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Prahlad Srinath |
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| Prahalad Srinath the Mysore born, Mysore Tennis Club professional with a ATP ranking of 629 is amongst top tennis players in the country. Srinath an officer with I.O.C, a former national champion as after a lay off due to injury has hit the headlines with some good performances in the I.F.F Futures championship. Partnering Martin Spotti of Austria, Srinath won the men's double's title beating Rishi Sridhar/ Manoj Mahadeven 6-4,6-7(4-7), 6-3 in the finals of the Bangalore leg. | ||
| Earlier in the I.F.F futures tournament held at Calcutta, Srinath playing some marvelous tennis silenced his critics by recording a 6-4,6-0 win over second seeded Dmitri Tomashevich (426) in the quarter-final. In the semi-finals, Srinath put up a good fight before going down to the six seeded Jaroslav Levinsky (CZE) 6-4,3-6, 6-7(5-7). | ||
| His good performance earned him selection to the Indian Davis cup team which was played in China in February in Beijing. The team members of the winning Indian team were Leander Paes, Mahes Bhupathi and Fazaluddin, with Ramesh Krishnan and Nandan Bal as the non playing captain and coach. | ||
| Srinath earlier represented the country in the Davis cup tie against Sweden in the World group play-off at Bastad in July 2000. Earlier he represented India in the Davis Cup tie against Lebanon held at Luknow. In January 2000, Srinath partnering with Sourav Panja entered the finals Gold Flake Open ATP tourney held at Chennai. In the finals Srinath & Sourav Panja went down fighting to Julien Boutter of France and Chirstopher Rochus of Belgium 5-7,1-6. In the semi-finals, Srinath and Sourav Panja pulled of a coup by notching up their biggest win in the career by beating Oleg Ogorovor(UZB) and Thomas Ketola of Finland 6-3,2-6,7-6(7-4). | ||
| Srinath is a vastly improved player and presently he has been garnering vital ATP points by playing in satellite tournaments in Phillpness and European circuit. | ||
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