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Nagal crashes out of Tata Open

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Pune, Jan 2 (IANS) Indias Sumit Nagal crashed out of the Tata Open Maharashtra tennis tournament following a straight sets loss to Ilya Ivashka of Belarus here on Tuesday.

Ivashka produced a dominant display in the first round clash to carve out a 6-3, 6-3 win over the Indian Davis Cupper.

The 23-year-old from Belarus will next face fellow qualifier Ricardo Ojeda Lara, who beat sixth-seeded Jiri Vesely on Monday.

In the doubles category, the French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Gilles Simon and the top-seed Croatian-Swedish duo of Franko Skugor and Robert Lindstedt advanced to the next round by winning their respective matches.

The top-seeds won their match comfortably, with a 6-4, 6-1 result against Marton Fucsovics and Mikhail Kukushkin.

However, Herbert and Simon had to work hard for their win over Kevin Anderson and Jonathan Elrich after they lost the first set.

The Frenchmen made a comeback in the second set before Herbert and Simon showed their experience in the decider to seal the deal at 3-6, 6-3, 10-5.

In the third doubles encounter of the day, the Czech pairg of Roman Jebavy and Jiri Vesely beat Radu Albot and Tennys Sandgren 6-4, 6-3 to progress to the next round.

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Sunil Gavaskar gives his opinion of GT allrounder Rahul Tewatia

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The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.

Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.

Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”

Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.

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