Indian tennis participant Sumit Nagal will face Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin in the opening spherical of the boys’s singles occasion on the Tokyo Olympics, beginning Friday. Nagal, who certified for the Games final week after large-scale withdrawals, was pitted towards the lower-ranked Uzbek in the draw on Thursday.
A primary-round win for the 23-year-old Indian, ranked 160, may see him face second-seeded Russia’s Daniil Medvedev, who takes on Alexander Bublik in his opening spherical match.
In girls’s doubles, six-time Grand Slam champion Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina will lock horns with the Kichenok twins — Nadiia and Lyudmyla — of Ukraine in the opening spherical. Interestingly, Mirza had paired up with Nadiia after coming back from her maternity go away to win the Hobart Open final 12 months.
Meanwhile, with a watch on Golden Slam, world quantity on males’s tennis participant Novak Djokovic’s quest for Serbian Olympic glory will start with a first-round match towards Hugo Dellien of Bolivia, whereas house hope Naomi Osaka will start her bid for Japan’s first gold medal in tennis towards Zheng Saisai of China. The first-round ties have been revealed precisely 48 hours earlier than the individuals hit the court docket for the primary time at Ariake Tennis Park on Saturday, July 24, at 11:00 a.m. native time.
Women’s singles high seed Ashleigh Barty will make her Olympic debut for Australia towards Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo, recent off her Wimbledon victory.
In the primary spherical, Daniil Medvedev, the No. 2 seed in the boys’s singles draw, will face Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik.
Andy Murray, the reigning males’s singles Olympic champion, will start his quest for an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic title in the identical tennis occasion towards Canadian Felix Auger Aliassime, whereas Petra Kvitova, the 2016 girls’s singles bronze medalist for the Czech Republic, will face Italian Jasmine Paolini.
Both singles attracts have generated a slew of fascinating first-round matchups, together with a mouthwatering opener between Kei Nishikori and Andrey Rublev in the boys’s draw. Olympic swansong of Carla Suarez Navarro begins towards Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur.
Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic of Croatia will open towards Marcelo Melo and Marcelo Demoliner of Brazil – a late change in partnership after Bruno Soares was recognized with appendicitis shortly after arriving in Tokyo – whereas Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova of Czech Republic will face Hsieh Yu-Chieh and Hsu Chieh-Yu of Chinese Taipei.
(With PTI Inputs)
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