Sometimes the losses also contribute to wins, says Chandrasekaran on Ramkumar Ramanathan's ATP loss

Sometimes the losses also contribute to wins, says Chandrasekaran on Ramkumar Ramanathan's ATP loss

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Coach Chandrasekaran Thyagarajan believes that the losses endured by Ramkumar Ramanathan will eventually contribute to his win in future. According to him, Ramkumar Ramanathan has matured as a player and has too much talent to go long before he wins an ATP title for himself.

Coach Chandrasekaran believes Ramkumar Ramanathan's mental maturity has left a positive impact on the player’s overall performance as a tennis player after the 23-year-old finished as the runner-up yet again for the third consecutive time. However, Ramanathan's coach has been of the opinion that the player is knocking on the door and the missed chances is only making him a better player.  

“I think he is beginning to believe that he can do it on the ATP Tour. Sometimes the losses also contribute to the wins. It builds up maturity,” said Chandrasekaran, reported TOI.

India continued to be on a 20 year long dry spell as Ramanathan went down 5-7, 6-4, 2-6 to American Steve Johnson in the ATP 250, thereby elevating himself 46 places to reach his career-best 115 world ranking. Ramanathan was, however, pleased by his display.  

“It was a great week for me. I think I gave my best all throughout the week. Steve was hitting some good forehands today. I think he played a good third set and got the better of me,” Ramanathan said.

Coach Chandrasekaran, who had mentored Leander Paes in his early years along with several other Davis Cup players, has also nurtured Ramanathan's career. He accompanied the aforementioned player in several tournaments, sometimes even without charging a fee and stopped as Ramanathan started training in Barcelona, Spain with Juan Balcells, Sergio Casal, and Emilio Sanchez.

“The reason for him not doing well (in the previous weeks) was probably he was not feeling confident about himself. He has a good forehand, a big serve, the height, all the weapons you need to perform at that level,” said Chandrasekaran.

“Sometimes you have resources on court, but to really exploit those resources you need to be confident enough to implement the ideas. Now he has been serving really well. His first-serve percentage is a bit of a concern, but he has all the weapons to demolish any top Player. I just think it's a matter of time before he starts performing consistently at the top level,” he added.

The last Indian to hold an ATP title was Leander Paes who won the Hall of Fame tournament in 1998. As per the rankings, Yuki Bhambri has been the best-ranked player for India now sitting at World no. 86 as he lost one place in the latest rankings. Prajnesh Gunneswaran lost two places to establish himself at 186., while Sumit Nagal is at 269, Saketh Myneni at (339, +18), and Arjun Kadhe at (345, +16).

In the doubles, Rohan Bopanna remained at 27 unchanged. While Divij Sharan sits at (38,-2), Leander Paes at (80, -5), Purav Raja at (83, -2), Jeevantha Nedunchezhiyan at (87, +4), N Sriram Balaji at (96, +3) and Vishnu Vardhan at (98, -6).

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