Saketh Myneni (born 19 October 1987) is an Indian professional tennis player. He is conferred with the prestigious Arjuna Award in 2017 and represents India in the Davis Cup. He won a gold medal in Mixed doubles and a silver medal in Men's doubles event at Incheon Asian Games 2014.

Personal life

Myneni was born in a small town named

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in Andhra Pradesh to Prasad Myneni and Saroja Myneni. He grew up entirely in Visakhapatnam (Vizag). He completed his schooling from Timpany Secondary School , Visakhapatnam, before moving to Hyderabad for tennis. He started playing tennis at the age of 11. His nickname is Saké or Saki. He was selected on a sports scholarship in 2006 and graduated with a double major with degrees in Finance and Economics from the

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in 2010. His hobbies include listening to music, watching movies and TV shows. He currently resides in Visakhapatnam and trains every now & then in Hyderabad. He proposed his girlfriend Sri Lakshmi Anumolu during the official Davis Cup dinner on 14 September 2016. His compatriot

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described the scene as "First Marriage Proposal I have witnessed congrats to cute couple". The couple married each other on December 22, 2016.

Professional career

He has professionally won 10 ITF and 2 ATP Challenger singles titles. Also, 18 ITF and 14 ATP Challenger doubles titles.

2014: Challenger Level Success and Asiad Gold and Silver

He made his Indian Davis Cup Team debut at the 2014 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I Tie with Chinese Taipei, where he partnered

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in the Doubles He won both his doubles and Singles match as India successfully defeated Chinese Taipei 5-0. Myneni win his first ever challenger title at the SBI Challenger where he partnered

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. They defeated compatriots

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and

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6–3, 3–6, 0–4in an all Indian final. Coincidentally both the pair in the finals entered the draw as a wildcards. A week later they won the Delhi Challenger where they upset top seeds

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and

7-6(7-4),1-6, 0-4 in the 1st round and then 2nd seeds in the final to capture the title. In the next Davis Cup tie against

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, he and Bopanna again won their match as India won the tie 3-1 to qualify for World Group Play-offs. At 2014 Incheon Asian Games he partnered with

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to capture the mixed doubles Gold. He also won the Silver medal in men's doubles at same event where he partnered alongside

. Myneni won his 1st ever singles challenger title at the Indore Challenger where he upset top seed

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6–3, 6–7(4–7), 6–3 in the final to capture his 1st singles challenger title. He and

then won the

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where they again defeated

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and

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6–3, 6–2. In the singles of the same tournament, he defeated players with much higher ranks namely

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and

respectively all in straight sets but lost to the eventual champion

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in straight sets in semis.

2020: Inactivity Due to COVID-19

Saketh entered only two tournaments in 2020 and played only seven professional matches. The first tournament was

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where he entered singles qualifying draw as a wildcard and lost to Nikola Milojević in straight sets. The second tournament was Bengaluru Challenger where he reached third round in singles after defeating Russians Aslan Karatsev and

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in straight sets but lost to ninth seeded

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. In Doubles, he partnered Matt Reid and upset top seeds Hsieh Cheng-peng and

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before retiring in semi-finals against eventual champions

and

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. After the

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had shut down tennis in March, Myneni decided to remain inactive for the rest of 2020 even when tennis came back in August.

2021: ITF Doubles Success

2022: Return To Challenger Level and Doubles Success

ATP Tour finals

Singles: 5 (2–3)

Doubles: 21 (13–8)

Other Finals

Asian Games

;Finals: 2 (1–1)

Singles Finals: 0 (0–0)

Doubles Finals: 2 (1–1)

South Asian Games

;Finals: 3 (1–2)

Singles Finals: 2 (0–2)

Doubles Finals: 1 (1–0)

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Myneni, Saketh Living people 1987 births Indian male tennis players Racket sportspeople from Andhra Pradesh Tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in tennis Asian Games silver medalists for India Asian Games gold medalists for India Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games South Asian Games gold medalists for India South Asian Games silver medalists for India South Asian Games medalists in tennis Recipients of the Arjuna Award