Vijay Amritraj News
Vijay Amritraj: There are a lot of rumours floating around, but nothing obviously has been confirmed. The last information I received was that the US Open organisers were waiting till June 1 to make a decision on the event.
Besides the lifetime achievements awards, the other honours to be given away include the Sportsperson of the Year, Young Achievers, Coach of the Year and Team of the Year.
She is survived by three sons (Anand, Vijay and Ashok) and their families.
The Road to Wimbledon, The All England Lawn Tennis Club’ prestigious junior tournament for players aged 14 and under, has concluded its 2019 journey in India this weekend.
Amritraj's comments came during the launch event of the Road to Wimbledon in the national capital on Monday.
The India leg of the tournament will conclude on March 16, with the finalists to represent India at the Road to Wimbledon Finals held between August 11 and 17 on Wimbledon’s historic grass courts.
Tennis great Vijay Amritraj says there shouldn't be much controversy with regard to India's doubles combination in the Davis Cup since the doubles match matters only when there are "even singles matches".
Apart from Chennai's Ramkumar and Yuki, he said Saketh Myneni too has a good chance of doing well.
In the Davis Cup, India have not able to go past the playoffs in last four years, losing to Serbia, the Czech Republic, Spain and Canada in last four years. These were today highlighted by Amritraj, an Indian member of the Davis Cup team who made the finals in 1974 and 1987.
The celebrated sportsman, who also had a brief acting career featuring "Star Trek" and "Octopussy", was honoured with a Padma Shri in 1983.
The former Davis Cuppers, who hailed from Chennai, had worked hard to bring the tournament here in 1997 as the Gold Flake Open ATP tournament, generating great fan following.
The tie will be played out at the grass-courts of Chandigarh Club here and Paes said the Indians are ready for the challenge.
Yuvraj Singh, who is seen in a plaster on his left foot, will miss the first two weeks of the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL).
Nadal, who last won a Grand Slam title at Roland Garros 2014, did not win a major in 2015.
The founder of CTL feels the India need to have more singles players for regular representation in the Grand Slams.
Bhupathi said that last season's experience has made him and the IPTL management wiser and he hoped the tournament to do better this year.
Chandigarh's CLTA stadium will be the venue of Punjab Marshall's home matches.
Santiago Giraldo will replace injured Andreas Seppi in the Mumbai team for the 2015 CTL.
Six teams will participate in Champions Tennis League this time around.
Mirza and Hingis on Sunday won the women's doubles title at the $7 million WTA Finals in Singapore.
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