Sumit Nagal is about to face Serbia’s Miomir Kecmanovic in his maiden main-draw match at Wimbledon, as per the draw introduced on Friday.
For the 26-year-old Nagal, that is second straight Main the place he has acquired direct entry into the principle draw.
Nagal, the primary Indian to seem in the principle draw of males’s singles since Prajnesh Gunneswaran in 2019, is in the identical part of the draw as high seed and World No. 1 Jannik Sinner and will face the Italian within the third spherical.
Olympic-bound Nagal and Kecmanovic, who’s World No. 53, have met one another as soon as – within the opening spherical of an ATP 250 occasion in Cologne 4 years in the past the place the Serbian received 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-1.
Nagal’s sole look in males’s singles at Wimbledon got here in 2018 the place he misplaced to Poland’s Kamil Majchrzak within the first spherical of qualifying. The Indian had received Boys’ Doubles title at Junior Wimbledon in 2015, partnering Vietnam’s Lý Hoàng Nam.
It has been a breakout season for Nagal. The Indian began the yr by qualifying for the principle draw of the Australian Open the place he shocked Thirty first-seeded Kazakh Alexander Bublik within the opening spherical. He turned the primary Indian man in 35 years to defeat a seeded participant in a Slam.
He then received the Chennai Open ATP Challenger to make his High 100 debut within the ATP Rankings.
He additionally turned the primary ever Indian man to file a main-draw win at Monte Carlo Masters, beating Italy’s Matteo Arnaldi within the first spherical.
Lately, the Indian clinched his sixth title on the Challenger Tour in Heilbronn, Germany. That consequence took him as much as 77 within the ATP Rankings on June 10, the deadline for qualification for Paris, and made him one of many alternates earlier than his spot acquired confirmed. He adopted that title with a runner-up end in Perugia, Italy, the following week to rise as much as 71 which is the joint-fourth highest rating achieved by an Indian man for the reason that introduction of the computerised system of rankings in 1973.
Males’s Doubles
Rohan Bopanna and his Australian accomplice Matthew Ebden, seeded second, face the all-French duo of Adrian Mannarino and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard within the first spherical of males’s doubles. Bopanna-Ebden, the reigning Australian Open champions, had reached the semifinals of final yr’s version on the All England Garden Tennis and Croquet Membership.
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N. Sriram Balaji, who can be Bopanna’s doubles accomplice at Paris Olympics, has paired up with Britain’s Luke Johnson. The duo takes on fourth-seeded Croatian-Salvadorian pair of Mate Pavic and Marcelo Arevalo, who received this yr’s French Open.
Yuki Bhambri and his French accomplice Albano Olivetti tackle the Kazakh duo of Bublik and Alexander Shevchenko.
Nagal has additionally entered the doubles draw. The Indian and Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic have a first-round conflict towards Spain’s Pedro Martinez and Jaume Munar.