India’s high singles participant Sumit Nagal is about to make his maiden look within the males’s singles important draw of the Wimbledon and he will probably be up in opposition to higher-ranked Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia within the first spherical in London. Nevertheless, World No. 72 Nagal has a troublesome street forward as he’s positioned in the identical part of the draw as high seed and World No. 1 Jannik Sinner and will face the Italian within the third spherical if he makes it that far.
Even crossing the primary hurdle won’t be straightforward for Nagal as he’s pitted in opposition to world No. 53 Kecmanovic. The Serbian had overwhelmed Nagal of their lone match to date on the ATP 250 occasion in Cologne, Germany, 4 years in the past.
If Nagal will get previous the opening spherical, he will probably be up in opposition to the winner of the opening spherical match between Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta, ranked 796 on the earth, and world No. 26 Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands.
Olympic-bound Nagal had earlier misplaced within the first spherical of males’s singles qualifiers in opposition to Poland’s Kamil Majchrzak in 2018.
Nagal is having a dream season as far as he had additionally certified for the principle draw of the Australian Open earlier this yr. He shocked Thirty first-seeded Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan within the opening spherical to turn into the primary Indian male tennis participant to beat a seeded participant in 35 years in a Slam.
The Indian then went on to win the Chennai Open ATP Challenger to enter top-100 within the rankings.
In the meantime in males’s doubles, veteran Indian Rohan Bopanna and his Australian associate Matthew Ebden, seeded second, will tackle French pair Adrian Mannarino and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard within the first spherical.
Bopanna and Ebden, the reigning Australian Open champions, had reached the semifinals of final yr’s Wimbledon.
One other Indian N Sriram Balaji, who will probably be Bopanna’s doubles associate at Paris Olympics, and his British associate Luke Johnson will play fourth-seeded Croatian-Salvadorian mixture of Mate Pavic and Marcelo Arevalo, who gained this yr’s French Open.
Yuki Bhambri and his French associate Albano Olivetti will meet Kazakh duo of Bublik and Alexander Shevchenko, whereas Nagal and Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic will tackle Spain’s Pedro Martinez and Jaume Munar within the opening spherical.
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