MELBOURNE: The fight in Sumit Nagal resonates with the beat of his heart, it’s the song on his lip and the spring in his step. It’s the air he breathes.
If a player doesn’t have a weapon in tennis, he has nothing. Ask the Australian Open’s 31st seed Alexander Bublik, who was casually dropping 200-plus kmph bombs on Court No.6. Nagal’s whiplash forehand is sharp and he’s quick around the court, but it is that fight in him – an amalgam of stubborn steel, calculated cunning and the volition to run that extra mile – that makes him tough to close out.
