Tennis player, Ramkumar Ramanathan enters the semi-finals and will face American Tim Smyczek for the first time. He won over Canada’s Vasek Pospisil by 7-5, 6-2 in the quarterfinals.
This boy who hails from Chennai 1-2 this year ATP event until this week. Earlier he lost five-match streak. This boy came back with a bang and he gained victory over Victor Burgos 6-4,6-1 and he also dispatched the US eight seed Denis Kudla 4-6,6-3,6-4. In Quarterfinal this Chennai boy took one hour 18 minutes to get the win over Pospisil.
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Somdev Devvarman was the first Indian Tennis player who reaches this far in ATP tour event. After him, Ramkumar Ramanathan is the second player to repeat the miracle. Somdev entered the final of Two ATP 250 events, he played against Marin Cilic but he failed to achieve victory. Second time Somdev lost to Kevin Anderson of England in 2011 SA Tennis Open in Johannesburg. Earlier, Ramkumar Ramanathan lost this tournament two times in 2016 and 2017.
Ramkumar will face Australian Tim Amyczek in semi final. These two players have not faced each other. It would be Interesting to watch the face-off Ramkumar with Australian player.