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Sep 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
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Aug 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
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Aug 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.
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Aug 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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Aug 27 2021 12:08pm
By Saurabh Singh | AITA The Indian tennis star Sania Mirza along with her American partner Christina McHale stormed into the doubles Semi-finals of the WTA 250 event Tennis in the Land after scoring an upset win over the third-seeded pairing of Czech Republic’s Lucie Hradecka and Shuai Zhang of China at Cleveland, United States. The Indo-American duo wrapped up
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Aug 20 2021 15:08pm
By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA India’s Ankita Raina and Ekaterine Gorgodze from Georgia, pitted against the team of Taiwanese professional Hsieh Yu-chieh and Germany’s Mona Barthel, in the Quarter-finals of the WTA 125 Chicago event, lost in straight sets 7-5, 6-2 in one hour and 10 minutes long duel. The winning Taiwanese-German duo won a total of 70 points while
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Aug 18 2021 17:08pm
Saumya Vig and Japan’s Lisa-Marie Rioux fought back from 5-1 down in the second set to score a 6-2, 7-6(3) victory over Elena Jamshidi and Sofia Nami Samavati of Denmark in the doubles first round of the $15,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament here on Tuesday. The results: $15,000 ITF women, Erwitte, Germany: First round: Lissa-Marie Rioux (Jpn) & Saumya Vig
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Aug 13 2021 16:08pm
By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA Rohan Bopanna from India ranked 49th in the world (in Doubles) and his Croatian partner Ivan Dodig, ranked 11th, advanced to the quarter-finals of the $3,487,915 ATP 1000 Masters Tennis tournament, Canadian Open in Toronto by defeating Italian-Argentine pairing of Simone Bolelli and Maximo Gonzalez by settling the match in straight sets 6-4, 6-3 in
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Aug 13 2021 14:08pm
By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA The second-round match between India’s Ankita Raina and Polish Katarzyna Kawa got suspended midway at the ITF W100 event in Landisville, Pennsylvania after two hours and 12 minutes of action on court. Raina facing the 176th ranked Kawa got off to a slow start and lost the first set 3-6. Kawa made five double faults
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Aug 13 2021 10:08am
By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA After qualifying for the main draw of the ITF W100 at Landisville, India’s highest-ranked player in the world, Ankita Raina won her first-round tie in straight sets 6-3, 6-2 against Mexico’s Renata Zarazua who is ranked 122 in the world in the singles and advanced to the second round at Koser Jeweler Tennis Challenge in
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Aug 11 2021 17:08pm
Bengaluru, Aug 11: In between doing his school assignment and playing, 10-year-old Arjun Manikandan had felled three seeds before taking on second seed Yashas Raj M in the title clash of the Boys Category of the KSLTA AITA Talent Series-3 U-12 tennis tournament. Yashas on his part, kept aside these sentiments to silence the giant killer in straight sets 6-1,
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Aug 11 2021 11:08am
India’s highest-ranked player in the world, Ankita Raina won both of her qualifying rounds and booked a place in the main draw of Koser Jeweler Tennis Challenge, an ITF $100K Tournament in Landisville, Pennsylvania. En route to the main draw, Raina beat Louisa Chirico of the USA and British eighth-seeded player in the qualifying draw, Katie Boulter. Raina won the
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Aug 10 2021 12:08pm
Bengaluru, Aug 9: All the seeded players registered easy first-round victories to reach the pre-quarterfinals of the KSLTA AITA Talent Series-3 U-12 tennis tournament being played at the KSLTA Tennis courts here on Monday. Ruhan Komandur, the top seed in the Boys category overcame Shreyank Manjunath 8-6 while Aahida Singh seeded No.1 in the Girls category sent home Tamil Nadu’s
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Aug 09 2021 16:08pm
Bengaluru, Aug 8:With the second wave of Covid receding, competitive tennis will resume in Karnataka with the AITA TS 3 U-12 tennis tournament that kicks off at the KSLTA courts here from Monday. As many as three other tournaments in as many weeks are lined up for the month of August. The tournaments will be conducted under strict Covid protocols
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Aug 06 2021 16:08pm
A meeting of the Professional Selection Committee of the All India Tennis Association, for selecting the Davis Cup team to represent India in the World Group 1 Tie against Finland on 17th & 18th Sep 2021, was held virtually on 5th Aug 2021. The Committee consists of the following: Mr Nandan Bal – Chairman Mr Balram Singh Mr Mustafa Ghouse
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Jul 26 2021 12:07pm
By Saurabh Singh | AITA After scripting a historic first singles win in 25 years for India at the Olympics, Indian youngster Sumit Nagal’s journey at Tokyo 2020 was cut short by ROC’s Daniil Medvedev in straight sets 6-2, 6-1 in one hour and six minutes at the Ariake Tennis Park in Japan today. Nagal showed flashes of brilliance in
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Jul 25 2021 10:07am
By Saurabh Singh | AITA Indian team in the Women’s doubles Tennis discipline, comprising of four-time Olympian Sania Mirza and Olympics debutant Ankita Raina, lost their first round match against Ukrainian twins Nadiia Kichenok and Lyudmyla Kichenok 6-0, 6-7, 8-10 at court no 11 of the Ariake Tennis Park today. In yet another rollercoaster of a match for Team India
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Jul 24 2021 12:07pm
By Saurabh Singh | AITA Representing India in Men’s singles Tennis event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Sumit Nagal has started off with a dream Olympics debut win over Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan in the first round at the Ariake Tennis Park in Japan today. Istomin, with a career high rank of 33 back in 2012, is highly rich
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Jul 23 2021 15:07pm
By Jamie Renton | ITF A week ago, Sumit Nagal tried to sum up his feelings ahead of taking part in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In a post on twitter, the 23-year-old Indian admitted his participation was “surreal” and that “no words can express my emotions”. Seven days later, on the day of the Olympic Opening Ceremony, the world No. 160
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Jul 22 2021 18:07pm
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of India has launched a novel initiative to support such candidates who are meritorious sports persons and represented India at Asian, Commonwealth or Olympics, to pursue the Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Management (EPGDSM) Programme conducted by IIM Rohtak. The financial assistance of amount upto INR 5 lakh per candidate will
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