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The Dutch tennis star Tallon Griekspoor dropped the first set but pulled off a stunning come from-behind 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 win against the World No. 60 Benjamin Bonzi in a thrilling singles final to clinch the 5th edition of the Tata Open Maharashtra as well as his maiden ATP Tour title at the Balewadi Stadium in Pune. The blockbuster summit

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Indian pair of N. Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan pulled off one of the major upsets of the fifth edition of the Tata Open Maharashtra, beating the No. 2 seed American duo 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5) in the doubles quarter-finals at the Balewadi Stadium in Pune on Thursday. Balaji and Jeevan, who entered the tournament as an alternative entry, put

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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

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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 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

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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

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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

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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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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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