US Open Qualifiers: Prajnesh Gunneswaran misplaced his second spherical match to Christopher Eubanks.© AFP
India’s singles problem got here to an finish on the US Open qualifiers after Prajnesh Gunneswaran was handed a straight-set defeat by American Christopher Eubanks within the second spherical. The world no. 156 Indian, who was trying to make his second look within the US Open predominant draw, went down 3-6, 4-6 to Eubanks, ranked 216th, in a 50-minute showdown on Thursday evening. The 31-year-old Gunneswaran had certified for the principle attract 2019. The 2 different Indian gamers in fray within the males’s singles qualifiers, Sumit Nagal and Ramkumar Ramanathan, made opening-round exits earlier this week.
Nagal misplaced 5-7, 6-4, 3-6 to Argentina’s Juan Pablo Ficovich whereas Ramkumar frittered away a one-set benefit to lose 6-4, 6-7(1), 4-6 to Russia’s Evgeny Donskoy.
Ankita Raina was additionally ousted from the match after dropping her first spherical match in ladies’s singles qualifiers 3-6, 6-2, 4-6 to American Jamie Loeb.
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