TENNIS | Sumit Nagal wins Tampere Challenger

Jul 23, 2023 at 4:47 PM
TENNIS | Sumit Nagal wins Tampere Challenger
Champion Sumit Nagal in the Tampere Challenger in Finland

Champion Sumit Nagal within the Tampere Challenger in Finland
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Sumit Nagal beat Dalibor Svrcina of the Czech Republic 6-4, 7-5 within the last of the €73,000 Challenger tennis event in Tampere, Finland, on Sunday.

It was the second Challenger title of the season after the one in Rome, and the fourth Challenger title of his profession for the 25-year-old Nagal.

After a hesitant begin when he was down 1-4, Sumit reeled off 9 video games in a row to steer 6-4, 4-0. However, there was a tussle thereafter with the Czech asserting his preventing qualities on the clay court docket. Sumit by his personal admission refocussed to drag by means of in straight units.

The champion collected 75 ATP factors and $9,880. The factors are anticipated to catapult Sumit again into the top-200 rankings and assist him get into the US Open qualifying occasion. Sumit had loved a profession finest rank of 122 in 2020.

The runner-up pocketed 50 factors and $5,820.

In the ATP occasion on grass in Newport, USA, Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni went down with weapons blazing within the doubles semifinals towards the highest seeds Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow 7-6(2) 6-7(1), [9-11].

Yuki and Saketh collected 90 ATP factors and $10,660.

In the $60,000 ITF girls’s occasion in Evansville, USA, third seed Karman Kaur Thandi made the ultimate with a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Mccartney Kessler of the USA. She was scheduled to play the fourth seed Yuliia Starodubtseva of Ukraine within the last.

The outcomes: $718,245 ATP, Newport, USA: Doubles: Semifinals: Nathaniel Lammons & Jackson Withrow (USA) bt Yuki Bhambri & Saketh Myneni 6-7(2), 7-6(1), [11-9].

€73,000 Challenger, Tampere, Finland: Final: Sumit Nagal bt Dalibor Svrcina (Cze) 6-4, 7-5.

$60,000 ITF girls, Evansville, USA: Semifinals: Karman Kaur Thandi bt Mccartney Kessler (USA) 6-4, 7-5.