Ly Hoang Nam stops in the Challenger 100 Chennai qualifiers

After qualifying for the Davis Cup 2023 in Vietnam, Hoang Nam went to India to participate in the Chennai tournament of the Challenger 100 system. He competed on this system with the Challenger 100 Seoul in Korea in 2017 and stopped in the preliminary round. Firstly. By 2019, Nam reached the round of 16 of the Challenger 110 Nur-Sultan in Kazakhstan.

Coming to Chennai this time, Hoang Nam did not have to play in the preliminary round and entered the first qualifying round against French tennis player Arthur Cazaux - born in 2002, 1.83m tall and 229th in the world (ATP). Cazaux once faced Hoang Nam at Challenger 50 Nonthaburi 3 in Thailand 2022 and won 2-1 (6-3, 3-6, 6-0).

By this rematch, Cazaux still dominates with a better skill set than Hoang Nam. The French player soon broke the serve in the game 2 sets 1 and then led 5-3. In game 9, Hoang Nam had a chance to win a break but failed to take advantage of it, thereby losing the final 3-6.

In the second set, Hoang Nam made no difference and was caught up in the speed of the opponent. He could not find a way to deal with the ability to serve and made many mistakes. The player born in 1997 lost three breaks before losing 6-2 and stopping in the qualifying round.

Challenger 100 Chennai takes place from February 13 to 19 in India on hard courts, with a total prize of 130,000 USD (about 3 billion VND). Stopped in the qualifying round, Ly Hoang Nam did not get points, but still received a bonus of USD 1,270 (about 30 million VND). He will continue to stay in India to attend two more Challenger tournaments in the coming days.

In 2023, Ly Hoang Nam aims to participate in the Challenger tournaments, accumulating points to attend the Grand Slam Roland Garros qualifiers in France in May. Before that, he ranked fifth in the group of tickets and missed the appointment. with the Australian Open qualifiers.