After spending 10 consecutive months in the top 100 in the ATP Singles classification, Summital from India retired on Monday from the very desired group after a series of poor shows, while veteran Rohan Bopanna lost his place in top- 20 due to an early leave of the Australian Open, where I was defending many points. Nagal maintained its Top-100 rank since March 2024 after reaching the first 100 in February the same year thoroughly of a good show in the first major of the season.
However, he has lost 16 places to be at number 106 with 565 points in the last table.
The fighter tennis player has fought on the demanding tour, lately. From Wimbledon 2024 in July, Nagal has competed in 18 tournaments that manage to win only three main games in the Tour and the Challenger circuit.
A place among the 100 best helps to obtain direct entries in the great events, including Grand Slams, where even defeat at the early stage of the tournament also guarantees a decent prize.
After Nagal was Sasikumar Mukund at number 365 (2), Ramkumar Ramanathan (406, -1), Karan Singh (496, -20) and Aryan Shah (593, -9).
In doubles, Bopanna, who still plays solid tennis at the age of 44, lost five places to be at number 21. Being the defending champion of the Australian Open, Bopanna had to defend many points in Melbourne, where she lost in the Opening Round with the new partner Nicolas Barrientos.
Bopanna has appeared in Top-20 constantly since October 3, 2022.
Yuki Bhambri did not change at number 47 and followed it was N Sriram Balaji (64, 1), Rathik Choudary Bollipalli (79, -7) and Arjun Kadhe (83, 1).
Mukund, Ramkumar, Balaji Karan Singh and Bollipalli are part of the Indian Cup Davis team that will face Togo in the Group Play-Off group I World I from February 1 to 2.
Nagal and Bhambri did not make them available to the party.
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