Harsh Mankad entered the main draw of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career when he qualified for the doubles event of the Wimbledon along with Ilija Bozoljac.
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Mankad and his Serbian partner, seeded eighth, edged past the Austrian-German pair of Alexander Peya and Bjorn Phau 7-6(5), 6-4 in the second and final qualifying round on Wednesday night.
Meanwhile, Prakash Amritraj fell at the final hurdle of the Wimbledon singles qualifiers with a 6-7(3), 3-6, 4-6 loss to Australia’s Bernard Tomic. India’s No.1 Somdev Devvarman had already exited in the qualifiers.
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