Dolby 731 Posted March 27, 2016 #211 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Kashyap has withdrawn from India Superseries as he has not recovered fully. With this, his chances of qualifying for Rio are almost over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suneet 16 Posted March 27, 2016 #212 Share Posted March 27, 2016 24 minutes ago, Dolby said: Kashyap has withdrawn from India Superseries as he has not recovered fully. With this, his chances of qualifying for Rio are almost over. How are Prannoy's chances of getting into the top 16? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suneet 16 Posted March 27, 2016 #213 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Anand, with white pieces, draws against Anish Giri, the draw machine (13 games, 13 draws). With this his chances to qualify for the World Championship have shrunk to 0 as Karjakin and Caruana are both 0.5 points ahead and play each other in the final round tomorrow. Even if Anand with black pieces manages to beat Peter Svidler (another Russian, like Karjakin. Event happening in Moscow too) he would still require a draw between Karjakin and Caruana to level on points. From what I understand, in this case they would be separated according to head to head and Caruana would win in that scenario. Do we expect a big announcement tomorrow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitinsanker 202 Posted March 28, 2016 #214 Share Posted March 28, 2016 (edited) 10 hours ago, Suneet said: How are Prannoy's chances of getting into the top 16? Actually in the race to Rio MS Kidambi has 50000 pts right now and even if he fails in all tournaments in the next 2 months he would reach rio in the top 16 . actually five Indians have a theoretical chance ........Taking only the tournaments from last may into account -> Ajay has 40000 pts , Kashyap 38000, Prannoy 37000 pts , Sai 36000 and Sameer 35000 ( this is approx ) ...................... they would need to increase their scores to approx 50000 by April end to be on the safe side and finish in the top 16 ....... There are just 4 major tournaments left ................. Indian and Singapore Superseries and the Malaysian Superseries premier and there is the badminton asia open individual ( carrying the same points as a super series ) and fifth not with the same points is the china masters ( grand prix gold ) World Ranking Points Table Rounds BWF Events(BWF World WCH & OG) BWF Superseries Finals & Premier Super series Grand Prix Gold Grand Prix Intl Challenge Intl Series Future Series Winner 12000 11000 9200 7000 5500 4000 2500 1700 Runner up 10200 9350 7800 5950 4680 3400 2130 1420 *3/4 8400 7700 6420 4900 3850 2800 1750 1170 5/8 6600 6050 5040 3850 3030 2200 1370 920 9/16 4800 4320 3600 2720 2110 1520 920 600 17/32 3000 2660 2220 1670 1290 920 550 350 33/64 1200 1060 880 660 510 360 210 130 65/128 600 520 430 320 240 170 100 60 129/256 240 170 130 100 70 40 20 257/512 120 80 60 45 30 20 10 513/1024 60 40 30 30 20 10 5 so for ajay to make it he needs to be in the semi-s of two of the first 4 tournaments to be in with a shot .................... presumably if he reaches the quarters of 3 of the 4 the will be in with a shot .... for kashyap/ prannoy the job is just the same almost except that they need to reach an extra quarter ( Kashyap not playing in the Indian superseries makes his job more difficult but not impossible ) ....so Ajay and Prannoy have a chance but they need to reach at least the quarters of the Indian Open to retain this chance Sai and Sameer have a long shot they would probably need to win a major title of these to be in with a chance ( also since they are coming through qualifiers ) this makes their task almost impossible Edited March 28, 2016 by nitinsanker gvaisakh and Suneet 2 strength does not come from physical capacity but from an indomitable will. - Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suneet 16 Posted March 28, 2016 #215 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Thanks for the info. 2 men's singles players into the olympics would be a great achievement for the sport in India. Hope our men do it. Indian Superseries is very important. Hope one of our players wins it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvaisakh 23 Posted March 28, 2016 Author #216 Share Posted March 28, 2016 23 hours ago, Suneet said: I do believe that Leander Paes is the best mixed doubles player we have right now. Due to his ageing body, he may not be as good in men's doubles but he plays mixed doubles absolutely brilliantly as can be seen in the recent results. However, as you say if they don't have any chance of qualification, then there is no point of a debate and if Sania is going to play with Bopanna for the Olympics, she has to partner him at the French Open and Wimbledon. There is no winning partnership (unlike Paes who is going strong with Martina Hingis) that they need to break for this. However, in the recent past, I read an interview of Paes where he was very optimistic about playing mixed doubles at the Olympics. His ranking at that point was still not good enough so why make such statements? Is there any other way he thinks he can partner Sania in the mixed doubles? In the past Olympics, Paes was in top 10 in Men's Doubles (infact the best Indian doubles player) and hence was able to form a team without any issue. But the current situation is completely different with Paes ranked 61st & Bopanna 11th. Maybe, Paes must be optimistic that he can improve the rankings in next 2 months. Right now, I see him playing only Men's Doubles with Bopanna and Sania partnering Bopanna in XD.. I have a feeling that India might not field a Women's Doubles team so that Sania can solely focus on XD unless Ankita Raina improves by huge margin (break into top 150 or 200 in singles ranking, current singles rank is 281) or Prarthana Thonbare (break into top 125 in doubles ranking, current doubles rank is 228 - improved 30 places in last week) in next 2 months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvaisakh 23 Posted March 28, 2016 Author #217 Share Posted March 28, 2016 23 hours ago, Prashanth said: Indian women play an international Ice Hockey Tournament....Indian Goaltender awarded best goaltender of the tournament... http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=10496&cHash=30d8ffb9be7b7d65f962567372a04d1a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvaisakh 23 Posted March 28, 2016 Author #218 Share Posted March 28, 2016 (edited) 23 hours ago, Harsh Shah said: How many medals are all expecting at the Olympics... Those who have a genuine real chance of stepping upon the podium? It's too early to discuss.. The goal should be to improve the last time of 6 medals and secure atleast 2 gold medals (India has never won 2 gold medals in single Olympics) Just like we did in 2012, we will be doing complete analysis of each & every India athlete going to Rio in June/July once Indian NOC & other NOCs have announced the respective teams Edited March 28, 2016 by gvaisakh Harsh Shah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harsh Shah 4 Posted March 28, 2016 #219 Share Posted March 28, 2016 2 minutes ago, gvaisakh said: It's too early to discuss.. The goal should be to improve the last time of 6 medals and secure atleast 2 gold medals (India has never won 2 gold medals in single Olympics) Just like we did in 2012, we will be doing complete analysis of each & every India athlete going to Rio in June/July once Indian NOC & other NOCs have announced the respective teams Sounds cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvaisakh 23 Posted March 28, 2016 Author #220 Share Posted March 28, 2016 23 hours ago, Suneet said: I do believe that Leander Paes is the best mixed doubles player we have right now. Due to his ageing body, he may not be as good in men's doubles but he plays mixed doubles absolutely brilliantly as can be seen in the recent results. However, as you say if they don't have any chance of qualification, then there is no point of a debate and if Sania is going to play with Bopanna for the Olympics, she has to partner him at the French Open and Wimbledon. There is no winning partnership (unlike Paes who is going strong with Martina Hingis) that they need to break for this. However, in the recent past, I read an interview of Paes where he was very optimistic about playing mixed doubles at the Olympics. His ranking at that point was still not good enough so why make such statements? Is there any other way he thinks he can partner Sania in the mixed doubles? Since XD performance is not considered for rankkings, I completely agree with your point about Sania partnering with Bopanna/Paes in French Open & Wimbledon. But AITA must announce the possible team by April end or May 1st week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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