Sumit Nagal thread

[sameerph]

Sumit has not withdrawn from Cordoba ATP. He is very much there in the qualies.

ATP 250 Cordoba Open

[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,144) vs Facundo Diaz Acosta (ARG,400)

First match on Saturday at 10 am local time.

[Rajiv]

Sumit loses the opening set 46 against his 400 ranked opponent, but is 52 up in the 2nd well set to pocket it.

[sameerph]

Sumit went 1-5 down in the first set before starting his comeback. Was too late to salvage the first set. But, has now won 9 of next 12 games. Hopefully, this resurgence will continue in third set.

[sameerph]

Resurgence continued for next 2 games as he went up 2-0 in third set. But, he has now lost the next 3 games to go 2-3 down in third set. Strange up and down match this is for Sumit.

[Rajiv]

And loses the decider 36, surprising loss on his favourite surface and that too, to a 400 ranked player.

[sameerph]

And he lost.

ATP 250 Cordoba Open ( Clay)

[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,144) l. Facundo Diaz Acosta (ARG,400) 46 62 36

Sumit won 1 out of first 6 games, then won 11 out of next 14 only to lose 5 out of next 6 games. Strange match and disappointing loss.

[arjun2761]

Sumit hasn't been playing well for sometime, so not a big surprise. The slower court should favor his game but most players playing here are also clay court specialists, so he has to be playing well to win.

[PKBasu]

Covid has definitely been a massive setback to Indian tennis. Nobody is winning much, apart from Ankita's golden run at Melbourne 4 (Phillip Island Trophy) in doubles especially, but also one breakthrough singles win.

[sameerph]

Sumit faces a tough match-up in the qualifying at Argentina.

At Buenos Aires, ATP 250

[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,148) vs. (3) Daniel Elahi Galan (COL,116)

Sumit was the highest ranked player outside the seeds in qualies and he gets a seeded South American in very first match. Galan reached third round of French open last year. So, this will be tough match for Sumit.

[sameerph]

Galan withdrew at the last moment and Sumit got to play a much lower ranked Spaniard but had to fight all the way to win in an 3 hours 8 mins match.

At Buenos Aires, ATP 250 ( Clay)

[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,148) d. Carlos Gomez-Herrera (ESP,359) 76(2) 26 76(2)

Plays another Spaniard next.

[Q2] Sumit Nagal (IND,148) vs. Mario Vilella Martinez (ESP,193)

[vishalg]

Was he injured, I saw the final set and he was holding his left leg on multiple occasions.

[jayakris]

Was he injured, I saw the final set and he was holding his left leg on multiple occasions.

Maybe a cramp or something after a long match? Or did it look like serious trouble?

[vishalg]

Was he injured, I saw the final set and he was holding his left leg on multiple occasions.

Maybe a cramp or something after a long match? Or did it look like serious trouble?

In the beginning of final set he was applying ice on his left leg. If see the end of match (on ITD's insta page) , he had both his hands on his knees after final point. That happened a few times in the final set. I didn't notice any major limping but definitely something was bothering him. Hopefully it was just a cramp ( if at all) and he will be fit for final qualifying match.

[sameerph]

2 more rounds of qualies still to be played, Vishal.

I watched first set and then only the third set tiebreak. I did not notice anything major in that third set tie break which hampered his movements. He did have hands on knees after the match. I thought it was more due to exhaustion after playing such a long match.

[arjun2761]

Win is good for confidence! Hopefully, he'll find his best form soon...