Mysuru’s R. Nagaraj of Income-Tax Department won the Men’s 50 Plus Singles title in the All India Central Revenue Sports Board’s Tennis Tournament held at Chandigarh recently. In the final, Nagaraj beat Aramb Vasavada 6-1, 6-3 and clinched the title. In the semi-finals, Nagaraj got the better of Bijay Kumar Naik 6-2, 6-2. In Men’s…
By U.B. Acharya The Association of Tennis Players (ATP) has an excellent quantitative system for ranking current players based on each player’s performance on a moving 52 week period. The ranking goes down to below 1000 and one can see how a current player is performing on a weekly basis. However, comparing tennis players of…
H. Aditi from Bharath Tennis Express Academy, Mysuru, who took part in the SAT Sports Open U-10 Tennis Tourney held at Bengaluru recently, secured the runner-up sport in the Girls U-10 section. In the final, S. Sana beat Aditi 4-2, 4-0 to clinch the title.
Heeman Toli Prasad, a 6th standard student of NPS International School, Vijayanagar, Mysuru, representing Karnataka in the National Talent Series U-12 Tennis Tournament conducted by Top Spin Tennis Academy, Bengaluru, from Feb.11 to 15, finished runner-up in the U-12 Boys Singles event. In the final, top-seed G. Tanush (B’luru) beat Heeman Toli Prasad 6-, 6-2…
Local lad and unseeded Aryan Pathange, playing a consistent baseline game shocked the fourth seeded Nikith Reddy (Kar) 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the Men’s Singles event in the Mysuru Open. Top-seed S.D. Prajwal Dev (Karnataka) scored a easy win over Karnataka’s Rohan Bhatia 6-2, 6-1 and sailed into the second round. Jatin…
Mysuru’s tennis player Mustafa M. Raja, teaming up with Pune’s Arnav, won the AITA National Series Tennis U-12 Doubles title in the Tournament being held at K.G. Ramesh Tennis Academy, Coimbatore, beating the top-seeded pair of Rethin Senthil and Kandhavel Mahalingam 6-7 (2), 7-6(6), 10-8. Mustafa has also reached the U-12 Boys Singles finals. Mustafa,…
Three Mysuru men’s tennis players, Suraj Prabodh (Ranked No.1 in the State), S.D. Prajwal Dev (Ranked No. 2 in the State) and Arnav Pathange (Ranked No.6 in the State), have been provisionally selected in the Karnataka men’s team to represent the State in the All India Tennis Association’s Inter-State National Men’s Team Championship-2019 to be…
Novak Djokovic claimed a record seventh Australian Open crown on Sunday as he demolished Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 in his most dominant Grand Slam win in his long rivalry with the Spaniard. The peerless Serb broke Nadal five times at a stunned Rod Laver Arena while conceding only a single break point to clinch…
Mysuru’s well-known tennis player R. Nagaraj of the Income-Tax Department, representing Karnataka in the Santhanam Memorial Senior National Tennis Championship 2019, won 55+ Men’s Singles as well as Doubles titles respectively in the Tournament held at Chennai from Jan.21 to 25. In the Men’s 55+ Singles final, R. Nagaraj beat fifth seeded Chellaiah (TN) 6-2,…
Mysuru lad Yashas M. Urs, a 8th standard student of Excel Public school, Mysuru, entered the final in the Boys U-16 Singles event in the AITA Talent Series National-level Junior Tennis Tournament at Pondicherry recently. In semi-finals, Yashas scored an upset win over top-seed Harisharan Bhaskaran (TN) 6-4, 6-1. In quarter-finals, Yashas had a upset…
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