Tokyo Olympics: Tennis LIVE Day 1, July 24 — Sumit Nagal wins against Denis Istomin - Updates, score, results, blog
Indian tennis star Sumit Nagal clinched history by defeating Denis Istomin and sailing into the second round!
Sumit Nagal will be in action in the first round of men's singles at the Tokyo Olympics (Source:AFP)
Welcome to The Bridge's LIVE blog for Tennis on Day 1 of the Tokyo Olympics.
Quite the late and surprise entry at the Tokyo Olympics, India's Sumit Nagal had the stars aligning for him when he earned a last-minute Tokyo seat and qualified for the Men's Singles tennis event at the quadrennial Games. Set to debut now, the 23-year-old Sumit Nagal will be facing Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin in his opening round clash. If Sumit manages to play at a quality level today, he will be sailing into the 2nd round where a potential clash against World No. 2 Russian Daniil Medvedev awaits him.
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Sumit Nagal now has the delicious opportunity to play against Daniil Medvedev in the second round! Who's excited?!
Sumit Nagal survives a lot of scares to finally prevail and goes through to the second round!
After playing a fantastic match, Sumit Nagal manages to calm his nerves and comes out on top to win the first round encounter after a 2 hour 34 min battle!!!
Back on the Istomin serve, we have another tense deuce right here.
The deciding set is looking tense as things could go either way.
Both players - Nagal and Istomin are keeping close and are 4 ALL on the board in the final set.
Denis Istomin is banking a lot on his aces in this match and into the deciding set, Istomin has the lead at 3-2.
The pressure is really on Sumit Nagal as the India looks a little out of rhythm. But he isn't going to be denied so easily, it is deuce on the Nagal serve just as we hit the 2 hour mark of the match!