Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru boy Mustafa Raja won the 14-and-Under 3-Star Tennis BC (British Columbia) Tournament participating in his first tournament post-COVID restrictions being lifted. It was a draw of 64. Top players from the province participated and the Tournament was played in the Tennis BC Hub at Richmond, Vancouver in Canada. In the finals which lasted…
City veteran Tennis coach wins Doubles & Singles
March 16, 2021City veteran Tennis coach R. Nagaraj (centre) took part in the International Tennis Federation Gr 3, Seniors World Ranking Tennis Tournament held at the DLTA Courts in New Delhi in February and won both in Single and Doubles category in the 55+ age group. He is seen receiving the prize along with his Doubles’ partner…
2020 Year End Review: Is it the Beginning of the End of the Three Great Champions ?
December 18, 2020By U.B. Acharya With the conclusion of ATP Finals at O2 Arena in London in mid November, the curtain closed for the 2020 ATP Tennis season. Normally the season has about 70 ATP tournaments plus over 100 Challengers and ITF Features tournaments spread throughout the year and all over the world. However, due to the…
Winners of State-level Tennis
March 3, 2020The students of Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering & Technology (VVIET), Mysuru, bagged winners trophy in the State-level Inter-Collegiate Women Tennis Championship 2020 organised at R.V. College of Engineering in Bengaluru recently. Seen are (sitting from left) PE Director K.B. Manjunath, VVIET Principal Dr. M. Ravishankar, tennis team captain Yashitha S. Nayaka, R. Shivani and…
Leander Paes to retire in 2020
December 26, 2019Indian tennis icon Leander Paes yesterday announced that he will bring the curtains down on his illustrious career in 2020, which will be his farewell season on the Pro-circuit. His cupboard overflowing with hundreds of trophies, that include 18 coveted Grand Slam Doubles titles, the 46-year-old has been enduring a lean patch for some time….
Mysore Tennis Club celebrates Golden Jubilee
December 9, 2019The Mysore Tennis Club (MTC) in Chamarajapuram here, one of the primary Tennis Clubs in the country promoting the game of tennis, established in 1969, celebrated its Golden Jubilee at its premises here last evening. The MTC has been producing talented tennis players who have gone on to represent the country in different levels from…
Grade IV ITF Junior Tennis: City’s Arnav Pathange enters pre-quarters
November 27, 2019Mysuru lad Arnav Pathange, taking part in the Grade IV ITF Juniors Tennis Tournament 2019 being played at R.K. Khanna Tennis Stadium, DLTA Tennis Complex, New Delhi, from Nov.25 to 30, won his first round Boys Singles match and entered the pre-quarterfinals yesterday. Arnav Pathange beat Akhilendran Indrabalan 6-2, 6-3 and sailed into the pre-quarterfinals….
Grand Slam Events over the decades
October 14, 2019By U.B. Acharya With the conclusion of US Open Tennis Tournament last month where Geriatric Rafael Nadal (33 years) had the better of one of the Next-Gen players, Daniil Medvedev (23 years), the curtain closed on Grand Slam events for the decade. However, this write-up is not about the final match or the whole tournament…
2nd Deaf World Tennis Championships: Prashant enters quarter-finals
October 14, 2019Prashant Hamsabhavi, a hearing impaired tennis player, from Mysore Tennis Club, Mysuru, representing India in the 2nd Deaf World Tennis Championships being held at Antalya, Turkey, has on Sunday entered the Men’s Doubles quarter-finals teaming up with India’s Prithvi Shekar. In Men’s Singles event, Prashant bowed out in the first round but, however, is still…
Excels in Tennis
October 10, 2019City’s R. Nagaraj (left) of Income-Tax Department, who won in the 55+ Singles event and finished runner-up in the Doubles event of the ITF Grade 3 Seniors Tennis Championship – 2019 held at Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh recently, is seen receiving the trophy from one of the guests.















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