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The Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) has confirmed Indian participant Sumit Nagal’s presence within the males’s singles occasion at Paris 2024 Olympics. As per Olympics.com, this can mark Nagal’s second Olympics look after Tokyo 2020, the place he defeated Denis Istomin within the first spherical however misplaced to Daniil Medvedev in spherical two.
The ITF confirmed Nagal’s presence by way of their entry checklist launched on July 4. The boys’s and girls’s singles occasion in Tennis at Paris Olympics, the multi-sport extravaganza ranging from July 26 onwards, will function 64 gamers. The highest 56 eligible males’s singles gamers, as per ATP Rankings on June 10, secured quotas for his or her nations, with a most of 4 quotas accessible to every nation.
Although 77th-ranked Nagal was 21 locations behind the highest 56 gamers when the qualifying window ended, he was capable of make it among the many quota winners as greater than 4 gamers from a number of nations have been forward of him within the rankings and a few gamers additionally withdrew from the occasion. Nagal was 138th within the rankings in January however has been in fantastic kind since then. A triumph at Chennai Open this 12 months helped him break into high 100 for the primary time ever.
Ranked at quantity 95 in males’s singles only a week earlier than the qualifying window ended, an ATP Challenger title win at Heilbronn Neckarcup in Germany helped him bounce a large 18 locations to quantity 77 and introduced himself in rivalry for a ticket to Paris. Nagal will likely be becoming a member of Rohan Bopanna, who can even accomplice with N Sriram Balaji within the males’s doubles competitors, as part of the Indian tennis workforce.
On the finish of the qualifying window, Bopanna was ranked at world quantity 4 in males’s doubles and received his Olympic quota simply. The boys’s and girls’s doubles occasion will function a complete of 32 groups, with a most of two groups per nation. The primary qualifiers to the Olympics have been the top-10 positioned groups in doubles rankings, so long as they’d a accomplice accessible inside the high 300 of doubles rankings. Bopanna selected 67th-ranked Balaji as his accomplice, and their entry was confirmed on June 19 by All India Tennis Affiliation (AITA).
Each Bopanna and Balaji are competing at Wimbledon 2024, the place the previous is partnering with Matthew Ebden of Australia inmen’s doubles whereas Balaji has paired up with Nice Britain’s Luke Johnson.
Bopanna and Balaji will later go to Hamburg and Umaag for his or her subsequent ATP 500 occasions forward of the Paris Olympics.
Nagal additionally feautured in Wimbledon however crashed out within the opening spherical in each singles and doubles. (ANI)
