India’s top-ranked tennis participant Sumit Nagal crashed out within the opening spherical of the Australian Open 2025 on Sunday, January 12. Nagal suffered a 6-3, 6-1, 7-5 defeat towards Czech Republic’s Tomas Machac within the first spherical of the boys’s singles at Melbourne Park.
The 27-year-old Sumit was the one Indian enjoying within the singles on the first Grand Slam occasion of the 2025 season. Nagal, who progressed to the second spherical on the Australian Open final yr, went down combating towards the Twenty sixth-seeded Mahach.
Mahach, who loved a breakthrough season in 2024, displayed his superiority from the start and took the primary two units with none resistance from his Indian opponent. Sumit produced an excellent comeback within the third set and was main 4-1 however he struggled to win breakpoints within the final set.
Enjoying towards Nagal for the primary time, Machach gained 78% first-serve factors and seven for 15 break factors. Nagal was additionally spectacular together with his serves later within the match however made 20 unforced errors and did not register a single ace all through the match which lasted for two hours and 5 minutes.
In the meantime, there have been no main upsets on the opening day of the boys’s and ladies’s singles at Melbourne Park. The defending champion Aryna Sabalenka defeated the previous US Open winner Sloane Stephens 6-3, 6-2 to progress to the second spherical.
The Belarusian star is chasing her third successive ladies’s singles title on the Australian Open and can face unseeded Jessica Bouzas Maneiro of Spain within the second spherical. Final season’s runner-up and the world no.5 Quinwen Zheng additionally registered a simple 7-6, 6-1 win over Anca Todoni to progress to the second-round on Sunday.