Akanksha Nitture took to tennis when she was just five year old. Her father, a tennis player himself, quit his job and took to coaching, with an aim to train his daughter. Thirteen years later, she played the biggest match of her ITF career thus far and that too with an upset victory over her experienced rival and eighth seed
By Saurabh Singh | AITA Hungarian teenager Zsombor Velcz defeated American third seed Dusty H. Boyer in the singles final of the ITF Men’s $15,000 Gurugram to lift the champion’s trophy yesterday. The tournament, which began on 22nd November in Haryana’s Gurugram city, came to conclusion with a fitting finale which produced an enthralling battle where the 19-year-old Velcz won
Renne Singla and Laalitya Kalluri scored upset victories to enter the second round of the qualifiers of the ITF Women’s $15,000 Bengaluru on Sunday. While Renne sent the fourth seed Smriti Bhasin home with a 6-4, 7-5 win, Laalitya won against sixth-seeded Niditra Rajmohan in three sets 6-1, 2-6, 10-6. Renne, the 17-year-old lass from Haryana depended on her deep
By Saurabh Singh | AITA French third seed Valetin Vacherot defeated Aussie teenager Philip Sekulic in the singles final of the ITF Men’s $15,000 New Delhi to lift the champion’s trophy yesterday. The tournament, which began on 15th November at the RK Khanna Tennis Stadium in New Delhi, came to conclusion with a fitting finale which produced an enthralling battle
By Saurabh Singh | AITA India’s Manish Sureshkumar triumphed over Aussie teenager Philip Sekulic in a three set battle to be crowned as the singles champion at the ITF Men’s $15,000 tournament held from 8th to 14th November at Indore Tennis Club in Indore. 22 year old Sureshkumar won the match 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 to lift the second ITF singles
Poonacha, Qamar and Bocchi register opening round wins as the Main Draw action gets underway The ITF Men’s $15,000 New Delhi qualifiers concluded today with the final round matches being held today at the RK Khanna Tennis Stadium, New Delhi. From the six qualifiers’ spots up for grabs in the singles qualifying, four Indians – Ishaque Eqbal, Siddharth Vishwakarma, Muthu
Fourth seeded Oliver Crawford stopped the winning run of eighth seeded Zane Khan to win the Men’s singles event at the $15,000 KPIT–MSLTA ITF WTT Cup Men’s tennis championships being organized by MSLTA in association with Deccan Gymkhana and played at their tennis courts In a one sided final the three weeks of stress seemed to have shown on the
Local favourite Arjun Kadhe pairing with Switzerland’s Luca Castelnuovo won the doubles title at the $15000 KPIT –MSLTA ITF WTT Cup Men’s tennis championships being organized by MSLTA in association with Deccan Gymkhana and played at their tennis courts. The second seeded Indo -Swiss pair of Kadhe and Castelnuovo outplayed Irishman Simon Carr and American Alexander Kotzen 6-4, 7-5 in the finals. The
Zane Khan of USA made it to the third straight finals in a row setting up a summit clash with Great Britain’s Oliver Crawford in the men’s singles finals of the $15000 KPIT –MSLTA ITF WTT Cup Men’s tennis championships being organized by MSLTA in association with Deccan Gymkhana and played at their tennis courts. In the semi-finals today, the
Indians Arjun Kadhe and Manish Sureshkunar provided a silver lining on a otherwise gloomy day as they came back from loss of the first set to recover and reach the men’s singles quarter-finals at the $15000 KPIT –MSLTA ITF WTT Cup Men’s tennis championships being organized by MSLTA in association with Deccan Gymkhana and played at their tennis courts In