European Challengers 2023

[prasen9]

Humdinger. 4-4.

[sameerph]

Sumit saved a crucial breakpoint and held for 5-4. C,mon break now.

[sameerph]

And he breaks at 15 to take the set and the match. What a comeback from 1-3 down and losing 7 straight games.


At Troisdorf Challenger 75, Germany (Clay)

[QF] (LL) Sumit Nagal (IND,254) d. Oleksii Krutykh (UKR,185) 61 16 64

[prasen9]

Attaboy!

[Rajiv]

Superb win by Sumit to move into the semi's.
What a fairytale tournament he is having.

Hope he works his way to a SE spot next week at Heilibronn

[Rajiv]

Meanwhile Ram opts for clay over grass and has made the quali cut at Heilibron.

More than the singles it his dbls pairing with Nenad which seems to be a good turning point as the Serbian in a mentoring role has been saying the right things to Ram.

[Sanjay]

Sumit! Sumit! Sumit!

[sameerph]

Sumit is 223 in live rankings. Getting closer and closer to ensure that he gets into all challenger main draws. Just win the next 2 matches and he does not have to bother about playing qualies at all.

At Troisdorf Challenger 75, Germany (Clay)

[SF] (LL) Sumit Nagal (IND,254) vs. Frederico Ferreira Silva (POR,230)

Ferreira Silva had one good week when he reached FO qualifying final last week. So, he seems to have run into form. Hope Sumit takes care of him though.

[Sanjay]

Where does he need to be to get into the Qualies for grand slams?
And where does he need to be to get direct entry to grand slams?

[arjun2761]

Superb win by Sumit to move into the semi's.
What a fairytale tournament he is having.

Hope he works his way to a SE spot next week at Heilibronn

I’m hoping he wins the title here and then skips next week to recover from 6 matches in a week.

[Atithee]

[QF] (LL) Sumit Nagal (IND,254) d. Oleksii Krutykh (UKR,185) 61 16 46

61 16 64 (last set needs correction).

[sameerph]

Done.

Where does he need to be to get into the Qualies for grand slams?
And where does he need to be to get direct entry to grand slams?

Inside 240 for qualies. Inside top 100 for main draw.

[sameerph]

Btw, pair of Aniruddh and VSP have entered the final in Italy.

At the Challenger 75 in Vicenza, Italy (Clay)

[QF] (3) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/ Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) d. Roman Andres Burruchaga (ARG) / Francisco Comesana (ARG) 62 62

[SF] (3) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/ Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) d. Daniel Dutra da Silva (BRA) /Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida (BRA) 63 61

Next,

[F] (3) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/ Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs. Fernando Romboli (BRA) /Marcelo Zormann (BRA)

[arjun2761]

Wow, these are decisive victories. Hope they can win the title here!

[Rajiv]

Superb win by Sumit to move into the semi's.
What a fairytale tournament he is having.

Hope he works his way to a SE spot next week at Heilibronn

I’m hoping he wins the title here and then skips next week to recover from 6 matches in a week.

Why a break? This is the business end of the season and when you are in a good playing form why disturb that rhythm, 2/3 months during the peak season one should go at it, plus he had a long break 4/5 weeks ago.And told Ram and he listened religiously and did play for long stretches with a great deal of sucess too when his form was good, so a player needs to maximize the returns when you are playing well and not to disrupt it with a break during peak season

And his today' opponent Fredrico Silva, have seen him play on couple of occasions and is compitative player, playing well above his ability many a times with great tenacity and focus.

Sumit will have to be at Total best and put out his A game to overcome the Portuguese.