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At Davis Cup 2013 - Asia / Oceania Group I ,
Indian Team - Leander Paes, Vijayant Malik, Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan, Purav Raja
Reserve players - Ashwin Vijayaraghavan, Arjun Kadhe
Non-playing Captain - S. P. Misra
Coach - Zeeshan Ali
I was trying to avoid commenting about Indian tennis fiasco ... And was hoping somehow this whole mess will get resolve but alas ....... We r keep going in deep shit ... As per my knowledge Somdev Devvarman (Somi) written mail to AITA (All India Tennis Association) in November 2012 ... AITA was sitting on the letter for few weeks and again with mis-management leaked that letter to the media ... Players demands were fair but first reaction from AITA wasn't positive ... Then suddenly AITA came with 'Code of Conduct' for players and asked them to sign before selection ... When players reacted on that then AITA tried to save their faces saying this is only 'Agreement' with players ... In the beginning Yuki Bhambri, Vishnu Vardhan, Sanam Singh, Divij Sharan and Saketh Myneni were with Somi but Mahesh Bhupathi joined them with Rohan Bopanna ... From here dirty politics started ... AITA came with logical proposal on this short notice ... They were ready to chance non-playing captain S. P. Misra after Korea tie ... They appointed Zeeshan Ali (who is having 17 yrs coaching experience and he was former top-150 player with vast Davis cup experience) as coach ... And acceptable prize money sharing formula with players ... But AITA didn't agree six players team for Davis cup tie and business class travel for all players ... Also on physio players weren't happy with AITA proposal ... Players outrightly rejected this proposal ... Wanted immediate appointment of Rohit Rajpal or Anand Amritraj as non-playing captain and Aditya Sachdev (Yuki's personal coach) as Indian coach ... That was shocking and disrespectful for S. P. Misra (AITA announced to change him after Korea tie) and Zeeshan Ali, who is having experience in coaching ... I feel Mahesh (off course with some inside support) is using these young players for his personal (?) agenda ... Mahesh is retiring this season but these players having long careers in front of them ... They should act more sensibly but instead they misguided in this power tussle ... I am shocked to see Somi's decision of sticking to this fiasco after AITA taken a step back (may be becoz all young players initially joined him when he wrote letter to AITA) ... Due to this AITA decided to select team from available lower ranked players ... In that they avoided to select players, who are supported by Karti Chidambaram, like Balaji and Jeevan.
I m having feeling that Lee need to play reverse singles on last day to help Indian team ... If we loses this match then with these set of players (with respect) our chances of relegation to Group II r high ... And if that happen then we need two more years for qualification to World Group ... Are both parties listening plea of Indian tennis lovers? I DOUBT.
At Davis Cup 2013 - Asia / Oceania Group I ,
Indian Team - Leander Paes, Vijayant Malik, Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan, Purav Raja
Reserve players - Ashwin Vijayaraghavan, Arjun Kadhe
Non-playing Captain - S. P. Misra
Coach - Zeeshan Ali
I was trying to avoid commenting about Indian tennis fiasco ... And was hoping somehow this whole mess will get resolve but alas ....... We r keep going in deep shit ... As per my knowledge Somdev Devvarman (Somi) written mail to AITA (All India Tennis Association) in November 2012 ... AITA was sitting on the letter for few weeks and again with mis-management leaked that letter to the media ... Players demands were fair but first reaction from AITA wasn't positive ... Then suddenly AITA came with 'Code of Conduct' for players and asked them to sign before selection ... When players reacted on that then AITA tried to save their faces saying this is only 'Agreement' with players ... In the beginning Yuki Bhambri, Vishnu Vardhan, Sanam Singh, Divij Sharan and Saketh Myneni were with Somi but Mahesh Bhupathi joined them with Rohan Bopanna ... From here dirty politics started ... AITA came with logical proposal on this short notice ... They were ready to chance non-playing captain S. P. Misra after Korea tie ... They appointed Zeeshan Ali (who is having 17 yrs coaching experience and he was former top-150 player with vast Davis cup experience) as coach ... And acceptable prize money sharing formula with players ... But AITA didn't agree six players team for Davis cup tie and business class travel for all players ... Also on physio players weren't happy with AITA proposal ... Players outrightly rejected this proposal ... Wanted immediate appointment of Rohit Rajpal or Anand Amritraj as non-playing captain and Aditya Sachdev (Yuki's personal coach) as Indian coach ... That was shocking and disrespectful for S. P. Misra (AITA announced to change him after Korea tie) and Zeeshan Ali, who is having experience in coaching ... I feel Mahesh (off course with some inside support) is using these young players for his personal (?) agenda ... Mahesh is retiring this season but these players having long careers in front of them ... They should act more sensibly but instead they misguided in this power tussle ... I am shocked to see Somi's decision of sticking to this fiasco after AITA taken a step back (may be becoz all young players initially joined him when he wrote letter to AITA) ... Due to this AITA decided to select team from available lower ranked players ... In that they avoided to select players, who are supported by Karti Chidambaram, like Balaji and Jeevan.
I m having feeling that Lee need to play reverse singles on last day to help Indian team ... If we loses this match then with these set of players (with respect) our chances of relegation to Group II r high ... And if that happen then we need two more years for qualification to World Group ... Are both parties listening plea of Indian tennis lovers? I DOUBT.
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At Australian Open 2013, Melbourne
[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND,552) vs Bjorn Phau (GER,78)
Australian open draw is out ... Somi is having decent draw as he is playing against Bjorn Phau ... He need to win this match against similar style Phau.
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