{"id":853319,"date":"2026-09-19T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853319\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:24:08","slug":"davis-cup-2026-india-knocked-out-after-3-1-loss-to-south-korea-in-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853319\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup 2026: India knocked out after 3-1 loss to South Korea in qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indian tennis team<\/a> was knocked out of the Davis Cup 2026 after losing its second round qualifiers tie 3-1 against the Republic of Korea in Seoul on Saturday.<\/p>\n

N Sriram Balaji and Dhakshineswar Suresh briefly gave India hopes of a comeback after winning their doubles rubber before Sumit Nagal\u2019s defeat in the singles gave South Korea an unassailable lead and a spot in the Final 8.<\/p>\n

The loss means India will now compete in the first round of the 2027 Davis Cup Qualifiers.<\/p>\n

Starting the day 2-0 down after Dhakshineswar Suresh and Sumit Nagal lost their opening singles rubbers on Friday, India kept their hopes alive by winning the first doubles rubber.<\/p>\n

World No. 49 in doubles N Sriram Balaji and Dhakshineswar Suresh kept India in the contest with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 victory over South Korea\u2019s Nam Ji-sung and Park Ui-sung.<\/p>\n

The Indians made an early breakthrough in the opening set, breaking their opponents in the fourth game, only to surrender their serve in the next.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Sriram Balaji and Dhakshineswar Suresh responded with another break in the sixth game and then held serve to take the opening set.<\/p>\n

Nam Ji-sung and Park Ui-sung fought back in the second set, breaking the Indians in the sixth game before holding serve to force a decider.<\/p>\n

The deciding set remained on serve until the eighth game, when Balaji and Suresh secured an all-important break and then held their serve to close out the contest and keep India\u2019s hopes alive.<\/p>\n

Any hopes of an Indian comeback, however, were soon extinguished as 157th-ranked Kwon Soon-woo sealed the tie for South Korea by defeating the country\u2019s top-ranked singles tennis<\/a> player Sumit Nagal 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n

In the first set, world No. 247 Sumit Nagal held serve in the opening game but was broken in each of the next three as Kwon Soon-woo raced to take the opener.<\/p>\n

The second set was more evenly contested but Sumit Nagal was broken again in the sixth and eighth games as Kwon Soon-woo closed out the match and secured a spot in the Davis Cup Final 8 in Bologna, Italy, in November.<\/p>\n

India have finished as Davis Cup runners-up three times, in 1966, 1974 and 1987, but are yet to reach the Final 8 under the current format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indian tennis team was knocked out of the Davis Cup 2026 after losing its second round qualifiers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-853319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}