Tokyo 2020: India’s ladies’s doubles tennis gamers Sania Mirza, Ankita Raina depart for Olympics
The Indian ladies’s doubles workforce of Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina are on their method to Tokyo for the upcoming Olympics. The Games are slated to get underway from July 23. Tennis gamers Ankita Raina and Sania Mirza on the Hyderabad airport (Courtesy: SAI Media)HIGHLIGHTSSania Mirza and Ankita Raina will characterize India within the ladies’s doubles occasionSania will turn into first feminine athlete to characterize India at 4 OlympicsSumit Nagal can be India’s lone entry to Tokyo within the males’s singles occasionIndia’s ladies’s doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina are on their method to the Tokyo Olympics, ranging from July 23.
Earlier this month, Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina have been confirmed to characterize India within the ladies’s doubles on the Tokyo Olympics.Sania,34, is now set to turn into the primary feminine athlete to characterize India on the 4 Olympics, whereas will probably be a debut for Ankita Raina on the showpiece occasion.Next Stop Destination TokyoOur tennis superstars @MirzaSania & @ankita_champ at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad simply earlier than leaving for #Tokyo2020The Games are scheduled from 23 July – 8 August, so remember to #Cheer4India and ship in your greatest needs! pic.twitter.com/N36ywP2Fp5— SAIMedia (@Media_SAI) July 19, 2021
Former World No. 1 Sania will make the Olympics entry on the premise of her injury-protected rating of No. 9. As per the rule, Sania could make the doubles draw with a associate ranked within the top-300.The 28-year-old Ankita is 183 in singles and 95 in doubles. The rating listing on June 14 can be relevant for making the reduce.Sania had performed the final three Olympics in Beijing, London and Rio with Sunitha Rao, Rushmi Chakravarthi and Prarthana Thombare respectively.Sumit Nagal on Friday made the reduce for the lads’s singles occasion of the Tokyo Olympics as large-scale withdrawals pushed him contained in the qualification mark.The 23-year-old Nagal will enter the Olympics with some disappointing outcomes this season as he has suffered seven first spherical defeat on the Circuit, together with on the Australian Open.In six Challenger occasions, he made the quarterfinals solely thrice.His greatest efficiency has been making the quarterfinals of the ATP 250 occasion in Buenos Aires in March.His rating has dropped to 154 after starting the 12 months at 137.Click right here for IndiaImmediately.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.
