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Tampere Open 2023 tennis: Sumit Nagal wins fourth ATP Challenger title; second of the year

The Indian tennis player beat Czech Republic’s Dalibor Svrcina 6-4, 7-5 in the final to win the title in Finland. He is the first Indian to win two ATP Challengers in Europe.

Sumit Nagal won the Tampere Open 2023 ATP Challenger men’s singles title in Finland on Sunday. It was the Indian tennis player’s fourth ATP Challenger Tour title.

The 25-year-old Sumit Nagal beat Czech Republic’s Dalibor Svrcina 6-4, 7-5 in the final to win his second ATP Challenger event of the year. In April, Sumit Nagal won the Garden Open in Rome to end a four-year-long title drought.

The Indian tennis player ’s other two ATP Challenger wins include the Buenos Aires and Bengaluru Challengers in 2019 and 2017, respectively.

Following April’s win at Rome and Sunday’s triumph in Tampere, Sumit Nagal also became the first Indian tennis player to win two ATP Challenger titles on European soil.

Sumit Nagal, who is India’s top-ranked men’s singles player at world No. 231, made a slow start to the match and was trailing world No. 193 Svrcina 4-1 in the first game. The Indian, however, rallied to turn things around to take the first set.

The Indian had to fend off a tough challenge from Svrinca to win the second set and secure the title in one hour and 44 minutes.

En route to the final, Sumit Nagal beat Czech Republic’s Jiri Vesely, Brazil’s JL Reis da Silva and Tunisia’s Mohamed Aziz Dougaz. In the semi-finals, the Indian survived a three-set affair against Spain’s Daniel Rincon by a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 scoreline.

Sumit Nagal is expected to play in Verona, Italy, next.

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In a thinly veiled warning that could portend an increasingly nasty battle between two of the most powerful entities in tennis, the owners of the Australian Open have notified the leadership of the men’s tour that they would consider any attempt to schedule a tournament in Saudi Arabia during the first week of the season as a request for a potential “breach” of an existing contract between the two organizations.

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“Tennis Australia has an existing agreement with the ATP and the WTA for the United Cup in Week 1, which is active through 2029 with options to extend,” Jayne Hrdlicka and Craig Tiley, the chair and chief executive of Tennis Australia, wrote in the letter dated April 24. “The players value the event, as does Tennis Australia.”

“We do not enter agreements lightly and neither do we take lightly being asked to breach an existing agreement.” 

The letter is the latest salvo in a 10-month battle that began as a fight about the start of the season but has turned into a duel over control of the sport between the Grand Slams and the ATP and WTA tours.

The Grand Slams favor a streamlined elite tennis tour with 14 events, including the Grand Slams, that keeps in place a schedule that climaxes four times a year with their tournaments, both geographically and in terms of the court surfaces. The existing ATP and WTA tours are trying to maintain something like the status quo, only more of it, with one more big tournament and some more money, thanks to a significant investment from Saudi Arabia , which is vying to become the host of that tournament.

The battle has dominated off-the-court conversations and turned what had, for years, been largely polite interchanges among the eight entities that oversee the professional game into a fierce, existential fight for control of the sport and the billions of dollars it produces .

It is playing out at a crucial moment for the game as it transitions from two decades of growth thanks, in large part, to stars such as Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams, who have retired or are on the way there. 

With all their careers ending in the coming years, the sport’s leaders know they need to market a new generation of stars and make it easier for fans to make sense of the hundreds of tournaments that happen each year while also meeting player demands for a schedule that does not overtax their bodies and allows them to share in the sport’s riches the way elite athletes in other realms do.

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In the letter to the ATP, Tiley and Hrdlicka, who announced in February she would step down as the chief executive of Virgin Australia Airlines, argued that maintaining the schedule is in the best interests of the health and financial wellbeing of the players and the sport . There’s also the matter of the massive financial windfall and media interest that it provides for its organization in the run-up to its signature event.

“We have worked hard to establish an Australian January as one of the most lucrative months of the year for the players,” Tiley and Hrdlicka wrote. They argued that the warm-up events to the Australian Open, including the United Cup, allow players to get into peak condition for one of the four biggest events of the year as most of them adjust to the Southern Hemisphere and a radically different time zone.

“The Australian Open cannot be moved,” they wrote, “so having an event in another geographic region — with an eight-hour time zone difference, different climactic conditions and a 15-hour flight — is clearly damaging to player preparation for a Grand Slam.”

They added that the current format allows fans to easily digest the start of the year and suggested that starting in Saudi Arabia, with a tournament one level below a Grand Slam, would only add to fan confusion. Under that proposal, the players — and the watching tennis world — would head to Saudi Arabia, then head to Australia, then head back to the Middle East in February for existing tournaments in Doha and Dubai.

“As a sport, our goal should be to simplify the structure of the tour in the eyes of the fans, dramatically improve the fan narrative and better leverage the Grand Slams to drive viewership of the tour. All of that is compromised with an event in Week 1 — hurting our ability as a sport to better remunerate the players.”

The ATP has said little of its plans regarding the specifics of the new tournament, which is likely to begin in 2027. The request for bids did not specify the exact timing of the tournament but rather stated that it would be held during a 60-day window in January or February. The new tournament is a significant part of its plans to bring what it has said could be roughly $1billion of new investment into tennis. 

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The leaders of the women’s circuit, the WTA, have largely been in lockstep with the ATP in its efforts to head off the effort from the Grand Slams to create the slimmed-down premium tour, which would lessen the importance of the vast majority of ATP and WTA tournaments. However, a new men’s event in the first week that threatens the viability of the United Cup — which offers a combined prize money pot of $10million — would jeopardize one of the most lucrative events of the year for female players.

