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Re: Junior Circuits Abroad for Indian Kids...

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jayakris wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 6:14 pm Pranav Karthik (IND,338) is at the J60 in Les Franqueses del Valles (Spain) as the top seed.
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The second seed is a 14 year-old former US president :) #326 Jack Kennedy (USA) who is actually ranked higher than Pranav this week, after he won the J60 in Lleida, Spain,last week..
The "President" won the title there, beating another Jack (Secord), who had upset Pranav in the QF and then the American 3rd seed Keaton Hance in the SF. All four semifinalists were American boys.

Pranav beat the President in doubles though. Pranav and JinPeng Tang (CHN), seeded 3rd, won the title beating the top seeds, Jack Kennedy and Keaton Hance of USA, 76(5) 62.

Though in Spain, this was on hard courts, which is why Americans did well, and an Indian was the top seed. The Spanish kids learn hardcourt tennis only later, I guess.
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jayakris wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 3:14 pm 15 year old Kandhavel Mahalingam Akilandeshwari (IND,841) was at a J30 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, as the 4th seed and finished runner up there, losing to a Taiwanese player in 3 sets in the final. Kadhavel seems to be a good player.
Kandhavel was in the semis this week, but lost again to the same Taiwanese player, Kuan-Shou Chen.
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^^^ 15 year-old Second seed Sehaj Singh Pawar (IND,679) evened it up against the Taiwanese, by winning the Colombo J30 - beating Jheng-Min Huang of TPE, 64 64 ...

17-year old Amodini Naik, who is a little old to be playing a J30, was in the final on the girls' side in Colombo, but lost 16 16 to a Czeck qualifier, 14 year old Sofie Hettlerova playing only her second ITF junior event.
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Unseeded 15 year old Vraj Gohil was in the final at the J30 in Kampala, Uganda this week. He had upset the 3rd seeded and 5th seeded Indians on the way to th final with four straight set wins but fell to Nikita Mitrofanov of Russian, 75 46 36. Good run by Vraj who is right behind the top 3 or 4 guys from that 2007 cohort.

14 year old Shanvita Reddy Nukala, also unseeded, was in the final on the girls' side at Kampala too. She had upset the 2nd seed Sia Mahajan (IND) and a 4th seeded Tanzanian before falling 46 36 in the final, again to a Russian - the top seed Leila Akhmetova.
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sameerph wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 5:25 pm I think Yuvan has taken too long a break after that great run to the title in Thailand in March. Maybe he had some injury niggle or something.
After a bye in the R64 at the Astrid Bowl J300 in Charleroi, Belgium, Yuvan retired in the R2 at 16 25 against a wildcard, Niels Ratiu (BEL,120)... It looks really bad for any player to retire at that point. Just stand there and give the other guy a proper upset win to add to his record. That is the right sportsman spirit. One should not care about "showing it to others" that a loss was caused by an injury. That is not the mentality of a winner. A winner should not care what others think; The winner should be playing to win for himself. It is a small thing, but in the long run, these things affect a plyer's career. Yuvan is young, and may not know it -- which is when others older than him should advise him.

Every now and then, I get the feeling that Yuvan needs to get some quality coaching advice on matters beyond just plain tennis -- like against yelling obscenities on court and losing focus, which I noticed in the one match I saw on live feed last year, and against things like this retirement. Of course, I hope he was not so badly injured as to really have to retire, in which case I take back what I said.
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Only in one case it may be advisable. If you are hurt and need just immediate rest and cannot go, then. If your foot will be aggraved even by walking or rib or whatever. Or mentally, if you cannot absolutely even stand there anymore for whatever reason (typically, anxiety/panic attack, depression related). Otherwise, this is bad.
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Rethin Pranav Senthilkumar (IND,305) was at the Gdansk J60 in Poland on clay as the top seed. His first junior ITF event since the Delhi J200 in January. To suddenly play on European red clay was not going to be easy. He lost cheaply, 26 26 to 15 year old Kacper Knitter (POL,946). Bad loss.
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Our #2 junior, Krisha Mahendran (IND,176) is the second seed at the J100 in Calgary, Canada, and has reached the SF there with straight sets wins over three Canadians. She and the top seed Jessica Bernales (USA,169) are partners too, as top seeds in doubles. They have reached the SF of doubles as well.
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jayakris wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 5:35 pm Our #2 junior, Krisha Mahendran (IND,176) is the second seed at the J100 in Calgary, Canada, and has reached the SF there with straight sets wins over three Canadians. She and the top seed Jessica Bernales (USA,169) are partners too, as top seeds in doubles. They have reached the SF of doubles as well.
Krisha lost in singles final against 5th seeded Canadian Alexia Jacobs 46 57. She also lost in doubles final here.

