Australia Open Qualifiers: Ankita Raina Moves To Final Round, Curtains For Ramkumar Ramanathan
Australian Open 2021: India's top-ranked women's player Ankita Raina moved to the final round of the Australian Open Qualifiers with a gutsy three-set win over world number 118 Katarina Zavatska.
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Ankita Raina moved to the final round of the Australian Open Qualifiers
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Ankita defeated world number 118 Katarina Zavatska in a hard-fought match
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Ankita overcame a second-set lapse to win 6-2, 2-6, 6-3
India's top-ranked women's player Ankita Raina moved to the final round of the Australian Open Qualifiers with a gutsy three-set win over world number 118 Katarina Zavatska but it was curtains for Ramkumar Ramanathan in the men's singles. In the women's singles qualifiers being held in Dubai, Ankita overcame a second-set lapse to win 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 in the second round against the Ukrainian. The match lasted two hours and 20 minutes.
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It is Ankita's sixth attempt to crack the singles main draw of a Grand Slam and she is now just one win away from creating history.
Only Nirupama Vaidyanathan and Sania Mirza have competed in the women's singles main draw of a Grand Slam from India till date.
Nirupama had reached the second round of the Australian Open in 1998 while Sania quit competing in the singles category in 2012
In the men's singles being held in Doha, Ramkumar lost his second round 3-6 2-6 to Chinese Taipei's Tung-Lin Wu in 69 minutes.Â