{"id":2532,"date":"2017-12-01T18:19:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T12:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kpitsports.com\/challengers\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2021-12-01T18:49:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T13:19:01","slug":"yuki-bhambri-outlasts-ramkumar-ramanathan-to-win-pune-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/yuki-bhambri-outlasts-ramkumar-ramanathan-to-win-pune-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuki Bhambri outlasts Ramkumar Ramanathan to win Pune Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>HIGHLIGHTS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Yuki Bhambri beat Ramkumar Ramanathan 4-6, 6-3, 6-4<\/li>\n<li>Bhambri is currently ranked 137 in the world<\/li>\n<li>This is Bhambri&#8217;s sixth title at the Challenger level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yuki Bhambri clinched his first title of the 2017 season on the ATP Challenger Tour following a come-from-behind win over compatriot Ramkumar Ramanathan in the final of the KPIT-MSLTA Challenger in Pune on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Yuki, country&#8217;s top singles player, overcame Ramanathan 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in a little over two hours at Balewadi Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Yuki&#8217;s last Challenger had come at the same tournament and venue in 2015. He had broken into the top-100 after that trophy-winning effort and this win will again push him to the top-100 bracket.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s ranked 137 now and 80 points earned from his event will put him close to 120, when the new rankings list is released tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>It is Yuki&#8217;s sixth singles title at the Challenger level. His next event is Bengaluru Open, where he is seeded third and faces N Sriram Balaji in his opening round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS Yuki Bhambri beat Ramkumar Ramanathan 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 Bhambri is currently ranked 137 in the world This is Bhambri&#8217;s sixth title at the Challenger level Yuki Bhambri clinched his first title of the 2017 season on the ATP Challenger Tour following a come-from-behind win over compatriot Ramkumar Ramanathan in the final of the KPIT-MSLTA Challenger in Pune on Saturday. Yuki, country&#8217;s top singles player, overcame Ramanathan 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in a little over two hours at Balewadi Sports Complex. Interestingly, Yuki&#8217;s last Challenger had come at the same tournament and venue in 2015. He had broken into the top-100 after that trophy-winning effort and this win will again push him to the top-100 bracket. He&#8217;s ranked 137 now and 80 points earned from his event will put him close to 120, when the new rankings list is released tomorrow. It is Yuki&#8217;s sixth singles title at the Challenger level. His next event is Bengaluru Open, where he is seeded third and faces N Sriram Balaji in his opening round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2017-news","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}