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Tokyo Olympics: Tennis LIVE Day 3 — Sumit Nagal faces Daniil Medvedev challenge — Updates, scores, results, blog
India's debutant tennis star Sumit Nagal will fancy his chances against World No. 2 from Russia, Daniil Medvedev in the second round of Tokyo Olympics.
Sumit Nagal to clash against Daniil Medvedev
Welcome to The Bridge's LIVE blog for Tennis on Day 3 of the Tokyo Olympics.
India's lone hope in tennis, World No. 160 Sumit Nagal is slated to clash against the reigning World No. 2 from ROC, Daniil Medvedev in the Round of 32 clash of Men's singles at the Tokyo Olympics.
Sumit Nagal, on the first day of the Games produced an impressive performance against former World No. 33 player Denis Istomin and led the way to victory and in the process, became the first Indian male tennis player to qualify for the second round after a long gap of 25 years.
Hoping to keep this very momentum alive, the 23-year-old Sumit Nagal will hope to bring his A-game to the table as he will take on the World No. 2 from Russia - Daniil Medvedev.
It won't be an easy job for Nagal to cross this hurdle given the fact that Medvedev is an excellent player on the hard court and the Ariake Tennis Park is favourable for the Russian to get his flat groundstrokes going.
However, on any given day, anything can happen and tennis has already been seeing shock upsets with World No. 1 Ash Barty crashing out on Day 2 of the Games and Sumit Nagal will be desperate to cause a massive upset by defeating Medvedev, who is also a little off-form.
Follow all our LIVE updates here:
Live Updates
- 26 July 2021 6:01 AM GMT
Daniil Medvedev is being clinical with his tennis today and Nagal looks on a little, dazed!
- 26 July 2021 5:59 AM GMT
We have another deuce on the Nagal serve!
Nagal gets off-balance and it takes it to deuce!
- 26 July 2021 5:57 AM GMT
Sumit Nagal is coming to the net more and it works out for him in the third game of the second set!
- 26 July 2021 5:56 AM GMT
Daniil Medvedev seems to be in a hurry here as he leads 2-0 in the second set!
- 26 July 2021 5:53 AM GMT
Powerful forehands coming from Medvedev now, ouf! But Nagal keeps a close tab in the second game of the second set.
- 26 July 2021 5:51 AM GMT
SUMIT NAGAL GETS BROKEN AGAIN!
A forehand miss from Sumit Nagal and the Indian loses his service hold early into the second set.
- 26 July 2021 5:50 AM GMT
Break point for Meddy, again!
Sumit Nagal fails to come out on top of the long rallies.
- 26 July 2021 5:48 AM GMT
No worries, we are into Set #2 here! Come on, Nagal!
Sumit Nagal serves and begin a new set again! Let's hope he doesn't get broken again.
