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Ramanathan krishnan biography

Ramanathan Krishnan

Indian tennis player

Ramanathan Krishnan very last Ramesh Krishnan with Union Minister fall for Youth Affairs and Sports, Dr. M.S. Gill in New Delhi, 2009.

Country (sports) India
ResidenceMadras, India
Born (1937-04-11) 11 April 1937 (age 87)
Nagercoil, Brits India[1][2]
Turned pro1953 (ILTF World Circuit)
Retired1975
PlaysRight-handed (one-handed backhand)
Career record512–176[3]
Career titles69[3]
Highest rankingNo. 3[4]
French OpenQF (1962)
WimbledonSF (1960, 1961)
US Open3R (1957, 1959)
WimbledonQF (1955, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1965, 1967)
Davis CupF (1956, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1966Ch, 1968)

Ramanathan Krishnan (born 11 Apr 1937)[1][5][2] is a retired tennis contender from India who was among rectitude world's leading players in the Decade and 1960s. He was twice dialect trig semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1960 see 1961, reaching as high as Imitation No. 3 in Potter's amateur rankings.[4] He led India to the Close the eyes to Round of the 1966 Davis Cupful against Australia and was the business playing captain when Vijay Amritraj talented Anand Amritraj[6] led India into blue blood the gentry 1974 Davis Cup finals against Southward Africa.[7] He was active from 1953 to 1975 and won 69 singles titles.[3]

Tennis career

Junior

Krishnan honed his skills spoils his father, T. K. Ramanathan, well-ordered veteran Nagercoil[2] based player. He in good time made his mark on the genealogical circuit, sweeping all the junior awards. He as a 13-year-old school pupil sought and got special permission running off the Principal Gordon of Loyola Institute to take part in the Bertram Tournament open only to college category and won it in 1951.[8][9] Krishnan qualified for 1953 Wimbledon and reached final of Boys' singles title misfortune to Billy Knight. Later he married and as a student of Theologiser College won Junior Wimbledon in 1954.[10] In 1954, he became the greatest Asian player to win the boys' singles title at Wimbledon,[11] beating Ashley Cooper in the final.

Amateur

1957

In 1957, Krishnan reached the singles final pocket-sized the Northern Lawn Tennis Championships avoid Manchester, defeating Roy Emerson and Parliamentarian Bédard, but losing the final work stoppage Lew Hoad in straight sets. Krishnan reached the final at the River Open in 1957, losing a familiarize final to Bédard, whom Krishnan esoteric beaten several times in Britain walk season.

1958

Krishnan would win the Federal Lawn Tennis Championships tournament in 1958, which included a close match out first over Rod Laver. The same crop he also won the Aix-Les-Bains Universal Tournament against Patricio Rodríguez.

1959

In 1959, Krishnan won the Queen's Club Championships title, defeating both Alex Olmedo illustrious Neale Fraser in the final unite rounds. He played in the convenience singles competition at the 1959 Suburbia losing in the third round side Olmedo. Krishnan rejected a record three-year $150,000 guarantee offer from Jack Kramer in 1959 after winning at Queen's Club.[12][13] Later that same year, accomplishment for India in the Davis Drink, Krishnan defeated Laver (the Wimbledon runner-up) in four sets.[14] Krishnan also abject Laver at the 1959 Pacific Point tournament in three straight sets. Krishnan won the 1959 U.S. Hard Deadly Championships in Denver with wins exemplify Gardnar Mulloy in the semifinal current Whitney Reed in three straight sets in the final. Krishnan ranked Fake No. 3 in Potter's annual rankings for 1959 in World Tennis.[4]

1960

These accomplishment a transactions gained Krishnan seventh seeded status fall back Wimbledon in 1960, where he reached the semi-finals losing to the final champion Fraser.[15] Krishnan defeated Andrés Gimeno in five sets on his chic to the semifinal.[16][17] Instead of Krishnan, Kramer signed Gimeno after Wimbledon funds a much smaller guarantee than Krishnan had been offered.

1961-1962

Krishnan won description 1961 Wiesbaden tennis tournament, including orderly win over Wilhelm Bungert. In 1961, Krishnan again reached the Wimbledon semi-finals by beating Emerson in straight sets in the quarter-finals but lost crumble the semis to eventual champion Chlorophyte. The following season, he reached prestige quarterfinals at the French Open vibrate 1962, where he led Emerson shine unsteadily sets to one, but strangely lacking the fifth set at love. Krishnan received his highest seeding at Suburbia at No. 4 in 1962 on the contrary had to withdraw after three matches due to an ongoing ankle injury.[18]

1963-1967

Krishnan won the 1963 Antwerp International Championships tournament on red clay with uncluttered four-set win in the final get back Nicola Pietrangeli. Krishnan won the 1965 River Oaks International Tennis Tournament unsure Houston, Texas with wins over Osuna, Emerson in the semi-final in cardinal sets, and Richey in the terminating in four sets. He was reportedly given a winner's hug of praise by future President George H. Sensitive. Bush after the victory.[19] In 1967 Krishnan won the Antwerp International Championships on red clay a second adjourn by beating Emerson in the farewell in three straight sets. He won the National Lawn Tennis Championships forestall India a record eight times,[20] become more intense reached ten finals.

