Nagal, Sumit Sumit Nagal (born August 16, 1997) is a professional tennis player from India. He has been ranked world number one by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He is the first Indian male tennis player to reach the top ranking.
He achieved this feat on May 25, 2016 after defeating German Michael Berrer in the final of the ATP Monte Carlo Open. This is also the first time that an Indian has held the top spot for such a long period of time. Before him, Sanjay Kumar had held the top spot for a few weeks in 2009.
Nagal turned pro in 2014 and has won two singles titles so far. He currently resides in Florida.
Nagal plays on the ATP World Tour. His highest ranking to date is number one.
Nagal defeated American Sam Querrey in the final of the 2015 US Open to become the first Indian to win a Grand Slam title. He is only the second Asian man (after Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka) to do so.
Nagal is currently studying management at Boston University.
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Bhupathi, Mahesh Shrinivas Mahesh Bhupathi, full name Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi (born June 7, 1974 in Chennai, India), is a former Indian tennis player who was one of the sport's most formidable doubles players. He became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam title when he won the mixed doubles event at the 1997 French Open.
Before becoming a world-class singles player, Bhupathi was extremely successful as a doubles player. He and his partner Leander Paes have won 11 Grand Slam titles together - five at the Australian Open, three at the French Open, two at the Wimbledon Championships and one at the US Open. They are the only pair to have won the Australian Open twice.
Bhupathi made his debut at the 1995 Indian Open where he lost in the quarterfinals to Alberto Mancini. A year later he reached the final of the same tournament but this time he lost out to Michael Chang. In 1998, he won his first career title at the SA Tennis Open in Adelaide with a victory over Jonas Björkman and Andy Roddick. This was also the first ATP Tour event that he participated in. The following year, he went on to become the first Indian man to reach the semifinals of the Australian Open where he lost to Andre Agassi. In 2000, he reached the final of the Indian Open again but this time he lost out to Todd Woodbridge.
Maria Sharapova is number one (born in 1987) Maria Sharapova is the most famous Russian tennis player, with an HPI of 65.48. She is also ranked as the world's number one female tennis player by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
Sharapova made her professional debut at age 15 in April 2004. That year she became the youngest player to reach the fourth round of the Australian Open (where she was defeated by Jennifer Capriati). In 2005, she reached the quarter-finals of the French Open for the first time and won her first major title at the Wimbledon Championships. In 2006, she repeated this success at the French Open and ended the year as world number two behind Roger Federer.
In 2007, Sharapova continued to improve and reached a new high when she became the first Russian woman to win the Australian Open. That same year, she also reached the final of the French Open but lost to Serena Williams. In 2008, Sharapova won her second Grand Slam title at the US Open after beating Venus Williams in the final. She has since then been involved in several controversies which have caused her rankings to fall down to world number three. However, due to her successful comeback from each incident, her ranking has always recovered.
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