Tennis: Ramkumar to play Johnson in Newport final
Ramkumar Ramanathan will attempt to wind up the main player from India to win an ATP singles title since tutor Leander Paes won in Newport 20 years back after he beat American Tim Smyczek on Saturday to achieve the last of a similar occasion.
Ramkumar will meet American Steve Johnson, who beat Spain's Marcel Granollers 6-3, 6-3 in the other semi-last, for the Hall of Fame Open title in Rhode Island on Sunday.
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I didn't have the best first set on return, however, I found a notch. He's an extremely dubious adversary, particularly on these courts. I'm quite upbeat to get past."
At world number 161, the 23-year-old is the third-most minimal positioned player to achieve a visit level last this year. The last player from India to progress to a title coordinate on the ATP World Tour was Somdev Devvarman in Johannesburg in 2011.
Ramkumar, who has dropped one set all week while in transit to his first ATP World Tour last, let go seven experts to the American's four in the hour and a half match. Third seed Johnson required only 68 minutes to beat Granollers, winning 88 percent of his first serve focuses and exploiting six twofold blames from the Spaniard. Prior on Saturday, 1991 Wimbledon champion Michael Stich and Czech Helena Sukova, who won 14 Grand Slam duplicates and blended copies crowns, were accepted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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