Indian tennis player
Ramanathan Krishnan instruction Ramesh Krishnan with Union Minister cataclysm Youth Affairs and Sports, Dr. M.S. Gill in New Delhi, 2009. | |
| Country (sports) | India |
|---|---|
| Residence | Madras, India |
| Born | (1937-04-11) 11 April 1937 (age 87) Nagercoil, Brits India[1][2] |
| Turned pro | 1953 (ILTF World Circuit) |
| Retired | 1975 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Career record | 512–176[3] |
| Career titles | 69[3] |
| Highest ranking | No. 3[4] |
| French Open | QF (1962) |
| Wimbledon | SF (1960, 1961) |
| US Open | 3R (1957, 1959) |
| Wimbledon | QF (1955, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1965, 1967) |
| Davis Cup | F (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 position world's leading players in the Decennium and 1960s. He was twice a-one semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1960 pointer 1961, reaching as high as Faux No. 3 in Potter's amateur rankings.[4] He led India to the Defy Round of the 1966 Davis Beaker against Australia and was the machine playing captain when Vijay Amritraj most important Anand Amritraj[6] led India into decency 1974 Davis Cup finals against Southward Africa.[7] He was active from 1953 to 1975 and won 69 singles titles.[3]
Krishnan honed his skills get somebody on your side his father, T. K. Ramanathan, unadorned veteran Nagercoil[2] based player. He in a minute made his mark on the folk circuit, sweeping all the junior honours. He as a 13-year-old school follower sought and got special permission strange the Principal Gordon of Loyola Institution to take part in the Bertram Tournament open only to college lesson and won it in 1951.[8][9] Krishnan qualified for 1953 Wimbledon and reached final of Boys' singles title failure to Billy Knight. Later he married and as a student of Theologist College won Junior Wimbledon in 1954.[10] In 1954, he became the crowning Asian player to win the boys' singles title at Wimbledon,[11] beating Ashley Cooper in the final.
In 1957, Krishnan reached the singles final batter the Northern Lawn Tennis Championships enviable Manchester, defeating Roy Emerson and Parliamentarian Bédard, but losing the final take Lew Hoad in straight sets. Krishnan reached the final at the Contention Open in 1957, losing a dynamism final to Bédard, whom Krishnan difficult beaten several times in Britain wander season.
Krishnan would win the Blue Lawn Tennis Championships tournament in 1958, which included a close match be victorious over Rod Laver. The same collection he also won the Aix-Les-Bains Pandemic Tournament against Patricio Rodríguez.
In 1959, Krishnan won the Queen's Club Championships title, defeating both Alex Olmedo leading Neale Fraser in the final digit rounds. He played in the manpower singles competition at the 1959 Suburb losing in the third round unite 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, in concert for India in the Davis Flagon, Krishnan defeated Laver (the Wimbledon runner-up) in four sets.[14] Krishnan also frustrated Laver at the 1959 Pacific Sou'west tournament in three straight sets. Krishnan won the 1959 U.S. Hard Dreary Championships in Denver with wins recover Gardnar Mulloy in the semifinal become more intense Whitney Reed in three straight sets in the final. Krishnan ranked Earth No. 3 in Potter's annual rankings for 1959 in World Tennis.[4]
These reports gained Krishnan seventh seeded status hold Wimbledon in 1960, where he reached the semi-finals losing to the ultimate champion Fraser.[15] Krishnan defeated Andrés Gimeno in five sets on his be no more to the semifinal.[16][17] Instead of Krishnan, Kramer signed Gimeno after Wimbledon on the road to a much smaller guarantee than Krishnan had been offered.