The WTA did not participate in the request for proposals for a new tournament, under which Saudi Arabia stated its interest in hosting a Masters 1000 for men and women. The owners of the top women’s tournaments would have to approve such a move, and the WTA does not see an open spot in its calendar. It does not want to ask its players to play more than they already do.

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Three people who participated in the discussions, who have spoken on condition of anonymity to describe the private talks, said the bickering about the first week of the season has been a fight for leverage in the larger battle about whether to create a premium tour.

The ATP, with the tacit approval of the WTA, is unwilling to abandon the possibility of holding the new tournament in January until the Grand Slams promise not to devalue tour events by creating a new premium tour. Tennis Australia and the other three Grand Slams are unwilling to give up the push for the premium tour without an assurance that the ATP and WTA will not disrupt the current rhythm of the schedule. 

There is an obvious compromise, the people say — holding the new Masters 1000 in February, after the Australian Open. However, with tensions still rising, the environment is not conducive to reaching a middle ground.

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Bernhard Langer, 66, will make his PGA TOUR Champions return at this week’s Insperity Invitational presented by United Healthcare at The Woodlands in Houston, a week in which he will also commence a new endorsement deal with Sketchers.

Oh, and he’ll also be wearing a size 10 shoe on his right foot and a size 10 1/2 on his left.

That’s not a new anti-aging secret, although Langer has done so much, so late in his career, he could probably sell it as one. The mismatched shoes are because the 46-time PGA TOUR Champions winner is playing just three months after he tore his left Achilles tendon, and he still has so much swelling and discomfort on his left side that he needed to go a half-size up.

Bernhard Langer returns from Achilles injury at Insperity Invitational

“My biggest issue now is I can’t walk properly because I can’t flex my foot,” he told PGATOUR.COM in a phone interview Wednesday. “I can’t bend my leg the way I need to because it puts too much stress on the Achilles. I can’t walk, can’t run, can’t jump.

“What I feel is mostly the swelling in my foot, discomfort all day long, but I was told that was to be expected for another four to eight months.”

The good news was that advances in medicine allowed for a fast recovery.

“The way they operate now is totally different than what they did several years ago,” Langer said. “They have something called a speed bridge where they put two anchors into your heel and they explained to me it’s almost like two rubber bands running up your Achilles, which they attach to the calf muscle to provide secondary protection for the torn Achilles, which is stitched together.

“And they do PRP, when they spin your blood,” he continued, “and they take some of that and put it in there when the wound is open, they wrap something around the wound with some of your own blood, to speed up the healing process.”

Suddenly housebound, Langer watched a lot of Netflix, plus soccer and golf on TV. He played with his four grandkids, who are all under the age of 4.

“There’s nothing better,” he said.

He spent more than a month wearing a boot but shed it in late March when he was able to stand on his own. Shortly after that he was cleared to begin working out and hitting balls.

New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who underwent the same Achilles surgery last September, was throwing a football within three months, providing Langer a roadmap. He said it got him wondering if he could do something similar, lifting his spirits.

“The key is the speed bridge because that allows you to exercise immediately after surgery,” Langer said. “In the old days, you’d be in a cast for two months and immediately lose all your muscle strength. Your calf would go from, say, 15 inches to about 6 inches in diameter, and that makes a big difference. It takes a long time to come back from that.

“I’ve had extensive rehab, I did hyperbaric chambers, and I’ve been in the fitness center every day working out other parts of my party, and starting a couple months ago, my torn Achilles.”

Langer said he’ll play a full schedule on PGA TOUR Champions, where he can take a cart. Although he would have been eligible to play the U.S. Open at Pinehurst next month – he won the U.S. Senior Open last year – he has opted out of that tournament, where he’d have to walk. He also anticipated not being able to hold the greens with his hybrid approach shots.

He anticipates needing some accommodation and said he will petition to use a cart for the three tournaments on his schedule that do not typically allow them: the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, U.S. Senior Open, and The Senior Open Championship presented by Rolex.

He hasn’t played since a T22 at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai in January.

Asked if he would ever play pickleball again, Langer laughed.

“Maybe at some point,” he said with a chuckle. “But not the next year or so, that’s for sure.”

Cameron Morfit is a Staff Writer for the PGA TOUR. He has covered rodeo, arm-wrestling, and snowmobile hill climb in addition to a lot of golf. Follow Cameron Morfit on Twitter .

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Soderberg maintains strong recent form to share first-round lead at the China Open

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SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Sebastian Soderberg of Sweden maintained his impressive form by shooting a bogey-free 9-under 63 to take a share of the first-round lead at the China Open on the European tour on Thursday.

Soderberg has had runner-up finishes in the last two events — the Indian Open and the ISPS Handa Championship — and five top 10s in his nine tournaments in the 2024 season, helping him move to a career-best No. 98 in the world ranking.

Romain Langasque of France was tied for the lead after also being bogey-free around Hidden Grace Golf Club in Shenzhen, with his round including seven straight birdies from No. 16 after starting at the 10th hole.

Li Haotong, the 2016 winner from China, was a shot back from the lead after finishing his round with three straight birdies to be on 8 under. He also didn’t make a bogey.

Guigo Migliozzi of Italy, Julien Guerrier of France and Gordan Brixi of the Czech Republic were tied in fourth place after rounds of 65.

The China Open is back on the European tour schedule after an absence of five years.

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