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Re: Indian Origin Players Thread

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Some people are rating him at top 40 potential

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Govind Nanda was a finalist at the Calgary Challenger. Appears like another one to watch out for.
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ericcw wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 1:34 pm Govind Nanda was a finalist at the Calgary Challenger. Appears like another one to watch out for.
Govind Nanda has been quite good and has been ranked at a high of 339 a couple of years back Had disappeared after probably out due to injury. Now he seems to be back.

Govind Nanda will play Nishesh in first round of this week's challenger at Sioux Falls.
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Nanda beat Basavareddy quite handily today.
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Sanjay wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 12:37 am Nanda beat Basavareddy quite handily today.
That was quite a surprise. I thought he would get shellacked by Nishesh.
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jayakris wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 6:28 am
Sanjay wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 12:37 am Nanda beat Basavareddy quite handily today.
That was quit a surprise. I thought he would get shellacked by Nishesh.
They have one H2H match which Nishesh won quite easily. I think it was Stanford vs UCLA context.

I think Nishesh just was having an off day.
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Nishesh Basavareddy defeated College Tennis No. 1 Eliot Spizzirri in straight sets. Incredible feat as Eliot had qualified into the US Open this year with a win over the prodigy J Fonseca
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Nishesh has beaten Spizziri several times already including in the recent challenger final and in a college tennis spring nationals final. While he is a top ranked collegiate player, Spizziri isn't a player with big weapons, so is having trouble winning on the pro tour. Going back to old college comparisons, he is more Somdev (but not as good) and less Kevin Anderson or John Isner.
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Nishesh Basavareddy won his match against Patrick Zahraj with a bagel. This boy is having Sumit like domination at the Challenger level.

He might be able to make it to top 100 in a couple of years. Promising signs.
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Nishesh Basavareddy (USA, 197) plays Q-Chris Rodesch (LUX, 416) in the QF (about 3 hours from now).
Rodesch beat 8-Paul Jubb (GBR, 180) in the last-16. He seems to have a big serve (11 aces in the previous round).
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For the record, the above discussion is on Nishesh's matches at the ATP Challenger 75 in Charlottesville, VA, USA... Mod, Jay
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Yes, and Somdev DevVarman was a finalist (runner-up) at the Charlottesville, VA Challenger 15 years ago.
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Nishesh won his match in a slugfest in the 3rd set tie breaker
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Just looked at his profile - 7th challenger semis from his last 12 Challengers.

All of them are in USA though. Wonder if he will play some tourneys outside USA next year.
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^^^ Hope he does as he isn't apparently going back to Stanford, so will play more of a professional's schedule next year. BTW, his UTR of 14.68 is higher than Sumit (14.61) right now. The guy he beat Rodesch has a pretty big game and finished in the College top 10 each of the last 2 years. His UTR of 14.18 is quite a bit higher than RamK for example.
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