Re: ATP/ITF/WTA tournament calendar updates

[Dinesh]

Such a packed schedule. Really hope players like Sahaja and SRB take advantage of these events to improve their rankings to be as close to the slam qualifying cut.

[PKBasu]

2 more womens tournaments added in end February/March.

This is the updated calendar for next couple of months-

Jan 6- ITF M25 Bhopal ( ongoing)
Jan 13- ITF M25 Chennai
Jan 13- ITF W50 New Delhi
Jan 20- ITF W100 Bengaluru
Jan 27- ITF W75 Pune
Feb 3- WTA 125 Mumbai
Feb. 3 - ATP challenger 100 Chennai
Feb. 10- ATP challenger 100 New Delhi
Feb. 17 - ATP challenger 100 Pune
Feb. 24- ATP challenger 125 Bengaluru
Feb. 24- ITF W50 Ahmedabad
March 3- ITF W35 Gurugram

Terrible start this week, with just 1 Indian making it to R2 in the New Delhi W50, and 1 Indian making the QF of the M25 in Chennai. I hope this week proves an aberration, and the Indian contingent does far better in the rest of January and February.
Maybe 15 year old Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi can start playing from the W75 in Pune onwards, and give us some fresh hope.

[sameerph]

Terrible start this week, with just 1 Indian making it to R2 in the New Delhi W50, and 1 Indian making the QF of the M25 in Chennai. I hope this week proves an aberration, and the Indian contingent does far better in the rest of January and February.

I doubt this will happen. This week in both men and women is the lowest level tournament our players will be playing in this series. It will get only tougher from here, from next week onwards in women and for February challengers for men none of the Indians will even directly make the main draw and as wild cards will be the lowest ranked players in the draw. I will be happy to be proven wrong.

[Dinesh]

^^^ yes, there’s nothing new to see here. These results are on par with the level of our players compared to the competition. Perhaps, Sahaja will save us with a rare win or two.

[ericcw]

I think Shrivalli will also win. On her day, she can defeat most players in the world. Problem is the consistency. But if it's her day, no player can stop her.

[sameerph]

Updated 3 mens tournaments added in March-

Jan 27- ITF W75 Pune (ongoing)
Feb 3- WTA 125 Mumbai
Feb. 3 - ATP challenger 100 Chennai
Feb. 10- ATP challenger 100 New Delhi
Feb. 17 - ATP challenger 100 Pune
Feb. 24- ATP challenger 125 Bengaluru
Feb. 24- ITF W50 Ahmedabad
March 3- ITF W35 Gurugram
March 10- ITF M15 Chandigarh
March 17- ITF M15 Ahmedabad
March 24- ITF M25 Ahmedabad


I think this may be end of our tournament cycle for a while as usually our tournament cycle runs from October to March only.

[jayakris]

Kolkata has sadly gone off the pro event calendar for ever... It is sad that the South Club does not hold even an M15 anymore.

[sameerph]

Yes, Kolkata and even Hyderabad has stopped hosting. The 2 cities which has hosted big events in the past.

In fact in eastern part of the country, I see only Bhubaneswar hosting some futures, nobody else. In West, Maharashtra and now Gujarat too is quite good, Indore and Bhopal host some futures, but nothing at all in Rajasthan ( I think Jaipur used to host some in the past).
In South, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are good. But, nothing in Andhra, Telangana and Kerala too.
In North, Delhi, Chandigarh and Gurugram.

So, big states missing are West Bengal, Rajasthan, Andhra, Telangana and Kerala.

[prasen9]

WB had a good tennis culture. Maybe now, it has a table tennis culture. Cheaper sport. Easier on the body I suppose.

[pancakesdonuts]

https://www.thehindu.com/sport/tennis/a ... 197073.ece

[jayakris]

Good to know that VA is on top of this and trying to bring an ATP event to India.

[pancakesdonuts]

WTA 250 Chennai is back in October.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/ ... in-october