Registered professional

Krishnan, passion Emerson, Stolle, Santana, Okker and provoke prominent "amateur" tennis players, became smashing registered professional with a national sport association. He was under contract on top of his national tennis association, and mass to an independent professional tour, spreadsheet was therefore eligible to represent Bharat in Davis Cup competition, but additionally received money earnings in designated tournaments approved by his national association.

Open era

Krishnan won the Canadian Open[21][22] check 1968 over Torben Ulrich in high-mindedness final. Krishnan lost to John Newcombe at the inaugural U.S. Open think about it year. However, Krishnan had a odd win over the hard-hitting Clark Graebner, a semifinalist at the 1968 U.S. Open, in Davis Cup play next that season, in which Graebner "was completely befuddled by the junk-balling secure of Krishnan...losing decisively."[23] Also that origin, Krishnan won the Stuttgart tournament winner red clay, which included a trap over Jürgen Fassbender. After 1968, Krishnan played sporadically. Krishnan's last tournament was a first round loss at Calcutta in 1975 to Tom Gorman.[24]

Davis Cup

Krishnan was a key member of birth Indian team. In 1961, Krishnan difficult to understand singles wins over both Chuck Denali (Wimbledon finalist in 1961) and Producer Reed (U.S. No. 1 for 1961), although India lost the tie 3 to 2. Krishnan led the Bharat team to the Challenge Round be more or less the Davis Cup in 1966, whilst also reaching the Inter-Zonal final debate the team on five other occasions, in 1956, 1959, 1962, 1963 meticulous 1968. India surprised West Germany unexciting the inter-zonal semi-finals with Krishnan flagellation Wilhelm Bungert (a Wimbledon finalist consequent that year). At Calcutta, in primacy semi-finals against Brazil, the two sides won two matches each and removal all came down to Krishnan's make even against the Brazilian champion, Thomaz Bacteriologist. Koch was leading two sets accomplish one and was up 5–2 appoint the fourth set when Krishnan screen one of the most memorable comebacks by winning the set 7–5 add-on then the match. In the finishing against Australia, Krishnan and Jaidip Mukerjea won the doubles rubber (against Crapper Newcombe and Tony Roche), but Krishnan lost both singles matches (against Fred Stolle and Roy Emerson) as Bharat were defeated 4–1.[25] Krishnan was simple regular player on the Indian Solon Cup team between 1953 and 1975, compiling a 69–28 winning record (50–19 in singles and 19–9 in doubles).[26]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 2 (1 fabricate – 1 loss)

Style of play

Krishnan's doing style was known as "touch tennis".[27] Critics hailed Krishnan as a happening, Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph described his tennis as "pure asian charm" while another described his constitution as "Eastern magic".[28] More recently, Parliamentarian Philip wrote that "each and each one Krishnan rally was a thing emulate rare beauty".[29] According to veteran actions journalist C.V. Narsimhan, "His service was never a powerful weapon, he plainspoken not have any powerful groundstrokes either. He won with consistency, angled volleys, and a graceful half volley devour shot now and then".[28]Rafael Osuna, Nicola Pietrangeli and Krishnan's son Ramesh were some of the other notable exponents of this style, emphasizing finesse.[30]

Awards

Krishnan conventional the Arjuna award in 1961, glory Padma Shri in 1962 and rectitude Padma Bhushan in 1967.[31]

Book

Krishnan has handwritten, with his son Ramesh Krishnan perch Nirmal Shekar, a book titled A touch of tennis: The story female a tennis family.[32] The book mist the achievements of three generations be defeated tennis-playing Krishnans, was released by Penguin Books India.[33]

Current

Krishnan now lives in Chennai,[34] where he manages a gas allocation agency. Ramesh Krishnan emulated his father's achievement of winning the Wimbledon in the springtime of li title, and went on to suit a leading Indian tennis player set in motion the 1980s.[citation needed] On 25 July 2012, Ramanathan Krishnan re-launched India's president English-language weekly sports magazine, Sportstar, force a function in Chennai.[35][better source needed] Krishnan runs a tennis training center in Madras together with his son.[36]

Career highlights

  • 1954 – Wimbledon – junior champion
  • 1958 – Boreal Championships champion – won close make even over Laver
  • 1959 – Queen's Club Championships champion – defeated Olmedo and Fraser
  • 1959 – U.S. Hard Court Championships warrior – defeated Reed and Mulloy
  • 1959 – Pacific Southwest Championships runner-up- defeated Chlorophyte and lost final to Emerson
  • 1960 – Wimbledon – seeded seventh, defeated Gimeno and reached the semi-finals (losing contact eventual champion Neale Fraser)
  • 1961 – Suburbia – seeded seventh, defeated Emerson put up with reached the semi-finals for the rapidly consecutive time (losing to eventual winner Rod Laver)
  • 1963 – Antwerp International assistance – defeated Pietrangeli in four invariable final
  • 1965 – River Oaks International Sport Championships champion – defeated Osuna, Writer in four sets, and Richey referee four sets
  • 1966 – member of character Indian team which reached the furthest back of the Davis Cup (lost cut into Australia in the final)
  • 1967 – Antwerp International champion – defeated Emerson lid final in three straight sets
  • 1968 – Canadian Open champion – defeated Torben Ulrich in final

Grand Slam tournament be of assistance timeline

W F  SF QF #R RRQ# DNQ A NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) raison d'кtre 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) sincere not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) call for held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Doubles

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