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The Quest for 8.9 Continues
Age 22 Review
** Girish Girsh - 99 skill, 71 serve, 0 doubles
** Prakash Mooljee - 98/72/1
** Ritwik Dudwadkar - 98/72/0
** Sushant Chiba - 97/72/2
** Satyagit Guha - 79/62/99
** Nasir Chittoor - 98/76/0
Since rolling over to age 22, Satyagit Guha has now maxed out his doubles and was already starting to very slowly make up ground in skill and serve. Much of it he won't be able to catch of course, but it'll be interesting to see how far he can close the gap. Nasir Chittoor had a good year which kind of surprises me - I figured with all the events he played against intentionally weak competition that would hurt him but it doesn't appear to have appreciably done so. He's opening up a bit of a gap on the established pace, perhaps five thousand points now which is a significant gain over the previous year.
On the other hand, the gravy train is just about over in one sense. Guha and Fitz among others have just made the turn to start slowly declining physically, and Chittoor will start that process in the coming months as well. Still, I'm more optimistic than before that he's on a path to hit the 8.9 mark.
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