Making a racquet: Can Indian tennis match the success of badminton?

'What I can tell you is that we have been able to create an ecosystem for badminton. I also believe that Indians have a physicality for the sport'

Sumit Nagal was born in August 1997, in Jhajjar, Haryana. But Sumit Nagal the rising star of Indian tennis was born on the lush turquoise blue turf at Melbourne Park in January this year, when he defeated Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bubik.
 

In doing so, Nagal would become the first Indian since Ramesh Krishnan in 1989 to beat a seeded player in the singles main draw of a Grand Slam event.
 

Last Sunday, Nagal won the Heilbronner Neckarcup ATP Challenger event, quelling the challenge of unheralded Swiss Alexander Ritschard in a gruelling three-set encounter, and vaulting in the world