Paris: According to the media reports, Sumit Nagal’s game revolves around his fight, which comes alive when he uses his legs and throws back balls from impossible positions, discomfiting opponents with his placement. Clay, which gives the Indian the time to play his shots, is the surface best suited for his style of play.
As per the sources, Unfortunately for Nagal, who was making his Roland Garros main draw debut on Monday, he couldn’t quite piece his game together early enough against the powerful 18th seed Karen Khachanov. Khachanov, 6 feet 6, came through the rain-interrupted first-round match 6-2, 6-0, 7-6(5). Nagal, the first Indian to play in the main draw here after Pranjesh Gunneswaran in 2019, was broken early in the contest, after recovering from a 0-40 deficit in the third game of the match. Khachanov broke on the fourth chance.
As per the information, That’s when the skies opened up and the match was suspended. When the players returned 80-minutes later, the 27-year-old raised the bar. Khachanov won seven straight games from 5-2 in the first set to propel himself out in front. At the other end, Nagal battled distractions, the crowd and also a slippery patch behind the baseline, which he took up with chair umpire Nikola Srecec. In the third set, Nagal had two chances to break the Khachanov serve in the second game, but the Russian, who saved all five breakpoints he faced until then in the match, refused to back-off.
Nagal, 26, ranked 94, peddled hard. In a long drawn eighth game, he rallied to push the game to deuce, earning two break-point chances, but Khachanov’s serves, which may have lacked the pop on the day, bailed him out. In the tenth game Nagal had two chances to break the Khachanov serve at 15-40, he levelled at 5-5 after converting on the second opportunity In the tie-break, Khachanov rallied from 3-5 to win the last four points and punctuate the match after 2 hours and 27 minutes.
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