Davis Cup: Prajnesh loses to Virtanen; India down 0-1

Prajnesh Gunneswaran

Prajnesh Gunneswaran yet again lost to a lower-ranked player in the Davis Cup to leave India trail 0-1 in the World Group I tie against Finland, here on Friday.

Up against Otto Virtanen, ranked as low as 419 in the ATP ranking chart, the 165th ranked Prajnesh lost 3-6, 6-7 (1) in just one hour 25 minutes.

Ramkumar Ramanathan now needs to beat Finland's number one player, Enil Ruusuvuori, who is ranked 74 in the world to keep India in the hunt.

It was a good draw for India with Prajnesh playing first against a lower-ranked player but Virtanen stroked fluently and walked away with an easy win.

Prajnesh saved two breaks early but dropped serve in the sixth game to fall behind in the opening set. Virtanen served out the set without any fuss in the ninth game.

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