Anyway, she will move up 10-15 spots up from her current ranking of 176 with that performance.
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Couple of titles for us on boys side in lower tier tournaments.

In J30 in Colombo, Srilanka, 16 year old Kashit Nagrale won the title. He beat second seed and last week's winner Sehaj Singh Pawar in the SF and third seed from Russia in the final

In J30 in Kampala, Uganda, 15 year old Vraj Gohil won the title. He beat the 4th seeded Egyptian in second round, 5th seeded fellow Indian in QF , a Russian in SF and a Brirish boy in 3 close sets in final. Nice to see an Indian beat a Russian and a Brit in SF and F. Vraj just played the first 2 weeks of his career in ITF juniors here in Uganda and was a finalist and a winner in these 2 week. Someone to keep an eye on.
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^^^ Yes, the Russian that Vraj Gohil beat in the SF was the winner last week at Kampala, and Vraj had lost to him in three sets in that final. He got revenge this time in 3 sets in the Semi. That is duly noted, and shows some spunk in the guy. I think he could be a good a player in that 2007 group, so let us keep an eye.

Kashit's win in Colombo was a bit of a surprise to me. He had not shown indications of that kind of results before. But it is one week. Let us see...
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16 year old Rayan Sajjid Koothrat won the J60 title at Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan. 546th ranked Rayan who was third seed won all his matches except the second round match in straight sets including 63 61 SF win over 7th seeded Uzbek who had upset top seed in QF and 75 61 win in final over 5th seeded Kazakh player.

Ryan will move close to top 400 with that title- 5th among 2007 borns behind Manas, Krish Tyagi, Hitesh Chauhan and Rethin Pranav. He will need to move up to higher level tournaments now to move up higher.
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Rayan has been sorta up and down. Has a habit of getting upset not too infrequently, but then he goes and does well in some events like this week. Not too consistent. But great to see him win the title.

Indian-American Sahana Sanjeev (Niru's daugher) won the Guatemala J60 too.
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Aditya Govil (IND,274) is the 10th seed and RethinPranav Senthilkumar (IND,309) are in the qualies at the J300 in Bamberg, Germany, on clay. Adi and 2nd seed Rohan Belday (USA,192) had Q1 byes. Rethin beat a 14 year old unranked German, Philp Koch, 60 61, and then upset Rohan, 60 62 in a second match today to reach Q3. I am going to suspect that Rohan was not well; otherwise this is a shocking upset from the scoreline!... Awaiting the score of the Aditya's Q2 match against Thomas Nicholas Gadecki (AUS,419) [Update: Adi lost 26 36. Damn.]
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jayakris wrote: Sun Jun 11, 2023 2:49 pm Rethin beat a 14 year old unranked German, Philp Koch, 60 61, and then upset Rohan, 60 62 in a second match today to reach Q3. I am going to suspect that Rohan was not well; otherwise this is a shocking upset from the scoreline!
Yes, shocking.

Btw, Rethin also played at J100 in Poland last week, beat 217th ranked Spanish player in 3 sets in first round but lost to 212th ranked Czech player in second round. Czech player went on to reach final where he lost to Indian American 98th ranked Adhithya Ganeshan in final.
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