Ankita Raina strikes to remaining spherical, Ramkumar Ramanathan bows out of Australian Open Qualifiers

Image Source : TWITTER/@ANKITA_CHAMP Ankita Raina 
India’s top-ranked ladies’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 however it was curtains for Ramkumar Ramanathan within the males’s singles.
In the ladies’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.

It is Ankita’s sixth try and crack the singles major draw of a Grand Slam and she or he is now only one win away from creating historical past.
Only Nirupama Vaidyanathan and Sania Mirza have competed within the ladies’s singles major draw of a Grand Slam from India until date.
Nirupama had reached the second spherical of the Australian Open in 1998 whereas Sania give up competing within the singles class in 2012.
In the lads’s singles being held in Doha, Ramkumar misplaced his second spherical 3-6 2-6 to Chinese Taipei’s Tung-Lin Wu in 69 minutes.