The Indian tennis in recent months has imploded as it touches new low. This is comforting. Unfortunately, the country’s game may soon go down a bottomless pit. until last week Sumit Nagar He is the only Indian player who reached the singles ranking of top 300 in the men’s and women’s tour.
This girl is bad. However, focusing on that particular statistic is meaningless when such dastardly things happened in the progress of the competition. davis cup The finals, maybe even more disturbing, the team had to go back to complete the ending of competitions, but not once, 3 times (1966, ’74 and ‘87) now.
This week, Only Yamarapalli Break into the top 300 for the first time in her career, at rank 298 on the WTA ranking list. She is the number one of India.
Except for Nagal, however, there’s not much hope for the singles action on the ATP Tour. India this year performed well in doubles Rohan Bopanna and his pair whose tours ranking improved to number one individual doubles ranking with 10 Indians in top 150. This is where playing doubles does not reflect dominance of the sport. This is why India – without the 27-year-old Nagal – was defeated by the swedes over the weekend in a Davis Cup World Group One fixture Ian stockholm, as where the team was unable to even win a set.
Representing the hosts in singles were Elias Ymer ranked 238 in the world and Leo Borg ranked 603 in the world. Ramanathan has a career best singles listing of 334 and a doubles listing of 144 while Sriram Balaji who is not rated very good in single event and holds number 65 rank in double events.
It is people’s choices which did not include active members of the fraternity that was surprising, rather than the outcome. In such a live singles contest, he would face Balaji, the 34 year old doubles player, and on the bench was 18 year old Aryan Shah, who at that time was India’s most improved player. Sentence Shah probably did not bring Balaji into the game even as it was a return on investment, which actually is a business risk. This experience is genuine.
30-year swordsman Siddharth Vishwakarma, who came in for Balaji in the reverse contest, is hardly 46 ranks ahead of the teenager in a few weeks time turning 30 himself.
The player community is not funny. It is the athletes themselves who strike on social media and podcasts and make such statements regarding all india tennis association as themselves and the members of the active player federation.
At this particular time it is extremely relevant especially because of imminent elections for one of the most mal-administered associations in indian sport, the agenda includes annual general meeting on september 28. ring rather more political rhetoric too as incumbents also get appeased prior to extending some more on the vacancies in the Executive Committee.
Nagal, recovering from the back injury, was privileged to feature in the podcast together with Somdev Devvarman and Purav Raja. The three spoke about a wide range of issues, such as players’ and officials’ distrust, absent players’ most repugnant coach whose players fell asleep during Davis Cup matches, and the awful results posted by the Monica’s tennis club, performing at the National Tennis Center In New Delhi. It would have been hilarious, had it not been so sad.
weekend Bopanna Former it actually was a pro player who called for ‘A cultural shift in the sport’ Vishnu Vardhan A “detailed strategy” was afterward elaborated on X (known from twitter)
yes Father listen?
When it came to the comments on AITA’s terrible record the IOA and the Ministry of Sports took the high ground and kept quiet.
Is it only me who cares?
If there is unity in the player community it would be tough to silence their voices or even try to oppress them.
So AITA will, as it always does, try to diffuse and please the players. Players should not only fight for themselves but also for the generations to come.
Utilising language is a good start but they have to adage. Type of change they wish to seek. Perhaps.
