Sumit Nagal

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Sumit Nagal
Country (sports)India India
ResidenceNew Delhi, India
Born (1997-08-16) 16 August 1997 (age 24)
Jaitpur, Haryana, India
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro2015
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$556,964 (13 September 2021)[1]
Singles
Career record6–17 (26.1% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 122 (24 August 2020)[1]
Current rankingNo. 222 (20 December 2021)[1]
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open1R (2021)
French OpenQ2 (2021)
WimbledonQ1 (2018)
US Open2R (2020)
Doubles
Career record0–1 (0% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 540 (8 October 2018)[1]
Current rankingNo. 1202 (20 December 2021)[1]
Medal record
Representing  India
Men's tennis
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
Gold medal – first place 2017 Ashgabat Men's Singles
Last updated on: 13 September 2021.

Sumit Nagal (born 16 August 1997) is an Indian professional tennis player. He won the 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles title, thus becoming the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title. He is currently the highest-ranked Indian singles tennis player and since 2018, he has been a regular member of India's national Davis Cup squad.

Early life[]

Sumit Nagal was born on 16 August 1997 to school teacher Suresh Nagal and his wife Krishna Devi, a homemaker in Jhajjar, Haryana. Nagal started playing tennis at the age of eight at a local sports club. When he was ten years old, he was selected to join Mahesh Bhupathi's training academy, as part of the first batch of Mahesh Bhupathi's Apollo Tyres Mission 2018 programme.[2] As part of the programme, between 2008 and 2010, Nagal was based in Bangalore. Upon the programme closing down, Nagal shifted to Toronto for training with Coach Bobby Mahal.

Career[]

Early career[]

He won the 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles title with his Vietnamese partner Lý Hoàng Nam, defeating Reilly Opelka and Akira Santillan in the final. He became the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title.[3]

2016: Davis cup debut[]

He made his Davis Cup debut for India in the 2016 World Group Playoff tie against Spain in New Delhi.[4]

2017: First ATP Challenger title[]

Nagal ran into a controversy when he was dropped from Davis Cup team for serious disciplinary issues.[5]

At Bengaluru Challenger Nagal stunned top seed Blaz Kavcic in the quarterfinals, then followed it by beating compatriot Yuki Bhambri in the semifinal and Jay Clarke in the Finals capturing his first challenger title.[6]

2018[]

He finished as runner-up in 2018 Junior Asian Games along with his Indian partner Amandeep Singh and Raj Kumar (sub pro).

2019: Debut at Grand Slam main draw[]

2019 proved to be breakthrough year for Nagal. At the 2019 US Open, Nagal qualified to make his grand slam main draw debut. He faced Roger Federer in his opening round match.[7] He lost the match but managed to take first set against the multiple grand slam champion.[8] Later he reached his second career ATP challenger final at the Banja Luka Challenger. He lost the championship match to Dutch player Tallon Griekspoor.[9] The next tournament he reached the final again at Buenos Aires Challenger.[10] He won the title defeating local player Facundo Bagnis. This was his second challenger title and his first on clay.[11]

2020: First Grand Slam main draw win[]

At 2020 US Open, Nagal won his opening round match against Bradley Klahn, thus becoming first Indian since Somdev Devvarman at the 2013 US Open to win a singles match in the main draw of a Grand Slam. In second round he was defeated in straight sets by the second seed and eventual champion, Dominic Thiem.[12]

2021: Olympics[]

Nagal qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in singles.[13] He reached the 2nd round after defeating Denis Istomin.[14][15] He lost to Daniil Medvedev in the next round.[16] Nagal holds the distinction of being the first Indian in 25 years to reach the second round of an Olympics singles tennis event.[17]

Career statistics[]

Grand Slam tournament performance timeline[]

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current through the 2021 US Open.

Tournament 2018 2019 2020 2021 SR W–L Win %
Australian Open Q1 A Q1 1R 0 / 1 0–1 0%
French Open Q1 A Q1 Q2 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Wimbledon Q1 A NH A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
US Open A 1R 2R Q1 0 / 2 1–2 33%
Win–Loss 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–1 0 / 3 1–3 25%

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals[]

Singles: 13 (11–2)[]

