Indian Tennis Star Sumit Nagal Knocked Out in First Round of Australian Open 2025

Indian tennis player Sumit Nagal's Australian Open 2025 journey ended in the first round. In the match played at Melbourne Park on Sunday, January 12, Nagal suffered a straight-sets defeat against Czech Republic tennis player Tomas Machak. Even after this defeat, Nagal received prize money of $ 1,32,000.

In Indian currency, Sumit will get (1,712,354) seventeen lakh twelve thousand rupees

Machak showed dominance

Machaek beat Nagal 6-3, 6-1, 7-5 in two hours and 15 minutes. If Nagal had made it to the next round i.e. Round of 64, he would have received at least $2,00,000 in prize money. The winner of this tournament will get a prize of $35,00,000 and the runner-up will get $19,00,000. At the same time, the players who lose in the semi-finals will be given $ 11,00,000 and the quarter-finalists will be given $ 6,65,000.

Nagal's performance was disappointing

Last year, Nagal had beaten a top-ranked player like Alexander Bublik in the first round. But this time, he failed to make an impression in the match at the 1573 Arena. Makhaq hit 38 spectacular winners during the match, which was 19 more than Nagal.

However, Nagal broke Makhaq's serve twice, but lost his serve seven times. His performance on his second serve was poor, where he scored only 37 percent points. He also committed five double faults during the match. Machak put seven s, while Nagal could not put any s.

Struggles in the midst of setbacks

Nagal made 20 unforced errors in the match, which was 13 less than Makhaq's 33 errors, but it was not enough to give him the victory. Last year, Nagal achieved his career-best ranking of No. 68. However, due to poor form and frequent failures, he landed in the Australian Open this year with the rank of 98th.

It is natural for Sumit Nagal to be disappointed with this performance, but he will have to improve his game to return to the tournaments ahead.