India’s top singles player Prajnesh Gunneswaran on Friday drew world number 17 Milos Raonic of Canada as his first round opponent at the Wimbledon Championships, starting Monday. Left-handed Prajnesh, ranked 94 in the world, will make his maiden appearance on the hallowed grass courts at the Wimbledon, today at 6.45 pm (IST). It will be…
Mysuru lad S.D. Prajwal Dev, teaming up with India’s Rishi Reddy, representing India in the ITF World Tennis Tour M15 Harare $15,000 Men’s Tennis Tournament entered the quarter-finals in the Men’s Doubles event on Wednesday. Prajwal Dev and Rishi Reddy combined well to beat Becker Gerhard Marius & Malan Pierre of South Africa 6-2, 6-3…
Mysuru lad S.D. Prajwal Dev, teaming up with fellow Indian Kunal Anand, and taking part in the 15,000$ ITF men’s tennis tournament at Kampala, Uganda on Thursday, won their pre-quarterfinal match in the men’s doubles event. Prajwal Dev and Kunal Anand beat the Russian pair of Sergey Bolotov & Alexey Dubian 6-4, 6-2 and sailed…
Mysuru lad G. Manish, a II PUC student of Sapient PU College and a product of the Mysore Tennis Club, Mysuru, taking part in the AITA men’s 1 lakh prize money tennis tournament at the Bowring Institute Club, Bengaluru on Monday, won his first round match in the men’s singles event and entered the pre-quarter-finals….
Mysuru lads C. Vasisht and S.D. Prajwal Dev, representing India in the M15 Sharm El Sheikh ITF Men’s Tennis Tournament being held at Egypt from Apr.8 to 14, have entered the Men’s Doubles finals by beating the Polish pair of Adrian Andrzejczuk & Piotr Matuszewski 1-6, 6-3 (10-8) on Friday. In the quarter-finals, the Mysuru…
Ashleigh Barty’s transformation is complete after the Australian defeated Czech fifth seed Karolina Pliskova 7-6 (7/1), 6-3 on Saturday to win the biggest singles title of her career at the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Miami Open. The 22-year-old Aussie quit tennis five years ago after finding the mental grind of the tour too much to…
R.N. Ramesh, employee of CSIR-CFTRI, Mysuru, teaming up with a Chennai player, won the Doubles title in 55+ Doubles category of All India Senior Tennis Championship held at Guntur (AP) from Mar.18 to 22. Ramesh, along with Manivannan from Chennai, defeated top-seed Srinivas Reddy from Ananthpur (AP) and Paul Manohar from Guntur (AP) by 6-4,…
Mysuru lad S.D. Prajwal Dev, teaming up with Adil Kalyanpur, finished runner-up in the Men’s Doubles event in the MI 15 Sharm El Sheikh ITF Men’s Tennis Tournament held at Egypt from Mar.18 to 24. In the final, the Netherlands pair of Igor Sijsling & Botic Van De Zandschulp beat Prajwal Dev & Adil Kalyanpur…
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…
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