The article glorifies him like he beat Federer or something. Gimme a break the country has such a dearth of talent that a player seeded 320 is glorified like this. RIDICULOUS!
RE:RE:Ha HA
by Guest on Aug 04, 2008 10:18 PM Permalink
Human Value, you appear quick to criticize the 23 year old without considering the obvious potential evidenced by his multiple wins over top 100 opponents in his 2 short months on the Pro tour. If you know how the rankings are arrived at, and I'm not sure you do based on your comment, you would realize that Somdev has moved up in the rankings almost as fast as humanly possible so why the negative words. Give him more time and you will see the error of your shallow opinion
RE:Ha HA
by pradeep agarwal on Aug 05, 2008 11:45 AM Permalink
Human value seems to have no idea on how difficult it is to be among first 1000 in ATP ranking.Somdev has shown great potential & we r lucky to have someone like him along with Prakash.The duo should serve nation well in years to come
RE:Ha HA
by Guest on Aug 06, 2008 12:32 AM Permalink
Which top 100 player did he defeat? Go Soeda's current ranking is 124. He was ranked outside the top-200 all of last year. As far as I can see Somdev has only competed in Tier-3 events where there are never any top-100 players.
If you actually knew how rankings work, you would know that going from 1000 to 100 is very easy (at that level) as most of the players are so close on points. Even to go from 100 to 50 doesn't require you to have actually won a Tier-1 tournament (case in point.. Anna Kournikova... she even reached the top 10 without winning a single tourney).
In this day and age, if you're not in the top 50 by 23, you're most likely never going to get there. Of course, miracles do happen...
RE:Ha HA
by Nick Michaels on Aug 07, 2008 12:27 AM Permalink
Som beat Kendrick in the final of the Lexington Challanger 3 and 3 after beating Bob Reynolds in R2 6-7, 7-5, 6-4 His "wins" over Malisse and Lu were due to injuries and should not be counted when sizing up Som's potential. In a charity exhibition on clay in July he took home $40K by defeating, in order, Sam Querray in 3 sets, Kendrick again and Dudi Sela 6-2, 6-3 in the final. Exibition or not there were relatively big bucks up for grabs. Still sounds very good for the first 2 months in the pros.
