Topic: ಲಾಂಗ್ ಲೈವ್ ಏಷ್ಯಾ Asian Players Cheering Thread!

[Orange Wombat]

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Welcome!


Asia is a continent underrepresented in tennis, though improving  I thought since we had an Italian player thread, we should have one for Asia which makes up 60% of world's population. Of course, most relatively well-off Asians (like me) are too busy succeeding in life to pay attention to tennis 


Anyway, here are some notable Asian tennis players. I don't really count Kazakhstan because all their tennis players are just Russians who play for Kazakhstan for the money 

Kei "Samurai" Nishikori

Go Soeda (Go Soeda!)

Somdev Devvarman (Indian Monfils)

Di Wu (funny little guy)

Ze Zhang (Inconsistent big guy)

Denis Istomin, if you count Uzbekistan as Asian and not European

Tatsuma "Dragon" Ito

Yuichi Sugita

Prakash Amritraj (son of tennis and movie star)

Sanam Singh (rising youngster)

Nam Ji Sung

Yen-Hsun Lu (challenger and grand slam vulture)

Tsung Hua Yang (insanely talented, search on youtube)

Danai Udomchoke (more like You do choke  )

Leander Paes (IMO he's an idiot)

Mahesh Bhupati

Aisam Ul-Haq Qureshi

Honorable Retiree: Paradorn Srichapan the contortionist.

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And on the women's side of course- Li Na Peng Shuai, etc

Did I miss anyone notable?

[Litotes]

I miss Paradorn Srichaphan, he was an entertaining player.
Why don't you like Paes?

[Alex]

best luck to Asian players  . I have many Asian friends who love tennis, here in Canada. I really hope that China could 'produce' a great champion one day  , talking about mens tennis btw. Li Na made it already.

[Freak3yman84]

How could you miss Yen-Hsun Lu??!

[Orange Wombat]

Lu and Srichapan have been added 

[Rafa816]

I'm a big fan of Nishikori. And after watching how she battled through the AO Final, I gotta say I'm becoming a fan of Li Na. I don't really keep up with any of the others, though.

[Orange Wombat]

Japan beat Indonesia 3-0 in Asia/OCeania Group 1!

In the 1st rubber there was almost a triple bagel as Soeda def Nugroho 60 60 61. But in all fairness Nugroho was ranked 1783 in the world 

They will play India or South Korea in next round. India kind of sucks now with all their best players boycotting.

[Orange Wombat]

Go Devvarman! 2nd round of 5 consecutive tournaments  I wonder when his protected ranking stops.

[Freak3yman84]

This thread needs some more Wang.




Jimmy Wang that is.

[Orange Wombat]

This thread needs some more Wang.




Jimmy Wang that is.

  “The name is Wang. Jimmy Wang.” I wonder what his Taiwanese name is.