BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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And Sumit holds after a tough service game with about 3 decues for 5-4.

Praj saves a couple of breakpoint at 15-40 down to lead 2-1 in third set.
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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Damn, Sumit missed a set point at 40-30 on Gombos serve. 5-5.

And holds easily for 6-5.

And Gombos holds at 15 and it goes into tie break.
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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And Sumit easily takes the tie break 7-2.

Praj is up a break 4-2 in the third set now.
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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Sumit wins the tie break 7-2 to square the match one set all.
And Prajnesh breaks and leads 4-2 in the decider.
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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Praj saves a breakpoint and holds for 5-2.
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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Damn, Praj missed a couple of match points serving at 5-3, first at 40-30, then at ad-in and gets broken for 5-4. Did not get first serves in after the first 2 points when he went up 30-0.
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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Sumit now down 1-3 in third set against Gombos.

Praj now 5-5 in third set.
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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And Praj now down 5-6. :-(

Sumit down 1-4.

Not looking good in both the matches.
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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Praj had chance to break back at 40-15. and then lost that game and match. Such a great opportunity missed after being 5-2 up in third set and then missing a couple of match points on his serve at 5-3. He just got nervous at that point of time. Just needed a strong first serve at that point of time.

Sumit lost the third set tamly. Gombos proved too good for him.
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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Depressing to see PG completely collapse in that final set after leading 5-2.
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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Yes, that was too bad. Praj had an easier opponent than Sumit and seemed to be crusing thru in third set.

Final scores-

Sumit lost the third set tamly. Gombos proved too good for him.

[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,135) l. (2) Norbert Gombos (SVK,93) 46 76(2) 16

[Q1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,149) l. Denis Novak (AUT,110) 46 63 57
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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Yes, a big missed opportunity for Prajnesh and Sumit was out-performed in the third.
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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The only good news is that both played somewhere at the levels they are at. Somewhere in the 110 to 150 range.

Prajnesh simply needs to get some crunch-time confidence back. It is one of those touch-and-go things in the mind. Sometimes nothing but a few wins will solve the issue. Hopefully he will get some luck and it will go right for him in a match, and maybe in another, and then the issue may go away.
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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That is a demoralizing loss for Prajnesh after leading 5-2 in the final set, and having match-points when he was serving at 5-3. That was a horrible meltdown from 5-2 to 5-7, losing 5 games on the trot.
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Re: BMW Open ATP 250, Munich,Germany - April 25- May 2, 2021

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True, Prajnesh is playing well at the level of his current ranking or even slightly above but just failing to put it away. This was his fifth consecutive loss in 3 set matches he has played. So, somewhere mental thing. Yesterday, was worse. When he served at 5-3, he went up 30-0 with 2 strong second serves, missed a winnable point when he just hit wide at the next point and after that just could not get the first serves in that game. Had chances later also but just fell away. This loss will not be good for his morale. Lets hope he recoveres he starts winning these matches back soon.

I did not see third set of Sumit match ( as Prajnesh's match was at an interesting state at the same time). But, till that time it looked a close match with Gombos having slight edge. Don't know what happened in third set for Sumit to lose it easily. But, as I put earlier, Gombos had reached third round of French open last year and also reached QF at ATP tournament couple of weeks back. So, he is really good on clay.

As Sumit has weak serve, he needs his baseline game to be at the topmost level to be able to beat these players who are at top 100 or top 75 level on clay. Yesterday, it was not unfortunately.
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