Tokyo: Indian tennis players are no less than miraculous performance to approach the medal round as the unsuitable Sania Mirza team and debutant Ankita Raina faced a difficult Ukrainian challenge in the opening temporary Sumit Nagal has received a difficult lottery in a single competition starting Saturday.
Mirza, who made the fourth Olympic appearance record, and Raina debutant went to the Olympics without playing this one-year competitive match, which was far from the ideal preparation for the biggest sporting event on Earth.
The last time Mirza and Raina shared the court was March 2020 during the Billie Jean King Cup.
They will open their campaign against Ukrainian twin brothers Nadiia and Lyudmyla Kichenok.
“Every match will be a challenge and we will take one match at a time.
Because our Pandemic and Quarantine regulations play different tournaments.
So after the Fed Cup we did not get the chance to play together,” said Raina PTI.
, However, Mirza had a lot of experience and he played with a player who was known to punch on his weight while representing the nation.
Raina has a great heart to fight but everything will depend on Mirza’s performance, which has not been in the best form with the screen into a problem.
During the Wimbledon championship recently, Mirza gradually raised the game from the base line but the weak service was easily handled by rivals.
Interestingly, when Mirza returned to competitive tennis after a Covid-19-induced break in March this year, he and his Slonein partner Andreja Klepac faced the same couple of Ukrainian sister and had won.
Ranking as low as 137 Post Maternity Break, 34-year-old Mirza has played only eight matches this season with a 4-4 Win-Loss record.
Raina is 28 years old, ranked 100, only has a single single interesting victory to be shown since the beginning of the 2021 season.
In doubles, he won his first WTA title with Mitra Kamila Rakhimova on Phillip Trophy Island in Melbourne in February and entered the double-100 But suffering from the first five round defeat after.
If not because the ranking of Nine Protected Mirza, India will not have a women’s double team in the match.
With complete contrast, Nadiaia, ranked 44, has played eight WTA tours with her sister Lyudmyla Kichenok, ranked 48th, in 2020 and one year.
Together they did not enjoy a lot of success but Nadiia instead had a decent result with Raluca Olaru Romania in 2021.
They won Won St Petersburg (WTA 500) in March and reached the semifinals in Stuttgart (WTA 500) in April and ended runner -Up at Bad Homburg last month.
If Mirza and Raina won their opening, they could face the eighth seed American Nicole Melichar (world double number 9) and Alison Riske (Singles World Number 36) in the next round.
In single men, Nagal was very lucky to get into the Olympics as with rank 144 on the cut-off of June 14, he was far from making wounds.
However, a series of withdrawals pushed it in.
Nagal shows recently did not inspire confidence at the beginning of the season he had made the biggest victory in his career when he defeated later the world number 22 Cristian Garin.
However, after that he only managed two quarter-final appearances at the Challenger level, struggling badly on the tour.
Nagal has hinted that he was struggling with some health problems and that was the reason not to get the desired results.
He faced the Asian Games champion Denis Istomin in his first round.
Veteran Uzbekistan has won a quota from the Jakarta 2018 game by taking a man’s degree.
Nagal grinders are, it is possible that he passes the 34-year-old Uzbek but Indians can face the world number two and Australian runner-up Danill Medvedev from Russia and it can be the end of the road for him.
Indian tennis players need a miracle to enter the lottery
