The decision of the ATP Chennai Open Challenger organisers to award one of
the three main draw wildcards to a foreign player hasn’t gone down well
with some people in Indian tennis, though it happens to be tennis legend
Bjorn Borg’s son.The Tamil Nadu Tennis Association handed out wildcards to Indians Prajnesh
Gunneswaran (world rank 306) and Ramkumar Ramanathan (412) as well as
515th-ranked Leo Borg, the 19-year-old Swede whose father, a 11-time Grand
Slam winner, has accompanied him to Chennai. It meant the likes of Mukund
Sasikumar, the India No 2 in singles (312) who is from the city and Sumit
Nagal (509) will have to play the qualifiers on Sunday to make the cut.
the three main draw wildcards to a foreign player hasn’t gone down well
with some people in Indian tennis, though it happens to be tennis legend
Bjorn Borg’s son.The Tamil Nadu Tennis Association handed out wildcards to Indians Prajnesh
Gunneswaran (world rank 306) and Ramkumar Ramanathan (412) as well as
515th-ranked Leo Borg, the 19-year-old Swede whose father, a 11-time Grand
Slam winner, has accompanied him to Chennai. It meant the likes of Mukund
Sasikumar, the India No 2 in singles (312) who is from the city and Sumit
Nagal (509) will have to play the qualifiers on Sunday to make the cut.
Vishal Uppal, the former Davis Cupper who is captain of the Billie Jean
King Cup team, questioned whether Mukund and Nagal were not important
enough to groom. “At a time when Indian Tennis Players need the most
support & opportunities, why give a Main
