From the desk of Mustafa Kamal......
Do you know this Indian Player from just a few years ago.....
How many endorsments did she get for her achievements ?
How much money / Land / Plot's were awarded to her by the Government ?
How many Corporate's came forward to sponsor her ?
How many Godfather's did she have in terms of Politicians, Businesmen, Civil servants. ?
What were we all doing when she was slogging out on the circuit ?
I have listed a brief introduction about her, I would appreciate if you can name her in the comments section.
At the same time I would like you to imagine a situation where this player was provided with the financial support provided to Ms. Mirza, If someone would have gone out of the way to secure wildcards for her in Grandslam events, I mean promote and hype her the way Sania was done........ Sania got a GVK sponsorship in the year 2000, Did Mr.GVK knew that an Indian player who was far more better than Sania existed and deserved his sponsorship more than Sania?. Then ?????????? it's possible !!!!!!!!!!!!. I leave it your your imagination
Her brief achievements.
Member of Indian Olympic Tennis Squad in 2000 for Sydney Olympics
Best WTA ranking of 132. Victories against top-50 world players like Magdaleena Maleeva, Sylvia Plishke, Mirijana Lucic, Prakusya and Janet Lee.
Partnered World No. 1 Kim Clijsters in doubles in WTA event in Belgium.
Played against Venus and Serena Williams in 2000 Australian Open doubles event.
Played Wimbledon (from 1999-2001)
Played U.S. Open (from 1999-2002)
Played Australian Open (from 1999-2001)
Played French Open (from 1999-2002)
Played several other major tournaments around the world.
No 1 Player for India for 10 years in Asian Games, Fed Cup, South Asian Federation Games and World Youth Cup. Led India to Asia Group 1 in Fed Cup.
Bronze medallist in Asian Games 1998 in mixed doubles with Mahesh Bhupathi.
Triple gold medallist at SAF games in Chennai 1995.
Asagoe & Na Li out of Rogers Cup - Toronto
Round 3
Anastasia Myskina (Russia) beat Shinobu Asagoe (Japan) 7-6(5) 7-5
Nadia Petrova (Russia) beat Na Li (China) 6-2 3-0 RET
Justine Henin-Hardenne (Belgium) def Jie Zheng (China) 6-2 6-4
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Thursday, August 18, 2005 |
Vijay Amritraj - A true Indian Tennis Icon
Vijay Amritraj a tennis player whose achievements are legendary..... an unasuming and simple man from my experiance of being with him in Thailand, when you meet him its hard to believe that HE has been a trail blazer, a person who has excelled in everything he did, whether it was tennis or his production company. It was a dream come true for me because I had grown up watching his exploits on the tennis court.
Though his achievements are known the world over I feel most of the Indian's are not aware of it.
I have listed a few of his achievements to remind Indian's of this " GREAT SPORTSMAN "
At times I wonder why the media did not give him 10% of the coverage which is now given to Sania.
Tennis Achievements
Played Wimbledon for 17 straight years
Led India to Davis Cup finals in 1974 and 1987
Reached Wimbledon quarterfinals in 1973 & 1981, U.S. Open in 1973 & 1974
Number onel player in Asia for 14 years
Has beaten the world's best in tennis: Bjorg, McEnroe, Connors, Lendl, Newcombe, Smith
Founded BAT (Britannia Amritraj Tennis) Academy in India to develop future tennis champions. It was a unique program of its kind in all of Asia in any sport - Leander Peas is a BAT product.
5-time president of the ATP Tour Players Council
Career High INDESIT ATP Entry Ranking - Singles: 16 (7/7/1980)
Career High ATP Entry Ranking - Doubles: 39 (10/21/1985)
Awards
Only Asian to receive Baron Pierre de Coubertin Award.
Padma Shree award from Indian government
Key to the City of Los Angeles
Zheng wins, Fujiwara goes down
| Rika Fujiwara of Japan went down to Hana Sromova (Czech Republic) 4-6 7-5 6-0 while Jie Zheng of China defeated Ai Sugiyama of Japan 2-6 7-6(8) 6-3. |
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
Zheng, Fujiwara and Na Li win
Results from the Toronto Cup Women's Singles matches on Tuesday
Round 1
Jie Zheng (China) beat Maria Emilia Salerni (Argentina) 6-3 6-4
Rika Fujiwara (Japan) beat Maria Elena Camerin (Italy) 6-0 6-3
Conchita Martinez (Spain) beat Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Germany) 6-2 2-6 6-3
Sesil Karatantcheva (Bulgaria) beat Jill Craybas (United States) 6-2 6-7(1) 7-5
Na Li (China) beat 11-Jelena Jankovic (Serbia and Montenegro) 6-4 5-7 6-2
Virginie Razzano (France) beat Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spain) 6-3 3-6 6-3
12-Ana Ivanovic (Serbia and Montenegro) beat Tathiana Garbin (Italy) 6-2 7-6(3)
10-Nathalie Dechy (France) beat Fabiola Zuluaga (Colombia) 6-2 6-4
Srichaphan out of ATP Masters Series
Srichaphan went down to Guillermo Coria in the first round of ATP Masters Series-Cincinnati
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WTA rankings of women's tennis players from India
50 MIRZA, SANIA
130 UBEROI, SHIKHA
377 CHAKRAVARTHI, RUSHMI
457 BHAMBRI, SANAA
470 BHAMBRI, ANKITA
511 JAYARAM, SAI JAYALAKSHMY
529 DHAWAN, SHRUTI
535 LAKHANI, ISHA
543 REDDY, PUNAM
552 VAKHARIA, MEGHA
672 VENKATARAMAN, ARCHANA
756 MANOHAR, GEETA
797 PHADKE, SONAL
809 IYER, TARA
865 GOSWAMI, PARUL
866 CHHEDA, KRUSHMI
892 PATEL, KARISHMA
967 GOUTHAM, SHEETHAL
984 RANGANATHAN, MADURA
ATP Doubles Entry Ranking for India
ATP Name
RANK
9 Paes, Leander (IND)
12 Bhupathi, Mahesh (IND)
189 Ghouse, Mustafa (IND)
273 Mankad, Harsh (IND)
325 Uppal, Vishal (IND)
337 Sipaeya, Sunil Kumar (IND)
383 Kannan, Vijay (IND)
389 Singh, Ashutosh (IND)
414 Mathew, Jaco (IND)
457 Bopanna, Rohan (IND)
470 Ramaswami, Ajay (IND)
524 Amritraj, Prakash (IND)
848 Kannan, Kamala (IND)
854 Rastogi, Karan (IND)
979 Punna, Vishal (IND)
1032 Liberhan, Tushar (IND)
1032 Singh, Navdeep (IND)
1035 Kirtane, Nitin (IND)
1050 Pathanjali, Ravishankar (IND)
1089 Sridhar, Vinod (IND)
1094 Virali Murugesan, Ranjeet (IND)
1124 Mishra, Shivang (IND)
1124 Punna, Vikas (IND)
1207 Singh, Gurmehar (IND)
1229 Sukul, Saurav (IND)
1328 Sharan, Divij (IND)
1328 Shokeen, Vivek (IND)
1561 Datta, Arindam (IND)
1569 Neduncherhiyan, Jeevan (IND)
1690 Roy, Rupesh (IND)
1690 Prashanth, Vijay Sundar (IND)
1690 Gide, Rohan (IND)
1690 Viplav, Anjan (IND)
1690 Singh, Sanam (IND)
1690 Anumaganti, Anant Kumar (IND)
