In the year 2019, apart from cricket, Indian players surprised everyone with their performance in other sports and left their own and country's mark on the world stage. Let's know about those players and their game, who set a new record by their world-class performance and remained in the discussion.
Gurpreet's jump: The Indian football team surprised everyone by playing a goal relief draw against the Asian champions Qatar's team in the FIFA World Cup qualifiers. In the match played in Doha in September, the Indian team landed without its star player and captain Sunil Chhetri. But in the match, the team led by goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu gave a tremendous performance and finished the match on a draw. On 27 shots of Qatar in the match, Gurpreet saved the goal by 11 times while goalkeeping.
Pair Satwik-Chirag: According to media reports, India's star badminton men's pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty reached their first finals of the Super 750 level event in the BWF World Tour and entered the top 10 world rankings for the second time in a career. At the time of reaching the final of the French Open, both of them were ranked 11th in the doubles category, after which both gained two places in the ranking and both reached ninth place. This top doubles pair of India became the first Indian pair to win the title of BWF Super Series 500 along with winning the Thailand Open title at the beginning of the year.
Nagal's historic match against Federer: Let us tell you that India's young tennis player Sumit Nagal made history by making a place in the main draw of US Open this year. He became the youngest player from India to qualify for the Grand Slam draw. The 25-year-old Nagal went down in his first match against 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer. Not only this, he played an exciting match with Federer after winning the first set. Although he lost the match, in the process he became only the fourth Indian to win the set in the main draw of a Grand Slam in the last 20 years.
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