{"id":33046,"date":"2017-02-05T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T12:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=33046"},"modified":"2017-02-05T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T12:51:51","slug":"davis-cup-ramanathan-hands-india-win-over-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=33046","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup: Ramanathan hands India win over New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-33045\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ramkumar21.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"342\" alt=\"Ramkumar21\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ramkumar21.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ramkumar21-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ramkumar21-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Pune: Tennis player <strong><a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/1710-ramkumar-ramanathan\">Ramkumar Ramanathan<\/a><\/strong> defeated Finn Tearney of New Zealand in the first match of the reverse singles to hand India a comfortable 3-1 victory in Asian Oceania Group 1<strong><a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/1552-davis-cup\"> Davis Cup<\/a><\/strong> tie here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the win, India will now take on Uzbekistan in the second round of the Asia-Oceania Group I in April.<\/p>\n<p>Ramanathan outplayed Tearney in straight sets 7-5, 6-1, 6-0 to seal the match for the hosts at the Balewadi Sports Complex here.<\/p>\n<p>The first set was evenly contested but it was the Indian player who proved superior and defeated the Kiwi 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>The second and third games witnessed Ramanathan at his best. He outclassed his opponent in every department of the game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: <a href=\"tennis-news\/44185-leander-paes-fails-to-realise-dream-for-davis-cup-record-doubles-win\">Leander Paes fails to realise dream for Davis Cup record doubles win<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, Yuki Bhambri plays the second reverse singles match of the dead rubber with Jose Statham.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Bhambri and Ramanathan both won their men&#8217;s singles matches to give India a crucial 2-0 lead against the visitors before Leander Paes and Vishnu Vardhan went down in the third rubber to Artem Sitak and Michael Venus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-33045\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ramkumar21.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"342\" alt=\"Ramkumar21\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ramkumar21.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ramkumar21-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ramkumar21-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Pune: Tennis player <strong><a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/1710-ramkumar-ramanathan\">Ramkumar Ramanathan<\/a><\/strong> defeated Finn Tearney of New Zealand in the first match of the reverse singles to hand India a comfortable 3-1 victory in Asian Oceania Group 1<strong><a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/1552-davis-cup\"> Davis Cup<\/a><\/strong> tie here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the win, India will now take on Uzbekistan in the second round of the Asia-Oceania Group I in April.<\/p>\n<p>Ramanathan outplayed Tearney in straight sets 7-5, 6-1, 6-0 to seal the match for the hosts at the Balewadi Sports Complex here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21176,466,21177,11055,12894,178],"class_list":["post-33046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis-tennis","tag-asian-oceania-group-1-davis-cup","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-jose-statham","tag-ramkumar-ramanathan","tag-tennis-news","tag-yuki-bhambri"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Davis Cup: Ramanathan hands India win over New Zealand - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=33046\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Davis Cup: Ramanathan hands India win over New Zealand - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pune: Tennis player Ramkumar Ramanathan defeated Finn Tearney of New Zealand in the first match of the reverse singles to hand India a comfortable 3-1 victory in Asian Oceania Group 1 Davis Cup tie here on Sunday. 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