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• The move provides increased certainty for players, teams and host nations competing in the World Cup of Tennis • Eight home-and-away Play-off ties to be held during the 2021 Finals week: 13-18 April 2021 • Up to 140 top players from 28 nations will contest ties held in nine countries in the same week The ITF has announced that

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Top Indian tennis player Ankita Raina won her third doubles title of the pandemic-hit 2020 season, clinching the Al Habtoor challenge with Ekaterine Gorgodze. The unseeded Indo-Georgian pair won 6-4 3-6 10-6 against Aliona Bolsova Zadoinov from Spain and Slovakian Kaja Juvan in the final of the USD 100,000 hard court event on Saturday.Ankita said success on the singles circuit

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Early breaks pegging him back in both the sets, Prajnesh Gunneswaran ended runner-up at the Orlando Open, losing the summit clash of the ATP Challenger event to American Brandon Nakashima, here on Sunday. Prajnesh did not have the required power in his strokes to hurt the American, losing 3-6 4-6 in the USD 52,080 hard court tournament. The Indian left-hander

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA India’s top ranked doubles specialist Rohan Bopanna and his partner Matwe Middlekoop of Netherlands fell short at the European Open’s final, an ATP 250 event, to settle for runner up trophy against number two seeded pairing of Aussie John Peers and New Zealand’s Michael Venus in Antwerp, Belgium yesterday. The Indo-Dutch duo endured a straight

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Seeded number one in the doubles draw, the all Indian pairing of Purav Raja and Ramkumar Ramanthan started off their challenge with a comfortable straight sets win, 6-4, 6-0, over Spain’s David Marrero and Serbia’s Nenad Zimonjic at the Ferrero Challenger Open in Alicante, Spain yesterday. Playing against lower ranked wild card entrants Marrero and Zimonjic, the Indians took control

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA Doubles specialist N. Sriram Balaji along with his Swiss partner Luca Margaroli produced a thrilling come-from-behind win at the Ferrero Challenger Open in Alicante, Spain in their first-round tie against the American-Polish pair of Hunter Reese and Jan Zielinski. However, Ramkumar Ramanathan had to endure a tough loss in the singles competition against 17-year-old local

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By Saurabh Singh India’s Sumit Nagal won back-to-back qualifying matches over the weekend at the Sardinia ATP 250 event to enter the main draw of Forte Village Sardegna Open 2020 in Italy. With €271,345 on offer as prize money, Sardinia is one of four new ATP 250 events added to the 2020 provisional schedule, as tennis continues its return following

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Saksham Attray, a 15-year-old player from Bengaluru, utilized his time during the COVID-19 lockdown to write a book called BREAKPOINT – Tennis During A Global Pandemic. Here’s a synopsis of the book: Believe it or not, it is possible to stay match fit and level up in your game while sheltering at home by following the methods outlined by 15-year

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The All India Tennis Association announces the resumption of the Domestic Tennis Circuit from 16th November 2020. Competitive tennis will make a return after a hiatus of eight months when the on-going COVID-19 pandemic halted the tennis-related activities from the week starting 16th March 2020. The tournaments will initially begin in the age categories of U-12, U-14 and U-16 only. The duration

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Following are the letters from Dr. Anil Jain, the newly elected President of All India Tennis Association addressed to all Players and Parents across India. 1)Communication to Players from Dr. Anil Jain, President, AITA 2)Communication to Parents from Dr. Anil Jain, President, AITA