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సుమిత్ నగల్కు కెరీర్లో అత్యుత్తమ ర్యాంక్
భారత టెన్నిస్ ప్లేయర్ సుమిత్ నగల్ కెరీర్లో అత్యుత్తమంగా 129వ ర్యాంక్ సాధించాడు.
సుమిత్ నగల్కు కెరీర్లో అత్యుత్తమ ర్యాంక్
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Published : Oct 7, 2019, 12:46 PM IST
అంతర్జాతీయ పురుషుల టెన్నిస్ ర్యాంకింగ్స్లో భారత క్రీడాకారుడు సుమిత్ నగల్ మెరిశాడు. సోమవారం ప్రకటించిన జాబితాలో ఆరు స్థానాలు ఎగబాకి కెరీర్లో అత్యుత్తమంగా 129వ ర్యాంక్ సాధించాడు.
భారత టెన్నిస్ ప్లేయర్ సుమిత్ నగల్ 22 ఏళ్ల నగల్.. బ్రెజిల్లో గత వారం జరిగిన ఏటీపీ ఛాలెంజర్స్ క్యాంపయిన్లో ఆకట్టుకున్నాడు. సెమీఫైనల్లో నిష్క్రమించాడు. హర్యానాకు చెందిన ఈ ప్లేయర్.. ఇటీవలే జరిగిన యూఎస్ ఓపెన్లోనూ సత్తాచాటాడు. టెన్నిస్ స్టార్ రోజర్ ఫెదరర్తో తొలిరౌండ్లో హోరాహోరీగా పోరాడి ఓడి అందరి దృష్టిని ఆకర్షించాడు.
ఇది చదవండి: గ్రాండ్స్లామ్లో ఓడినా అరుదైన రికార్డ్ సొంతం చేసుకున్న సుమిత్ నగల్
అంతర్జాతీయ పురుషుల టెన్నిస్ ర్యాంకింగ్స్లో భారత క్రీడాకారుడు సుమిత్ నగల్ మెరిశాడు. సోమవారం ప్రకటించిన జాబితాలో ఆరు స్థానాలు ఎగబాకి కెరీర్లో అత్యుత్తమంగా 129వ ర్యాంక్ సాధించాడు.
భారత టెన్నిస్ ప్లేయర్ సుమిత్ నగల్ 22 ఏళ్ల నగల్.. బ్రెజిల్లో గత వారం జరిగిన ఏటీపీ ఛాలెంజర్స్ క్యాంపయిన్లో ఆకట్టుకున్నాడు. సెమీఫైనల్లో నిష్క్రమించాడు. హర్యానాకు చెందిన ఈ ప్లేయర్.. ఇటీవలే జరిగిన యూఎస్ ఓపెన్లోనూ సత్తాచాటాడు. టెన్నిస్ స్టార్ రోజర్ ఫెదరర్తో తొలిరౌండ్లో హోరాహోరీగా పోరాడి ఓడి అందరి దృష్టిని ఆకర్షించాడు.
ఇది చదవండి: గ్రాండ్స్లామ్లో ఓడినా అరుదైన రికార్డ్ సొంతం చేసుకున్న సుమిత్ నగల్
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: PART MUST CREDIT PAULA KOVACH / PART MUST CREDIT SERGEANT KWANIQUE JONES / PART MUST CREDIT ART HOWSER / PART MUST CREDIT RICHARD JOHNSTON / PART MUST CREDIT KRISTA JOHNSTON / PART MUST CREDIT MEGHAN BILLIOT
SHOTLIST:
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Trumansburg, New York - 31 August 2019
1. Fire engines in procession for US Army Sergeant James Johnston
2. Bystanders waving flags
3. Flag presentation by US Representative Tom Reed to Krista Johnston
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Trumansburg, New York - 1 September 2019
4. Baby shower gifts on table
5. Krista Johnston opening baby present
FAMILY HANDOUT - MUST CREDIT PAULA KOVACH
Killeen, Texas - January 2019 (no exact date given)
6. STILL of James and Krista Johnston
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Trumansburg, New York - 31 August 2019
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Krista Johnston, widow of Sergeant James Johnston, killed in Afghanistan:
"It's really taken a lot to process. But it's a blessing. She's a blessing. And everybody here has been amazing."
