Pune. India’s debut within the Tata Open Maharashtra Tennis Tournament was very disappointing. India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan and Arjun Kadhe crashed out of the lads’s singles opening spherical of the Maharashtra Tennis Tournament on Tuesday. Ramkumar misplaced 6-7, 6-4, 3-6 to eighth seed Stefano Travaglia, whereas native Kadhe misplaced 6-7, 7-6, 6-2 to Joao Sousa. confronted.

The fourth season of South Asia’s solely ATP-250 Tour occasion is organized by the Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association. Both Ramkumar and Travaglia resorted to aggressive play within the opening set and appeared in good contact. When the rating was tied at 4-4 within the first set, the Chennai participant confirmed stamina to take a 6-5 lead however they might not flip the set of their favour.

The top-ranked Indian took a 4-2 lead within the second set. After this he made it his identify with glorious service. World rating 93rd-ranked Travaglia made a robust comeback within the decider to take a 5-3 lead earlier than profitable the final sport to safe a second spherical spot. Earlier, 28-year-old Kadhe compelled former world quantity 28 Sousa to work onerous for every level within the first two units, which went right into a tie-break.

The Portuguese participant, nevertheless, didn’t give the Indian participant many probabilities to dominate within the third set. In the opposite singles matches of the final 32, sixth seed Emil Rusuvuori of Finland defeated final season’s semifinalist Egor Gerasimov 6–0, 7–6 in straight units. Bernabé Zapata Miralles and Aleksandra Vukic additionally reached the second spherical after profitable their respective matches.

(With Bhasha Inputs)