India’s Singles Challenge Ends in the French Open Qualifiers

India’s singles problem got here to an finish at the French Open as Sumit Nagal, Ramkumar Ramanathan and Ankita Raina all misplaced their second qualifiers on Wednesday.

Sumit Nagal went down 6-3 6-3 to Chile’s Alejandro Tabilo in his second spherical.

Ramkumar Ramanathan additionally crashed out with a tame 1-6 2-6 defeat towards Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin.

Ankita Raina’s yet one more try to qualify for the singles primary draw of a Grand Slam failed as she was defeated by higher-ranked German Greet Minnen, profitable solely two video games in the whole match that lasted one hour and 21 minutes.

The one hundred and twenty fifth ranked Indian might convert solely considered one of the three breakpoints and finally misplaced 2-6 0-6. It was Ankita’s seventh try to crack the singles primary draw of a serious. She had reached the ultimate spherical of the Australian Open qualifying occasion early this 12 months, falling at the ultimate stage.

Earlier on Tuesday, Prajnesh Gunneswaran had misplaced 2-6, 2-6 to German Oscar Otte in the first spherical.