Ace Indian tennis player Sumit Nagal got a UK visa appointment on Monday after making a plea on social media. On Monday, Nagar took to X (formerly Twitter) to request an appointment with the UK visa agency after failing to get one. Nagar will represent India at Wimbledon 2024, which is scheduled to be held from July 1 to 14 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London. However, shortly after the tweet was posted, UK visa authorities acted swiftly and approved Nagar’s booking request, with the Indian Davis Cup player expressing his gratitude via a tweet on X and deleting the previous tweet .

“Thank you to Ms. Christian Scott (Deputy High Commissioner, British High Commission in India), the British High Commission in India and VFSGlobal for the prompt response to my UK visa appointment request. Really appreciate your help!” Na Gall wrote on Twitter.

With his outstanding performance at the Monte Carlo Masters, the 26-year-old Nagal achieved a career-high men’s singles ranking of 80th in the latest ATP rankings released on Monday.

Nagal defeated Italy’s Flavio Coboli and Argentina’s Facundo Diaz Acosta to enter the main draw of the Monte Carlo Masters. Nagar is the third Indian to participate in the main draw of the Clay Court Masters after Vijay Amritraj (1977) and Ramesh Krishnan (1982).

In the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters, he defeated Italian player Matteo Arnald, ranked 38th in the world, and became the first clay court player in the ATP Masters 1000 since the series was founded in 1990. On the winning Indian.

However, Nagal lost in the second round to seventh seed and 2023 runner-up Holger Ruhn. As a result of his performance, Nagal moved up 13 places in the ATP rankings.