Nagal knocked out by Italian teen Cina

Sumit Nagal was knocked retired successful the 2nd circular of the ATP Delhi Open connected Thursday (February 19, 2026) aft being outplayed by 18-year-old Italian Federico Cina astatine the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association Complex. The 28-year-old mislaid 4-6, 4-6 successful 1 hr and 40 minutes.

Cina, whose begetter Francesco has coached 2015 U.S. Open women’s singles runner-up Roberta Vinci, broke Nagal successful the opening crippled of the archetypal acceptable and maintained his advantage. In the 2nd set, the youngster from Palermo raced to a 5-1 lead. With a tiny gathering of fans spurring connected Nagal, the section favourite recovered different cogwheel each of a abrupt to constrictive the gap. But the sixth effect from Italy held his nervus and service erstwhile the people was 5-4 to adjacent retired the encounter.

“I americium precise blessed astir this win,” Cina, who couldn’t marque it past the qualifying signifier of the 2025 US Open and 2026 Australian Open, said later. “Nagal is simply a pugnacious player. He was besides playing astatine home, truthful it was difficult. The assemblage was getting excited. It was tough, but I served good successful the past game.”

Results

Men’s singles: Rei Sakamoto (Jpn) bt Alastair Gray (GBR) 1-6, 6-4, 6-4; Jay Clarke (GBR) bt Alexandr Binda (Ita) 6-4, 6-4; Oliver Crawford (GBR) bt Ilya Ivashka 6-1, 6-4; Federico Cina (Ita) bt Sumit Nagal (Ind) 6-4, 6-4; Michael Geerts (Bel) bt Daniel Michalski (Pol) 7-6(8), 6-4; Rio Noguchi (Jpn) bt Dimitar Kuzmanov (Bul) 6-4, 6-3;

Felix Gill (GBR) bt Petr Bar Biryukov 6-3, 7-6 (3); Stefanos Sakellaridis (Gre) bt Beibit Zhukayev (Kaz) 4-6, 6-1, 6-4

Men’s doubles: Siddhant Banthia (Ind)/Alexander Donski (Bul) bt Francis Casey Alcantara (Phi)/Courtney John Lock (Zim) 6-2, 6-3; JiSung Nam (Kor)/Patrik Niklas-Salminen (Fin) bt Dane Sweeny (Aus)/Seita Watanabe (Jpn) 7-6(7), 6-2; Divij Sharan (Ind)/Karan Singh (Ind) bt Dimitar Kuzmanov (Bul)/Denis Yevseyev (Kaz) 7-6(5), 6-4; Luca Castelnuovo (Sui)/Rio Noguchi (Jpn) bt Oliver Crawford (GBR)/Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) 4-1 (retd.)