New York, Aug 25: Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri advanced to the second round of the U.S Open 2022 men’s singles qualifiers after a hard-fought win over Moldova’s Radu Albot, here. Bhambri, 552 in the ATP rankings, beat world No. 107 Radu Albot 7-6(4), 6-4 in one hour and 34 minutes on the hard courts of USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Wednesday night. In the first set, Yuki got off to a slow start and was broken in his first service by Radu Albot.
The Indian tennis player immediately returned the favor and then built on the momentum to go 5-2 up in the seventh game. However, the former junior Australian Open champion, with a high- er number of unforced errors and doubles faults, allowed his opponent a way back into the set which stretched into the tiebreaker.
The Indian won the first five points in the tiebreaker and then thwarted a late comeback to take the breakpoint conversions, he won the second set to qualify for the next round, an olympics.com report said. The 30-year-old Bhambri will take on world No. 155 Zizou Bergs of Belgium in the second qualifying round of the Grand Slam event on Thursday.
