PUNE: Ramkumar Ramanathan and Yuki Bhambri scored contrasting wins however Prajnesh Gunneswaran suffered an agonizing loss within the qualifying first spherical on the Tata Open Maharashtra right here on Saturday.
Ramkumar, a wildcard entrant, staged a super comeback to oust 6th seed Otto Virtanen of Finland 2-6, 7-5, 6-2 in an hour and 53 mins to advance to the second one and ultimate spherical assembly towards Italian Mattia Bellucci on the ATP 250 Series tournament.
Bhambri, taking part in with a secure rating of 127, knocked out Diego Hidalgo of Ecuador 6-2, 6-2 for a conflict towards Elias Ymer of Sweden.
Gunneswaran, however, battled for 2 hours and 21 mins simplest to finally end up with a 6-7, 6-3, 5-7 loss towards German fourth seed Maximilian Marterer,
Sidharth Rawatwho made the draw as an alternative after American Christopher Eubanks pulled out mentioning respiration issues, went down 1–6, 7–6 (4), 1–6 to Zdenek Kolar of the Czech Republic.
Aditya Vishal Balsekar, every other wildcard, used to be crushed 3-6, 0-6 by way of Flavio Cobolli of Italy.
Ramkumar, who has slipped in scores for 435 at the ATP Tour, appeared nearly carried out and dusted when the 21-year-old Virtanen, international ranked 175, served for the fit at 5-4 in the second one set.
But the Chennai lad discovered an additional tools out towards all odds to damage again or even the rankings.
“It was very tough to start with, because I was playing my first match in almost two, three weeks. So it was very tough for me to find the rhythm in the beginning,” the 28-year-old stated.
“All I did was to just keep fighting. The game I broke (at 4-5) I was just fighting and making a lot of shots, just competing very hard.
“And even after that recreation, I assumed issues have been going to be tight however used to be satisfied to get the opposite damage at 6-5. That used to be an excessively important recreation, I simply attempted to make a large number of balls in, keep slightly bit again as a result of he used to be in reality going for his pictures.”
Gunneswaran, who had lost both his previous two matches against Marterer, saved two match points but a misfiring first serve meant he could not wriggle out of the tight spot and the German eventually converted the third with a forehand winner.
“I think that my (first serve) share dropped so much (within the 3rd set). And while you give too many 2nd serves, there may be all the time a chance that possibly he performs a few excellent issues,” the southpaw said.
“Unfortunately, that came about. In each the fit issues, he neglected early, and he gave me a possibility to more or less come again. I did not use that.
“So I would say given the circumstances I played well. But in pressure points, I don’t think I played well enough.”
Ramkumar, a wildcard entrant, staged a super comeback to oust 6th seed Otto Virtanen of Finland 2-6, 7-5, 6-2 in an hour and 53 mins to advance to the second one and ultimate spherical assembly towards Italian Mattia Bellucci on the ATP 250 Series tournament.
Bhambri, taking part in with a secure rating of 127, knocked out Diego Hidalgo of Ecuador 6-2, 6-2 for a conflict towards Elias Ymer of Sweden.
Gunneswaran, however, battled for 2 hours and 21 mins simplest to finally end up with a 6-7, 6-3, 5-7 loss towards German fourth seed Maximilian Marterer,
Sidharth Rawatwho made the draw as an alternative after American Christopher Eubanks pulled out mentioning respiration issues, went down 1–6, 7–6 (4), 1–6 to Zdenek Kolar of the Czech Republic.
Aditya Vishal Balsekar, every other wildcard, used to be crushed 3-6, 0-6 by way of Flavio Cobolli of Italy.
Ramkumar, who has slipped in scores for 435 at the ATP Tour, appeared nearly carried out and dusted when the 21-year-old Virtanen, international ranked 175, served for the fit at 5-4 in the second one set.
But the Chennai lad discovered an additional tools out towards all odds to damage again or even the rankings.
“It was very tough to start with, because I was playing my first match in almost two, three weeks. So it was very tough for me to find the rhythm in the beginning,” the 28-year-old stated.
“All I did was to just keep fighting. The game I broke (at 4-5) I was just fighting and making a lot of shots, just competing very hard.
“And even after that recreation, I assumed issues have been going to be tight however used to be satisfied to get the opposite damage at 6-5. That used to be an excessively important recreation, I simply attempted to make a large number of balls in, keep slightly bit again as a result of he used to be in reality going for his pictures.”
Gunneswaran, who had lost both his previous two matches against Marterer, saved two match points but a misfiring first serve meant he could not wriggle out of the tight spot and the German eventually converted the third with a forehand winner.
“I think that my (first serve) share dropped so much (within the 3rd set). And while you give too many 2nd serves, there may be all the time a chance that possibly he performs a few excellent issues,” the southpaw said.
“Unfortunately, that came about. In each the fit issues, he neglected early, and he gave me a possibility to more or less come again. I did not use that.
“So I would say given the circumstances I played well. But in pressure points, I don’t think I played well enough.”