India’s top-ranked participant Sumit Nagal booked his spot in the primary draw of Monte Carlo Masters with a hard-fought win over Argentina’s Facundo Diaz Acosta within the last qualifying spherical on Sunday.
The unseeded Ninety fifth-ranked Indian adopted his 6-2, 6-3 win over eighth seed and World No. 63 Flavio Cobolli of Italy within the first spherical with a 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 victory over third-seeded Diaz Acosta in two hours 25 minutes.
Nagal was down 2-5 within the opening set towards Fifty fifth-ranked Diaz Acosta earlier than he reeled off 5 straight video games.
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The 23-year-old Diaz Acosta, who gained the Argentina Open in February, bounced again to clinch the second set.
Nagal broke the Argentine’s serve within the first and fifth recreation of the decider to take a 5-1 lead. Serving for the win at 5-2, the 26-year-old Indian wasted two match factors earlier than lastly changing the third one.
Nagal is ready to turn into the primary Indian to characteristic in the primary draw of the ATP occasion in Monaco since Ramesh Krishnan in 1982. He’ll face Italy’s Matteo Arnaldi, World No. 35, within the opening spherical with the winner set to tackle seventh-seeded Dane Holger Rune, final 12 months’s runner-up.
“I’m competing nicely. Bodily, I’m getting higher and higher. These two are the largest modifications from the previous couple of years,” mentioned Nagal after the win.
Nagal is ready to look in an ATP Masters 1000 occasion for the second time in what has been a significant season in his profession. He bought into the primary attract Indian Wells as a fortunate loser after Rafael Nadal pulled.
Nagal started the season by qualifying for the primary draw of the Australian Open the place he shocked Thirty first-seeded Kazakh Alexander Bublik within the opening spherical.
He then gained the Chennai Open ATP Challenger to make his High 100 debut within the ATP Rankings.