8. Gun salute
9. Krista Johnston and relatives at memorial service
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Trumansburg, New York - 1 September 2019
10. Flag flying on Trumansburg street
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HANDOUT - AP CLIENTS ONLY
ARCHIVE: Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan - 1 April 2014
11. Helicopters taking off
12. Troops on hill
SERGEANT KWANIQUE JONES HANDOUT - MUST CREDIT SERGEANT KWANIQUE JONES
Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan - 9 April 2019
++BLACK AND WHITE++
13. STILL of James Johnston firing weapon
POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Dover Air Force Base, Delaware - 28 June 2019
++MUTE AS INCOMING++
14. Escort for James Johnston's remains
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HANDOUT - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Dover Air Force Base, Delaware - 28 June 2019
++MUTE FROM SOURCE++
15. James Johnston's remains placed in transport
16. Military personnel saluting on tarmac
FAMILY HANDOUT - MUST CREDIT PAULA KOVACH
Nacogdoches, Texas - October 2001 (no exact date given)
17. STILL of young James Johnston dressed in camouflage
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Trumansburg, New York - 31 August 2019
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Fred VanDerzee, Father-in-law of Sergeant James Johnston, killed in Afghanistan:
"His last words to me were, he says, 'Dad, if I have to die, I want to die in battle.'"
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Enfield, New York - 1 September 2019
19. Car with corn in foreground
ART HOWSER HANDOUT – MUST CREDIT ART HOWSER
Enfield, New York - 23 August 2012
20. STILL of young James Johnston in training as junior firefighter
FAMILY HANDOUT - MUST CREDIT RICHARD JOHNSTON
Fort Jackson, South Carolina - 2014 (Exact date unknown)
21. STILL of James and Krista Johnston
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Trumansburg, New York - 1 September 2019
22. Krista Johnston and friend at double baby shower
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Trumansburg, New York - 31 August 2019
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Krista Johnston, widow of Sergeant James Johnston, killed in Afghanistan:
"I print out this sign that says: 'Boyfriend 2012, Fiancé 2014, Husband 2014 and then Father 2019.' And I wrapped it up in a box, and I brought it home to him, and kind of nonchalantly just said: 'Hey, I got you a present before you leave'. And I'm like: 'You can open it now or you can open it later'. He loved presents, and I loved to surprise him with stuff. Of course he opened it right away. And he just sat there, 'cause I had framed it, just sat there with the photo frame in his hand, just staring. And he turns around, he has tears rolling down his face and asks if I'm serious. It was the first time I'd seen him cry in seven years we've been together."
FAMILY HANDOUT - MUST CREDIT KRISTA JOHNSTON
Copperas Cove, Texas - 20 March 2019
24. STILL of James Johnston with Krista Johnston's sign in a picture frame, reading (English): "Boyfriend 2012, Fiancé 2014, Husband 2014, Father 2019"
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Trumansburg, New York - 1 September 2019
25. Krista Johnston opening presents
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Trumansburg, New York - 31 August 2019
26. Fundraiser with Hawaiian shirts
27. Raffle drawing
FAMILY HANDOUT – MUST CREDIT KRISTA JOHNSTON
Exact location unknown, Afghanistan - 2019 (exact date unknown)
28. STILL of James Johnston in Hawaiian shirt
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Trumansburg, New York - 31 August 2019
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Ashley Percey, family friend:
"I needed to make sure that he was honored and I needed to make sure that Krista and baby Jamie are honored, and that the community realizes the sacrifices this family has made. And I think they do."
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Trumansburg, New York - 1 September 2019
30. Krista Johnston walking through crowd at shower
FAMILY HANDOUT – MUST CREDIT MEGHAN BILLIOT
Tyler, Texas - 1995 (exact date unknown)
31. STILL of James Johnston as a toddler
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Trumansburg, New York - 31 August 2019
32. Street procession
33. Couple with flag on street
34. Motorcycles driving down street
STORYLINE:
Two months after US Army Sergeant James Johnston was killed in Afghanistan, his adopted hometown of Trumansburg in upstate New York gathered to pay tribute, and to say goodbye.