Legend
ATP Challenger (2–1)
ITF Futures (9–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (3–0)
Clay (8–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Jun 2015 India F8, Hyderabad Futures Clay Argentina Gustavo Vellbach 6–2, 6–0
Win 2–0 Aug 2015 India F11, Chennai Futures Hard India Ronit Singh Bisht 6–3, 6–4
Win 3–0 Sep 2015 India F15, Madurai Futures Hard India Vishnu Vardhan 7–6(7-5), 7–6(7-4)
Win 4–0 Aug 2016 Poland F6, Poznan Futures Clay Germany Daniel Masur 6–4, 1–6, 6-3
Win 5–0 Oct 2016 Hungary F7, Balatonboglar Futures Clay Hungary Peter Nagy 7–6(7-3), 6-1
Loss 5–1 May 2017 Romania F2, Bacau Futures Clay Portugal Goncalo Oliveira 6–3, 3–6, 0-6
Win 6–1 Jun 2017 Sri Lanka F1, Colombo Futures Clay Russia Alexander Zhurbin 6–3, 6-2
Win 7–1 Jul 2017 Sri Lanka F3, Colombo Futures Clay Spain Carlos Bolunda-Purkiss 6–1, 6-1
Win 8–1 Jul 2017 Italy F23, Pontedera Futures Clay Italy Andrea Basso 6–4, 6-4
Win 9–1 Sep 2017 India F7, Chennai Futures Clay Netherlands Colin Van Beem 6–3, 6-0
Win 10–1 Nov 2017 Bangalore, India Challenger Hard United Kingdom Jay Clarke 6–3, 3-6, 6-2
Loss 10–2 Sep 2019 Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina Challenger Clay Netherlands Tallon Griekspoor 2–6, 3–6
Win 11–2 Sep 2019 Buenos Aires, Argentina Challenger Clay Argentina Facundo Bagnis 6–4, 6–2

Doubles: 2 (2–0)[]

Legend
ATP Challenger (0–0)
ITF Futures (2–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Sep 2015 India F15, Madurai Futures Hard India N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth India Anirudh Chandrasekar
India Vignesh Peranamallur 		6–3, 7–5
Win 2–0 Apr 2016 Uzbekistan F1, Karshi Futures Hard Chinese Taipei Ti Chen Uzbekistan Sanjar Fayziev
Uzbekistan Jurabek Karimov 		5–5 ret.

Junior Grand Slam tournament finals[]

Boys' Doubles: 1 (1-0)[]

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 2015 Wimbledon Grass Vietnam Lý Hoàng Nam United States Reilly Opelka
Japan Akira Santillan 		7–6(7–4), 6–4

Controversies[]

In 2017, after reports came to surface that Sumit had missed a practice session in July 2016 at Chandigarh during the tie against South Korea, citing elbow injury. he was dropped from the Indian Davis Cup squad led by Anand Amritraj which was scheduled to face the New Zealand between 3 and 5 February 2017. A source close to All India Tennis Association (AITA) told Sportskeeda, "It is a case of sheer indiscipline, on the part of the player. He missed several training sessions, brought his girlfriend to the camp without informing us. Several other discrepancies have also emerged, which led to the captain taking this call."[18][19][20] Nagal denied the allegations, he got support from former India player Somdev Devvarman who stated that "I want to be clear once again. You have not chosen Sumit Nagal for the upcoming tie, because Sumit Nagal is NOT available to play. How do I know this? Because I have spent 2 weeks with Sumit in December helping him with his training and his rehab for the current shoulder injury he is recovering from."[21]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Who is Sumit Nagal? The Indian tennis player who will face Roger Federer at US Open 2019 first round".
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  4. ^ "Who is Sumit Nagal, the 22-year-old from Haryana Who Just Won a Set Against Roger Federer at US Open". 27 August 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  5. ^ "Sumit Nagal 'finished mini-bar in his hotel room', dropped from India Davis Cup team". PTI. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
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  7. ^ Meiseles, Josh. "Who Is Sumit Nagal? Meet Federer's First Round Opponent". www.atptour.com. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
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  9. ^ Chakraborty, Samrat (15 September 2019). "Sumit Nagal Loses To Netherlands' Tallon Griekspoor In Final Of Banja Luka Challenger". Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  10. ^ Mar 3, Damayanti Dasgupta / TNN /; 2021; Ist, 22:01. "Sumit Nagal on fire in Argentina | Tennis News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 April 2021.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "Sumit Nagal wins Buenos Aires Challenger, likely to break into top 135 of ATP rankings". 30 September 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  12. ^ "Dominic Thiem ousts Sumit Nagal to advance into Round 3". 3 September 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
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  14. ^ "Tokyo Olympics: Sumit Nagal beats Denis Istomin to win singles Tennis match for India after 25 years". SportsTiger. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
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  18. ^ "India drops Sumit Nagal from Davis Cup squad citing indiscipline". 17 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  19. ^ "Sumit Nagal dropped from India's Davis Cup squad due to serious breach of discipline: AITA sources". Firstpost. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  20. ^ "Sumit Nagal dropped from Indian Davis Cup team on charges of serious discipline breach". News Nation. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
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