{"id":17100,"date":"2021-07-16T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T10:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=126910"},"modified":"2021-07-16T16:16:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T10:46:23","slug":"indian-tennis-player-sumit-nagal-now-eligible-for-tokyo-singles-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/indian-tennis-player-sumit-nagal-now-eligible-for-tokyo-singles-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian tennis player Sumit Nagal is now eligible for the Tokyo singles draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sumit Nagal from India has qualified for the main draw of the men\u2019s singles event at the Tokyo Olympics, the world governing body ITF has conveyed to the AITA, a reference in the national tennis body told on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tennis player <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nagalsumit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nagalsumit<\/a> \ud83c\udfbehas qualified for the main draw of the men\u2019s singles event at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>At 144, he is the highest-ranked Indian player. <\/p>\n<p>Many congratulations!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cheer4India?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cheer4India<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/afmhne7DRd\">pic.twitter.com\/afmhne7DRd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SAI Media (@Media_SAI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_SAI\/status\/1415939850356740097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nagal was ranked 144 on June 14, when ATP rankings were to be contemplated for straightforward entrances and is the highest-ranked Indian player.<\/p>\n<p>Prajnesh Gunneswaran, another specialist singles player was ranked 148 and it continues to be seen if he cuts the deadline to accept tennis entries which are closing in a few hours from now.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The rigid protocols under which the Games are being held and the fear of reaching coronavirus has compelled many withdrawals that kept lowering the cut-off mark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have received a mail from the ITF that Sumit is now eligible. They have asked for his details. We have started the process of getting him in,\u201d an AITA official told PTI.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Despite making the cut with his Protected Ranking of 127, Yuki Bhambri is not available because he just went through a procedure on his right knee in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t be playing,\u201d told Bhambri to PTI. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">ITF is giving preference to the players of singles players to fill the doubles draw. Nagal\u2019s access would also mean that India can now have a team in the mixed doubles draw too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian tennis player Sumit Nagal is now competent for the Tokyo singles draw. He was rated at 144 on June 14 the time when ATP rankings were to be assessed for direct entries and is the highest-ranked Indian player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":37847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2006,2005,389,345,202,2125,638],"class_list":["post-17100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-indian-tennis-fedaration","tag-itf","tag-sports","tag-sumit-nagal","tag-tennis","tag-tokyo-games","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}