Sumit Nagal.
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The highest-three gamers, Sumit Nagal, Karan Singh and Aryan Shah, have been chosen to play the singles matches within the Davis Cup World Group-1 tie to be staged on indoor exhausting courts in Switzerland on September 12 and 13.
All of the gamers had been obtainable for choice this time, and Yuki Bhambri and Sriram Balaji will function within the doubles.
The choice committee of the All India Tennis Affiliation, which met underneath the chairmanship of Nandan Bal, additionally introduced three reserve gamers — Dhakshineswar Suresh, S. Mukund and Rithvik Bollipalli.
Rohit Rajpal and Ashutosh Singh would be the captain and coach respectively.
India has a 2-1 win-loss report in opposition to Switzerland, and has overwhelmed it each at dwelling and away.
The 2 groups met the final time in 1993 on the grass courts of South Membership in Kolkata, when Ramesh Krishnan and Leander Paes helped the crew win the tie 3-2. The 2 gained their singles matches in opposition to Jakob Hlasek, and gained the doubles in 5 units in opposition to Hlasek and Marc Rosset.
The Barcelona Olympics gold medallist Rosset gained each his singles matches then.
The present Switzerland crew, which misplaced the primary spherical of qualifier to Spain, is anticipated to be chosen from Jerome Kym (145), Marc-Andrea Huesler (170), Dominic Stricker (205), Mika Brunold (300), Alexander Ritschard (314), Jakub Paul (350) and Remy Bertola (352).
Nagal has slipped to a rank of 306, whereas Karan and Aryan are ranked 403 and 442 respectively.
Yuki is the best ranked Indian doubles participant at 35, and Balaji is at 75, two locations above Rithvik.
Printed – July 25, 2025 05:29 pm IST
