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Sumit Nagal, who’s heading to the Olympics, has reached his best-ever ATP singles ranking of 68. The 26-year-old Indian tennis player jumped up five spots in the latest rankings that came out on Monday. He’d never been ranked higher than 71 before. This puts Nagal ahead of Sashi Menon, who used to be ranked 71st making him the fourth highest-ranked Indian guy since 1973. three Indian men have been ranked higher: Vijay Amritraj (who got to 18th in 1980), Ramesh Krishnan (who hit 23rd in 1985), and Somdev Devvarman (who made it to 62nd in 2011).
Nagal’s recent great games have boosted his ranking and gotten him a spot in the singles event at the Paris Olympics. He’s the only Indian guy in the men’s singles at the Games and has racked up 779 ATP points.
Nagal had an excellent begin to the year while he beat Kazakhstan’s 31st seed, Alexander Bublik, on the Australian Open. He additionally took component in the French Open and Wimbledon. Not long ago, he grabbed the guys’s singles identify at the Heilbronn Neckarcup 2024 Challenger event in Germany following his win on the Chennai Open in February.
At present, Nagal is the best-ranked Indian singles participant. He’s received 4 ATP Challenger titles considering that 2023, with Heilbronn being his fourth victory on clay courts.
