Prajnesh Gunneswaran Loses in First Round of French Open Qualifiers

Prajnesh Gunneswaran fell on the primary hurdle on the French Open as he misplaced in the opening spherical of the qualifiers on Tuesday. Prajnesh was up towards Germany’s Oscar Otte and misplaced the match 6-2, 6-2. Prajnesh had final performed in the qualifiers of the Geneva Open on May 16, the place he had misplaced to American Mackenzie McDonald in three units. Apart from Prajnesh, Sumit Nagal and Ramkumar Ramanathan are in motion in the boys’s singles qualifiers on the Roland Garros. On Monday, Ankita Raina had crossed the primary hurdle in the ladies’s singles qualifiers with a 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 win over Australian Arina Rodionova.

Prajnesh was by no means at his greatest on Tuesday along with his serves failing him. He served 4 double faults and managed to get in solely 54 per cent of his first serves. Of the primary serves that he obtained in, he received 53 per cent of them. Prajnesh was additionally let down by his second serves, on which he received solely 45 per cent of his factors. In comparability to his serving stats, Otte obtained in 56 per cent of his first serves and received 75 per cent of his factors on them. He was additionally good along with his second serves successful 65 per cent of these factors.