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Local girl Adkar falls short  Third seeded  Sara Saito of Japan made her maiden visit to India memorable by winning singles and double title in the Gadre Marine MSLTA – ITF Junior Grade-3 U18 tennis Championships played at the Deccan Gymkhana Tennis Courts in Pune on Saturday. In singles, Saito defeated local favourite, Vaishnavi Adkar 7-6(4), 6-0 in an hour

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Pranjala Yadlapalli, who, after having played two back to back three setters in her quarterfinal and semifinal matches and suffering cramps, dreaded yet another three setter in the title clash against statemate Sowjanya Bhavisetti. Perhaps she had planned accordingly as after being 3-5 down in the first set, went all out to claim the set 7-5 and breezed through the

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Muni and Khosla Indian Pair in doubles final Local girl Vaishnavi Adkar kept the Indian Flag flying high entering her third consecutive final of the season as she defeated top seeded Aruzhan Sagandikova of Kazakhstan 6-2, 6-4  in the girls semi-finals of the Gadre Marine MSLTA – ITF Junior Grade-3 U18 tennis Championships organized by Deccan Gymkhana Under the auspices

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The tennis buffs got their heart’s fill witnessing an action-packed quarterfinal bout between fourth seed Pranjala Yadlapalli and sixth seed Vaidehi Chaudhari with the former winning the battle of nerves that lasted two hours and 27 minutes. The 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-4 verdict put the 22-year-old into the semifinals of the ITF Women’s $15,000 Bengaluru at the KSLTA Stadium in

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Akanksha Nitture took to tennis when she was just five year old. Her father, a tennis player himself, quit his job and took to coaching, with an aim to train his daughter. Thirteen years later, she played the biggest match of her ITF career thus far and that too with an upset victory over her experienced rival and eighth seed

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA Hungarian teenager Zsombor Velcz defeated American third seed Dusty H. Boyer in the singles final of the ITF Men’s $15,000 Gurugram to lift the champion’s trophy yesterday. The tournament, which began on 22nd November in Haryana’s Gurugram city, came to conclusion with a fitting finale which produced an enthralling battle where the 19-year-old Velcz won

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA Indian junior Shruti Ahlawat and Kazakhstan’s Max Batyutenko won their singles finals against Vaishnavi Adkar and Yuvan Nandal, respectively, to emerge champions in the singles category of the ITF J4 New Delhi event held from 22nd to 27th November 2021 at RK Khanna Tennis Stadium in New Delhi. Ahlawat won her title in an enthralling

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India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan won his maiden Challenger level singles title on Sunday, 12 years after turning a Pro, when he outplayed Evgeny Karlovskiy in the summit clash of the ATP 80 Manama event, here in Bahrain. The 27-year-old Ramkumar, who had lost six Challenger finals in his career before, beat his Russian rival 6-1 6-4 in 68 minutes. Ramkumar, seeded

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Renne Singla and Laalitya Kalluri scored upset victories to enter the second round of the qualifiers of the ITF Women’s $15,000 Bengaluru on Sunday. While Renne sent the fourth seed Smriti Bhasin home with a 6-4, 7-5 win, Laalitya won against sixth-seeded Niditra Rajmohan in three sets 6-1, 2-6, 10-6. Renne, the 17-year-old lass from Haryana depended on her deep

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Sharmada Balu who finished as the runner-up in the National Championship this year and current U-18 India No.1 Reshma Maruri have been has awarded a wildcard by the KSLTA for the upcoming ITF Women’s $15,000 Bengaluru to be played at the KSLTA Stadium from November 28. Hon. Secretary of KSLTA, Maheshwar Rao while announcing the wildcards here on Thursday said:

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