{"id":37040,"date":"2018-07-23T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T10:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=37040"},"modified":"2018-07-23T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T10:52:08","slug":"indias-20-years-of-barren-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/indias-20-years-of-barren-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s 20 years of barren tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 0em; padding: 0em;\">Chandigarh,<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyText\">Ramkumar Ramanathan came close to winning an elusive ATP Tour title but faltered at the final hurdle on Sunday. He was beaten 7-5 3-6 6-2 by American Steve Johnson in the final of the Hall of Fame Open in Newport, Rhode Island. Ramanathan made an impressive run to the final but defeating Johnson proved too big a challenge for the Chennai native.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyText\">Incidentally, Leander Paes was the last Indian to win an ATP Tour title \u2014 way back in 1998. This fact best depicts the poor state of Indian tennis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyText\">Wait, don\u2019t Indian players regularly win Grand Slam titles in doubles? Yes, that\u2019s true, but the thing is that doubles tennis is the domain of the crocked and the elderly \u2014 singles tennis is the really serious tennis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyText\">Ramkumar Ramanathan is currently ranked No. 161 in the world. His best ranking was No. 115 in April this year. The best ranking for Somdev Devvarman was No. 61 in 2011, and the best for Yuki Bhambri was No. 83, also in April this year. Bhambri is currently the world No. 85. These are the best players in India. Their world rankings illustrate just how incredibly competitive global tennis is.\u00a0<\/span><\/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>Chandigarh, Ramkumar Ramanathan came close to winning an elusive ATP Tour title but faltered at the final hurdle on Sunday. He was beaten 7-5 3-6 6-2 by American Steve Johnson in the final of the Hall of Fame Open in Newport, Rhode Island. Ramanathan made an impressive run to the final but defeating Johnson proved [&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":37041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37040","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\/37040","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=37040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37042,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37040\/revisions\/37042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}