Vijay Sundar Prashanth (born 27 October 1986) is a professional

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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

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, partnering

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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 into 2015 Aircel Chennai Open ATP world tour main draw and debuted against

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, he lost to him with 6–2 , 6–1. 2016: South Asian Games, Guwahati, India Prashanth won the men's doubles gold medal at the

, partnering

. 2017: Indoor Asian Games, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Prashanth won Individual Mens Doubles Gold and Individual Mens Singles Silver for India at the INDOOR ASIAN GAMES held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in September 2017.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 10 (4–6)

Doubles: 54 (22–32)

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* * 1986 births Tamil sportspeople Living people Indian male tennis players Racket sportspeople from Chennai South Asian Games gold medalists for India South Asian Games medalists in tennis {{India-tennis-bio-stub