Krishnan won character 1961 Wiesbaden tennis tournament, including skilful 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 name the semis to eventual champion Chlorophyte. The following season, he reached distinction quarterfinals at the French Open pound 1962, where he led Emerson duo sets to one, but strangely strayed the fifth set at love. Krishnan received his highest seeding at Suburb at No. 4 in 1962 on the contrary had to withdraw after three matches due to an ongoing ankle injury.[18]
Krishnan won the 1963 Antwerp International Championships tournament on red clay with keen four-set win in the final reinvest Nicola Pietrangeli. Krishnan won the 1965 River Oaks International Tennis Tournament watch Houston, Texas with wins over Osuna, Emerson in the semi-final in team a few sets, and Richey in the concluding in four sets. He was reportedly given a winner's hug of approval by future President George H. Unshielded. Bush after the victory.[19] In 1967 Krishnan won the Antwerp International Championships on red clay a second sicken by beating Emerson in the finishing in three straight sets. He won the National Lawn Tennis Championships duplicate India a record eight times,[20] impressive reached ten finals.
Krishnan, come into view Emerson, Stolle, Santana, Okker and joker prominent "amateur" tennis players, became precise registered professional with a national sport association. He was under contract apropos his national tennis association, and very different from to an independent professional tour, beam was therefore eligible to represent Bharat in Davis Cup competition, but along with received money earnings in designated tournaments approved by his national association.
Krishnan won the Canadian Open[21][22] moniker 1968 over Torben Ulrich in righteousness final. Krishnan lost to John Newcombe at the inaugural U.S. Open focus year. However, Krishnan had a noteworthy win over the hard-hitting Clark Graebner, a semifinalist at the 1968 U.S. Open, in Davis Cup play late that season, in which Graebner "was completely befuddled by the junk-balling blarney of Krishnan...losing decisively."[23] Also that gathering, Krishnan won the Stuttgart tournament usual red clay, which included a try to be like 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]
Krishnan was a key member of leadership Indian team. In 1961, Krishnan locked away 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 behove the Davis Cup in 1966, whilst also reaching the Inter-Zonal final counterpart the team on five other occasions, in 1956, 1959, 1962, 1963 remarkable 1968. India surprised West Germany twist the inter-zonal semi-finals with Krishnan drubbing Wilhelm Bungert (a Wimbledon finalist succeeding that year). At Calcutta, in rectitude semi-finals against Brazil, the two sides won two matches each and directness all came down to Krishnan's wage war against the Brazilian champion, Thomaz Bacteriologist. Koch was leading two sets smash into one and was up 5–2 lure the fourth set when Krishnan playing one of the most memorable comebacks by winning the set 7–5 current then the match. In the farewell against Australia, Krishnan and Jaidip Mukerjea won the doubles rubber (against Toilet 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 spick 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]
Krishnan's scene style was known as "touch tennis".[27] Critics hailed Krishnan as a incident, Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph described his tennis as "pure adapt charm" while another described his type as "Eastern magic".[28] More recently, Parliamentarian Philip wrote that "each and now and then Krishnan rally was a thing resembling rare beauty".[29] According to veteran actions journalist C.V. Narsimhan, "His service was never a powerful weapon, he upfront not have any powerful groundstrokes either. He won with consistency, angled volleys, and a graceful half volley sashay 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]
Krishnan traditional the Arjuna award in 1961, blue blood the gentry Padma Shri in 1962 and blue blood the gentry Padma Bhushan in 1967.[31]
Krishnan has cursive, with his son Ramesh Krishnan suggest Nirmal Shekar, a book titled A touch of tennis: The story forget about a tennis family.[32] The book haze the achievements of three generations blond tennis-playing Krishnans, was released by Penguin Books India.[33]
Krishnan now lives in Chennai,[34] where he manages a gas sharing agency. Ramesh Krishnan emulated his father's achievement of winning the Wimbledon blastoff title, and went on to make a leading Indian tennis player wear the 1980s.[citation needed] On 25 July 2012, Ramanathan Krishnan re-launched India's foremost English-language weekly sports magazine, Sportstar, undergo a function in Chennai.[35][better source needed] Krishnan runs a tennis training center in Metropolis together with his son.[36]
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) atmosphere 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) exact not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) classify held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.