Grass tournaments (Challengers & ATP/WTA tour) 2019

[PKBasu]

The first serve percentage was 48% in the final set alone. He had a much percentage in the first set (61%)
and the second (63%).

[arjun2761]

[R2] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,134) vs (4) Ugo Humbert (FRA,48) 6-7(5), 0-6

After a close set, RamK pretty much packs it in...

[knarayen]

RamK vs Humberto

RamK is simply not there mentally. Such a contrast between Humberto and him - one is motivated and pumping himself at critical moments, keeping his feet moving - jumping at whatever small opening is available. The other just is doing the minimal things to keep himself in the point. Such a shame to see all this talent going to waste.

He is now down 6-7, 0-5 and on the road to another nosedive.

Prof

[PKBasu]

Sad end to Ramkumar’s run in Newport. He will fall to #181 on Monday, and will hopefully be more consistent in the hard-court season ahead.

[arjun2761]

Yes, we need RamK and Prajnesh to find form in the US Open hard court season to take advantage of their current position especially for Prajnesh.

[jayakris]

Sad end to Ramkumar’s run in Newport. He will fall to #181 on Monday, and will hopefully be more consistent in the hard-court season ahead.

But, this ranking is fair, and generally in line with how he has played for the past year, since that sudden run at Newport (ie, very few upsets over players ranked above him since then). Realistically, he is a player ranked somewhere around 175. He needs to take steps to improve his game to top-125 levels.

[RohitG]

The loss of points probably motivated him more to salvage whatever he could this week or else he'd have been outside of #200. What is sad is he could have capitalised a lot post Newport last year, similar to how Praj built on from the Asian challenger swing. Sure different rank ranges (like top 10 vs top 50) can imply a clear difference in one or two attributes- consistency or attitude for eg. I guess though the guys in 90-150 range have little to separate themselves from but it's those who could capitalize and build on from their good weeks who end up winning a ~40k prize money at a GS courtesy a R1 loss vs someone exiting at the qualifier stage. Praj had a great run in Oct-Nov last year and had another good run in March later which separates him from the guys who didn't make the GS cut. Yuki had some good wins at challenger level, so good enough that he literally didn't need to do anything post April and still made it to all the remaining 3 Grand Slams. The Newport week last year was a pivot from where Ram got 1/4th of the points he needed from 1/18 tournaments he would play. Nevertheless the upside to this is, next year he won't have heavy losses in terms of points and he's one good month away from a top-100 finish- a career high as well as a direct ticket into a GS main draw

[Sin Hombre]

Ram is 24 and still hasn't won a challenger title.

The path for players to break into the top 100 is by winning 2-3 challengers over a few months. He needs to improve a lot to get there.

[jaydeep]

A hard-fought win for Lee and Marcus against Ebden and Lindstedt in the extra points of match tie-break ... In the semis, they r facing a pairing of Granollers and Stakhovsky.

At $652K Hall of Fame Open 2019, Newport, USA

[QF] (3) Marcus Daniell (NZL)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Matthew Ebden (AUS)/ Robert Lindstedt (SWE) 64 57 14-12

[SF] (3) Marcus Daniell (NZL)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR)