India National Thread

[Dolby 739]

Kashyap has withdrawn from India Superseries as he has not recovered fully. With this, his chances of qualifying for Rio are almost over. 

[Suneet 16]

  On 3/27/2016 at 6:38 PM, 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Kashyap has withdrawn from India Superseries as he has not recovered fully.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. 

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How are Prannoy's chances of getting into the top 16?

[Suneet 16]

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? 

[nitinsanker 202]

  On 3/27/2016 at 7:03 PM, Suneet said:

How are Prannoy's chances of getting into the top 16?

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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

[Suneet 16]

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! 

[gvaisakh 23]

  On 3/27/2016 at 7:51 AM, 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?

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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

[gvaisakh 23]

  On 3/27/2016 at 8:00 AM, 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

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[gvaisakh 23]

  On 3/27/2016 at 8:02 AM, Harsh Shah said:

How many medals are all expecting at the Olympics... Those who have a genuine real chance of stepping upon the podium?

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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 4]

  On 3/28/2016 at 7:08 AM, 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

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Sounds cool

[gvaisakh 23]

  On 3/27/2016 at 7:51 AM, 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?

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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