India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian companion Matthew Ebden misplaced their spherical of 16 males’s doubles match to Mate Pavic of Croatia and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador on the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday. They misplaced 3-6 6-7 (6-8). Bopanna and Ebden fell behind shortly within the first set and couldn’t recuperate from there. The Indo-Australian combo appeared to make a comeback of kinds within the second set however their opponents performed very effectively to seal the problem within the tie-breaker.

Nagal match suspended owing to rain

Indian tennis ace Sumit Nagal was trailing in his second spherical males’s singles match towards Holger Rune of Denmark, when rain led to a suspension of the competition.

The unseeded Nagal misplaced the primary set 3-6 and was behind 1-2 towards seventh seed Rune, when the heavens opened up.

Holger was dominating the match till the rain interruption.

The 36-year-old Nagal entered the match having loved a superb run of type.

At the Roquebrune-Cap-Martin clay court docket, he first humbled the eight seeded Flavio Cobolli within the qualifier, after which third seeded Facundo Diaz Acosto to sail into the principle draw of the distinguished match.

India’s flagbearer in singles tennis, then, shocked Italian Matteo Arnaldi within the first spherical with a 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 victory.

On Monday, Nagal grew to become the primary Indian to win a most important draw match on the Monte Carlo Masters after he defeated World No.38 Arnaldi of Italy within the opening spherical.

Nagal additionally grew to become the primary from the nation to win a most important draw match at one of many three Masters 1000 occasions – the collection that began in 1990 – held on clay.

Having lately achieved a career-high rating of No. 93 within the ATP rankings, Nagal has turn into solely the third Indian to take part in the principle draw at Monaco, becoming a member of the legendary Vijay Amritraj (in 1977) and Ramesh Krishnan (in 1982).

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