Yuki Bhambri, India\u2019s top-ranked singles tennis player, secured his maiden win in an ATP Masters 1000 tournament when he beat Nicholas Mahut 7-5, 6-3 in the first round of the ATP Indian Wells tennis tournament on Friday.<\/p>\n
Bhambri, who made the tournament through the qualifiers, beat the Frenchman in a marathon effort that lasted nearly two hours and saw him come back from behind in both sets.<\/p>\n
Bhambri put in a gritty performance on Court 7 at Indian Wells, coming back from 1-4 and 1-3 down in the first and second sets respectively to ensure the match didn\u2019t go into a deciding set.<\/p>\n
Mahut didn\u2019t have the best of days whilst on serve, as the Frenchman offered up five double faults whilst his first serve was at a dismal 55%.<\/p>\n
Bhambri constantly applied pressure on Mahut\u2019s poor serving game, something that was evident in the fact that the Frenchman faced a break point every time he was on serve during the second set.<\/p>\n
This match was not Yuki Bhambri\u2019s first appearance in an ATP 1000 tournament. In 2009, he was handed a wildcard for the ATP 1000 Miami event, where he lost in straight sets to Diego Junqueira in the first round.<\/p>\n
In order to qualify for this tournament, he had to beat compatriot Ramkumar Ramanathan in the final round of the qualifying stages after first beating Dennis Novikov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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