{"id":36945,"date":"2018-07-22T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=36945"},"modified":"2018-07-22T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T10:18:08","slug":"ramkumar-ramanathan-to-play-steve-johnson-in-hall-of-fame-tennis-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ramkumar-ramanathan-to-play-steve-johnson-in-hall-of-fame-tennis-open-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramkumar Ramanathan to play Steve Johnson in Hall of Fame Tennis Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ramkumar Ramanathan will try to become the first player from India to win an ATP singles title since mentor Leander Paes prevailed in Newport 20 years ago after he beat American Tim Smyczek on Saturday to reach the final of the same event.<\/p>\n<p>Ramkumar will meet American Steve Johnson, who beat Spain\u2019s Marcel Granollers 6-3, 6-3 in the other semi-final, for the Hall of Fame Open title in Rhode Island on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was serving well and I just hung in there,\u201d Ramkumar, who won 6-4, 7-5 on the Newport grass, told ATPWorldTour.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t have the greatest first set on return, but I found a groove. He\u2019s a really tricky opponent, especially on these courts. I\u2019m pretty happy to get through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At world number 161, the 23-year-old is the third-lowest ranked player to reach a tour-level final this year. The last player from India to advance to a championship match on the ATP World Tour was Somdev Devvarman in Johannesburg in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Ramkumar, who has dropped one set all week on the way to his first ATP World Tour final, fired seven aces to the American\u2019s four in the 90-minute match.<\/p>\n<p>Third seed Johnson needed just 68 minutes to beat Granollers, winning 88 percent of his first serve points and taking advantage of six double faults from the Spaniard.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramkumar Ramanathan will try to become the first player from India to win an ATP singles title since mentor Leander Paes prevailed in Newport 20 years ago after he beat American Tim Smyczek on Saturday to reach the final of the same event. Ramkumar will meet American Steve Johnson, who beat Spain\u2019s Marcel Granollers 6-3, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36947,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36945\/revisions\/36947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}