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Purav & Weissborn lose

Purav Raja and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn of Austria lost to Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow 6-4, 7-6(1) in the first round of the ATP 250 tennis tournament here. In the WTA event in Mexico, Ankita Raina and Paula Kania-Choudun,…

Maanav to meet Nikhil – The Hindu

Maanav Jain set up a title clash with Nikhil Niranjan in the ITF grade-5 junior tennis tournament here on Friday. In the doubles final, Maanav and Nikhil combined to beat the Belgians Sebastien Cauhape and Nyo van Dyck in straight sets.…

Zane downs Manish

Zane Khan of USA defeated Manish Sureshkumar 6-4, 6-1, to end the Indian challenge, in the quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament at the Indore Tennis Club on Friday. The results: Singles (quarterfinals): Marco…

Sriram Balaji loses doubles quarterfinals

Second-seeded Sriram Balaji and Luca Margaroli of Switzerland were beaten 6-3, 7-6(6) by Germany’s Dustin Brown and Switzerland’s Marc-Andrea Huesler in the doubles quarterfinals of the €44,820 Challenger tennis tournament here. Other…

Bhambri bows out

Qualifier Yuki Bhambri stretched the 59th-ranked Slovenian Aljaz Bedene before losing 6-3, 1-6, 4-6 in the first round of the $2,048,855 ATP tennis tournament in Dubai on Monday. Bhambri, playing in his third tournament after returning…

Indian team to be picked on March 16

The Indian team for the Billie Jean King Cup World Group play-off tie against Latvia will be selected on Tuesday. The selection committee is also scheduled to finalise the coach for the tie, which will be played on indoor hard courts at…

Kadhe opens campaign against Ranjeet

Arjun Kadhe has been seeded No. 1 and drawn to play former National champion V.M. Ranjeet in the first round of the National hard court tennis championship to be played at Tennis Project, Baliawas, from Tuesday.Defending champion Niki…