Asian Challengers Jul-Dec 2025

[sameerph]

This week at Suzhou Challenger 75, in singles SDPD, Sid Rawat and Nitin Sinha all lost in first qualifying round.

In doubles, 3 pairs involving Indians were there. SDPD and Nitin Kumar Sinha beat Jeevan and Jason Jung in first round while Niki Poonacha and Thai Pruchaya Isarow won in straight sets. In QF, NIki and his partner lost against top seeds Bayldon and Ho.

However, SDPD and Nitin had terrific couple of wins in the QF and SF against second seed Reynold and Watt and third seeds Roger and Lammons to make it to their first challenger final, I think.

They would meet top seeds Bayldon and Ho in the final.

[PKBasu]

Great run for SDPrajwal Dev/Nitin Kumar Sinha, especially over the 3rd seeds Rojer (4-time Slam champion) and Lammons (who was ranked as high as 17 in doubles just 8 months ago) in the SF.

[sameerph]

They lost in the final against top seeds.

At Suzhou Challenger 75, China (Hard)

[F] SD Prajwal Dev (IND) / Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND) l. (1) Blake Bayldon (AUS) / Ray Ho (TPE) 46 36

Nonetheless with this excellent run, both move to their career high ranks- SDPD at 239 and Nitin at 263.

[PKBasu]

Ramkumar (partnering Loof of Netherlands) lost in R1 of the doubles (57 46) and Q1 of singles at the Seoul Challenger this week.

[jattukarthik]

Ramkumar (partnering Loof of Netherlands) lost in R1 of the doubles (57 46) and Q1 of singles at the Seoul Challenger this week.

Wondering nowadys if really RAM wants to play Tennis. His results are so poor and he seems to miss mojo in the matches

[sameerph]

A week field for Taipei 100 challenger next week with cut off going down to 669. 2 of our players, Mukund and Siddharth Rawat have directly made it to the main draw.

3 are playing in qualifying and 2 have made it to Q2.

[Q1] Digvijaypratap Singh (IND,1089) d. (12) Grigoriy Lomakin (KAZ,974) 76(5) 64

[Q1] (3) S D Prajwal Dev (IND,763) d. Hong-Lin Fu (TPE,NR) 62 62

[Q1] Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND,1135) l. (7) Shinji Hazawa (JPN,829) 26 26

Next,

[Q2] Digvijaypratap Singh (IND,1089) vs.(2) Uisung Park (KOR,740)

[Q2] (3) S D Prajwal Dev (IND,763) vs. (9) Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (THA,850)

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Both lost in Q2.

At Taipei Challenger 75, Taiwan

[Q2] Digvijaypratap Singh (IND,1089) l.(2) Uisung Park (KOR,740) 76(5) 06 26

[Q2] (3) S D Prajwal Dev (IND,763) l. (9) Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (THA,850) 13 retd.

So, in main draw,

[R1] Siddharth Rawat (IND,651) vs. (Q) Micahel Vrbensky (CZE,715)

[R1] Mukund Sasikumar (IND,518) vs. Kaichi Uchida (JPN,328)

[sameerph]

Both Indians lost in first round of main draw.

At Taipei Challenger 75, Taiwan

[R1] Siddharth Rawat (IND,651) l. (Q) Micahel Vrbensky (CZE,715) 46 76(3) 46

[R1] Mukund Sasikumar (IND,518) l. Kaichi Uchida (JPN,328) 67(5) 26

[PKBasu]

Just one Indian has made the doubles QF

[R1] Niki Kaliyandi Poonacha (IND)/Pruchya Isarow (THA) d. 2-Takeru Yuzuki (JPN)/Ji-sung Nam (KOR) 46 76(6) 14-12
[R1] Sasikumar Mukund/Marek Gengel (IND/CZE) l. L. Castelnuovo/F. Alcantara (ITA/PHI) 46 26
[R1] SD Prajwal Dev/Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND/IND) l. 4-S. Watanabe/K.Uesugi (JPN/JPN) 46 67(4)

[sameerph]

Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha and his Thai partner have reached final at Kobe Challenger.

At Kobe Challenger 75, Japan (Hard)

[R1] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) / Pruchya Isaro (THA) d. Masamichi Imamura (JPN) / Kaichi Uchida (JPN) 75 46 10-5
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) / Thijmen Loof (NED) d. Mats Hermans (NED) / Mick Veldheer (NED) 64 76(6)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) / Garrett Johns (NED) l. (2) Neil Oberleitner (AUT) / Michael Vrbensky (CZE) 67(2) 67(2)

[QF] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) / Pruchya Isaro (THA) d. (WC) Taisei Ichikawa (JPN) / Ryuki Matsuda (JPN) 62 76(6)
[QF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) / Thijmen Loof (NED) d. (4) JiSung Nam (KOR) / Takeru Yuzuki (JPN) 64 64

[SF] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) / Pruchya Isaro (THA) d. Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE) / Tsung-Hao Huang (AUS) 63 75
[SF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) / Thijmen Loof (NED) l. (2) Neil Oberleitner (AUT) / Michael Vrbensky (CZE) 57 36

Next,

[F] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) / Pruchya Isaro (THA) vs. (2) Neil Oberleitner (AUT) / Michael Vrbensky (CZE)

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At Kobe Challenger 75, Japan (Hard)

[F] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) / Pruchya Isaro (THA) l. (2) Neil Oberleitner (AUT) / Michael Vrbensky (CZE) 76(1) 67(8) 4-10

Niki moves back into top 150 at #146 in rankings.