New Delhi | Jagran Sports Desk: Sumit Nagal, the 2015 Wimbledon junior boys doubles champion became the youngest Indian in 25 years to qualify for the grand slam main draw after advancing through the US Open 2019 qualifying tournament.
Coming back from one set down, he defeated Joao Menezes (5-7, 6-4, 6-3) of Brazil who is a Pan American Games gold medallist on Friday to book his ticket for the showpiece event of Tennis.
On Friday, Sumit Nagal came back from the dead after losing the first set 5-7. In the second set, the Indian player was 1-4 down when made an astonishing comeback to take the set 6-4 with the final set also going in his favour.
The 22-year-old Nagal will now the the 20-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer at US Open’s showpiece court, the Aurthor Ashe Stadium, in the first round.
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Sumit Nagal is the second Indian to qualify for the US Open 2019 men's singles main draw. He will join Prajnesh Gunneswaran, whose world ranking of 89 gave him an automatic seeding in the main draw of the 2019 US Open.
For Sumit Nagal it will be the biggest highlight of his career so far as this will be his first main draw Grand Slam tournament match and only his third at the ATP Tour main draw level.
Sumit Nagal had beaten Canada's Peter Polansky 7-5, 7-6 in two hours and five minutes in the second qualifying round to set up a clash against Joao Menezes.
Meanwhile, schedules for the first two days of the year's final Grand Slam were released Friday by the US Tennis Association following the completion of qualifying matches.
Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova will meet in Monday night's first feature match at the US Open with Roger Federer and Sumit Nagal following them on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Posted By: Talib Khan