{"id":48383,"date":"2021-07-27T07:12:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T07:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=48383"},"modified":"2021-07-27T07:12:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T07:12:16","slug":"sumit-nagal-won-indias-first-olympic-singles-match-in-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/sumit-nagal-won-indias-first-olympic-singles-match-in-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumit Nagal won India\u2019s first Olympic singles match in 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sumit Nagal beat Uzbekistan\u2019s Denis Istomin and became the first Indian since 1996 to win a singles match at the Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>He won the 2015 Wimbledon boys&#8217; doubles title, thus becoming the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is currently the highest-ranked Indian singles tennis player and since 2018, he has been a regular member of India&#8217;s national Davis Cup squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 2020 US Open, Nagal won his opening round match against Bradley Klahn, thus becoming first Indian since Somdev Devvarman (2013 US Open) to win a match in the main draw of a Grand Slam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sumit Nagal beat Uzbekistan\u2019s Denis Istomin and became the first Indian since 1996 to win a singles match at the Olympics. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 He won the 2015 Wimbledon boys&#8217; doubles title, thus becoming the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title. He is currently the highest-ranked Indian singles tennis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":48384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1412],"tags":[59],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-48383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-july-2021","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48385,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48383\/revisions\/48385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48383"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=48383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}