Atlanta Open: Sharan, Sitak out of Atlanta Open

The top-seeded pair of Divij Sharan and Artem Sitak bowed out of the ATP Atlanta Open after losing their first round in straight sets to Romain Arneodoand Jeremy Chardy.

The top-seeded pair of Divij Sharan and Artem Sitak bowed out of the ATP Atlanta Open after losing their first round in straight sets to Romain Arneodoand Jeremy Chardy.

The Indo-Kiwi pair, which made the Wimbledon quarterfinals, lost 4-6 5-7 to the unseeded Monaco-Frech team. The defeat leaves Purav Raja as the only Indian surviving in the USD 748450 hardcourt tournament.

Raja and Ken Skupski are up against Taylor Fritz and Camron Norrie in the quarterfinals. Leander Paes and his American partner Jamie Cerretani had also made a first-round exit from the tournament.

India's challenge has already ended in the singles event with first-round defeats of Ramkumar Ramanathan and qualifier Prajnesh Gunneswaran.

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