Ramkumar Ramanathan thread

[sameerph]

True, Rajeev. His wiki page says -

Norrie was born in South Africa to a Scottish father, David, and a Welsh mother, Helen, who were both microbiologists.[3] Three years later, following a burglary, the family moved to New Zealand, where Norrie played tennis, squash, rugby, football, and cricket, finally concentrating on tennis at fifteen

So, he was born in South Africa and looks like bred in New Zealnad.

[PKBasu]

And he completes an excellent win.

At $7M Shanghai ATP 1000

[Q1] RamKumar Ramanathan (IND,123) d. (13) Cameron Norie (GBR,78) 75 63

He will meet the winner of Dusan Lajovic and Hubert Hurkacz in Q2.

What a fabulous win — and sweet revenge too!

[sameerph]

RamK wins the first set 76(4). Very close set but RamK prevailed when it mattered in the points in the tie break.

[Rajiv]

Sameer is there any live stream ?

[sameerph]

I am just following live scores.

[sameerph]

Unfortunately, RamK lost in 3 sets.

At $7M Shanghai ATP 1000

[Q2] RamKumar Ramanathan (IND,123) l. Hubert Hurkacz (POL,94) 76(4) 46 57

Close match where RamK won 108 points against 112. Just 1 break in each of second and third sets. He could not break Herbert in the match.

[jayakris]

Argh, he had a chance

[jaydeep]

Moved posts to tournament thread as Purav is also playing in the Slovak challenger.

[Rajiv]

After the Budapest Challenger , Ram heads to USA where he has entered the New York Open and has made the qualies cut

[RohitG]

Ram being the top seed at Hungary challenger which ends on 10th Feb enters New York Open which starts on 11th Feb.. won't the qualies be held before 11th? Regardless, the trip from Hungary to New York will surely take one day.. Either he's going to skip a tournament or he is pessimistic of his chances at Hungary.
Will be interesting to see what direction our guys take. Ram of course will have Delray qualies, Indian wells challenger (same week as Dubai 500) and finally Indian Wells and Miami 1000s in March in his path post New York.

[Rajiv]

Ram continues his involvement at ATP 250's and after New York will be at Delray Beach where he has made the qualifying cut.

[sameerph]

It is a good strategy by Ram. His career win loss at ATP events (48.8%) is better than than at challenger level (44.4%). It looks like he is able to motivate himself better for ATP events rather than challengers. He qualfied into main draw last year at Delray Beach .

[meyyis]

At €46,600 +H He-Do Hungarian Challenger Open, Budapest

Top seeded RamK had a bye in the first round and is slated to meet Uladzimir Ignatik from Belarus in R2.

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,133) vs. Uladzimir Ignatik (BLR,248)

[RohitG]

He has entered Dubai qualifier which starts on 25th. Hungary challenger, New York qualies, Delray qualies followed by Dubai qualies. High risk approach and long travels. I thought he'd enter Indian Wells Challenger (same week as Dubai) which is a precursor to Indian Wells Masters and has a total prize money of 162k. No news of Prajnesh for this week though

[RohitG]

Anyone watching Ramk's match? 2 double-handed backhands in a row!