A crisp hot day in Dubai with a gentle breeze – an appropriate setting for our lad from Chennai, Prajnesh Gunneswaran, who had received a wild card to play at the Dubai Duty Free Championships. He faced Dennis Novak in Round 1, an Austrian, who has been steadily climbing up the rankings, a good friend …
Going into the ATP Bengaluru Challenger a few weeks, not a lot of people would have heard the name of Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam. Two days into the tournament, and people were discussing how to pronounce his surname “Shanmugam”. Good progress, eh? The off-court hype was a result of the flamboyance that this lad from Chennai …
Wildcards Leander Paes and Matthew Ebden take on 2nd seeds Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek
Prajnesh takes on Dennis Novak from Austria in Round 1
ITF Jodhpur $25k (Women)- As a top seed Ankita Raina put up a dominant display to win yet another 25K title in Jodhpur this week without dropping a set. This was her seventh 25K title and her second title this year. With this she will move up past her previous career high ranking of 164 …
India No.1 Rohan Bopanna, playing with Pablo Carreno Busta, went down 3-6 6-3 6-10 to qualifying top seeds Kontinen/Struff in a close tussle. Bopanna, was initially entered to play with Alexander Bublik, but ended up partnering Carreno Busta at the end. Bopanna spoke to Deepthi Indukuri after his match to share his thoughts on it, …
“Sundays with Purav” is a 11 part series in collaboration with our very own, Purav Raja. Through his first hand experience of competing on the ATP Tour, Purav aims to educate Indian tennis parents, fans, and community, in general, about what our country needs to do to be called a sporting nation. Catch other episodes …
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Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Sriram Balaji share their thoughts on the season so far and on the tourneys ahead.
The wildcard pairing of Sania Mirza and Caroline Garcia lost to 5th seeds 🇨🇿Krejcikova/🇨🇳Zheng 4-6 2-6 in the 2nd round. Photos by – Krishnakumar, a senior finance business leader based in Dubai.
The Indo-French pairing of Sania Mirza and Caroline Garcia beat 🇷🇺Kudryavtseva/🇸🇮Srebotnik 6-4 4-6 10-8 in round 1. They will take on 5th seeds 🇨🇿Krejcikova/🇨🇳Zheng next. Photos by Krishnakumar Duraiswamy – a senior finance business leader based in Dubai
