French Open Qualifiers LIVE: Ramkumar Ramanathan faces straight set defeat against Sean Cuenin in second round of qualifiers

French Open Qualifiers LIVE: Ramkumar Ramanathan’s dream of qualifying for the main draw of 2022 French Open came to an end on Wednesday. The 27-year old lost to France’s 18-year old Sean Cuenin 7-6, 6-4 in the second round of the qualifiers. Follow InsideSport.IN for more updates. 

French Open Qualifiers LIVE: Ramkumar Ramanathan faces straight set defeat against Sean Cuenin in second round of qualifiers

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Both the players started the game positively as they held their first two service games. It was Ramanathan who broke Cuenin for the first-time in the match in the fifth game as he took a 3-2 lead. However, Ramanathan could not hold on to the lead as Cuenin made a good comeback to break the Indian in the very next game of the match to level the scores 3-3. From then on the neck-to-neck battle continued which forced the first set into a tie-breaker.

In the tie-breaker too both the players continued their neck-to-neck battle. However Cuenin managed to win the tie-breaker 8-6 to put him in the front foot in the contest.

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In the second set too both the players continued holding on to their serves as they were on 3-3 after six games. Cuenin finally managed to break Ramanathan in the seventh game to take lead. That one break was enough for Cuenin to win the contest as he went on to win the set 6-4.

With the victory, the 18-year old moves into the third round of the qualifiers and is just a step away from entering the main draw of a Grand Slam event in his very first attempt. Meanwhile, Ramathan has to wait much longer to make his maiden appearance in a Grand Slam main draw.

French Open Qualifiers LIVE: Ramkumar Ramanathan faces straight set defeat against Sean Cuenin in second round of qualifiers

How many players will qualify from the qualifiers for main draw of French Open 2022?

16 players will qualify for from the French Open Qualifiers

How will the French Open 2022 qualifying work?

• The Singles Draw as always is of 128 Players
• The 104 highest-ranked men and women that sign up for the French Open automatically qualify for the Grand Slam Main Draw
• 16 players from the qualifiers will join them and there will be 8 wildcard entrants.

When will the French Open 2022 start?

The French Open 2022 will start on Sunday, May 22

French Open Qualifiers LIVE: Ramkumar Ramanathan faces straight set defeat against Sean Cuenin in second round of qualifiers

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