Bengaluru Challenger 1 and 2 - Jan/Feb 2022

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Yuki and Saketh proved too strong for Yuki and Divij. 6 of the 8 Indian pairs in the Quarter finals are from India. These are first round results-

Yuki playing both sides of the court must require a lot of physical conditioning

Haha. RamK it was on that side of the court.

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Decent performance by Sid Rawat and Arjun in losses. Purav-Jeevan lost a close one in QF. So, 2 all Indian pairs in SF along with 1 containing Arjun.

These are the results for today-

ingles

[R2] (WC) Siddharth Rawat (IND,650) l. (Q) Antoine Bellier (SUI,509) 46 62 46

[R2] (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND,739) l. (3) Enzo Couacaud (FRA,155) 67(7) 57

Doubles

[QF] (1) Alexander Erler (AUT) / Arjun Kadhe (IND) d. (WC) S D Prajwal Dev (IND) / Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) 61 36 10-6
[QF] (4) N.Sriram Balaji (IND) / Vishnu Vardhan (IND) d. Markos Kalovelonis (GRE) / Toshihide Matsui (JPN) 63 46 11-9
[QF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND) / Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) d. Vladyslav Orlov (UKR) / Kai Wehnelt (GER) 64 76(3)
[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) / Purav Raja (IND) l. Enzo Couacaud (FRA) / Andrew Harris (AUS) 63 26 11-13

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RamK and Saketh into second consecutive challenger final and RamK remains unbeaten this year in doubles.

[SF] (1) Alexander Erler (AUT) / Arjun Kadhe (IND) d. (4) N.Sriram Balaji (IND) / Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 61 76(3)

[SF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND) / Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) d. Enzo Couacaud (FRA) / Andrew Harris (AUS) 64 46 10-3

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Arjun and his partner beat Saketh and RamK.

[F] (1) Alexander Erler (AUT) / Arjun Kadhe (IND) d. (3) Saketh Myneni (IND) / Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) 63 67(4) 10-7

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First doubles loss of the year for RamK, albeit a very close STB loss. RamK-Saketh have deservedly got into the main draw of the Dubai ATP500 with a wildcard.

Arjun Kadhe has been the big winner of these Bengaluru Challengers. A doubles title this week, apart from making R2 in singles. Last week, he qualified into the main draw of singles. So these two weeks have been truly fruitful for him.

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Ajun also won a set against eventual champion Joao Sousa at Pune ATP. So, he has been showing very good in 3 weeks here. Hope he will scale better heights this year particularly in doubles. I believe that he has top 75 maybe even top 50 doubles potential.