Harsh Mankad

Harsh Mankad
Nation:	India
Birthday:	November 10, 1979
Size:	173 cm
Weight:	70 kg
1st professional season:	2002
Resignation:	2010
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Mayur Vasant
Prize money:	$ 163,939
singles
Career record:	6:13
Highest ranking:	222 (December 19, 2005)
Double
Career record:	0: 6
Highest ranking:	102 (October 26, 2009)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Harsh Mankad (born November 10, 1979 in Mumbai ) is a retired Indian tennis player .

Career

Youth and Studies (until 1996)

Mankad came from a sports-loving family. His grandfather Vinoo Mankad and father Ashok Mankad both played for the Indian national cricket team . His mother Nirupama Mankad played tennis successfully and was India's top-ranked tennis player from 1965 to 1978. Harsh Mankad himself was already quite successful on the junior tour. So he was among other things in 1996 in Wimbledon in the main field of the single competition and in 1997 at the US Open in the main field of the double competition, but was eliminated in the first round. His best place in the junior ranking was a 61st place in the individual at the end of 1996.

He got a scholarship to the University of Minnesota and played college tennis there . During his studies he made his debut in 2000 for the Indian Davis Cup team in the playoffs for the world group against Sweden . A year later he won the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships against Benjamin Becker . It was at times number 1 in the country's college rankings.

Beginnings on the professional tour (1996-2004)

Mankad already played his first matches on the professional tour in 1996 and 1997 when he competed in tournaments of the second and third class ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Future Tour . In 1998 he made his debut on the ATP World Tour . In Chennai he received a wild card from the organizers for the double field. Together with Gaurav Natekar , he lost his opening match against Olivier Delaître and Max Mirny in straight sets. In the following years he only played a few tournaments on the professional tour due to his studies. In the second half of 2001 he started regularly in tournaments and was able to win his first title on the Future Tour in singles and doubles. In 2003 he was in a Challenger semi-final for the first time in Bangalore , and even in his first double -final in Kiev . Just a week later, Mankad and his doubles partner Jason Marshall moved into the final again in Donetsk . While they had to admit defeat in Kiev, this time they defeated the pairing Serhij Stachowskyj and Andrei Stoljarow in straight sets. Due to these successes he finished the year in singles on the 340th place and in doubles on the 183rd place in the world rankings .

Best single placement and focus on doubles (2005-2008)

At the end of 2005 he achieved his best individual placement with 222nd place. It wasn't until July 2006 that he won another title at Challenger level. In the final in Manchester he defeated Joshua Goodall in straight sets and improved by over 100 places to 287th place. After he had not played a tournament for almost the entire year 2007, he fell out of the world rankings at the end of the year. However, he managed a successful return by winning his next double title on the Challenger Tour in May 2008. In New Delhi he won the final in two sets at the side of his compatriot Ashutosh Singh . He was able to repeat this success in the same place three months later when he won the fourth edition of the tournament . There were no successes in singles, so Mankad increasingly concentrated on the doubles competition and only played singly in singles.

Career record in doubles and retirement (2009-2010)

In 2009 the Indian was still in various finals, but was only able to win his next title in the fourth attempt at the tournament in Carson . This was followed by others in Seville and Tiburon , where he scratched the top 100 with his best placement, 102nd place. His only appearance at a Grand Slam tournament was in Wimbledon in 2010 . At the side of Ilija Bozoljac , he successfully qualified for the double main field. There they lost in the first round of the Argentine pairing Juan Ignacio Chela and Eduardo Schwank in three sets. He was not victorious in any of his six doubles matches on the World Tour. He won his last title on the Challenger Tour in 2010 in Scheveningen , and he played his last tournament in Rennes in October of that year .

After his active tennis career, Mankad was director of a tennis academy and is co-founder of the web platform Tenicity .

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

ATP World Tour Finals

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP World Tour 500

ATP World Tour 250

ATP Challenger Tour (8)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 23, 2006	Manchester	race	Joshua Goodall	7: 6 1 , 7: 6 4

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 14, 2003	Donetsk	Hard court	Jason Marshall	Serhiy Stachowskyj Andrei Stolyarov	6: 2, 6: 4
2.	May 23, 2008	New Delhi (1)	Hard court	Ashutosh Singh	Brendan Evans Mustafa Ghouse	7: 5, 6: 3
3.	August 15, 2008	New Delhi (2)	Hard court	Ashutosh Singh	Rohan Gajjar Purav Raja	4: 6, 6: 4, [11: 9]
4th	May 30, 2009	Carson	Hard court	Frederik Nielsen	Carsten Ball Travis Rettenmaier	6: 4, 6: 4
5.	September 11, 2009	Seville	sand	Treat Conrad Huey	Alberto Brizzi Simone Vagnozzi	6: 1, 7: 5
6th	October 18, 2009	Tiburon	Hard court	Treat Conrad Huey	Ilija Bozoljac Dušan Vemić	6: 4, 6: 4
7th	July 11, 2010	Scheveningen	sand	Franco Ferreiro	Rameez Junaid Philipp Marx	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 7]

Web links

• ATP profile of Harsh Mankad (English)
• ITF profile Harsh Mankad (English)
• ITF junior profile Harsh Mankad (English)
• Davis Cup Statistics for Harsh Mankad (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mark Wylam: Harsh Mankad - Player / Coach / Innovator of Tenicity! In: sportsprosconnect.com. March 31, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018 .