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Lim prevents clean sweep
Asked to take court in place of Saketh Myneni, who is still recovering from his grueling match on Friday, Bopanna laboured to a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 win against Chung, who is ranked as low as 655 in the ATP rankings.
​Chandigarh : Not used to playing singles anymore, India's Rohan Bopanna found rhythm in nick of time to edge past Hong Chung before Yong-Kyu Lim prevented a Korean whitewash with a gritty win over Ramkumar Ramanathan in the Davis Cup Asia--Oceania Group I tie here on Sunday.
Asked to take court in place of Saketh Myneni, who is still recovering from his grueling match on Friday, Bopanna laboured to a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 win against Chung, who is ranked as low as 655 in the ATP rankings.
Bopanna last played a singles match in the Davis Cup in 2012 when he won the dead fifth rubber against Uzbekistan’s Sarvar Ikramov.
It was 10th singles win for Bopanna in Davis Cup on Sunday and thankfully it was a dead rubber since India had sealed tie on Saturday itself by winning the doubles.
Playing the dead fifth rubber, 217-ranked Ramkumar lost the close contest 3-6, 6-4, 6-7(2) in little over two hours to Lim, who is placed 409 rungs below the Indian.
Despite losing the tie 1-4, the Koreans have to be credited for making life tough for the Indians.
They were playing on an alien surface but fought their hearts out in the tie.
All Indian players performed a popular Bollywood number ‘Bayee Wah’, immediately after Lim closed the tie, much to the surprise and delight of the fans.
India will now make its third attempt to qualify for the elite 16-nation World Group. They await the results of the World Group matches to know the rival in the play-offs to be held in September.
India last played in World Group in 2011 when it lost the first round against Serbia. After that, they have lost play-offs twice – against Serbia (in 2014, Bangalore) and Czech Republic (in 2015, New Delhi).
