Sumit Nagal (Photo Credit: Nagal Instagram)
Sumit Nagal beat 283-ranked Andrea Pelegrino of Italy to go one step away from the primary draw of ATP Cagliari.
- IANS New Delhi
- Last Updated:April 05, 2021, 19:17 IST
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India’s tennis ace Sumit Nagal overcame the problem of Italy’s Andrea Pelegrino 6-3, 6-4 to enter the second and ultimate qualifying spherical of the 408,800 {dollars} ATP tennis event in Cagliari, Italy. The No. 139-ranked Nagal, took one hour and twenty-eight minutes to get previous his Italian rival, ranked No. 283 on the ATP, and arrange a final-round conflict on Monday towards Maxime Janvier of France, who defeated Maxime Cressy of the US in straight units. The Cagliari event — additionally known as ATP Cagliari — has a qualification part the place lower-ranked gamers should compete to take part in the primary event. A complete of 40 gamers compete in the event of which 24 get direct entries into the primary event, whereas the others take the qualification route.
Exactly a month in the past, the 23-year-old Nagal who hails from Jaitpur in Haryana, had registered the most important win of his ATP profession when he had shocked world No. 22 and second seed Cristian Garin of Chile 6-4, 6-3 to make it to the quarter-finals of the Argentina Open ATP 250 event in Buenos Aires.
Nagal’s dream run in the event had ended when he had gone down preventing to Spain’s world No. 46 Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-4, 2-6, 5-7 in a two-and-a-half-hour slugfest.
The Indian, who had made it to the US Open second spherical in 2020, had began as a qualifier in Buenos Aires earlier than making it to the primary draw.
