New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI) Prajnesh Gunneswaran's good run at the Liuzhou Challenger ended with a straight-set defeat against top seed Radu Albot in the semi-finals of the USD 50,000 tournament in China on Saturday.

Prajnesh, who had ended a runner-up at Ningbo event last week, lost 3-6 3-6 to world number 89 from Moldova.

Prajnesh earned 29 ranking points and will jump a few places up to touch a new career-best rank on Monday when the new lost will be issued by the ATP. PTI AT

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