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Dec 14 2020 09:12am
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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Nov 23 2020 09:11am
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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Oct 26 2020 16:10pm
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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Oct 15 2020 16:10pm
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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Oct 14 2020 16:10pm
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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Oct 12 2020 16:10pm
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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Oct 06 2020 16:10pm
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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Oct 05 2020 15:10pm
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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Oct 02 2020 06:10am
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
Sep 09 2020 09:09am
Indian tennis player Ramkumar Ramanathan yet again settled for a runner-up finish on the Challenger circuit, losing the final of the Eckental event to American Sebastian Korda yesterday. The unseeded Indian, celebrating his 26th birthday, lost the summit clash 4-6 4-6 to his seventh seed rival, ranked 135, in one hour and 23 minutes. It is now the fifth time
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