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Oct 03 2021 10:10am
Bengaluru, Oct 2: Former Asian Games medallist and doubles specialist Vishnu Vardhan was back in winning circles as he annexed the PBI-CSE Tennis Academy AITA Rs 1 lakh Men’s tennis title here on Saturday. In the summit clash, the 34-year-old made it look like a formality when he quashed the dreams of first-time finalist Maanav Jain with a clinical 6-1,
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Sep 26 2021 19:09pm
By Saurabh Singh | AITA The Indo-Chinese pair and second-seeded doubles team of Sania Mirza and Shuai Zhang defeated the third seeds Kaitlyn Christian of the USA and her Kiwi partner Erin Routliffe in straight sets 6-3, 6-2 to lift the WTA 500 Ostrava Open title in Ostrava, Czech Republic today. It took the second seeds only four minutes over
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Sep 25 2021 20:09pm
By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA Former world no.1 in doubles, India’s Sania Mirza and her partner Shuai Zhang of China beat Makoto Nonomiya and Eri Hozumi in the doubles semi-finals 6-2, 7-5 of the $565,530 WTA 500 Ostrava Open in the Czech Republic yesterday. The straight-sets victory came in just 81 minutes for the winning Indo-Chinese duo who are seeded
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Sep 20 2021 11:09am
Rohan Bopanna and Ramkumar Ramanathan blew their chances in the must-win doubles match as India lost the World Group I tie 1-3 to hosts Finland in the Davis Cup at the Espoo Metro Areena in Espoo, Finland. Captain Rohit Rajpal changed the doubles combination by pairing Bopanna with Ramkumar instead of left-handed Divij Sharan but they lost the crucial match
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Sep 18 2021 11:09am
India’s Davis Cup tie against Finland got off to a losing start on the indoor hard courts of the Espoo Metro Areena in Finland. Prajnesh Gunneswaran lost to a lower-ranked player in the Davis Cup while Ramkumar Ramanathan went down fighting in the second singles as India trailed 0-2 in the World Group I tie against Finland, at Espoo on
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Sep 17 2021 17:09pm
By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA India’s tennis player Sania Mirza and partner Shuai Zhang of China lost to the all-Belgian pairing Greet Minnen and Alison Van Uytvanck in a closely fought quarter-finals 3-6, 6-3, 10-8 at the Luxembourg Open in Luxembourg. The second-seeded Indo-Chinese pair were knocked out from the tournament after a high-quality tussle that lasted one hour and
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Sep 17 2021 11:09am
India’s top-ranked player Prajnesh Gunnerswaran will be taking on Otto Virtanen, Finland’s No. 2 singles player who is ranked 419, in the first match of their Davis Cup World Group I 1st round match at Espoo Metro Areena here on Friday. Ramkumar Ramanathan, India’s No. 2 player ranked 187 in the world, will meet Finland’s top player Emil Ruusuvuori, the
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Sep 16 2021 15:09pm
Finland and India will lock horns for the first time in their Davis Cup history at the World Group I tie scheduled to be held at Espoo Metro Areena in Espoo, Finland this weekend on 17 and 18 September 2021. Here are the details of match start times and where can the matches be watched: When: 17-18 September 2021 Start
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Sep 16 2021 13:09pm
By Saurabh Singh | AITA India’s Girls and Boys U-12 teams finished first and second, respectively, in the South Asia Regional Qualifying and have earned themselves a place in the Finals ITF Asia U-12 Team Competition scheduled in November 2021 at Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. After three days of action at Islamabad, Pakistan, the Girls team from India topped the final standings
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Sep 15 2021 15:09pm
The Indian tennis squad was in for a pleasant surprise when it found out that the indoor hard court for the upcoming Davis Cup tie against Finland was not as fast as it was expected and carries low bounce. The Indian players on Tuesday got a chance to practice on the match court, which has been laid temporarily on carpet
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Sep 14 2021 17:09pm
By Saurabh Singh | AITA The Indian Girls side comprising of Maaya Rajeshwari Revathi, Harithashree Venkatesh and Janhavi Kajla notched up their second consecutive victory in as many days at the South Asia Regional Qualifying event of the ITF Asia U12 Team Competition which is being held at the PTF SDA Tennis Complex in Islamabad, Pakistan. It is the second
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Sep 14 2021 13:09pm
On 15th September, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) is going to add ITF World Tennis Number on to the profiles of 1000 junior players globally on the ITF website and among those, there will be 11 Indian Juniors. This is following the successful integration of the ITF World Tennis Number on the ITF Player Profiles of 50 junior boys and
Read moreSep 13 2021 18:09pm
By Saurabh Singh | AITA Team India got off to a winning start in both Boys and Girls categories at the South Asia Regional Qualifying event of the ITF Asia U12 Team Competition which began today PTF SDA Tennis Complex in Islamabad, Pakistan. In the first tie of the Round Robin format, the Indian Boys were pitted against Nepal and
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Sep 12 2021 18:09pm
India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan and N Sriram Balaji on Saturday lifted the doubles title at the ATP Cassis Challenger event with a three-set win over Mexican pair of Hans Hach Verdugo and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela. The third seed Indian pair defeated the second seed rivals 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 in the title clash of the €44820 hard court tournament. They split €2670
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Sep 11 2021 17:09pm
By Saurabh Singh | AITA Team India is flying off to Pakistan to participate in the South Asia Regional Qualifying event of the ITF Asia 12 & Under Team Competition 2021. The Qualifying tournament, organized by Pakistan Tennis Federation and sanctioned by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Asian Tennis Federation (ATF), is scheduled to be held at PTF SDA
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Sep 11 2021 14:09pm
By Saurabh Singh | AITA The great run by all-Indian pair of N. Sriram Balaji and Ramkumar Ramanathan continued as they stormed into the Finals Cassis Open Provence after conquering their Semifinals battle against the American-Brazilian pairing of Ernesto Escobedo and Fernando Romboli at Cassis, France. Ramanathan-Balaji dominated the proceedings throughout the match to win it in straight sets 6-3,
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Sep 11 2021 14:09pm
By Saurabh Singh | AITA India’s fourth-ranked junior in the U-18 AITA rankings, Nishant Dabas has won his maiden ITF singles trophy after beating Moroccan junior Walid Ahouda 6-0, 6-4 at the J2 event held this week at Cairo, Egypt. With this win, 17-year-old Dabas added silverware number four from the ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors calendar in 2021. Before
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Sep 10 2021 16:09pm
By Saurabh Singh | AITA The Indian doubles duo of Ramkumar Ramanathan and N. Sriram Balaji has entered the Semi-finals of the Challenger 80 category event on the ATP Challenger Tour, Cassis Open Provence, after their Quarters opponents Altug Celikbilek of Turkey and his Russian partner Roman Safiullin gave them a walkover. The Challenger tournament, being played on the Hardcourt
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Sep 04 2021 20:09pm
By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA At the Raja Narsimha Rao Memorial ITF J4 U-18 Tournament hosted in Hyderabad, Aman Dahiya, ITF junior ranking 171st and his 15-year-old partner Rushil Khosla beat Dhananjaya Athreya and Deep Munim to lift the Boys Doubles title. The winning duo executed a power pack performance and consistently dominated their opponents throughout the proceedings of the
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Sep 04 2021 15:09pm
By Saurabh Singh | AITA After an unprecedented weather situation suspended dozens of matches in the Doubles draw of the 2021 US Open, India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Croatian partner Ivan Dodig finally got to the courts for their first-round tie against Aussie duo of James Duckworth and Jordan Thompson and won the match in three sets 3-6, 6-3, 7-6
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