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Sumit Nagal turned Challenger persistence into Indian tennis milestones
Sumit Nagal won the 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles title with Ly Hoang Nam, then built his senior career through the Challenger circuit. A fifth Challenger trophy in Chennai carried him into the Top 100 in 2024, and he reached a career-high No. 68 that July. The same season, Nagal beat Matteo Arnaldi as a qualifier in Monte Carlo to become the first Indian man to win an ATP Masters 1000 match on clay. He is five-foot-ten and succeeds through movement, return pressure and controlled groundstrokes rather than depending on free points from a towering serve.
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