Bengaluru, Feb. 13 -- India's star tennis player Sumit Nagal made a dominating start to his DafaNews Bengaluru Open 2024 campaign with a comfortable straight-set win over France's Geoffrey Blancaneax at the Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association Stadium (KSLTA) here on Tuesday.
The 26-year-old Indian, who broke in the world top-100 with a title triumph in Chennai last week, was clinical in his service games and exploited his opponent's second serves to win the singles opening round clash 6-2, 6-2.
Nagal, seeded second here, earned a total of eight break points in the opening set and converted two of them before pocketing the set with a comfortable hold in the eighth game.
With the momentum in his favour, Nagal broke Blancaneaux in the v...