Nagal Out of Rome!

Carsomyr

Legend
Great to see your (however misplaced) points of view voiced again from the stales of the forum. The community’s expectations for your continued contributions were quite modest in light of the Rio fiasco. Good to see the level of conviction that warrants doubling down in view of the Tokyo 2020 prospects.

I probably don’t know as much as you about Azerbaijani poetry, but (Allah willing) Karim could be knocking on some big doors in Melbourne and Astana next year. He has been growing as a man and a player, and his Indo-European features are becoming more pronounced as he matures and develops into a household name.
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Meles

Bionic Poster
I do miss SoBad so badly.
Often made me hungry - one of the greats. @SoBad no doubt deeply involved with Russia gate and such a bad time as his Iron Curtain team has been surging.:eek: SoBad can claim Tsistsipas, Shapovalov, Rublev, Medvedev, Khachanov, Zverev, and probably a few more players products of mother Russia.
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
Often made me hungry - one of the greats. @SoBad no doubt deeply involved with Russia gate and such a bad time as his Iron Curtain team has been surging.:eek: SoBad can claim Tsistsipas, Shapovalov, Rublev, Medvedev, Khachanov, Zverev, and probably a few more players products of mother Russia.

Anisimova will outdo them all!
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
Nagal out of Marbella too! Beats not Joe Kovic in qualies then looses in final round qualies but gets in as Lucky Looser to stun #8 Grunthollers 1R then looses to Suri protégé Ramanathan??? What is this world coming to???

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Joseph_K

Hall of Fame
A great comeback earlier today in the Davis Cup Group 1 (World) tie between India and China in Tianjin, with India winning the final three rubbers to overturn a first-day deficit of 0-2, which included a singles defeat for Sumit Nagal against Ze Zhang.

The scores:

Friday, April 7

Yibing Wu d. Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) 7-6(6), 6-4
Ze Zhang d. Sumit Nagal (IND) 6-4 6-1

Saturday, April 8

Rohan Bopanna (IND)/Leander Paes (IND) d. Mao-Xin Gong/Zheng 5-7, 7-6(5), 7-6(3)
Ramanathan d. Di Wu 7-6(4), 6-3
Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) d. Yibing Wu 6-4 6-2

India win the tie 3-2. The Indian victory is all the more impressive because they were without their top singles player, Yuki Bhambri. Leander Paes's win in the doubles rubber was his 43rd doubles victory in Davis Cup doubles, a new all-time record.
 

Joseph_K

Hall of Fame
20-year-old Sumit Nagal and 23-year-old Gonçalo Oliveira are currently ranked no. 213 and no. 214 in the world repectively. Later today they face each other in first-round action at the Challenger tournament in Barletta, Italy. The Indian player will be hoping to continue his rise in the rankings, which has seen him become the third-ranked player in his country behind Ramkumar Ramanathan (currently no. 2 in India and no 153 in the world) and India's top-ranked player, Yuki Bhambri, who is presently at a career high of no. 105 in the world.
 

Joseph_K

Hall of Fame
Earlier today India's top two male tennis players reached the final of the singles event at the Santiazi ATP Challenger in Taipei, Taiwan. In the semi-finals Yuki Bhambri defeated the Japanese player Tasuma Ito, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, while Bhambri's countryman Ramkumar Ramanathan beat another Japanese player, the veteran Go Soeda, 7-6(9), 6-4. This might well be the first time that two Indian players have reached the singles final at the same tournament at this level.

For good measure, two more Indian players, Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Saketh Myneni, have reached the doubles final in Taipei. In the final they will face the Australian pairing of Matthew Ebden and Andrew Whittington.
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
Earlier today India's top two male tennis players reached the final of the singles event at the Santiazi ATP Challenger in Taipei, Taiwan. In the semi-finals Yuki Bhambri defeated the Japanese player Tasuma Ito, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, while Bhambri's countryman Ramkumar Ramanathan beat another Japanese player, the veteran Go Soeda, 7-6(9), 6-4. This might well be the first time that two Indian players have reached the singles final at the same tournament at this level.

For good measure, two more Indian players, Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Saketh Myneni, have reached the doubles final in Taipei. In the final they will face the Australian pairing of Matthew Ebden and Andrew Whittington.
Where Suri has failed to MITGA, Bhambreshs & Co are succeeding!

The latest round of an ATP tournament that I could find was the 1980 Bangkok SF between Vijay Amritraj and Ramesh Krishnan.
 

Joseph_K

Hall of Fame
A convincing win for Yuki Bhambri yesterday in the final of the Taipei Challenger, where he beat his countryman Ramkumar Ramanathan in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4. In the new ATP world rankings issued today Bhambri rises to a career-high best of no. 83.
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
A convincing win for Yuki Bhambri yesterday in the final of the Taipei Challenger, where he beat his countryman Ramkumar Ramanathan in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4. In the new ATP world rankings issued today Bhambri rises to a career-high best of no. 83.
I didn't track his ranking from last week, which should have been the cutoff for RG direct entry. To get inside one week too late would be ironic. At #83 he is in like Flynn. I think he was on the cusp before those 125 points are added. That is also a pure net +125 as he did not play a tournament in the entire month of April 2017.
 

Sysyphus

Talk Tennis Guru
Regrettably, I must inform you that Nagal is once more out of Rome.

Ulises Blanch got the better of him during the opening round of this esteemed challenger tournament.
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
Regrettably, I must inform you that Nagal is once more out of Rome.

Ulises Blanch got the better of him during the opening round of this esteemed challenger tournament.
He was doing so well in his tuneups in Florida/Georgia, readying himself for defending his 11th meaningless Paris exho title. I am depress.
 
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