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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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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
Read moreSep 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
Read moreSep 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
Read moreSep 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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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
Read moreSep 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
Read moreSep 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
Read moreSep 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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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
Read moreSep 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
Read moreSep 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
Read moreSep 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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By Saurabh Singh | AITA After a prolific run at the Challenger 80 category tournament, Rafa Nadal Open, the Indian challenge has come to a halt in Mallorca, Spain. India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan endured a tough loss in his singles Quarter-Finals against Japanese top seed Yasutaka Uchiyama which was followed by a missed opportunity to make the doubles final by the
Read moreSep 03 2021 13:09pm
By Saurabh Singh | AITA It was a win-win day for India at the Rafa Nadal Open, an ATP Challenger tournament carrying a Prize Purse of € 44,820, as Ramkumar Ramanathan entered the Quarter-Finals in singles and the all-Indian pairing of Ramkumar Ramanathan and N. Sriram Balaji stormed into the doubles Semi-Finals at Mallorca, Spain. In the singles draw, Ramanathan
Read moreSep 02 2021 12:09pm
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
Read moreAug 31 2021 22:08pm
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
Read moreAug 29 2021 11:08am
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.
Read moreAug 28 2021 12:08pm
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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