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India volition anticipation that Sumit Nagal recovers from his wounded successful clip to spearhead the team’s situation successful the Davis Cup qualifiers archetypal circular necktie against the Netherlands present this weekend.
Nagal (World No. 281), the top-ranked Indian singles player, retired successful the archetypal acceptable of his past Tour lucifer — a round-of-16 clash successful the Nonthaburi Challenger (Thailand) past month.
India skipper Rohit Rajpal stated that Nagal suffered a “little strain connected the hip”, and that a telephone volition beryllium taken connected his availability person to the tie.
Nagal is expected to bid astatine the KSLTA Stadium present connected Tuesday, which volition springiness a bully denotation of his fittingness level.
“We volition trial him Tuesday onwards, wherever we volition commencement to enactment pressure. This means that we volition enactment him successful sets, enactment him successful points. That’s erstwhile you truly know,” Rajpal said present connected Monday.
“Nagal has been successful rehab for the past mates of weeks. We are dilatory gathering him up. He has gotten connected tribunal successful Delhi twice. His betterment enactment and spot enactment look good. We person a physio moving with him. We are keeping our fingers crossed,” Rajpal said.
Rajpal added that the team, which counts Nagal and Dhakshineswar Suresh arsenic the superior singles combatants, is acceptable with alternate crippled plans successful the lawsuit of Nagal’s absence.
“We ever enactment connected crippled program one, 2 and three. Our guys are playing a batch of sets.
“We volition spot who is sharp, and accordingly, we volition beryllium ready”.
