Ramkumar Ramanathan thread

[prasen9]

Some 3-6, 3-6 matches can be pretty close though.

[Omkara]

Our players are off their peaks. Not much to expect from peope can't do well on challengers. I don't blame them much. It's tough to be in their shoes.

[sameerph]

RamK has fallen outside top 200 now with his last year's challenger final points falling off and has a tough match first up this week.

At Bratislava Challenger. Slovakia

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,215) vs. (5) Alex Molcan (SVK,106)

23 year old Molcan is at his career high ranking and has had a challenger title, ATP tour final and a US open R3 this year.

[sameerph]

RamK played well but Molcan was slight bit better than him.

At Bratislava Challenger. Slovakia

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,215) l. (5) Alex Molcan (SVK,106) 36 67(7)

[Rajiv]

Yes played a better 2nd set but overall looked slow and not match sharp which is not surprising considering he has played non stop for 6 months.
But still 2 more weeks of hard court Challenger's and then later on to clay Challengers in Turkey and Portugal,and will play till the very end of the season, while Prajnesh will call timeout for the season after the Bahrain Challenger.

[Rajiv]

At the Antalya3 clay court Challenger, Ram the 2nd seed faces a qualifier in the opening round,wisely has skipped the Dbls and has requested for a Wednesday late start, which hopefully he should get it
Cem Ilkel #145 makes a last minute entry using a WC and is the top seed at this tournament

[PKBasu]

Congratulations to Ramkumar Ramanathan for winning his first Challenger singles at the Manama (Bahrain) Challenger, winning the final 61 64.
Antalya, his next stop, is the venue for his greatest triumph -- over Dominic Thiem, the 2020 US Open champion. Of course, that was on Ram's favourite surface, grass, and next week's Challenger is on his least-favoured surface, clay. With his backhand now functioning well (with 2-fisted top-spin shots dominating, and the slices much rarer), Ramkumar looks in great form, and could do well even on clay. Jet lag may be a factor in the upcoming tournament though.

[sameerph]

Ramkumar won his first challenger title this week playing his 7th final. He had a couple of close matches in semi final and quarter finals where he came back from brink of defeat.

These are his results this week-

[R1] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,222) d. (Q) Vladyslav Orlov (UKR,429) 62 64
[R2] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,222) d. Duje Ajdukovic (CRO,247) 62 64
[QF] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan(IND, 222) d Goncalo Oliveira(POR, 288) 63 46 75
[SF] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,222) d. (7) Jay Clarke (GBR,231) 57 63 62
[F] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,222) d. Evgeny Karlovskiy (RUS,302) 61 64

With that title, RamK will moves up back to inside top 200 at 186 and India #1 for the first time.

[jayakris]

RamK .... Monkeys are always tough to get off your back, especially the longer they sit there. But once you get rid of them, they get scared and may stay away for a while, too. Time to go on a 3 or 4 challenger title-match winning streak now!! The averages need to work right, ultimately.

[Kumar]

Congratulations Ram! Huge monkey off his back. Hopefully he grows from this victory. Some times u need the luck of the draw to get yours first title and he seemed to have got it this time

[Omkara]

Good to see hard work paying off. All the very best.

[vparam]

Congratulations to Ramkumar Ramanathan for winning his first Challenger singles at the Manama (Bahrain) Challenger, winning the final 61 64.
Antalya, his next stop, is the venue for his greatest triumph -- over Dominic Thiem, the 2020 US Open champion. Of course, that was on Ram's favourite surface, grass, and next week's Challenger is on his least-favoured surface, clay. With his backhand now functioning well (with 2-fisted top-spin shots dominating, and the slices much rarer), Ramkumar looks in great form, and could do well even on clay. Jet lag may be a factor in the upcoming tournament though.

I think he will be fine. Antalya is in the same time zone as Bahrain and it’s only a 3 hour flight. If he gets a Wednesday start he will be ok.

[Rajiv]

Yes he will start for Turkey today and reach Antalya tonight , with a days rest tomorrow , Wednesday should be ready to play.
But these matches on clay can be tricky , even though he is amongst the higher seed , but there the low ranking opponents some of them are real grinders on clay like his potential R2 Spanish opponent, so no match will be a gimme.

[vparam]

Unfortunately RamK didn’t receive a Wednesday start and is now included for tomorrow’s schedule. He plays against Louis Wessels, the #381 ranked qualifier from Germany. He plays the final match on Centre Court. Match won’t start before 3pm local time.

[Sanjay]

When was the last time an Indian male won an ATP tournament?
I remember LP winning in 1998, any after that?