Maharashtra Open: Sumit Nagal & Prajnesh gets direct entry
January 29, 2020 Lawn Tennis

- Ramkumar Ramanathan has been handed one of the three
wildcards while Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Sumit Nagal have got a direct entryin the main draw of the Tata Open Maharashtra ATP 250 event to be held in Pune from February 3-9. - This is the third edition of India’s only ATP World Tour event to be held in Pune. The dates of the tournament, which used to be a season-opening event, were moved to February after the introduction of the ATP Cup in 2020.
- Announcing the
wildcards for the third edition of the event, Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association president Bharat Oza said, “We have received a few requests forwildcards from top ranked players as they want to play the tournament while returning fromAustralian Open . So we want to wait till the final acceptance list before deciding the [other] twowildcards for main draw and two for qualifying.”