PUNE: Somdev Devvarman strongly believes that a "lack of focussed development" is hampering Indian tennis, which is staring at a lean phase in the near future with no player — man or woman — ranked good enough to get an entry into Grand Slam qualifying.
"We are far from where we need to be. Not to be pessimistic, you have to be objective and realistic. And a lot of the times, numbers don't lie," the former Davis Cupper said on the side-lines of the $130,000 PMR Open ATP Challenger here on Tuesday.