There are 9 players in the top 150 of the individual doubles ranking in the country, but doubles are not an indicator of the title situation …
In February, India hosted four ATP Challenger tournaments, which was classified on the world stage as a launch pad.
Traveling circus in Chennai, Delhi, Pune and Bangalore gave tents to tents as tents, a lack of Indian appearance in the common thread singles running through the tournament.
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Indian players were depicted in 13 first rounds, the main draw singles match in four weeks. The twelve out of those 13 were etiquette wildcards.
Only one player – Karan Singh in Bengaluru came through the qualifying area.
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The most worrying statue was that out of 13, the host nation won only one match in four weeks – Mukund Shashikumar In Delhi.
Former No. 1 Somdev Devvarman asked questions on the mind of every stakeholder: ‘For whom are we catching these tournaments?’
Britain J Clarke, who lived in India for eight weeks in February-March, scored an average run among those challenging, but 26-year-old won two titles in four finals in futures programs held in Chandigarh, Ahmedabad and Bangalore.
Again, India No. 1 Sumit Nagal is currently at 165th position, the only Indian in the top 450 of the ATP rankings, competing in South America at the time. Nevertheless, it is unacceptable, or in India’s biggest events, its lack of home.
At the same time, in these many weeks in February, India recorded attendance in the doubles final in all four challenges, with two titles, even though our best doubles player – Yuki Bhambri And Rohan Bopana – was part of the rich draw elsewhere in the world.
There are nine players in the top 150 of the individual doubles ranking in India, thanks to Bopana’s ‘Doubles Dream of India’, a program that supports Indian doubles professionals. It was launched in April 2022 and the travel provides resources like organizing coaches, physio and pre-seasons camps.
It’s in single, however, where Indians Tennis Enjoyed the success of dating back back in the 1960s.
Ramanathan Krishnan was, twice the Wimbledon semi-finalist 1960-61. Vijay Amritaraj The four -time Grand Slam was quarter -finalists, reaching number 16 in the ATP rankings. Ramesh Krishnan won eight ATP singles titles, finishing 23rd in the ranking. Leander Paes was the Olympic single bronze medalist (1996), who reached number 73. Devavarman spent 12 weeks between August 2010 and January 2012, ranked in the top 100, scaling in number 62. Among women, Sania Mirza-Pathbreker-Kool was ranked at a career-high 27 in singles.
It was in association with Bhupathi (12) (18 major titles, men’s doubles and mixed doubles), who created a doubles route for Indians. A route that was exploded by Bopana, at the age of 45, is a play poster for longevity. However, couples and mixed doubles in the way of India are not an indicator of sports status in the country.
The most basic measure of the difference shows the prize money on the proposal on ATP Tour (not including Grand Slam), where in 250, 500 and 1000 series programs, a single prize money in a calendar year is $ 131,066,412 in total at $ 32,254,728 in a total of $ 131,066,412. The difference in data is four times.
So, where are the singles players of India then? Devvarman- The All India Tennis Association was included in the court to be a ‘serial criminal’ in violation of sports code last year-it was no coincidence that India has produced each player since the 40-year-old man has produced every player since playing, Sev, has gone out of the country to pursue the game.
“Our coaching system is not quite good,” he told TOI to his base in Chennai. “When I was coming in 1990, people who were still coaching were coaching, are still coaching? If this is quality, why is no one coached outside India? We have to take experience and expertise at least someone to take anyone on the Grand Slam Qualifier Stage).
At a time when every other discipline has exploded in Indian sports, in areas such as finance, expertise and audience attention, tennis is turning into a deaf recession.
Badminton has already seen its peak, chess is getting rid of, golf is flourishing, the track and field is on the Olympic podium, the power discipline – pagilist, wrestler, weightlifter – are flacking their muscles and hockey is reappearing boards. But tennis is deteriorating.
The answer to the question is why India’s best junior talents are outside the country, last year in New Delhi to shut down the National Tennis Center. It had no great result to write a house in four years.
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17 -year -old Manas Dhamne, 760 rank in ATP rankings, trains in Italy. Maya Rajeswaran Revathi is 15 years old and is in Spain, as is the 14 -year -old Vedanta Mohan, while the 12 -year -old Bengaluru girl Srrishti Kiran leaves for a week to the United States. He is on a 15 -month tennis scholarship.
Prajnesh Gunsavaran, a stylish left -handed batsman who was ranked 75 six years ago, when five people were in the top 250 of the ranking in India, said the problem was not about infrastructure or opportunities.
“We do not have assistant employees with fire or knowledge,” said 35 -year -old Gunnesavaran. “You can pull a line on one area and work with players if you know how to work. We have a good infrastructure in the whole country, but we have not produced a single player.”
Last September, in the Davis Cup 1 1 Conflict against Sweden in Stockholm, the Indian think tank played a remarkable lack of imagination or ambition, playing the role of a couple expert in a live singles tie, then rewarded another player for loyalty instead of blood -binges.
Gunsavaran pointed out Asian rivals China and Japan, who have invested heavily in hiring Europe’s top coaches and trainers to improve their game in the last 10 years.
China now has three men aged 28 and has two females in the top 75 of the ATP single ranking and the WTA Top 50, while Japan has seven men in the top 200 and a similar number of women in the same range.
“Now, after 10 years, the players coming through that system are investing back, helping the next generation players,” he said.
MSLTA secretary and AITA joint secretary Sundar Iyer said that the tournament cycle in the country slowed down in a trick three-four years ago.
“I admit that we have lost a generation of players,” Iyer said, “These have been better for the last two-three years and we are already seeing the results, such as recently with women in the Billy Jean King Cup, but there are things that we need to convert to a tournament structure to help the young crops.”
Iyer said, “Whatever we have done in the singles need to do anything. Nothing has been done so far. It is a parents who are working for the progress of their children.”
The system is broken and until it is fixed, it is for each player and their families for themselves. Tennis is a single game, and very little love in India, especially for single.
