KPIT MSLTA Challenger
The Pune Challenger, previously known as the ''KPIT MSLTA Challenger'', is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It has been held annually at Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ..., India since 2014. Past finals Singles Doubles References {{ATP Challenger Tour ATP Challenger Tour Tennis tournaments in India Hard court tennis tournaments Sports competitions in Pune Recurring sporting events established in 2014 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million As of 2021, Pune Metropolitan Region is the largest in Maharashtra by area, with a geographical area of 7,256 sq km. It has been ranked "the most liveable city in India" several times. Pune is also considered to be the cultural and educational capital of Maharashtra. Along with the municipal corporation area of Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, PCMC, Pune Municipal Corporation, PMC and the three Cantonment Board, cantonment towns of Pune Camp, Camp, Khadki, and Dehu Road, Pune forms the urban core of the eponymous Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR). Situated {{convert, 560, m, 0, abbr=off Height above sea level, above sea level on the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau, on the right bank of the Mutha River, Mutha river,{{cite web , last=Nala ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ramkumar Ramanathan
Ramanathan Ramkumar (born 8 November 1994) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as No. 111 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in July 2018, and in doubles at No. 58 achieved in August 2022. He is currently the No. 1 Indian player. He has represented India in the Davis Cup. In 2018, he became the first Indian player to reach an ATP Tour singles final since Somdev Devvarman in 2011. Personal and early life Ramanathan started playing tennis at the age of five. He was introduced to the sport by his father Ramanathan. His mother's name is Alagammai and sister's name is Uma. Both his parents are into the textile business. He speaks English, Spanish and Tamil. He trains at Sanchez-Casal Academy in Barcelona, Spain. He is currently pursuing B.A. in Economics at Loyola College. Career 2014–2016: Early career In 2014, Ramanathan qualified for the main draw of the Chennai Open and beat the then-Indian ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Arjun Kadhe
Arjun Kadhe ( mar, अर्जुन कढे; born 7 January 1994) is an Indian tennis player. Kadhe has a career high ATP singles ranking of 328 achieved on 27 August 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 133 achieved on 26 September 2022. Kadhe has won 4 ITF Futures singles title. He has also won 3 challenger and 7 ITF Futures doubles titles. Personal and early Life Kadhe was born in Pune to Jayant and Rashmi Kadhe. His father supported him for playing tennis. He attended the Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce before coming to OSU. He also got support from Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA) and Lakshya, a sports NGO. He finished his graduation from Oklahoma State University in 2017. During his tenure in Oklahoma Kadhe and his doubles partner Julian Cash became the first doubles team in Oklahoma State history to achieve the top spot in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Rankings. The pair scripted 34 wins along with prestigious All-Ame ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Purav Raja
Purav Raja ( ; born 7 December 1985) is an Indian tennis player. He specializes in doubles and competes on the ATP World Tour. He has 2 ATP world tour level titles in men's doubles. He represents India in the Davis Cup. Personal and early life Purav Raja grew up in Mumbai and began playing tennis when he was 7 years old. He cites indoor carpet as his preferred surface, with his favourite shot being the drop shot. Raja was educated at Millfield in Somerset. Raja is very active in the Ananda Ashran orphanage and The Fellowship of the Physically Handicapped in Mumbai. He splits his training between Mumbai and Bromley. Professional career Early years Raja turned pro in year 2005. He started with ITF tour finding negligible success in singles but continued to excel in doubles. In year 2007 he started emerging as a doubles specialist as he went on to win 4 ITF titles. He followed his success in year 2008 with four more ITF doubles titles. The same year he reached his first ATP Cha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kaito Uesugi
is a Japanese tennis player. Uesugi has a career high ATP singles ranking of 650 achieved on 27 August 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 306 achieved on 20 June 2022. Uesugi made his ATP main draw debut at the 2018 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships in the doubles draw partnering Yoshihito Nishioka is a Japanese tennis player. He has won two ATP Tour singles titles and achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 36 on 7 November 2022. He is currently the No. 1 Japanese player. Career Junior career As a junior, he compiled a .... Future and Challenger finals Singles: 1 (0–1) Doubles 18 (10–8) References External links * * 1995 births Living people Japanese male tennis players Sportspeople from Osaka Prefecture Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in tennis Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Universiade medalists in tennis Universiade gold med ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Toshihide Matsui
is a professional Japanese tennis player. On 12 June 2006, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of No. 261. On 7 May 2018, he achieved his highest doubles ranking of No. 130. Career He was the runner-up in men's singles at the Japanese National Championships in 2006 when he lost the final against Satoshi Iwabuchi. He won 6 Japanese national championship titles in men's doubles category: 4 titles with Satoshi Iwabuchi (2005,2007–09) and 2 titles with Kaito Uesugi (2021-22). When he played at the 2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open against 18-year-old Chun-hsin Tseng as a lucky loser, it was the largest age difference ever in a Challenger match, with Matsui being the oldest player at 41 years old, with an ATP ranking. He represented Japan in three Davis Cup ties between 2006 and 2010, his win–loss record is 4-1. Plus Matsui participated in the first 2 editions of ATP Cup in 2020-2021 as a member of Team Japan. Matsui holds the record as the oldest player in ATP Cup histor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vijay Sundar Prashanth
