After injury, Summit Nagal returned extremely strongly in 2024. Most notably, the Indian player won tickets to the main round in Australia – the first Grand Slam of the year. After that, he took his name in the second round before receiving the defeat to the Chinese opponent Shang Juncheng.
Leaving Australia, Nagal continuously attends different tournaments to accumulate points. This week, he has just been at the UAE to attend Dubai Championship. This is an event in the ATP 500 category on the hard pitch, which takes place from February 26 to March 3.
On the day of the launch, Nagal encountered Lorenzo Sonego, 48th in the world. Despite great efforts, the Indian tennis player still could not continue to the second round.
Set 1, Sonego creates a turning point when winning the only break of the match in game 7. In the rest of the set, he maintained the advantage to win with a score of 6-4. Nagal also does not cause any difficulties for the opponent.
Set Set 2, the two players create a fairly balanced game. In 11 games, no one won the break. However, in the 12-decision game, Nagal successfully broke Sonego's serve game, thereby winning close to 7-5.
Thinking of victory in Set 2 will help Indian tennis players add confidence. However, Sonego proved too strong in Set 3. The 48-class player won 3 breaks and buried the opponent with a 6-1 difference.
With this result, Nagal was eliminated from the tournament. Meanwhile, Sonego is present in the second round and will compete in the quarterfinal tickets with the No. 1 seed Daniil Medvedev.
Sumit Nagal is no longer a strange name for Vietnamese fans. He used to be the teammate of Ly Hoang Nam to win the men's double championship in the Wimbledon 2015 youth tournament. After this title, the Indian star played more and more advanced and has risen to 122 in the world in 2020.
