Melbourne, January 13: Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri suffered a straight sets defeat to Czech Republic's Tomas Machac in the Australian Open qualifiers in Melbourne on Thursday (January 13), meaning the year's first Grand Slam will have no Indian participation in the singles main draw.
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.
Earlier on Wednesday (January 12), Prajnesh Gunneswaran bowed out of the grand slam after a second-round qualifiers defeat against Germany's Maximilian Marterer. Prajnesh lost 2-6 6-7(8) in one hour and 26 minutes.
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Meanwhile on Tuesday (January 11), 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.
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