Vijay Sundar Prashanth (born 27 October 1986) is a professional Indian tennis player. He caught everyone eye, when he won against Indian Davis Cup player Yuki Bhambri at 2015 Aircel Chennai Open. Prashanth has a career high ATP singles ranking of 335 achieved on 5 October 2015. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 193 achieved on 2 August 2018. Prashanth has won Individual Doubles GOLD for India at the INDOOR ASIAN GAMES held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in September 2017. He also won Individual Singles SILVER for India at the INDOOR ASIAN GAMES held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in September 2017. Prashanth won the men's doubles gold medal at the 2016 South Asian Games, partnering Ramkumar Ramanathan. Professional results 2015: National Games, Trivandrum- Kerala Medalist at the 35th National Games held in Trivandrum, Kerala in 2015 EAM- GOLD MEDAL; INDIVIDUAL DOUBLES- SILVER MEDAL 2015: First ATP tournament After successful wins in qualifiers, Prasanth entered ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anirudh Chandrasekar
Anirudh Chandrasekar (born 11 July 1998) is an Indian tennis player who specializes in doubles. Chandrasekar has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 87 achieved on 13 November 2023. He also has a career high singles ranking of 1014 achieved on 1 October 2018. Career Chandrasekar has won three ATP Challenger doubles titles at the 2023 Pune Challenger, the 2023 Challenger Club Els Gorchs and the 2023 Internazionali di Tennis Città di Vicenza with Vijay Sundar Prashanth Vijay Sundar Prashanth (born 27 October 1986) is a professional Indian tennis player. He caught everyone eye, when he won against Indian Davis Cup player Yuki Bhambri at 2015 Aircel Chennai Open. Prashanth has a career high ATP singles rankin .... Tour finals Doubles: 28 (8–20) References External links * * 1998 births Living people Indian male tennis players Sportspeople from Chennai {{India-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adrián Menéndez Maceiras
Adrián Menéndez Maceiras (; born 28 October 1985) is a Spanish tennis player. He has a career high-ranking singles of World No. 111, achieved in June 2015. Menéndez Maceiras has reached the finals of fourteen Futures tournaments, winning nine of them. He has won four Challenger tournaments, lifting his maiden title at the 2007 Open Diputación Challenger in Pozoblanco, Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ... defeating Dudi Sela in the final. Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 32 (13–19) Doubles: 35 (16–19) Notes References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Menendez Maceiras, Adrian 1985 births Living people People from Marbella Sportspeople from the Province of Málaga Spanish male tennis players Tennis players from An ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yūichi Sugita
is a Japanese tennis player. He has won one ATP singles title, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 36 on 9 October 2017. Career Juniors As a junior Sugita compiled a win–loss record of 34–19 (and 26–18 in doubles), reaching as high as No. 73 in the combined world rankings in February 2006. He competed in singles and doubles at the Australian Open in both 2005 and 2006, reaching the singles second round of the latter. 2007–09 Sugita had won eight ITF Futures titles in Japan and Indonesia. From 2009, he started to play mainly in ATP Challenger Tour. Sugita was received wildcard for the 2008 Japan Open to make his first ATP main draw. He finished 2009 as ranked world no.299. 2010 After reaching semifinal in Bernie Challenger, Sugita claimed his first challenger title in Kyoto. He defeated Australian Matthew Ebden in final, and he break him into world top 200 for the first time as ranked no.186. Sugita advanced to final round of qualifying in the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2014 KPIT MSLTA Challenger
The 2014 KPIT MSLTA Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place at Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Pune, India from 20 to 25 October 2014. Singles main-draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of 12 October 2014. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Arjun Kadhe * Sasikumar Mukund * Sidharth Rawat * Vishnu Vardhan The following player entered the draw as special exempts: * Saketh Myneni The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Riccardo Ghedin * Sarvar Ikramov * Vijay Sundar Prashanth * Purav Raja The following player entered the draw as alternate: * Richard Becker Champions Singles * Yūichi Sugita def. Adrián Menéndez Maceiras 6–7(1–7), 6–4, 6–4 Doubles * Saketh Myneni / Sanam Singh def. Sanchai Ratiwatana / Sonchat Ratiwatana 6 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Evgeny Donskoy
Evgeny Evgenyevich Donskoy ( rus, Евге́ний Евге́ньевич Донско́й, , ɪ̯ɪvˈɡʲenʲɪɪ̯ dɐnˈskoɪ̯; born 9 May 1990) is a Russian professional tennis player. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 65, achieved on 8 July 2013, after winning five Challenger events throughout the previous year. Personal life He was born and currently resides in Moscow, Russia. Donskoy was mentored by former player and two-time Grand Slam champion Marat Safin. His favourite surface is hard courts. Career In 2010, Donskoy played doubles with the British player Morgan Phillips at the Seville Challenger, losing in the first round. By 2013, Marat Safin had built a coaching team for Donskoy that included Morgan Phillips. Donskoy entered 2013 Australian Open's main draw for the first time, reaching the third round and defeating 23rd seed Mikhail Youzhny en route. He also pushed Andy Murray to three sets in the Indian Wells Masters 1000 event. Consequently, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |