Sumit Nagal reaches Asian Games quarterfinals as Dhakshineswar Suresh exits

Indian tennis player Sumit Nagal advanced to the men's singles quarterfinals at the Asian Games with a fluent 6-3 6-2 win over Uzbekistan's Sergey Fomin here on Wednesday, while Dhakshineswar Suresh bowed out after losing his third-round match.The 249th-ranked Nagal, seeded seventh, controlled the contest against Fomin and moved into the last eight with a straight-set victory.He will next face formidable third seed China's Yibing Wu, who is ranked 111th in the world.Nagal has faced Wu once before, losing 3-6 3-6 to the Chinese at the 2024 Shanghai Masters.Dhakshineswar, meanwhile, went down 3-6 4-6 to sixth seed Chun-Hsin Tseng of Chinese Taipei in the third round.The Indian had entered the last 16 after beating Indonesia's Gunawan Trismuwantara in straight sets on Tuesday.India's men's doubles campaign also suffered a setback as N Sriram Balaji and left-handed rudh Chandrasekar lost a fiercely contested quarterfinal to China's Fumin Chiang and Tianhui Ziang 7-6(4) 6-7(7) 8-10.The Indian pair won the opening-set tiebreaker but were pushed into a deciding match tiebreak, which the Chinese duo edged 10-8.India's other men's doubles pair of Yuki Bhambri and Dhakshineswar is also scheduled to play their quarterfinal later in the day.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited . It is published from a syndicated feed)