Sumit Nagal has certified for Paris Olympics, the top-ranked Indian confirmed on Saturday.
“Extraordinarily glad to share that I’ve formally certified for the 2024 Paris Olympics. It is a monumental second for me because the Olympics holds a particular place in my coronary heart,” mentioned Nagal in a social media publish.
Nagal was one of many alternates however with the variety of withdrawals of gamers ranked greater than him growing, the Indian is ready to make the minimize when the Worldwide Tennis Federation releases the official entry record on July 4.
In Paris Olympics, tennis might be performed at Roland Garros, the venue the place French Open is held, from July 27 to August 4.
The 26-year-old Nagal is barely the second Indian participant to make the minimize within the singles occasion in consecutive editions of the Summer time Video games since Leander Paes (1992-2000). Paes had received bronze on the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, India’s second particular person medal on the quadrennial occasion.
Tennis gamers who’ve represented India in singles occasions on the Olympics (together with their outcomes)
Paris (1924)
Males’s Singles: Sydney Jacob – quarterfinals
Mohammed Sleem – Spherical of 32
Syed Mohammad Hadi – Spherical of 64
Athar-Ali Fyzee – Spherical of 64
Ladies’s Singles: Nora Polley – Spherical of 16
Los Angeles (1984)
Males’s Singles: Gopinath Nair – Spherical of 32
Seoul (1988)
Males’s Singles: Zeeshan Ali – Spherical of 32
Vijay Amritraj – Spherical of 64
Barcelona (1992)
Males’s Singles: Ramesh Krishnan – Spherical of 64
Leander Paes – Spherical of 64
Atlanta (1996)
Males’s Singles: Leander Paes – Bronze medal
Sydney (2000)
Males’s Singles: Leander Paes – Spherical of 64
Beijing (2008)
Ladies’s Singles: Sania Mirza – Spherical of 64
London (2012)
Males’s Singles: Somdev Devvarman – Spherical of 64
Vishnu Vardhan – Spherical of 64
Tokyo (2021)
Males’s Singles: Sumit Nagal – Spherical of 32
Paris (2024)
Males’s Singles: Sumit Nagal – But to be decided
Nagal had additionally featured in males’s singles on the Tokyo Olympics the place he misplaced to second-seeded Russian Daniil Medvedev within the second spherical.
It has been a breakout season for Nagal. The Indian began the 12 months 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 grew to become 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 grew to become the primary ever Indian man to file a main-draw win at Monte Carlo Masters, beating Italy’s Matteo Arnaldi within the first spherical.
Nagal made his French Open debut and can also be set to function in the principle draw at Wimbledon.
Just 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 closing date for qualification for Paris, and made him one of many alternates. He adopted that title with a runner-up end in Perugia, Italy, the subsequent week to rise as much as 71 which is the joint-fourth highest rating achieved by an Indian man because the introduction of the computerised system of rankings in 1973.