Indian players Sumit Nagal and Arjun Kadhe were on Friday awarded wildcards in the singles and doubles main draw respectively at the fifth edition of the Tata Open Maharashtra as South Asia’s only ATP 250 event began at the Balewadi Stadium in Pune on Saturday. The 25-year-old Nagal is the second wild card entrant in the singles main draw after Mukund Sasikumar. Nagal featured in the French Open and US Open qualifiers earlier this year and also reached the quarter-finals of the ChallengATPer event in Germany in August. The singles field will witness 17 top-100 players including the World No. 17 Marin Cilic.
