PUNE: Purav Raja, watching from the sidelines, kept urging Ramkumar Ramanathan to "make the soup".
And the Chennai lad obliged as he defeated Italian Mattia Bellucci 6-3, 7-5 in the second and final qualifying round to storm into the main draw of the Tata Open Maharashtra here on Sunday. "It is just a phrase we use. It sort of means you have him where you want him," Raja would explain later.