Sumit Nagal Wiki, Profile, Biography, Age, Country, Kabaddi Stats, Wife, Height, Salary, and more

Sumit Nagal, a 27-year-old Indian tennis player, is known for his success in tennis. He has two singles championships on the ATP Challenger Tour, nine singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Futures Tour.

Indian tennis player Sumit Nagal has won two singles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour, nine singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Futures Tour. His height is 5 feet 10 inches. His weight is 69 kg. As of June 2021, Nagal is the highest-rated Indian tennis player in the singles category and is ranked 144th in the world according to the FedEx ATP Rankings. He has been a permanent member of the Indian Davis Cup team since 2018. On August 24, 2020, Nagal reached her highest ranking of 122nd in the World Singles Rankings.

Sumit Nagar was born on August 16, 1997, in Jhajjar, Haryana to Suresh Nagar, a school teacher, and Krishna Devi, a housewife. Nagal started playing tennis at a nearby sports club when she was eight years old. As the first member of Mahesh Bhupathi’s Apollo HisTireHis Mission 2018 initiative, he was selected to join his academy whose training was in his 10th year. As a participant in the program, Mr. Nagal lived in Bangalore from 2008 until 2010. After completing the program, Nagal moved to Toronto and trained with coach Bobby Mahal.

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Indian tennis player Nagal, along with Vietnamese player Lee Hoang Nam, won the 2015 Wimbledon Men’s Doubles Championship for the first time, and the ITF Futures for the first time in India’s F8 tournament. He won the ITF Futures Doubles Championship with Vijay Sundar Prashant.

In 2016, Nagal competed in the Davis Cup and won the Hungarian F7. In 2017, he won his first ATP Challenger Championship but also lost in the finals of F2 in Romania and F3 in Sri Lanka due to discipline issues.

He continued his good form by winning the Italian F23 race and the Indian F7 race. At the Asian Indoor Martial Arts Championships, Nagal won the gold medal. He also won his first Challenger Championship at the Bangalore Challenger Tournament.

Nagal made his debut at the 2018 Asian Games, but lost his early matches at the US Open and the Maharashtra Open. He did not make it to the finals of the ITF or Challenger tournaments.
In 2019, Nagal played in his first Grand Slam, the US Open, and reached his second ATP Challenger final. He achieved his historic first feat in 2020 by winning a singles match in a Grand Slam main draw.

Nagal made his Olympic debut in 2021 but was plagued by issues with his form and injuries. In 2023, he became the first Indian player to win two Challenger titles within four years on European clay courts.
In 2024, he qualified for the main draw of this major for the second time, but in his first three years, he was denied a wild card for the 2024 Australian Open due to IATA not qualifying for Davis Cup and was unable to compete. was missing.

Sumit Nagal Records & Achievements 

• He won the Wimbledon Men’s Doubles Championship in 2015 with Vietnamese partner Lee Hoang Nam, becoming the sixth Indian player to win a Junior Grand Slam title.
• He made his Davis Cup debut for Spain in the 2016 World Group play-off match in New Delhi.
• Nagal won his first ATP Challenger singles title by defeating top seed Vlaz Kavcic in the quarterfinals, Yuki Bamburi in the semifinals, and Jay Clark in the final.
• He won the gold medal in men’s singles at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. He finished the 2018 Junior Asian Games in second place along with Raj Kumar and Indian Amandeep Singh.
• He defeated Roger Federer in his Grand Slam debut at the 2019 US Open to reach the Banja Luka Challengers final, the second ATP Challenger match of his career.
• At the 2019 Buenos Aires Challenger, he defeated local player Facundo Bagnis to win his second Challenger title, his first on clay.
• Sumit Nagal made history at the 2020 US Open by winning the Grand Slam singles main draw for the first time in seven years.

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• Sumit Nagal is an Indian Tennis player. He is the sixth Indian to win a Junior Grand Slam. Nagal shot to fame when he faced Roger Federer in the 2019 US Open.
• In his childhood, he mostly used to play cricket, but his father wanted him to pursue tennis; as he wanted him to do something unique.
• Soon after joining tennis, he started loving the game. His school coach became very impressed with his skills in the game and advised his father to get him professional training.
• At the age of 7, his family moved to Delhi, where his father enrolled Sumit in the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Tennis Academy to be professionally trained.
• He performed very well in the DDA academy. Sumit also won his first tennis tournament at the age of 8.
• When Sumit was 10 years old, Mahesh Bhupathi, along with other international tennis players, started a talent hunt- “Mission 2018”, an initiative to find, train, and produce India’s first single Grand Slam winner by 2018.
• Sumit’s father took him to Bangalore to participate in Mission 2018. There were more than 5,000 participants at the event, of which Sumit was one of the youngest players. Sumit was selected along with 2 other players after Bhupathi watched him play.
• Reportedly, in an interview, his father said that he did not think Sumit would get selected; as thousands of other participants were much older than him.
• Bhupathi started to train Sumit, but the programme was shut down after 2 years. Bhupathi stopped training him, but he backed him financially, even after the programme ended.
• Former Canadian tennis player and coach, Bobby Mahal, had seen Sumit train with Bhupathi. When Bhupathi’s programme ended abruptly, Bobby Mahal invited Sumit to train with him in Canada.
• Even though Sumit’s family did not have the money to send him to Canada, Mahesh Bhupathi, sponsored his trip and accommodation in Canada.
• Bhupathi is Sumit’s mentor and manager, and he guides him constantly. He advises him on what tournaments to participate in, how to play, and how to get more points and move up the rankings table.
• In 2014, Sumit moved to Germany, after he was accepted into the Schuettler Waske Tennis University.
• In 2015, Sumit participated in and won the Boys’ Doubles title at Wimbledon with Vietnamese tennis player, Lý Hoàng Nam.
• In 2015, he turned pro, and in 2016, he made his debut for India in the Davis Cup.
• In 2017, Nagal was removed from India’s Davis Cup squad; citing disciplinary reasons. Later, a retired Indian tennis player, Somdev Devvarman, defended Sumit by writing an open letter to the All India Tennis Association (AITA).
• In 2019, he qualified for the US Open. He made his Grand Slam debut against Roger Federer on 26 August 2019.
• Sumit lost the match against Federer, but he won the first set against him. It also made him the first Indian to win a set against Federer. After the match, Federer praised him and stated that the first set was tough for him, and he was sure that Sumit would do very well in his career.
• The official Twitter handle of the US Open also posted a tweet praising Sumit.
• On 2 September 2020, when he defeated United States’ Bradley Klahn 6-1, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in the first round of the US Open, he became the first Indian in seven years to reach the second round of a Grand Slam.
• In 2023, Sumit, in an interview, disclosed that he had used most of his savings to sustain his participation in the ATP Tour. With around 900 euros (approximately Rs. 80,000) in his bank account, these expenses covered his stay in Peine, Germany’s training centre, and travel to tournaments, either with his coach or a physio. According to him, his annual travel cost, even with just one coach and no physio, ranged from 80 lakhs to 1 crore rupees. Sumit also expressed disappointment at the lack of support and belief in his comeback after an injury, noting the difficulty of finding financial backing in India.