Not a ball was hit as persistent rain washed out play on the opening day of the qualifying events in the Fenesta National tennis championship at the DLTA Complex here on Saturday.
Referee Supreeth Kadavigere had scheduled matches from 7 a.m., but had to call of the day’s play as the rain would not relent.
‘’The forecast is rain for tomorrow also. Hope we get good weather and are able to start the matches’’, said Supreeth.
With men’s, women’s apart from under-18 boys and girls events lined up, the qualifying matches could be a gigantic proposition.
All the qualifying draws have a field of 64 each, and thus each event will require three round of matches to finalise the qualifiers.
The matches will be on a ‘best of 17 games’ format for the first two rounds, and a best of three sets format for the final qualifying round.
