Davis Cup: Prajnesh loses to lower-ranked Virtanen, India down 0-1 in tie

Prajnesh Gunneswaran but once more misplaced to a lower-ranked participant within the Davis Cup to depart India path 0-1 within the World Group I tie towards Finland, right here on Friday.
Up towards Otto Virtanen, ranked as little as 419 within the ATP rating chart, the one hundred and sixty fifth ranked Prajnesh misplaced 3-6 6-7(1) in only one hour 25 minutes.
Ramkumar Ramanathan now must beat Finland’s primary participant, Enil Ruusuvuori, who’s ranked 74 on this planet to maintain India within the hunt.
It was an excellent draw for India with Prajnesh taking part in first towards a lower-ranked participant however Virtanen stroked fluently and walked away with a simple win.
Prajnesh saved two breaks early however dropped serve within the sixth recreation to fall behind within the opening set. The left-hander received an opportunity to interrupt again when Virtanen double-faulted at deuce level within the subsequent recreation however Prajnesh couldn’t capitalise on the prospect.
Virtanen served out the set with none fuss within the ninth recreation.
With house assist, Virtanen stored the Indian beneath the pump. Prajnesh was once more at risk of dropping serve early within the second set however he managed to carry the third recreation after a few deuce factors.
Prajnesh stored preventing until 4-all however was down 0-40 after serving a double fault within the ninth recreation. However, he saved 5 breakpoints and finally held the sport with a well-calculated drop shot.
The Indian served the eleventh recreation set love and now wanted to interrupt his rival, who was taking part in effortlessly.
He received that little likelihood when Virtanen hit forehand on web at deuce level however the Finnish pulled off an ace on the break level. Eventually it went to a tie-breaker, wherein Prajnesh fell behind 0-3 after which 1-5.
An angled serve that Prajnesh couldn’t return gave the house participant a match level, which he transformed with a simple winner.