With his outstanding performance at the Monte Carlo Masters, Indian tennis star Sumit Nagar’s men’s singles ranking rose to 80th in the latest ATP rankings released on Monday, setting a new career high. Meanwhile, Rohan Bopanna lost his men’s doubles number one spot to Australian partner Matthew Ebden after being eliminated in the last 16 of the Monte Carlo Masters. Nagal entered the Monte Carlo Masters draw after beating Italy’s Flavio Coboli and Argentina’s Facundo Diaz Acosta.

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.

He is also the seventh-ranked player in India’s men’s singles, behind Vijay Amritraj (whose career highest ranking was 18th in 1980), Ramesh Krishnan (whose career highest ranking was 18th in 1980) The highest ranking was 23rd in 1985), Somdev Devaman (the highest ranking in his career was 62nd in 1985). 2011), Sashi Menon (whose career-high score was 71 in 1975), Anand Amritraj (whose career-high score was 71 in 1974) 74) and Prajnesh Gunneswaran (whose career high was 75 in 2019).

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