Ankita Raina overcame a second-set lapse to win 6-2 2-6 6-3 within the second spherical.© Instagram (File Photograph)
India’s top-ranked girls’s participant Ankita Raina moved to the ultimate spherical of the Australian Open Qualifiers with a gutsy three-set win over world quantity 118 Katarina Zavatska nevertheless it was curtains for Ramkumar Ramanathan within the males’s singles. Within the girls’s singles qualifiers being held in Dubai, Ankita overcame a second-set lapse to win 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 within the second spherical towards the Ukrainian. The match lasted two hours and 20 minutes.
India’s top-ranked girls’s singles participant is one step nearer to a Grand Slam foremost draw debut.#AusOpen | #AO2021 pic.twitter.com/k7vn8rLQHo
— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 12, 2021
It’s Ankita’s sixth try to crack the singles foremost draw of a Grand Slam and he or she is now only one win away from creating historical past.
Solely Nirupama Vaidyanathan and Sania Mirza have competed within the girls’s singles foremost draw of a Grand Slam from India until date.
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Nirupama had reached the second spherical of the Australian Open in 1998 whereas Sania stop competing within the singles class in 2012
Within the males’s singles being held in Doha, Ramkumar misplaced his second spherical 3-6 2-6 to Chinese language Taipei’s Tung-Lin Wu in 69 minutes.
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