points one that could get him near about to 350/360 level which in turn can prove lucky to get in as a last minute entry for the quali spot for the Challengers or even ATP if you are on the site and no other option is available for the tournament ,and this is stop gap approach of trying to be lucky seems to be the best option in view of that his rankings wont even allow him to get into a qualies acceptance entry list and hopefully this get lucky approach should give him a glimmer of hope for the UK Grass court Challengers