Tata Open Maharashtra News

Rohan Bopanna and Ramkumar Ramanathan continued their brilliant run at the Tata Open Maharashtra and entered doubles final after a thrilling win over Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul at the Balewadi Stadium in Pune on Saturday.

Hometown hero Arjun Kadhe and campatriot Ramkumar Ramanathan were defeated in their respective opener of Tata Open Maharashtra.

After losing the hard-fought first set, the former junior world number one Yuki Bhambri, who made a comeback into the international circuit recently after a two-year break due to injury, started the second with 2-0 lead and looked in good touch.

Indian Tennis player Ramkumar Ramanathan has been awarded wildcard at the Tata Open Maharashtra 2022.

Bopanna lost just four points on his serve during the entire match as the top-seeded Indians produced a dominating 6-3 6-4 win over British pair of Luke Bambridge and Jonny O'Maara.

Sharan had made his Davis Cup debut against New Zealand, playing the doubles rubber with Vishnu Vardhan, in India's 5-0 whitewash of the visitors.

The unseeded Simon won his first ATP 250 World Tour event after having last won in Marseille in 2015.

World no. 14 Kevin Anderson advanced to the finals of the tournament after he defeated France's Benoit Paire in the second semifinal of the tournament held at the Mhalunge Balewadi Stadium.

The unseeded Indians lost 4-6, 6-7 (2) to the French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Gilles Simon, squandering as many as eight breakpoint chances in the second set and 11 overall.

Gilles Simon made his first ATP World Tour final in more than two years with a 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 win on Friday.

World No. 6 Cilic came into the quarter-finals after beating India's Ramkumar Ramanathan in straight sets on Wednesday.

Croatian Marin Cilic on Wednesday acknowledged that there were issues with regard to players' payment during the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL), which shut down last year due to financial crunch. 

Raja was also candid in saying that he lacked consistency in his service on big points on Tuesday but was quick to point out that it was not one of his worst serving days.

Bhambri's first serve let him down today as he bowed out with a 6-4 3-6 4-6 defeat against the Frenchman, ranked 81, in the second round of the hard court ATP 250 event.

India’s top singles player Yuki Bhambri got an easy season-opener against wild-card entrant Arjun Kadhe while tournament-favourite Marin Cilic and defending champion Roberto Bautista Agut got first-round byes at the Tata Open Maharashtra.