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Prakash Amritraj loses

July 23, 2003 21:21 IST

Prakash Amritraj of India went down to Nicholas Kiefer of Germany in the second round of the Indianapolis RCA championships on Tuesday.

The Indian lost to the 14th seed 3-6, 1-6.

Earlier, the Indian had defeated Sergio Roitman of Argentina 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 in the first round match on Monday. He became the only other Indian player after Leander Paes to win an ATP tournament round.

Prakash started off well and was not troubled in his service games. At 2-1, the Indian had two break chances against the German but could not convert them. The German turned tables on Prakash in the seventh game. Thereafter  he went on to win eight points in a row and suddenly the Indian was behind 3-5 and serving to stay in the set.

Prakash saved two set points from 30-40 but lost the first set after four dueces.

In the second set, Prakash could not take Nicholas to any break points but he seemed to be consistently taking a couple of points off him in every service game.

He dropped serve twice and held once at love in the second set; both the breaks coming after deuces.

In the doubles, the wild card team of Prakash and Stephen Amritraj will face Nicolas Kiefer of Germany and Sjeng Schalken of the Netherlands.


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Sub: Prakash Amritraj is the best

Behind Paradorn Srichapan, Prakash Amritraj is the best Asian tennis player right now. I think he'll go all the way at Wimbledon this year, maybe ...


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Prakash Amritraj is the best Indian player at this moment. I was there two weeks ago when he played in the Davis cup agains Sjeng ...


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It is utter nonsense that Prakash Amritraj is the only other Indian player after Leander Paes to win an ATP tournament round. What about Ramanatha ...


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