Krista Johnston, his 24-year-old widow, wore her husband's favorite blue-and-pink Hawaiian shirt; it seemed too big even over her pregnant belly.
At the American Legion hall, she watched the 21-gun salute, the playing of taps and the presentation of a flag from the US Capitol.
The next day, the hall was transformed for a baby shower with towering piles of gifts amid pink and blue balloons for a daughter her husband will never meet.
"It's really taken a lot to process. But it's a blessing. She's a blessing. And everybody here has been amazing," Krista Johnston says.
The back-to-back ceremonies in rural Trumansburg, marking death and life, reflected the relentless toll of Afghanistan fighting.
Some 2,300 American have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001, in a war that's now the nation's longest.
Though the recent cancellation of peace talks between the US and the Taliban has attracted headlines, Afghanistan's war has long been relegated to news briefs.
The youngest enlistees weren't even born 18 years ago when the US invaded Afghanistan and the hunt began for Osama bin Laden.
And the bloodshed seems far distant - unless it claims a son, a friend, a lover.
James Gregory Johnston, an explosive ordnance disposal specialist, was killed on 25 June in Uruzgan Province in south-central Afghanistan.
He was seven years old when the war began 18 years ago - and had wanted to be in the military since he was a boy.
As a toddler, he'd play in the sweltery Texas summers in cargo shorts and heavy-duty camouflage, digging foxholes in his front yard.
His mother recalls he once asked to have a toy driver's license created for him with the designation "Special Forces" and code name "Silver Falcon".
His career path had never been in doubt.
He told everyone he met after moving to New York - Johnston' father, then a paramedic, had relocated there - that he planned to enlist after high school.
"His last words to me were, he says, 'Dad, if I have to die, I want to die in battle,'" his father-in-law, Fred VanDerzee, says.
Johnston may not have lived in Trumansburg long, but he'd gone to high school there and married the sweetheart he met there and he had quickly adopted the rituals and rhythms of small-town life.
He was No. 55, a tenacious lineman for the Trumansburg Blue Raiders, taking the field under the Friday night lights.
He was the gung-ho volunteer firefighter.
He was JJ, Jamie or Texas, a nickname he'd acquired because he constantly boasted about his roots.
He also was the loyal friend, the comic relief, the Hawaiian shirt aficionado, the blisteringly honest high school sweetheart-turned-husband of Krista.
Krista was taken in by his easy smile, his jokes, his courtly Southern manner; he first called her Miss Krista and opened doors for her.
Johnston found out he was going to be a father in March, the day before he deployed to Afghanistan.
"I print out a sign that says: Boyfriend 2012, Fiance 2014, Husband 2014 and then Father 2019 … He just sat there with the photo frame in his hand just staring. And he turns around he has tears rolling down his face and asks if I'm serious," his widow recalls.
"It was the first time I'd seen him cry in seven years we've been together."
Nine weeks later, she told Johnston they'd be having a girl.
He started pondering post-military life and talked with his mother about joining her charter fishing operation, even though he wasn't crazy about fishing.
He called his father-in-law to discuss possible business ventures.
On 25 June, the Johnstons did what they'd done since he had arrived in Afghanistan.
He messaged her that he'd be going on an operation. "Be safe. I love you," she'd responded, and she awaited word that he had returned safely.
This time, there was silence.
Johnston and Master Sergeant Micheal Riley, a Green Beret, were killed in combat; the military said they died from injuries sustained in small arms fire, but did not elaborate.
On the eve of the baby shower, people wearing Hawaiian shirts packed a fundraiser at the American Legion in Trumansburg, in tribute to Johnston, who loved the colourful shirts.
"I needed to make sure that he was honored and I needed to make sure that Krista and baby Jamie are honored, and that the community realizes the sacrifices this family has made," explains Ashley Percey, a friend who considers Johnston a brother.
The baby is due in November.
Friends and family plan to assemble a book of stories and photos that will help her learn about the man she'll never meet.
Krista Johnston hopes she'll have her husband's freckles and dark brown eyes and has decided to name her Jamie, after her dad.
She says she'll be guided by her husband 's words after a friend, also an explosive specialist, was killed in Afghanistan last year.
He vowed then to focus on his buddy's life, not his death.
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