Sumit Nagal confirmed for men's singles tennis at Paris 2024 Olympics

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has confirmed Indian player Sumit Nagal's presence in the men's singles event at Paris 2024 Olympics. As per Olympics.com, this will mark Nagal's second Olympics appearance after Tokyo 2020, where he defeated Denis Istomin in the first round but lost to Daniil Medvedev in round two.

The ITF confirmed Nagal's presence through their entry list released on Thursday.

The men's and women's singles event in Tennis at Paris Olympics, the multi-sport extravaganza starting from July 26 onwards, will feature 64 players. The top 56 eligible men's singles players, as per ATP Rankings on June 10, secured quotas for their countries, with a maximum of four quotas available to each country.

Though 77th-ranked Nagal was 21 places behind the top 56 players when the qualifying window ended, he was able to make it among the quota winners as more than four players from multiple nations were ahead of him in the rankings and some players also withdrew from the event. Nagal was 138th in the rankings in January but has been in fine form since then. A triumph at Chennai Open this year helped him break into top 100 for the first time ever.