{"id":35361,"date":"2024-07-16T16:51:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/sumit-nagal-beats-elias-ymer-to-reach-r16-of-atp-250-nordea-open-pragativadi-odisha-news-breaking-news-odisha-latest-odisha-news-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T16:51:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:51:49","slug":"sumit-nagal-beats-elias-ymer-to-reach-r16-of-atp-250-nordea-open-pragativadi-odisha-news-breaking-news-odisha-latest-odisha-news-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/sumit-nagal-beats-elias-ymer-to-reach-r16-of-atp-250-nordea-open-pragativadi-odisha-news-breaking-news-odisha-latest-odisha-news-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumit Nagal Beats Elias Ymer to Reach R16 of ATP 250 Nordea Open | Pragativadi | Odisha News, Breaking News Odisha, Latest Odisha News &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sumit Nagal, India\u2019s top singles player, triumphed over Elias Ymer in the first round of the Nordea Open in Bastad, Sweden, despite losing their previous two matches.<\/p>\n<p>Nagal won 6-4, 6-3 against the Swedish wild card entrant. He will next face Argentina\u2019s world number 36, Mariano Navone. Nagal is also set to represent India at the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sumit Nagal beats home-favorite &amp; WC Elias Ymer 6-4, 6-3 in the opening round of ATP 250 tournament in Bastad.<\/p>\n<p>Next he will take on WR 36 &amp; 4th seed Mariano Navone in Pre-QF.<br \/><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g6Zh4eht1s\">pic.twitter.com\/g6Zh4eht1s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 India_AllSports (@India_AllSports) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/India_AllSports\/status\/1813244873065308488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nagal experienced a major high before the Paris Olympics 2024, as the star athlete jumped five spots higher in the latest ATP Rankings to become World No. 68.<\/p>\n<p>He moves past Sashi Menon (Career Best WR 71) to be 4th in India\u2019s All-time Career Best World Singles rankings: (Vijay Amritraj: 18, Ramesh Krishnan: 23, Somdev Devvarman: 62, Sumit Nagal: 68)<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Rohan Bopanna and N Sriram Balaji are preparing for their debut ATP Tour tournament as a pair. They will compete against the German duo of Mark Wallner and Jakob Schneider in the first round of the Hamburg Open, an ATP 500 event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Sumit Nagal, India\u2019s top singles player, triumphed over Elias Ymer in the first round of the Nordea Open in Bastad, Sweden, despite losing their previous two matches. Nagal won 6-4, 6-3 against the Swedish wild card entrant. He will next face Argentina\u2019s world number 36, Mariano Navone. Nagal is also set to represent India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Sumit-Nagal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35363,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35361\/revisions\/35363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}