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Pratima Rao and Veerasamy Shekhar brought laurels to the host state when they emerged as the champions in the women’s and men’s category respectively of the Rs 3-lakh prize money KSLTA-AITA Wheelchair tennis tournament that concluded at the KSLTA here on Saturday. Top seed Pratima Rao faced a stiff challenge from KP Shilpa before overcoming the second seed in three

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New Delhi: The All India Tennis Association (AITA) announces the team selection for India’s maiden participation in BNP Paribas World Team Cup Regional Qualification event to be held from 9th to 16th May 2021 at Vilamoura, Portugal. The Indian side will contest for one of the four Regional Qualification spots available to reach the World Group event of BNP Paribas

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Indian tennis player Sumit Nagal on Friday (local time) bowed out of the ongoing Argentina Open after losing his quarter-final clash. Spain’s Albert Ramos Vinolas outclassed Nagal 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 at Court Guillermo Vilas. The first set was won by Nagal 6-4 and he was looking on course to win one more set in order to qualify for the semi-finals.

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Sania Mirza continued her good form as she along with her partner Andreja Klepac of Slovenia progressed to the semi-finals of the Qatar Total Open on Wednesday. Sania and her women’s doubles partner Klepac registered a comfortable 6-2, 6-0 win in straight sets over fourth-seeded Anna Blinkova and Gabriela Dabrowski in the quarter-finals of the tournament. Earlier on Monday, Sania

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India’s Sumit Nagal registered the biggest win of his career when he stunned second seed Cristian Garin of Chile in straight sets to enter the quarter-finals of the Argentina Open ATP 250 tournament here. Nagal, ranked 150, produced high-class tennis on Wednesday to register an impressive 6-4 6-3 second round win over his Chilean rival, who is ranked way above

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Sumit Nagal of India defeated local lad Nicolas Kicker in a come from behind win of 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the final qualifying round match of the ATP Tour Argentina Open being held in Buenos Aires. The match lasted two hours and 12 minutes. In the main draw, 150th ranked Nagal will be pitted against 100th ranked Joao Sousa of

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Sania Mirza made a winning return to the WTA circuit as she and her Slovenian partner Andreja Klepac beat Ukrainians Nadiia Kichenok and Lyudmyla Kichenok to reach the doubles quarterfinals of the Qatar Total Open here. The Indo-Slovenian pair won 6-4 6-7(5) 10-5 against the duo of Kichenok and Kichenok in the opening round of the WTA 500 tournament Monday

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The All India Tennis Association’s (AITA) ‘Return to Tennis’ endeavour – the High Performance Training Camps (HPTC) – started to bear fruit already as 17-year-old HPTC trainee from Navi Mumbai, Akanksha Nitture ousted Snehal Mane in straight sets 6-2, 6-4 in the final qualifying round at the ITF Women’s $15,000 event at Delhi Lawn Tennis Association Complex, New Delhi today.

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Melbourne: Indian tennis player Ankita Raina recorded her first victory in the singles main draw of a WTA Tour event with a three-set win over Elisabetta Cocciaretto at the Phillip Island Trophy here on Sunday. Ankita came from behind to beat the Italian 5-7 6-1 6-2 in the opening round of the USD 235,238 hardcourt tournament. The two-hour and 11

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Bengaluru lass Soha Sadiq made the home crowd proud when the second seed made a superb comeback win against the top Seed Humera Baharmus of Telengana to wrest the title in the Rs 1-lakh AITA Women’s Championship that concluded at the PBI-CSE Tennis Academy, Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence here on Saturday. This was the 22-year-old’s second title in as

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