India National Thread

[Suneet 16]

Anirban cards a 3-over par today as well and would miss the cut comfortably 

[Prashanth 176]

P Raja / Divj are making the right move and hope would be in top 90 after this week ranking Update.

[Prashanth 176]

Poor performances by A Lahiri...Not in good form for the Rio...Aditi is not yet there to challenge and SSP is too not in good shape...Nothing much can be expected from Golf in this Olympics....

 

But surely Aditi is the future of Indian Women Golf...Hope she can become the role model by doing really well Internationally....

[Joseph 0]

Davis Cupper Saketh Myneni went down with guns blazing against former world No.8 Radek Stepanek in the second and final qualifying round of the $4,691,730 Rogers Cup ATP Tour event in Toronto.

The 37-year-old Stepanek, who had won the Australian Open and US Open with Leander Paes and was ranked a career-high No.4 in doubles, prevailed 7-6(5), 6-7(5), 6-4 in a battle of wits that lasted two hours and 32 minutes.

The 28-year-old Saketh fired 14 aces but had eight doublefaults as
well, as against four aces and five doublefaults by the Czech. While Saketh converted three of five breakpoints, Stepanek did one better from eight breakpoints that he forced.

For his fine effort in the big league, Saketh collected $3,345 and 16 ATP points.

[Joseph 0]

TENNIS NEWS -
Ramkumar Ramanathan opened his campaign in the $50,000 men’s Challenger tennis tournament in Lexington, US, with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 victory over Luke Saville of Australia.

 

Former world No.1 Leander Paes in partnership with Andre Begemann of Germany made the doubles semifinals of the €85,000 men’s Challenger tennis tournament in Italy.

The Indo-German combination won the quarterfinals 6-4, 5-7, 10-8
against Fabricio neis and Joao Souza of Brazil.

 

Purav Raja and Divij Sharan also made the doubles semifinals of the €64,500 Challenger in Spain.

Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Ramkumar Ramanathan made a thrilling entry into the doubles quarterfinals in the Lexington Challenger in the US with a 12-10 victory in the super tie-break against Brydan Klein of Britain and Andrew Whittington of Australia.

However, Vishnu Vardhan in partnership with Toshihide Matsui of Japan, bowed out in the doubles quarterfinals in Kazakhstan, after having knocked out the top seeds in the first round. Vishnu and partner won $1280 and 18 ATP points.

[sanjaydas 14]

2 hours ago, Suneet said:

Anirban cards a 3-over par today as well and would miss the cut comfortably 

We never had a chance in golf...

[sanjaydas 14]

Just now, sanjaydas said:

We never had a chance in golf...

Are we even going to win anything this time!!!

[Joseph 0]

Paes and Begemann beat James Cerretani and Philipp Oswald 6-3, 6-4 to make the final of the €85,000 Challenger in Italy
Raja/Divij Sharan too made the finals of €64,000 Challenger in Spain, by beating second seeds Johan Brunstrom and Andreas Siljestrom of Sweden 6-4, 7-6(4).

[Harit Garg 1]

1 hour ago, Joseph said:

Paes and Begemann beat James Cerretani and Philipp Oswald 6-3, 6-4 to make the final of the €85,000 Challenger in Italy
Raja/Divij Sharan too made the finals of €64,000 Challenger in Spain, by beating second seeds Johan Brunstrom and Andreas Siljestrom of Sweden 6-4, 7-6(4).

Great

[sanjaydas 14]

2 hours ago, Joseph said:

Paes and Begemann beat James Cerretani and Philipp Oswald 6-3, 6-4 to make the final of the €85,000 Challenger in Italy
Raja/Divij Sharan too made the finals of €64,000 Challenger in Spain, by beating second seeds Johan Brunstrom and Andreas Siljestrom of Sweden 6-4, 7-6(4).

Let's see what Paes can do in the Olympics. Should make the QF to the least!!!