By U.B. Acharya In a recent middle piece article in the centre page of a national newspaper, the writer has lamented that while small countries like Switzerland, Serbia, Croatia, Greece etc. have produced top class tennis players why could not India with such a large population produce one Grand Slam champion. He has suggested that…
Now that the 2022 tennis season is over one can review the important tournaments and performance of some of the top players. Of the four Major tournaments (aka Grand Slam Events), two were won by Rafael Nadal and one each by Novak Djokovic and a19-year-old Spanish sensation Carlos Alcaraz Garfia. The prestigious year-ending ATP finals…
By U.B. Acharya One may ask “How come year ending review is written a good 36 days before the end of the year?” The reason is that unlike cricket season which extend to 52 weeks every year, tennis season is for about 47 weeks only with no tennis tournament for 5 weeks from November end…
By U.B. Acharya With Novak “Nole” Djokovic winning the Wimbledon 2021 and thus winning his 20th Major title (same as Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal), it is time to start a debate on “Greatest of All Times”. Though it is difficult to compare athletes of different eras, in this case the three great players have…
By U.B. Acharya By winning the French Open 2021 last night against Stefanos Tsitsipas, Novak Djokovic (aka ‘NOLE’) created some kind of a history. Firstly, after nearly 52 years, the feat of winning all four Majors twice was repeated by Novak. The other two players who have achieved this remarkable feat are the great Rod…
By U.B. Acharya On Monday, the 8th of March 2021, Novak Djokovic crossed a milestone of reaching 311 weeks as ATP’s No. 1 ranked player surpassing Roger Federer’s what one thought of as unbeatable record of 310 weeks. Before discussing further, let us look at some historical milestones. Historical Records Though international tennis started in…
By U.B. Acharya In the previous Test match against England, India’s Ashwin Ravichandran not only collected five wickets in the first innings but also scored a brilliant century in the second innings in the company of tail enders. His brilliant performance resulted in India registering a glorious victory thus equalling the series at 1-1. Naturally…
By U.B. Acharya With the conclusion of ATP Finals at O2 Arena in London in mid November, the curtain closed for the 2020 ATP Tennis season. Normally the season has about 70 ATP tournaments plus over 100 Challengers and ITF Features tournaments spread throughout the year and all over the world. However, due to the…
By U.B. Acharya As most of the tennis followers would have already seen on TV (live or later in news channels) or read in the newspapers that after failing thrice in the ultimate round to the two great champions, Dominic Thiem of Austria (pronounced as ‘Teem’) won his first major Title namely the US Open…
A few days back I received a book titled ‘Random Thoughts of an Oilman,’ by U.B. Acharya, obviously the oilman — one who worked for oil companies. In these days of COVID-19 and the consequential isolation, nay quarantine, specially for aged, the book seemed a relief to pass time. Since the author’s age and mine…
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