Sumit Nagal attracts Ricardas Berankis in Australian Open first spherical conflict

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Sumit Nagal was anticipating a conflict towards a top-10 participant in his opener however the India tennis participant on Friday drew Lithuania’s Ricardas Berankis as his first spherical opponent on the Australian Open right here.
It shall be Nagal’s second conflict towards the world quantity 72 in as many weeks after dropping to the Lithuanian early this week within the construct up occasion.
If Nagal, a wild card entrant and world quantity 139, can cross the primary hurdle, he’ll run into both nineteenth seed Russian Karen Khachanov or native wild card Aleksandar Vukic.

It shall be Nagal’s third Grand Slam males’s singles look, having competed in US Open (2019, 2020) twice.
However, Ankita Raina, who was ready to know if she will get ‘fortunate loser’ spot within the girls’s singles, couldn’t make the lower.
In the boys’s doubles, Rohan Bopanna and Divih Sharan will compete with their respective companions.