Sumit Nagal Achieves Career-Best World No. 68 In Singles Ahead Of Paris 2024

New Delhi: India’s Sumit Nagal has comprehensive a career-best ranking of world No. sixty eight in tennis internal the guys’s singles classification.

The 26-12 months-historic Indian tennis player climbed five spots internal the hugely-most contemporary ATP rankings released on Monday, transferring past former world No. Seventy one Sashi Menon to range into the fourth best feasible-ranked Indian man on account that that 1973.

Simply Vijay Amritraj (ranked 18th in 1980), Ramesh Krishnan (ranked Twenty third in 1985) and Somdev Devvarman (ranked 62nd in 2011) have been placed higher than Sumit Nagal internal the ATP guys’s singles rankings.

Ranked 138th in January 2024, Nagal has been in phenomenal variety this 12 months. He bought the Chennai Open, an ATP Challenger adventure, in February to harm into one of many best 100 for the first time in his career.

After his 2d ATP Challenger title, the Heilbronn Neckarcup in Germany, Nagal rose to world No. 77 in June. Per week later, he applied runner-up internal the ATP Challenger adventure in Perugia, Italy.

Sumit Nagal has additionally featured in three Grand Slams in 2024 – Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon.

He considerably amazed 31st seed Alexander Bublik in straight sets at the Australian Open, turning out to be the first Indian male player in 35 years to beat a seeded player at a Grand Slam.

At Roland Garros and Wimbledon, inspite of, Nagal exited the guys’s singles competition internal the first spherical. As a substitute, he became the first Indian player in five years to play a Wimbledon guys’s singles great draw common.

Nagal became rewarded for his consistency internal the first half of of the 12 months as he received a Paris 2024 Olympics quota for the guys’s singles adventure.

Sumit Nagal will make his 2d Olympic appearance, after Tokyo 2020, making him handiest the 2d Indian player to characteristic in consecutive guys’s singles attracts at the Summer Games.

Leander Paes, an Olympic bronze medallist, had contested internal the guys’s singles competition at the Olympics three instances in a row between 1992 and 2000.

Nagal, inspite of, will play internal the Swedish Open beforehand journeying to Paris.

Rohan Bopanna and N Sriram Balaji, in the interval in-between, will take the courtroom internal the guys’s doubles competition at the upcoming Olympic Summer Games.

The Forty 4-12 months-historic Bopanna stayed because the arena No. 4 whilst Balaji climbed two spots to rank 62nd internal the hugely-most contemporary guys’s doubles rankings.