This Week

Tennis is a global sport and Mysore has been producing talented tennis players from time to time who have gone on to represent the country in different levels. Mysore Tennis Club, Mysore, has one of the pioneer tennis clubs in the country and top products like P. Srinath, Raghuveer, Neeth Devaiah, Mohit Vijaykumar, who have gone on to reach great heights in the sport. Continuing the tradition, city’s Nagaraj Revannasiddiah, a tennis player cum-coach from Mysore Tennis Club, Mysore, has gone on to reach great heights, both as a player and coach. Nagaraj, an employee of Income-Tax Department, Mysore, is ranked No 4 in the country in the men’s 45 plus category. He recently taking part in the AISTA-AITA Senior Nationals tennis tournament conducted by Solaris at Pune last week won the 45 plus singles title.

Nagaraj also will represent India in the Senior world Tennis championships to be held in USA from Apr. 21 to May 4. He is our “Star This Week.”

R. Nagaraj took part in the AISTA-AITA Senior National tennis championship in the 45 plus category and won the men’s singles title. R Nagaraj has been selected to represent India in the individual and team competition in the Senior World Tennis championships to be staged at Palm Beach, USA. from April 21 to May 4. He will represent India in the 50 plus age category along with Pawan Jain, Sajan Kumar and Chandra Bhushan.

Nagaraj won the 45 plus men’s singles title in the T.S. Santhanam Memorial National AITA veterans tennis tournament held at Chennai in February 2014. In the final, Nagaraj beat C. Rameez Samad (TN) 6-4, 6-4 and clinched the title. The one-hour, 35 minute contest wasn’t as comfortable for Nagaraj as the scoreline might suggest. Both players worked hard for every point and there were many interesting and long-winded rallies in which finally Nagaraj triumphed.

Nagaraj also won the 40 plus singles title in the All India Central Revenue Sports meet held at Chandigarh from 19-21st February 2014. He has won many National level titles and has been a consistent performer in the national and International circuit. He has produced many a talented players as a coach who have gone on to represent the country like Poojashree Venkatesh, Abhayprakash, Likitha Devaraj and C. Vasisht and many more players.

Nagaraj, 51, is married to Vimala and has a son and a daughter.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / March 30th, 2014