Aus Open Qualifiers 2022: Yuki Bhambri- Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri suffered a straight-sets defeat to Czech Republic’s Tomas Machac in Australian Open qualifiers here on Thursday. The development means the year’s first Grand Slam will have no Indian participation in the singles main draw. Prajnesh Gunneswaran was the other player who made it to the Qualifiers 2 while Ramkumar Ramanathan & Ankita Raina crashed out in the opening qualifiers. Follow Australian Open Qualifiers LIVE updates on InsideSport.IN
Aus Open Qualifiers 2022: India’s campaign in singles ends as Yuki Bhambri crashes out, loses to Tomas Machac in Q2
Bhambri lost his second-round qualifying match 1-6, 3-6.
Machac has a career-high ATP singles ranking of 131 achieved on November 8 2021. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of 470 achieved on November 1 2021.
On Tuesday, comeback man Bhambri had impressed with his attacking net play in a straight-sets win but Ramkumar Ramanathan’s 23rd attempt at cracking the singles main draw of a grand slam had ended in a first-round defeat at the Australian Open qualifiers.
In the women’s singles, Ankita Raina, ranked 203, was blown away by 120th ranked Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko 6-1, 6-0 in just 50 minutes.
Aus Open Qualifiers 2022: India’s campaign in singles ends as Yuki Bhambri crashes out, loses to Tomas Machac in Q2
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Yuki Bhambri loses to an on song Tomas Machac (130, CZE) in Rd2.
Tomas Machac (130, 🇨🇿) def Yuki Bhambri 🇮🇳 6-1 6-3 pic.twitter.com/xsRqFHPm7U
— Indian Tennis Daily (@IndTennisDaily) January 13, 2022
He made his first appearance in Australian Open qualifiers last year and repeated the same thing by entering the main draw in his maiden attempt. He also registered his first Grand Slam win against Mario Martinez in the first round, before losing the second round to Matteo Berrettini.
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Aus Open Qualifiers 2022: India’s campaign in singles ends as Yuki Bhambri crashes out, loses to Tomas Machac in Q2
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