1. Sumit Nagal was born on 16 August 1997 and is an Indian professional tennis player.
42 Facts About Sumit Nagal
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Sumit Nagal has a career-high singles ranking of world No 68 achieved on 15 July 2024.
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Sumit Nagal won the 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles title with Vietnamese Ly Hoang Nam, becoming the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title.
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Sumit Nagal was born on 16 August 1997 to school teacher Suresh Nagal and his wife Krishna Devi, a homemaker in Jhajjar, Haryana.
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Sumit Nagal played for Gujarat Panthers in Tennis Premier League Season 5.
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Sumit Nagal won the 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles title with his Vietnamese partner Ly Hoang Nam, defeating Reilly Opelka and Akira Santillan in the final.
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Sumit Nagal became the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title.
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Sumit Nagal made his Davis Cup debut for India in the 2016 World Group Playoff tie against Spain in New Delhi.
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Sumit Nagal ran into a controversy when he was dropped from Davis Cup team for serious disciplinary issues.
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At Bengaluru Challenger Sumit 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.
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Sumit Nagal made his Asian Games debut in 2018 edition, He competed in doubles event pairing with Ramkumar Ramanathan, They reached the Quarter-finals before losing to eventual silver medallists Alexander Bublik and Denis Yevseyev.
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Sumit Nagal failed to win a single match in the qualifying rounds of any Grand Slam events, he missed US Open due to an injury.
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Sumit Nagal lost to compatriot Ramkumar Ramanathan in the 1st round of 2018 Shenzhen Longhua Open after qualifying from qualifying draw.
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Sumit Nagal failed to reach final of any ITF or Challenger tournament at the end if the year.
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Sumit Nagal faced Roger Federer in his opening round match.
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Sumit Nagal lost the match but managed to take first set against the multiple grand slam champion.
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Sumit Nagal lost the championship match to Dutch player Tallon Griekspoor.
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Sumit Nagal won the title defeating local player Facundo Bagnis.
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At 2020 US Open, Sumit Nagal won his opening round match against Bradley Klahn, thus becoming the first Indian since Somdev Devvarman at the 2013 US Open to win a singles match in the main draw of a Grand Slam.
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Sumit Nagal started the year at the 2021 Australian Open where he received a wildcard entry into the main draw.
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Sumit Nagal lost to Norbert Gombos in the qualifiers of BMW Open.
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Sumit Nagal reached the 2nd round after defeating Denis Istomin.
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Sumit Nagal lost to Daniil Medvedev in the next round.
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Sumit Nagal holds the distinction of being the first Indian in 25 years to reach the second round of an Olympics singles tennis event.
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At 2021 US Open, Sumit Nagal was out in the qualifying round.
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Sumit Nagal had an early end to 2021 season due to a hip injury for which he underwent a surgery in November.
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Sumit Nagal reached the only quarterfinal of his year in the Meerbusch.
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Sumit Nagal began the season at Maharastra Open entering the main draw as wildcard.
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Sumit Nagal lost to sixth seed Filip Krajinovic in three sets in first round.
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Sumit Nagal next lost to Shintaro Mochizuki in three sets in first qualifying round of the Nonthaburi Challenger.
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Sumit Nagal then lost to Gauthier Onclin in three sets in first qualifying round of the 2023 BW Open ending the first month of the year winless.
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In February, Sumit Nagal reached his first challenger semifinal since Sibiu 2021 in Chennai after coming through qualifying, beating Calum Puttergill and Nam Ji-sung.
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Sumit Nagal's success continued on clay, after reaching yet another semifinal in Tulln, defeating Albert Ramos-Vinolas for his first victory over a top 100 player on his way.
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Sumit Nagal lost in the final in three sets to Corentin Moutet.
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On 12 February 2024, having been ranked 506th in the world roughly a year prior, Sumit Nagal made his top 100 debut becoming just the tenth Indian to reach the Top 100.
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Sumit Nagal reached the milestone by defeating Luca Nardi in the final of the Challenger in Chennai.
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Sumit Nagal entered the main draw 2024 BNP Paribas Open as a lucky loser on his Masters debut, replacing Rafael Nadal, making him the first Indian at a Masters 1000 event since Prajnesh Gunneswaran in Miami in 2019.
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Sumit Nagal defeated Italian Matteo Arnaldi in his opening match, becoming the first Indian male player to win a Masters 1000 match on clay.
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Sumit Nagal reached his career-high singles ranking of world No 71 on 17 June 2024, having won the 2024 Heilbronner Neckarcup on June 10 and reached another Challenger final in Perugia the following week.
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In 2017, reports surfaced that Sumit Nagal had missed a practice session in July 2016 at Chandigarh during the tie against South Korea, citing elbow injury.
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Sumit Nagal was dropped from the Indian Davis Cup squad led by Anand Amritraj which was scheduled to face New Zealand between 3 and 5 February 2017.
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Sumit Nagal missed several training sessions, brought his girlfriend to the camp without informing us.