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….
Tennis: Vasisht-Prajwal Dev duo enters finals
April 13, 2019Mysuru 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 defeats Karolina Pliskova to capture WTA Miami Open Title
March 31, 2019Ashleigh 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…
Winners of National Tennis Championship
March 30, 2019R.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,…
M15 Sharm El Sheikh ITF Men’s Tennis: Prajwal Dev-Adil Kalyanpur finish runner-up
March 25, 2019Mysuru 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…
Central Revenue Sports Board’s Tennis Tournament: City’s R. Nagaraj excels
March 13, 2019Mysuru’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…
World’s Top 30 Tennis Players
March 12, 2019By 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…
SAT Sports Open U-10 Tennis: City’s Aditi finishes runner-up
February 23, 2019H. 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.
AITA Talent Series U-12 Tourney: Heeman Toli Prasad finishes runner-up
February 18, 2019Heeman 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…
Aryan Pathange shocks Nikith Reddy in first round
February 12, 2019Local 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…
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