LR: Indian players No. 1 and 2 singles – Sumit Nagal and Mukund Sasikumar The country has 9 players in the TOP 150 charts of individual doubles, but the titles double the state of the state of the game …
In February, India hosted four ATP Challenger tournaments, categorized as a launch pad for the world scene.
When travel circus tents in Chennai, Delhi, Pune and Bengaluru, the common fiber passing through the tournament was the lack of Indian presence in singles.
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Indian players performed in the 13 first rounds, matches of the main draw in four weeks. The twelve of these 13 starts were polite survivors.
Only one player – Karan Singh in Bengalur – went through the qualifying field.
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The most disturbing state was that out of the 13 starts, the host nation had only one match in four weeks – Mukund Sasikumar in Delhi.
Former No. 1 Somdev Devvarman asked the question of each part of the part: “For whom do we hold these tournaments?”
Briton Jay Clarke, who stayed in India for eight weeks in March February, was running in The Challengers, but 26 -year -old won two titles from four finals to futures held in Chandigarh, Ahmedabad and Bengalur.
He agreed that India No. 1 Sumit Nagal, currently at 1655, the only Indian in the TOP 450 ranking, at that time competed in South America. Yet this performance or its lack at home is unacceptable on India’s largest host.
At the same time, these weeks in February, India had the presence in the doubles final in all four challenges that ended with two titles, although our best doubles players – Yuki Bhambri and Rohan Bopanna – were part of richer elk elsewhere in the world.
India has nine players in the TOP 150 individual ranking, thanks to Bopann’s “doubles dreams of India”, a program that supports Indian doubling professionals. It was launched in April 2022 and offers sources such as travel coaches, physios and organize pre -season camps.
However, it is in singles where Indian tennis enjoyed the success of mixing until the 1960s.
There was Ramanathan Krishhnan, twice Wimbledon semifinalist 1960-61. Vijay Amritraj was four times the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam, which increased in the ATP ranking to 16 years. Ramesh Krishnan won eight tenders of ATP singles and risen in the ranking to 23 years. Leander Paes was the Olympic singles bronze medalist (1996), who grew on No. 73. Devvarman spent all except 12 weeks since August 2010 and January 2012 included in the TOP 100, scaling for 62 years. In the women’s, Sania Mirza-Pathbreaker-Byla included in Career No. 27 in 27 ..
It was Paes (18 main titles, doubles men and mixed doubles) in Tandem with Bhupathi (12), who created a double path for the Indians. The route emitted by Bopanna, who at the age of 45 is a sports boy for longevity. However, double and mixed titles that come to India are not an indicator of the state of the game in the country.
The most basic rate of difference appears in the cash money on ATP tour (without Grand Slams), where in the events of the series 250, 500 and 1000 there are singles in the calendar year to be $ 131,066,412, while double pot is $ 32,2728. The difference in numbers is four times.
So, where are the players of Indian singles? The Devvarman-Ktern has long fought a difficult fight and last year, All India Tennis Association pulled out for court for being a “serial perpetrator” in violation of the Sports Code-that it was no coincidence that every player who started playing, except Bopanna, moved from the country to persecute sport.
“Our coaching system is not good enough,” said Toi from his base in Chennai. “How can the people who have trained when I arrived in 1990, still coaching?
At a time when Indian sport exploded in every other discipline, in areas such as finance, expertise and attention of the audience, tennis seems to retreat into a deafening slowdown.
Badminton has already seen its peak, chess is prospering, golf flourishes, the track and field are on the Olympic stage, energy disciplines – pugilists, wrestlers, jacks – bending muscles and hockey again sounds. But tennis disappears.
The answer to the question of why the best Indian junior talents are founded outside the country is located in the closure of the National Tennis Center in Nový Delhi last year. In four years it had no great results.
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Manas Dhamne, 17, was placed on 760 in the ATP ranking, trains in Italy. Maaya Rajeshwaren Revathi is 15 years old and is in Spain, like the fourteen -year -old Vedant Mohan, while a twelve -year -old girl Bengalur Srishti Kiran leaves for a week for the United States. It is on a 15 -month -old tennis scholarship.
Prajnesh Gunneswaren, a stylish left -handed man who was ranked up to 75 years ago, when India had five men in the TOP 250 ranking, he said the problem was not about infrastructure or occasions.
“We do not have supportive staff with fire or knowledge,” Gunneswaren (35) said. “You can draw a line in the field and work with players if you know how to do it. We have a good infrastructure across the country, but we haven’t created a single player.”
Last September, in the conflict of Davis Cup Group 1 against Sweden in Stockholm, the Indian Think tank showed a remarkable lack of imagination or ambition by playing a doubles specialist in a living tie for living singles, then “rewarding” another player for loyalty instead of getting young talent.
Gunneswaren pointed to Asian rivals in China and Japan, who have invested considerable amounts in hiring the best coaches and coaches from Europe in the last 10 years to improve their game.
China now has three men aged 28 and less in the TOP 75 rating of ATP single and two women in the TOP 50 WTA, while Japan has seven men in TOP 200 and the same number of women in the same range.
“Now, 10 years later, players who have gone through this system are investing back and helping the next generation of players,” he said.
Sunder Iyer, the secretary of MSLTA and the common Secretary Aita, said the tournament cycle in the country slowed down three years ago to the spring.
“I accept that we have lost a generation of players,” Iyer said, “these last two to three years have been better and we see the results, as with women in Billie Jean King Cup recently, but there are things that we have to turn into the tournament structure to help younger players’ crops.”
Iyer added: “We have to do what we did in doubles.
The system is broken and until it is repaired, it is every player and their families for themselves. Tennis is a lonely sport and in India there seems to be little love, especially for singles.
