$15K ITF futures, Mumbai (Jan 10)

[jayakris]

Here is the entry list -

1 SHERWOOD, David GBR 289
2 SUGIYAMA, Norikazu JPN 350
3 MANKAD, Harsh IND 360
4 KHAN, Aqeel PAK 363
5 SIPAEYA, Sunil-Kumar IND 369
6 VALTZER, Dekel ISR 489
7 KANNAN, Vijay IND 514
8 KWON, Chris USA 525 1
9 KROTIOUK, Sergei RUS 662
10 KRAVCHUK, Konstantin RUS 705
11 COOK, Lester USA 752
12 INOYATOV, Murad UZB 822
13 OUVAROV, Michael GBR 845 2
14 ISTOMIN, Denis UZB 858=
15 SHOKOOFI, Ashkan IRI 885
16 HASSANI-NAFEZ, Shahab IRI 962=
17 EGGER, Markus AUT 966=
18 SHAHGHOLI, Anoosha IRI 988=
19 RASTOGI, Karan IND 1005=
20 SADOVNIK, Dori ISR 1036=

Alternates

21 KAMRAN, Rozbeh IRI 1082=
22 YU, Hiu-Tung HKG 1082=
23 SCHEIDWEILER, Mike LUX 1100= 1
24 $ QAMAR, Nomi PAK 1119=
25 IVANOV, Dmitry UZB 1143= 1
26 SYED, Rahil IND 1143=
27 ABRAMOVICH, Omer ISR 1179=
28 SHARAN, Divij IND 1197=
29 $ SIBILLA, Mark FRA 1197= 1
30 $ WONG, Wing-Luen "Wayne" HKG 1232=
31 DO, Minh-Quan VIE 1272=
32 NIJAKI, Jakub POL 1272= 2
33 CHEEMA, Wasif PAK 1304=
34 WALIA, Varun IND 1304=
35 TAHERI, Akbar IRI 1349=
36 WIESLER, Andre GER 1463= 4
37 SHITRIT, Matan ISR 1463= 1
38 NATHAN, Kris USA 1463= 4
39 MOHAZEBNIA, Mohammed IRI 1463=
40 MORRIS, Simon GBR 1463= 5
41 SI, Yew-Ming MAS 1463=
42 LE, Quoc-Khanh VIE 1463=
43 $ MISHRA, Shivang IND 1463=
44 OCADLIK, Miroslav CZE 1463= 2

Unexpectedly poor entry list. Hope Harsh, Sunil, Vijay, Karan, etc come through big (and hoping once again that somebody would kidnap ArunPrakash from somewhere, take him to Mumbai and force a wildcard down his throat! ) .. What happened to Ajay, Vishal, Vishal?? ..

Jay

[jayakris]

Lester Cook is a really good player. My dark horse pick there, along with of course Karan.

Jay

[jaydeep]

Yes surprising absentees of Ajay, Uppal and Kannan ... R they playing somewhere else at that time??? Harh should use this opportunity to gain some points and winner cheque ... For me dangerous players in Indian conditions r Aqueel Khan and Norikazu Sugiyama ... But offcourse with Harsh, Karan is my hot pick ...

Jaydeep.

[jayakris]

No news for a while. I will try to get in touch with RB soon .. Jay

[gvhvhg]

uh-oh...watch out for aqeel!!!

[sramu]

My news is that Rohan is planning to restart in Feb 2005 - even though he will start practice / training in Jan.

[jaydeep]

Great SRAMU ... That means Rohan's rehab already begins ... It would be interesting to see his progress after so long lay off from professional tennis.

Jaydeep.

[sramu]

I think some of the players goofed as there was Christmas week in between and the entry deadline was one week earlier than usual. Now they have to look for wild cards or play qualies.

[PKBasu]

Ajay, Vishal Uppal, Vinod Sridhar, Mustafa all seem to have missed the deadline or something. It's ridiculous that they are missing this event. Especially Ajay, as he seems to be in terrific form at the moment.
Nice opportunity for Karan to pick up some points before the Rotterdam qualifiers.

[sramu]

I am sure they would have asked for wild cards or they will play qualies. As said earlier, they must have missed because of change in entry deadline.

[PKBasu]

It's good that this is a 15K event. I hope they'll make it a $15K+H event, and boost the players point-possibilities further...

[jayakris]

On current form, I would think Harsh is the one to beat at this tournament.

Jay

[jaydeep]

Yes Jay definetly Harsh is player to watch in this futures ... And everybody will hoping to not meet him in first few rounds.

Jaydeep.