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Re: Ramkumar Ramanathan thread

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Next, he is facing a German Mats Moraing.
In the doubles also, Ram with Goncaio scored a comeback win after losing the first set easily against the Spanish pair.

At €46K+H Recanati Challenger 2019, Italy

[QF] (9) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,151) vs (15) Mats Moraing (GER,206)

Doubles
[QF] (4) Goncaio Oliveira (POR)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP) 16 76(6) 10-8
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At €46K+H Recanati Challenger 2019, Italy

[QF] (9)Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,151) vs (15) Mats Moraing (GER,206) 4-6 1-6

At one point, he was serving 4-3 in set 1. Then Moraing won 8 consecutive games.
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Ram loses in straight sets 4 & 1, this after being a break up in the first and looked well set to pocket it, and once he gave back the break and the set ,it was simply one way traffic from there on.
One of the easiest challengers he has played so far of this year,  favorable draw ,opened up nicely with top seed out, but sadly still couldn't capitalize. :damn: :damn:
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At least he had a couple of good wins in singles. I'd say it is a blessing in disguise to be out in the QF on clay, while still alive in doubles. His focus has to be on doing as well as possible at Newport the week after the Wimbledon final -- because he has points to defend there from his run to the final there. Doubles will help hone his volleying, but going further in singles may have interfered with practice on the Newport grass next week.
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PKBasu, it’s hard courts, not clay.
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He is in the doubles final ... Ram and Goncaio enter into the final with a hard-fought win over the top-seeds in the match tie-break ... In the final, they r facing the 2nd seeds.

At €46K+H Recanati Challenger 2019, Italy

[SF] (4) Goncaio Oliveira (POR)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt (1) Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) 76(5) 46 10-8

[F] (4) Goncaio Oliveira (POR)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs (2) Andrea Vavassori (ITA)/ David Vega Hernandez (ESP)
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PKBasu wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 6:41 pm At least he had a couple of good wins in singles. I'd say it is a blessing in disguise to be out in the QF on clay, while still alive in doubles. His focus has to be on doing as well as possible at Newport the week after the Wimbledon final -- because he has points to defend there from his run to the final there. Doubles will help hone his volleying, but going further in singles may have interfered with practice on the Newport grass next week.
He plays Winnetaka Challenger next week in US on hard courts. He just cannot depend on Newport ATP. He has 150 points to defend there and if he loses early he will fall outside top 200. So, he is trying to play as many tournaments as possible to minimise those loss of points. That was a disappointing loss for him in the QF in Italy on hard courts.
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If he does well in Winnetka, he won’t get the chance to qualify for Newport.
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Will he still get to play USO qualies?
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Yes USO qualies and possibly even AO qualies he can make the cut, Ram has around 215 points to defend from now untill end of this year, and assuming he wins zero points from now untill the end of the year he would end up around 240 to 250.

So based on his current form and play,  he might end up the year in the 190 range .
Ofcourse all of this can change drastically if he finds his mojo back.So USO, AO qualies he should make in.

But right now since the past few months he seems to be taking Doubles far damm seriously in sharp contrast till untill last year where I knew what was his real attitude towards doubles was ,and this shift may not allow him to fully concentrate on singles as was the case before, when it had undivided attention.
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He did win the doubles title at Recanati.

At €46K+H Recanati Challenger 2019, Italy

[F] (4) Goncaio Oliveira (POR)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) d. (2) Andrea Vavassori (ITA)/ David Vega Hernandez (ESP) 62 64
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Re: Ramkumar Ramanathan thread

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Congrats RamK. Nice to see the back to back upsets of the 1st and 2nd seeds.
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vparam wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:18 am If he does well in Winnetka, he won’t get the chance to qualify for Newport.
As last year's finalist, hopefully Ramkumar will get a singles wildcard this year if he doesn't make the main draw automatically.
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Rajiv wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:14 pm Yes USO qualies and possibly even AO qualies he can make the cut, Ram has around 215 points to defend from now untill end of this year, and assuming he wins zero points from now untill the end of the year he would end up around 240 to 250.

So based on his current form and play,  he might end up the year in the 190 range .
Ofcourse all of this can change drastically if he finds his mojo back.So USO, AO qualies he should make in.

But right now since the past few months he seems to be taking Doubles far damm seriously in sharp contrast till untill last year where I knew what was his real attitude towards doubles was ,and this shift may not allow him to fully concentrate on singles as was the case before, when it had undivided attention.
Well, he's now at his career high doubles ranking of 162, but his singles (live) ranking remains higher at 140. So he is playing doubles at Winnetka based on his singles rather than doubles ranking.
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Re: Ramkumar Ramanathan thread

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Ram has received a bye as a seeded player ... In the doubles, he is playing with Karlovskiy and they r facing Sabanov twins.

At €46K+H Cassis Challenger 2019, France

[R1] (12) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,177) bye

Doubles
[R1] Evgeny Karlovskiy (RUS)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs (4) Ivan Sabanov (CRO)/ Matej Sabanov (CRO)
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