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In this red clay run Sumit is 3-1 against players ranked 55-99. And all these players are regular clay courters. More impressively, he is 2-1 against players ranked between 55-63 (and 5-3 in sets). Those are the results of someone playing top 50 level tennis on red clay. So, he has a chance against ...

Nagal should be at another career high next week. He is currently #91 in the live rankings but can still be over taken by Garin and Berretini, so should be no worse 93 for next week. Well Berretini won the Marrakech tournament, so best ranking this week for Sumit is #92. However, there is someone p...

Nagal should be at another career high next week. He is currently #91 in the live rankings but can still be over taken by Garin and Berretini, so should be no worse 93 for next week.

I thought a qualifier got the 30 points plus whatever points you earned in the MD. So a qualifier who loses in R1 should get 40 points, losing in R2 would get 80 points and so on. The general atp ranking table for 2024 (which is revised from 2023) is at https://www.itftennis.com/media/11846/2024-atp...

Overall a good tournament for Sumit although he could have gone a step further. Prior to this week, he was 2-14 at ATP and Masters main draw matches, so going 1-1 (and almost winning a second match) this week is a substantial improvement for him. Of course, he has a 2-4 record in GS main draws and h...

We are assured of an SF team. The winners of these two QF matches play each other, so we could have a finalist Indian team if VSP/Ani win their match. I think that would guarantee at least one Indian in the final as the other semi finalist will come from a QF that has at least one Indian on each si...

Worth noting that Sumit Nagal made it into the Tokyo Olympics with a ranking of #144. In 2016, the cutoff was #101, so perhaps Covid impacted the participation in Tokyo 2020. Safest way would be get into the top 56 eligible while respecting the maximum 4 per country, so that number well be in the 70s.

Please rest Mayank Yadav for second leg of IPL and directly pitchfork him into T20 WC! Siraj may be saying good bye to the spot in T20WC. My biggest worry is that he may be worn out after playing all this IPL matches. Pace guy with this control that early in his career is just unbelievable. Not sur...

Nice win and confidence booster for Sumit to beat a solid clay courter at the ATP level. He has a chance against Sonego against whom he was absolutely even through 2 sets in the fast hard courts of Dubai. He lost the third set easily but I recall reading that he picked up a niggle in the 3rd set. Go...

Good luck to both Sumit and Yuki!

Both badly need victories at the ATP level and these are "winnable" matches.

Congrats to Rohan! It is pretty amazing that he is actually having his best results at this age. Most players who do well at older ages are generally at their peaks earlier and extend that run as they get older. Rohan actually seems to better now than he's ever been. Good luck to him!

Sumit is now at a career high of #95 and is playing #99 Moutet in Marrakech. Moutet just lost in the SF of the Naples clay challenger and if he had won that SF would have moved above Sumit (who would still have been at a career high of #96). So, they will continue their ranking battle in Marrakech!

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I don't think Stimac is the problem. We don't have a lot of quality on our team, so qualifying for the WC would be a real long shot for Indian team even if they advanced to the 3rd stage. Of course, would love for them to advance to the 3rd stage to at least play against better teams.

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