Defending champion Novak Djokovic struggled into the French Open last 16 on Friday, downing battling Diego Schwartzman of Argentina 5-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1. The second seed endured a roller-coaster of an afternoon on Philippe Chatrier court, picking up warnings for his behaviour as his mindset became as gloomy as the weather. The 30-year-old, almost…
World number one Andy Murray’s struggle, this season on clay, came back to plague him at the French Open yesterday as he ground out an unconvincing 6-7(3) 6-2 6-2 7-6(3) win against Slovakian power-hitter Martin Klizan. Out-hit and more surprisingly often out-thought in the first set by a player he had described as unpredictable, the…
Mysuru based Dhruthi T Venugopal taking part in the $25,000 ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament in Andijan, Uzbekistan, lost in the first round in the women’s singles event on Tuesday. Komola Umarova of Uzbekistan beat Dhruthi 6-4, 7-6(6) to enter the second round.
City’s Dhruthi T. Venugopal taking part in the $25,000 ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament at Andijan, Uzbekistan entered the main draw in the women’s singles event by winning her final qualifying match yesterday. In the final qualifying match, Dhruthi beat Uzbekistan’s Lavlo Bakhodovova 6-2, 6-4 to qualify for the singles main draw. In the first round,…
Mysuru lad Suraj R. Prabodh taking part in the Singapore F2 Futures $15,000 ITF Tennis Tournament from May 29 to June 4 went down in the second and final qualifying round in the men’s singles event to Marc-Andrea Huesler (SUI) yesterday. In the final qualifying round in the men’s singles. Marc-Andrea Huesler beat Suraj 6-7…
Sagar G. Kashyap of Mysuru along with two other officials from India, Abhishek Mukharjee and Saibal Banerjee have been selected to officiate in the upcoming US Open 2017 Grand Slam Tennis championships. Incidentally, Sagar Kashyap had officiated during last year’s Wimbledon championships and Australian Open tennis championships.
Abhimanyu Vannemreddy earned a wildcard entry into Junior French Open with a fighting win over Hikaru Shiraishi in the final of the Rendez-Vous event. The 17-year-old Abhimanyu tamed the fighting Japanese 6-1 4-6 6-1 in two hours and 15 minutes at court number six of Roland Garros. But to the Shiraiashi’s credit, he showed exemplary…
Mysuru’s upcoming tennis player Mustafa M. Raja teaming up with Satdeep, representing Karnataka at the National level Talent Series U-12 Tennis Tournament at Trivandrum Tennis Club, Trivandrum on May 26, won the U-12 Doubles title. In the final, Mustafa and Satdeep combined well to beat Sai Sanchit and K. Mahalingam 6-4, 6-1. In the semi-finals,…
It was sweet home coming and delight for the local lad and third-seed S.D. Prajwal Dev, when he staved off the challenge put up by sixth seed Ishaque Eqbal of West Bengal 6-1, 6-4 in the men’s singles final of MTC AITA men’s tennis tournament held at Mysore Tennis Club yesterday. Prajwal Dev, who started…
Playing a consistent baseline game on both the flanks, local lad S.D. Prajwal Dev, the third-seed, hogged the limelight on the third-day of the MTC Cup AITA Men’s Tennis Tournament by beating former India Davis-cupper and fifth seeded Vijay Kannan (TN)) 6-3, 6-2 to enter the semi-finals in the men’s singles event yesterday at the…
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