Placing up a courageous combat, India’s Sumit Nagal took a set off world quantity seven Holger Rune earlier than dropping his rain-hit second spherical match of the Monte Carlo Masters, right here Thursday.
In a formidable present of grit and gumption, Nagal threatened to spoil Rune’s get together by taking the second set after the second-round match, which was suspended attributable to rain on Wednesday, resumed. Nonetheless, he misplaced his serve twice within the remaining set.
The Indian qualifier was behind 1-2 in opposition to seventh seed Rune within the second set, when the heavens opened up.
He misplaced 3-6,6-3 and 2-6 after battling exhausting for 2 hours and 11 minutes within the prestigious clay court docket occasion. However, it was a memorable match for him as he turned the primary Indian to win a singles predominant draw match at a Masters occasion on clay.
Nagal had taken a set off the nice Roger Federer on the 2019 US Open.
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The 26-year-old Nagal dropped his serve within the second sport of the ultimate set to fall behind however broke again instantly and held his personal serve to make it 2-2. Nonetheless, he misplaced his serve once more within the sixth sport and the match was settled there.
On the Roquebrune-Cap-Martin clay court docket, he first humbled the eight seeded Flavio Cobolli within the qualifier, after which third seeded Facundo Diaz Acosto to sail into the principle draw of the match.
India’s flagbearer in singles tennis, then, surprised Italian Matteo Arnaldi within the first spherical with a 5-7, 6-2 and 6-4 victory.
In the meantime, India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian accomplice Matthew Ebden misplaced their spherical of 16 males’s doubles match to Mate Pavić of Croatia and Marcelo Arévalo of El Salvador on Wednesday.
Tennis outcomes:
Monte Carlo Masters, Monaco:
Singles (second spherical): Holger Rune bt Sumit Nagal 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Marcelo Arevalo (Esa) & mate Pavic (Cro) bt Rohan Bopanna & Matthew Ebden (Aus) 6-3, 7-6(6).
€120,950 Challenger, Madrid, Spain:
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Marcelo Demoliner & Orlando Luz (Bra) bt Ariel Behar (Uru) & Yuki Bhambri 6-3, 4-6, [10-7].
$82,000 Challenger, Cuernavaca, Mexico:
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Arjun Kadhe & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Alex Hernandz & Manuel Sanchez (Mex) 6-2, 6-3; Rithvik Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha bt Rinky Hijikata (Aus) & Mac Kiger (USA) 6-3, 6-2
$82,000 Challenger, Sarasota, USA
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Tristan Boyer (USA) & Oliver Crawford (GBR) bt Sriram Balaji & Andre Begemann (Ger) 2-6, 6-3, [10-8].
€74,825 Challenger, Break up, Croatia
Doubles (quarterfinals): Alexandru Jecan (Rou) & Szymon Walkow (Pol) bt Vijay Sundar Prashanth & Reese Stalder (USA) 6-3, 7-5.
$25,000 ITF girls, Bujumbura, Burundi
Doubles (quarterfinals): Kamilla Bartone (Lat) & Sada Nahimana (Bdi) bt Riya Bhatia & Marie Mettraux (Sui) 3-6, 6-4, [10-5].