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The big news for me at the end of the year was the expected termination of services for 32-year-old Prakash Mooljee. He's shown he can still play, but I need a new youngster. Here's how his career titles break down:
** WTF -- 2
** Slam -- 8
** Only player on all 10 WTC world championship teams(first three as doubles only)
** Masters -- 15
** Olympics -- 1
** 500 -- 12
** 250 -- 11
** Challenger -- 17
** Futures -- 8
** Juniors -- 17
143 weeks as #1 is a national record, and 8th all-time. #2 in the Sri Lanka Legends rundown, after Mehul. Quite a career for Mooljee, but he'll soldier on without me(as I write this a few weeks later, he is still without a manager unfortunately).
Our newcomer is Amrik Kasaravalli(14y 28w)
** Endurance -- 3.2(horrible)
** Talent -- 4.4(decent)
** Strength -- 3.6(pretty good)
** Speed -- 2.6(poor)
** Mentality -- 4.0(good)
** Aging -- 97%(worst for late-peaking you can get, same as Mooljee)
7.6 TE is by far the worst I've had for a created player. 6.2 SS isn't terrible, but pretty subpar. 13.8 total, similar to Chiba but with the low endurance I expect him to be the worst player I've had. I could fire and try again, but I'm saving everything for when Mehul goes trainer. So I'll just need to do the best I can with him. That's just an abysmal endurance when I go for being as good as possible there. Ugh. By comparison, here's a few other on the TESS scale(though it doesn't include mentality,. which IMO is as important as strength/speed):
Mateo Kaspar -- 9.3 TE, 7.6 SS, 16.9 total
Prakash Mooljee -- 9.0 TE, 6.9 SS, 15.9 total
Anil Mehul -- 9.1 TE, 6.7 SS, 15.8 total
Ritwik Dudwadkar -- 8.9 TE, 6.6 SS, 15.5 total
Girish Girsh -- 8.6 TE, 6.1 SS, 14.7 total
Sushant Chiba -- 8.7 TE, 5.2 SS, 13.9 total
Kasaravalli will definitely struggle, relatively speaking. Of course, until Chiba I did multiple players and tossed the inferior ones. So it's luck of the draw -- just bad luck this time out.
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