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By Saurabh Singh | AITA The all Indian pairings of Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & Purav Raja and Ramkumar Ramanathan & N. Sriram Balaji had a successful start to their respective doubles campaigns and made a twin-win day for Indian tennis in doubles on the ATP Challenger Tour events in France and Spain respectively. Coming back after a month-long injury layoff, Jeevan

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By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA India’s Sowjanya Bavisetti qualified for the main draw of ITF Women’s $60,000 Collonge- Bellerive event in Switzerland today after she won the Qualifying second round in straight sets 6-2, 6-1 against Slovak tennis player Victoria Morvayova. It took only one hour and 19 minutes for Bavisetti to finish off the proceedings at her final qualifying

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA India’s most successful female tennis player Sania Mirza missed out on earning her 44th WTA Tour title as she and her American partner Christina McHale fell short to top-seeded Japanese pair of Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara in the Finals of Tennis In The Land – a WTA 250 event held at Cleveland, United States.

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA The unseeded pairing of India’s Sania Mirza and her American partner Christina McHale has marched into the doubles Finals of the WTA 250 event Tennis in the Land after defeating another unseeded duo comprising of Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and American Catherine Harrison in straight sets 7-6, 6-2 at Cleveland, United States. The Indo-American team completed

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA The Indian tennis star Sania Mirza along with her American partner Christina McHale stormed into the doubles Semi-finals of the WTA 250 event Tennis in the Land after scoring an upset win over the third-seeded pairing of Czech Republic’s Lucie Hradecka and Shuai Zhang of China at Cleveland, United States. The Indo-American duo wrapped up

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By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA India’s Ankita Raina and Ekaterine Gorgodze from Georgia, pitted against the team of Taiwanese professional Hsieh Yu-chieh and Germany’s Mona Barthel, in the Quarter-finals of the WTA 125 Chicago event, lost in straight sets 7-5, 6-2 in one hour and 10 minutes long duel. The winning Taiwanese-German duo won a total of 70 points while

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Saumya Vig and Japan’s Lisa-Marie Rioux fought back from 5-1 down in the second set to score a 6-2, 7-6(3) victory over Elena Jamshidi and Sofia Nami Samavati of Denmark in the doubles first round of the $15,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament here on Tuesday. The results: $15,000 ITF women, Erwitte, Germany: First round: Lissa-Marie Rioux (Jpn) & Saumya Vig

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By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA Rohan Bopanna from India ranked 49th in the world (in Doubles) and his Croatian partner Ivan Dodig, ranked 11th, advanced to the quarter-finals of the $3,487,915 ATP 1000 Masters Tennis tournament, Canadian Open in Toronto by defeating Italian-Argentine pairing of Simone Bolelli and Maximo Gonzalez by settling the match in straight sets 6-4, 6-3 in

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By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA The second-round match between India’s Ankita Raina and Polish Katarzyna Kawa got suspended midway at the ITF W100 event in Landisville, Pennsylvania after two hours and 12 minutes of action on court. Raina facing the 176th ranked Kawa got off to a slow start and lost the first set 3-6. Kawa made five double faults

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By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA After qualifying for the main draw of the ITF W100 at Landisville, India’s highest-ranked player in the world, Ankita Raina won her first-round tie in straight sets 6-3, 6-2 against Mexico’s Renata Zarazua who is ranked 122 in the world in the singles and advanced to the second round at Koser Jeweler Tennis Challenge in

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