Indian challenge ends at ATP Challenger Prague Open

TIL Desk Sports/ India’s challenge at the ongoing ATP Challenger Prague Open came to an end after all the three players — Sumit Nagal, Divij Sharan and N Sriram Balaji — suffered defeats in their respective singles and doubles matches.

Top-seeded Sharan and Robin Haase lost their quarterfinal clash 3-6, 6-7(8) to Jiri Lehecka and Tomas MacHac on Thursday, thus bowing out of the competition. In other match, Balaji and his partner Kimmer Coppejans also suffered a straight-sets defeat in their last-8 clash as they went down 4-6, 3-6 to Steven Diez and Blaz Rola.

Earlier in the day, Nagal suffered a 6-2, 0-6, 1-6 defeat to world no. 17 Stan Wawrinka to bow out of the singles event. Nagal, who faced Wawrinka’s illustrious fellow countryman Roger Federer at the 2019 US Open and took a set off him as well, had the upper hand in the first set but could hardly compete in the second and third.