Tag: RAMKUMAR RAMANATHAN

Ramkumar Ramanathan advanced to the second round of the Wimbledon Qualifiers but Prajnesh Gunneswaran, who was under-prepared due to a left-wrest injury, bowed out in the first round. Ramkumar beat Slovakia’s 13th seed Jozef Kovalik 6-3 6-0 in exactly one hour in his first round. Prajnesh, though, lost in straight sets to British wild card Arthur Fery. The left-handed Indian, ranked

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA After the 2020 edition of the Wimbledon Championship was cancelled for the first time since World War II due to coronavirus pandemic, the season’s third Grand Slam marked its return, this week, to the International tennis calendar after a year’s gap. Three Indian players – Prajnesh Gunneswaran, Ramkumar Ramanathan and Ankita Raina, who are vying

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India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan entered the second round of the Nottingham Trophy grass-court tournament with a 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(1) win over 229th ranked Leonardo Mayer of Argentina. Ramanathan, who is ranked 211th on the ATP Tour, next plays Kamil Majchrzak of Poland. <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span>   Ramanathan came through qualifiers to reach this

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India’s Ramkumar Ramnathan, world no. 201, was defeated by Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik, world no. 44, in straight sets 4-6, 2-6 in a first round encounter at the ATP Tour Qatar ExxonMobile Open that lasted one hour and 13 minutes in Doha, Qatar. Bublik managed to convert half of the chances he got as break points while Ramanathan failed to convert

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Ramkumar, who is yet to make a Grand Slam main draw appearance, ousted 10th seed Argentine Facundo Bagnis with a hard-fought 7-6(6) 7-5 victory in one hour and 53 minutes in men’s singles first round. Indian tennis players Ramkumar Ramanathan and Ankita Raina advanced to the second round of the Australian Open Qualifiers after recording wins in their respective singles

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Seeded number one in the doubles draw, the all Indian pairing of Purav Raja and Ramkumar Ramanthan started off their challenge with a comfortable straight sets win, 6-4, 6-0, over Spain’s David Marrero and Serbia’s Nenad Zimonjic at the Ferrero Challenger Open in Alicante, Spain yesterday. Playing against lower ranked wild card entrants Marrero and Zimonjic, the Indians took control

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA Doubles specialist N. Sriram Balaji along with his Swiss partner Luca Margaroli produced a thrilling come-from-behind win at the Ferrero Challenger Open in Alicante, Spain in their first-round tie against the American-Polish pair of Hunter Reese and Jan Zielinski. However, Ramkumar Ramanathan had to endure a tough loss in the singles competition against 17-year-old local

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Indian tennis player Ramkumar Ramanathan yet again settled for a runner-up finish on the Challenger circuit, losing the final of the Eckental event to American Sebastian Korda yesterday. The unseeded Indian, celebrating his 26th birthday, lost the summit clash 4-6 4-6 to his seventh seed rival, ranked 135, in one hour and 23 minutes. It is now the fifth time

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