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Sumit Nagal crashes out of Australian Open
By IANS |
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Tue, Feb 9 2021 11:42 IST |
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Sumit Nagal. (Goran Stanzl/Pixsell via Xinhua/IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Melbourne, Feb 9 : Ace India tennis player Sumit Nagal on Tuesday faced a crushing straight-sets defeat against Lithuania s Ricardas Berankis in the first round contest to bow out of the men s singles event of the Australian Open.
Nagal, India s second-highest ranked men s singles player, lost 2-6, 5-7, 3-6 to Berankis in a match that lasted two hours and six minutes at Court 17. Last week, the 23-year-old Indian had lost to the world number 72 in the build-up event.
Ankita Raina becomes 3rd Indian woman to feature in Grand Slam main draw PTI
The year’s first Grand Slam starts here Monday.
After missing out on the women’s singles main draw, she still had a chance to qualify as a ‘lucky loser’ till the completion of the first round, but the 28-year-old realised a long-time dream when she signed up with Romania’s Mihaela Buzarnecu and earned a direct entry.
Only Sania Mirza and Nirupama Vaidyanathan have competed in the Grand Slam main draws for India before.
Ankita is only the second Indian after Sania, a six-time Grand Slam champion, to compete in the women’s doubles of a tennis major. Nirupama was the first to crack a Grand Slam main draw, back in 1998 at Australian Open.