Tag: Ankita Raina

Ankita Raina, India’s current number one player in the women’s category, performed strongly at the ITF $40,000 Women’s Tennis Tournament held at the KSLTA Stadium in Bengaluru from 6th to 12th March 2023. Despite facing tough opponents throughout the tournament, Ankita showed her skill and determination on the court and ended the competition as a singles finalist. However, her bid

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The Indian duo Ankita Raina and Prarthana G Thombare has won the Solapur Open ITF $25k doubles, defeating Priska Nugroho and Ekatarina Yashina. It was Ankita’s 5th doubles title this year and Prarthana’s 3rd. It was an easy straight sets victory by the Indian pair 6-1, 6-2. In the singles event, Ankita Raina was the only Indian to reach the

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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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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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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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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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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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The experienced pair of Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza defeated the brand new combination of Ramkumar Ramanathan and Ankita Raina 6-2 7-6 (5) in the historic all-Indian mixed doubles first-round match at Wimbledon here on Friday. It was the first time in the open era that two Indian teams competed against each other at a Grand Slam tournament. The contest

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Asian Games bronze medallists Ankita Raina and Prajnesh Gunneswaran have been nominated for the prestigious Arjuna award by the All India Tennis Association. The names of Balram Singh and Enrico Piperno for the Dhyanchand honour has also been sent. Ankita and Prajnesh both won singles bronze medals at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta and Palembang. Ankita is now

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Vishal Uppal to continue as Captain India to make maiden appearance at the World Group Play-off stage of Billie Jean King Cup The Professional Selection Committee of the All India Tennis Association (AITA) comprising of Nandan Bal (Chairman), Balram Singh, Mustafa Ghouse and Sai Jayalakshmi met today to select the team for the upcoming India’s maiden Billie Jean King Cup

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