Sumit Nagal (Photo Credit: Nagal Instagram)
Sumit Nagal overcame Ukraine’s Illya Marchenko 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 to go one step away from the principle draw at ATP 500 Barcelona Open.
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- Last Updated:April 18, 2021, 15:31 IST
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India’s top-ranked males’s tennis participant Sumit Nagal overcame a tricky problem from Ukraine’s Illya Marchenko 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 within the ATP 500 Barcelona Open qualifier to be one step away from the principle draw of the event. The 136th-ranked Nagal, who’s aiming to get into the top-100 on the ATP rankings, will now tackle Italy’s Thomas Fabbiano for a spot in the principle draw of the event, which is one of an important occasions in Spanish tennis. Spaniard Rafael Nadal, the joint Grand Slam file holder with Roger Federer with 20 titles every, has gained 11 trophies on the Barcelona Open.
Despite being ranked larger than his opponent on the ATP, Nagal (136th) can not take Fabbiano (171st) evenly because the 31-year-old Italian had a singles rating of 70 in 2017 and twice reached the Wimbledon third spherical, in 2018 and 19.
For greater than a month now, Nagal has been enjoying in Europe however has met with little success. The Indian needed to chunk the mud within the opening qualifying spherical of the Rolex Monte Carlo Masters, taking place to Italy’s Stefano Travaglia lately.
Nagal additionally misplaced within the opening spherical of the ATP 250 Sardegna Open in Cagliari, Italy to fellow Slovakian qualifier Jozef Kovalik earlier this month after profitable two rounds of qualifiers.
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