Indian tennis gamers’ battle on the Grand Slam occasions continued as Sumit Nagal, Ramkumar Ramanathan and Ankita Raina misplaced their respective first spherical singles matches to make an exit from the US Open qualifiers. Sumit Nagal misplaced 5-7, 6-4, 3-6 to Argentina’s Juan Pablo Ficovich (Courtesy: AFP)HIGHLIGHTSSumit Nagal, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Ankita Raina bow out in qualifiersSumit Nagal misplaced 5-7, 6-4, 3-6 to Argentina’s Juan Pablo FicovichRamkumar Ramanathan misplaced 6-4, 6-7(1), 4-6 to Russia’s Evgeny DonskoyIndia’s singles problem on the US Open acquired a serious setback as Sumit Nagal, Ramkumar Ramanathan and Ankita Raina misplaced their respective first spherical singles matches within the qualifiers.
Sumit Nagal misplaced 5-7, 6-4, 3-6 to Argentina’s Juan Pablo Ficovich in two hours and 22 minutes on Tuesday night time.Nagal had performed within the Australian Open principal draw early this yr and had misplaced within the first spherical. He couldn’t qualify for the French Open and missed the Wimbledon qualifiers as a result of an unrevealed damage.Ramkumar frittered away a one-set benefit to lose 6-4, 6-7(1), 4-6 to Russia’s Evgeny Donskoy in two hours and 35 minutes in his opening spherical.It was Ramkumar’s twenty first try and qualify for the singles principal draw of a Grand Slam since 2014.Prajnesh Guneswaran is the one Indian left within the males’s singles qualifiers. The left-hander is up towards Canadian Brayden Schnur.In the ladies’s singles, Ankita Raina saved a match level within the decisive set however finally bowed out of the US Open qualifiers following a three-set defeat towards American Jamie Loeb, in New York.Ranked 193, Raina misplaced to the American ranked one place beneath her, 3-6 6-2 4-6 in a virtually two-hour opening spherical contest at Flushing Meadows.In the decisive set, Ankita dropped her serve within the eighth recreation however acquired the break again within the subsequent.However, she once more slipped 15-40 to be down by two match factors. She managed to avoid wasting one however the American ended the competition by changing her second probability.Click right here for IndiaRight this moment.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.