Sumit Nagal

Sumit Nagal (born 16 August 1997) is an Indian tennis player. He won the 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles title, thus becoming the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title. He is currently the second highest-ranked Indian singles tennis player and since 2018, he has been a regular member of India's national Davis Cup squad.

Sumit Nagal
Country (sports)India
ResidenceNew Delhi, India
Born (1997-08-16) 16 August 1997
Jaitpur, Haryana, India
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro2015
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$386,368
Singles
Career record3–9 (25.0% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
(2 Challengers, 9 ITF)
Highest rankingNo. 122 (24 August 2020)[1]
Current rankingNo. 136 (28 December 2020)[2]
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open1R (2021)
French OpenQ1 (2018, 2020)
WimbledonQ1 (2018)
US Open2R (2020)
Doubles
Career record0–1 (0% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
(0 Challengers, 2 ITF)
Highest rankingNo. 540 (8 October 2018)[3]
Current rankingNo. 828 (28 December 2020)[4]
Last updated on: 04 September 2020.

Early life

Sumit Nagal was born on August 14, 1997 to a school-teacher Suresh Nagal and his wife Krishna Devi, a homemaker in Jhajjar, Haryana. Nagal started playing tennis at the age of eight at a local sports club. When he was ten years old, he was selected to join Mahesh Bhupathi's training academy, as part of the first batch of Mahesh Bhupathi's Apollo Tyres Mission 2018 programme.[5] As part of the programme, between 2008 and 2010, Nagal was based in Bangalore. Upon the programme closing down, Nagal shifted to Toronto for training with Coach Bobby Mahal.

Career

Early career

He won the 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles title with his Vietnamese partner Lý Hoàng Nam, defeating the pair of Reilly Opelka and Akira Santillan in the final. He became the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title.[6]

2016: Davis cup debut

He made his Davis Cup debut for India in the 2016 World Group Playoff tie against Spain in New Delhi.[7]

2017: First ATP Challenger title

Nagal ran into a controversy when he was dropped from Davis Cup team for serious disciplinary issues.[8]

At Bengaluru Challenger Nagal stunned top seed Blaz Kavcic in quarter finals, followed it by beating compatriot Yuki Bhambri in semis and finally Jay Clarke in the Finals capturing his first challenger title.[9]

2018

He finished as runner-up in 2018 Junior Asian Games along with his Indian partner Amandeep Singh and Raj Kumar (sub pro).

2019: Debut at Grand Slam main draw

Year 2019 proved to be breakthrough year for Nagal. At the 2019 US Open, Nagal qualified to make his grand slam main draw debut. He faced Roger Federer in his opening round match.[10] He lost the match but managed to take first set against the multiple grand slam champion.[11] Later he reached his second career ATP challenger final at the Banja Luka Challenger. He lost the championship match to Dutch player Tallon Griekspoor.[12] The next tournament he reached final again at Buenos Aires Challenger. He won the title defeating local player Facundo Bagnis. This was his second challenger title and first one on Clay.[13]

2020

Nagal advanced to second round of the 2020 US Open where he was defeated in straight sets by the second seed, Dominic Thiem of Austria.[14]

Career statistics

Grand Slam tournament performance timeline
Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# A NH
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current through the 2020 Australian Open.

Tournament2018201920202021SRW–LWin %
Australian Open Q1 A Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
French Open Q1 A Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Wimbledon Q1 A NH 0 / 0 0–0  – 
US Open A 1R 2R 0 / 2 1–2 33%
Win–Loss 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 0 / 2 1–2 33%

Boys' Doubles: 1 (1-0)
Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 2015 Wimbledon Grass Lý Hoàng Nam Reilly Opelka
Akira Santillan		 7–6(7–4), 6–4

Singles: 2 (2–1)
Legend
Grand Slam (0–0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0–0)
ATP Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP Tour 500 series (0–0)
ATP Tour 250 series (0–0)
ATP Challenger Tour (2–1)
Titles by Surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (1–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score in Final
Win 1–0 Nov 2017 Bangalore, India Challenger Hard Jay Clarke 6–3, 3–6, 6–2
Loss 1–1 Sep 2019 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina Challenger Clay Tallon Griekspoor 2–6, 3–6
Win 2–1 Sep 2019 Buenos Aires, Argentina Challenger Clay Facundo Bagnis 6–4, 6–2

Controversies

In 2017, after reports came to surface that Sumit had missed a practice session in July 2016 at Chandigarh during the tie against South Korea, citing elbow injury. he was dropped from the Indian Davis Cup squad led by Anand Amritraj which was scheduled to face the New Zealand between 3 and 5 February 2017. A source close to All India Tennis Association (AITA) told Sportskeeda, "It is a case of sheer indiscipline, on the part of the player. He missed several training sessions, brought his girlfriend to the camp without informing us. Several other discrepancies have also emerged, which led to the captain taking this call."[15][16][17] Nagal denied the allegations, he got support from former India player Somdev Devvarman who stated that "I want to be clear once again. You have not chosen Sumit Nagal for the upcoming tie, because Sumit Nagal is NOT available to play. How do I know this? Because I have spent 2 weeks with Sumit in December helping him with his training and his rehab for the current shoulder injury he is recovering from."[18]

References
  1. https://www.atptour.com/en/players/sumit-nagal/n897/overview
  2. https://www.atptour.com/en/players/sumit-nagal/n897/overview
  3. https://www.atptour.com/en/players/sumit-nagal/n897/overview
  4. https://www.atptour.com/en/players/sumit-nagal/n897/overview
  5. https://www.sportskeeda.com/tennis/who-is-sumit-nagal-the-indian-tennis-player-who-will-face-roger-federer-at-us-open-2019-first-round
  6. "Sumit Nagal wins Wimbledon boys' doubles title". 12 July 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  7. "Who is Sumit Nagal, the 22-year-old from Haryana Who Just Won a Set Against Roger Federer at US Open". 27 August 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  8. "Sumit Nagal 'finished mini-bar in his hotel room', dropped from India Davis Cup team". PTI. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  9. "Sumit Nagal wins ATP Bengaluru Open title". PTI. 25 November 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  10. Meiseles, Josh. "Who Is Sumit Nagal? Meet Federer's First Round Opponent". www.atptour.com. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  11. Hegde, Prajwal (28 August 2019). "Valiant Sumit Nagal gives Roger Federer a scare before going down at US open". Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  12. Chakraborty, Samrat (15 September 2019). "Sumit Nagal Loses To Netherlands' Tallon Griekspoor In Final Of Banja Luka Challenger". Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  13. "Sumit Nagal wins Buenos Aires Challenger, likely to break into top 135 of ATP rankings". 30 September 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  14. "Dominic Thiem ousts Sumit Nagal to advance into Round 3". 3 September 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  15. "India drops Sumit Nagal from Davis Cup squad citing indiscipline". 17 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  16. "Sumit Nagal dropped from India's Davis Cup squad due to serious breach of discipline: AITA sources". Firstpost. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  17. "Sumit Nagal dropped from Indian Davis Cup team on charges of serious discipline breach". News Nation. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  18. Nickels, Jepher Christopher (18 January 2017). "Sumit Nagal slams allegations made by All India Tennis Association". Retrieved 8 January 2018.
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