Indian teenager Maaya Rajeshwaran continued her impressive run at the ITF J300 Bamberg tournament in Germany, booking her place in the girls’ singles final with a straight-sets victory over Italy’s Ilary Pistola. The 17-year-old delivered another composed performance, defeating Pistola 6-3, 6-4 in the semifinals. Maaya controlled the key moments of the match, using her…
Indian doubles specialist Niki Poonacha and Thailand’s Pruchya Isaro continued their outstanding 2026 season by capturing the ATP 100 Lyon Challenger doubles title in France with a commanding performance in the final. The Indo-Thai pairing produced a near-flawless display to defeat Tunisia’s Skander Mansouri and Austria’s Maximilian Neuchrist 6-0, 6-1 in just 49 minutes, showcasing…
Maaya Rajeshwaran celebrates turning 17 with a semifinal berth at ITF J300 Bamberg Maaya Rajeshwaran picked the perfect way to mark her 17th birthday at Bamberg on Friday, as she rallied from 1-4 down in the first set to beat home favourite Emily Victoria Eigelsbach 7-6(1) 6-4 and reach the semifinals of the J300 event….
Six months into 2026, Indian tennis has produced a body of work that would have seemed implausible a year ago. A virtually unknown giant from Madurai dismantled a Davis Cup finalist nation almost single-handedly. A 36-year-old army officer from Coimbatore quietly reached the quarterfinals of Roland Garros, the deepest run by an Indian player at…
In elite sports, a single junior match can serve as a snapshot in time—a brief moment where two rising stars cross paths before charting entirely different legacies. Back in 2016, a young Sathwika Sama took court against Poland’s Maja Chwalinska at the Junior Billie Jean King Cup Finals (then known as the Junior Fed Cup)…
Indian youngster Srishti Kiran has continued her impressive run at the ITF J100 Guatemala, securing a place in the singles final with a series of outstanding victories over higher-ranked opponents. The breakthrough week began with a straight-sets win over seventh seed Sarah Stoyanov of the United States in the second round. Srishti then followed it…
Arnav Paparkar’s spectacular campaign at Roland-Garros Junior Championships 2026 ended in the third round against Jack Kennedy, who won 7-5, 6-2, but the result tells only part of the story. The opponent waiting in round three was no ordinary junior. At 18, Kennedy already carries an ATP ranking of 426, has reached an ATP Challenger…
Roland Garros 2026 brought Sriram Balaji and Marcelo Demoliner new firsts. For Balaji, this was his maiden quarter-final at any Grand Slam, while it was Demoliner’s first at the Parisian Slam. They got there with deliberate, determined tennis, and with the finest game the duo have produced together. Their strong run ended on Wednesday against…
Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi, the 16-year-old budding Indian teenager who trains at the Rafa Nadal Academy, had Junior World No.14 Mariia Makarova in serious trouble on Monday, before eventually succumbing to a closely-contested loss. Maaya led 5-3 in the first set, and also later had a set point in the tiebreak. Against an opponent whose win-loss…
Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi, the 16-year-old budding Indian teenager who trains at the Rafa Nadal Academy, had Junior World No.14 Mariia Makarova in serious trouble on Monday, before eventually succumbing to a closely-contested loss. Maaya led 5-3 in the first set, and also later had a set point in the tiebreak. Against an opponent whose win-loss…
