

What Time Will Borna Coric Play Against Sumit Nagal?
Coric and Nagal are on the Day 1 Schedule at Winston-salem Open 2024 on Sunday 18 August 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.
Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?
Borna Coric and Sumit Nagal will face each other for the first time in their careers. Coric, aged 27, is currently ranked 83rd in the world, with a career-high ranking of 12th. In 2018, he ended the year at his career-high ranking after being the youngest player in the Top 50 in 2015 and the Top 100 in 2014. Coric has 11 wins against Top 5 players. He made history in 2022 at the Cincinnati tournament by upsetting Rafael Nadal, who was ranked 3rd at the time, and became the lowest-ranked champion in the tournament’s history and the ATP Masters 1000 series. In 2018, he defeated Roger Federer to win the Halle title, ending Federer’s last run as the world number one and becoming the youngest champion in the tournament’s history at the age of 21. Coric achieved his first ATP Tour title in 2017 at the Marrakech tournament, saving five match points against Philipp Kohlschreiber. He also saved six match points against Stefanos Tsitsipas at the 2020 US Open, reaching his first Grand Slam quarterfinal. Coric contributed to Croatia’s victory in the 2018 Davis Cup but was sidelined for 12 months from March 2021 to March 2022 due to a right shoulder injury, which caused him to miss the Davis Cup Finals. In previous appearances at the event, Coric reached at least the quarterfinals and was seeded number one last year, losing in the semifinals to Baez. This season, he has a record of 4 wins and 11 losses against higher-ranked opponents on the tour, with a 3-7 record on hard courts.
As for Sumit Nagal, aged 26, he is currently ranked 74th in the world, with a career-high ranking of 68th achieved in
July 2024. Nagal earned his first ranking point at the age of 16 in 2013, broke into the Top 200 in 2019, and reached the Top 100 in February 2024 by winning his fifth Challenger title in Chennai. He made his ATP Tour debut in 2018 at the Pune tournament and his Grand Slam debut at the 2019 US Open, where he lost in the first round to Roger Federer, who had won the tournament five times. Nagal reached his first ATP Tour quarterfinal at the 2021 Buenos Aires tournament. He earned his first tour-level wins in the 2019 Davis Cup against Pakistan and his first Grand Slam win at the 2020 US Open. Nagal has a Challenger record of 129 wins and 106 losses, with 6 wins in finals. He has won titles at the 2017 Bangalore, 2019 Buenos Aires, 2023 Rome, 2023 Tampere, and 2024 Chennai tournaments. In the juniors, Nagal reached a peak ranking of 23rd in 2015 and had a record of 88 wins and 53 losses, defeating future Top 10 players such as Matteo Berrettini, Hubert Hurkacz, Denis Shapovalov, and Frances Tiafoe. He ended his junior career by winning the Wimbledon boys’ doubles title in 2015 with partner Reilly Opelka. Nagal is currently on an 8-match losing streak against Top 100 players, including Challenger level matches. His last victory against a Top 100 player was in the first round of the ATP Masters 1000 Monte Carlo tournament in April, where he defeated 38th-ranked Federico Arnaldi but lost to 7th-ranked Holger Rune in the second round. He is aiming to achieve his first tour-level hard court win since defeating 27th-ranked Alexander Bublik in the first round of the Australian Open in January.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Coric will win.
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