Arjun Kadhe thread

[sameerph]

Arjun started his European stint this week in doubles but lost in a close one in first round.

At Oeiras 1 Challenger, Portugal (Clay)

[R1] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Marco Bortolotti (ITA) l. Sanjar Fayziev (UZB) / Markos Kalovelonis (GRE) 64 57 7-10

This really is a match that Arjun and his partner should have won against much lower ranked opponents. I think it is not easy in doubles to pait with a new partner and start winning straighawy even when both players individually are quite good.

[Dinesh]

I think it is not easy in doubles to pait with a new partner and start winning straighawy even when both players individually are quite good.

Except, Arjun and Marco are not first-time partners and already have a title to their names winning the Forli challenger earlier this year.

[sameerph]

This week they started with an easy win.

At Oeiras 2 Challenger, Portugal (Clay)

[R1] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Marco Bortolotti (ITA) d. Tiago Cacao (BRA) / Fabio Coelho (BRA) 63 63

Next,

[QF] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Marco Bortolotti (ITA) vs. Glen Smits (NED) / Denis Yevseyev (KAZ)

[sameerph]

They won a close match in QF to move ahead to SF.

At Oeiras 2 Challenger, Portugal (Clay)

[QF] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Marco Bortolotti (ITA) d. Glen Smits (NED) / Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) 46 63 10-7

Next,

[SF] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Marco Bortolotti (ITA) vs. Zdnek Kolar (CZE) /Adam Pavalsek (CZE)

[sameerph]

Arjun and his partner lost in the SF.

At Oeiras 2 Challenger, Portugal (Clay)

[SF] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Marco Bortolotti (ITA) l. Zdnek Kolar (CZE) /Adam Pavalsek (CZE) 26 57

[sameerph]

Arjun won his first round match.

At Split Challenger 80, Croatia ( Red Clay)

[R1] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Sergio Martos Gornes (ESP) d. Geoffrey Blancaneaux (FRA) / Antoine Hoang (FRA) 76(2) 64

Next,

[QF] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Sergio Martos Gornes (ESP) vs. Gregoire Barrere (FRA) / Luca Van Assche (FRA)

[sameerph]

Arjun thru to the SF with a walkover.

At Split Challenger 80, Croatia ( Red Clay)

[QF] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Sergio Martos Gornes (ESP) d. Gregoire Barrere (FRA) / Luca Van Assche (FRA) Walkover

Next,

[SF] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Sergio Martos Gornes (ESP) vs. (2) Nathaniel Lammons (USA) / Albano Olivetti (FRA)

[sameerph]

They lost in a close SF.

At Split Challenger 80, Croatia ( Red Clay)

[SF] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Sergio Martos Gornes (ESP) l. (2) Nathaniel Lammons (USA) / Albano Olivetti (FRA) 63 67(5) 6-10

[PKBasu]

Arjun is now ranked 170 in doubles (getting close to his career-high of 160) and 546 in singles (some way away from his career high of 328 (from August 2018).
He is partnering the same Spaniard as last week at the Rome Challenger this week, and they play an all-Turkish pair in R1.

[sameerph]

Only Arjun playing this week in Europe, so discussing in his thread instead of the European tournaments thread.

He started with a win.

At Oeiras 3 Challenger 80, Portugal (Clay)

[R1] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / James Cerretani (USA) d. Micael Greets (BEL) / Bart Stevens (NED) 36 76(5) 10-2

Next,

[QF] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / James Cerretani (USA) vs. Sanjar Fayziev (KAZ) / Evegeny Karlovskiy (RUS)

[sameerph]

Arjun and his partner lost in QF.

At Oeiras 3 Challenger 80, Portugal (Clay)

[QF] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / James Cerretani (USA) l. Sanjar Fayziev (KAZ) / Evegeny Karlovskiy (RUS) 36 26 5-10

Arjun is at his career best ranking of 146 right now but needs to find a regular partner to take it forward. He has been changing partners every 2-3 weeks this year.

[sameerph]

Arjun is thru to SF this week in a challenger in Spain.

At Pozoblanco Challenger 80, Spain (Hard)

[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Piotr Matuszewski (POL) d. Andrey Kuznetsov (RUS) / Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP) 64 61

[QF] Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Piotr Matuszewski (POL) d. Jack Vance (USA) / Jamie Vance (USA) 75 62

Next,

[SF] Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Piotr Matuszewski (POL) vs. Dan Added (FRA) / Albano Olivetti (FRA)

[sameerph]

Arjun lost in the SF with his partner.

At Pozoblanco Challenger 80, Spain (Hard)

[SF] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Piotr Matuszewski (POL) l. (2) Dan Added (FRA) / Albano Olivetti (FRA) 26 46

He will continue with same partner next week. Arjun has played with 15 different partners this year. He is at a career high ranking of 135 currently but needs to find a steady partner to move up further.

[jayakris]

Any idea where Arjun is? After the final at the Istanbul challenger last month with Robolli (which took him to his career high doubles ranking of #133), he had an R1 loss in a Romania challenger, and has gone about 5 weeks without playing. He can play in any challenger with his current ranking of #142. Is he injured or something? It was quite impressive that he went up that high without a regular partner. he played with some 6 or 7 different guys over the last year with good success. I am curious what is up with Arjun...

[sameerph]

^^ Arjun played in national games. But, that is some break for him.

He is entered in singes qualies and in doubles with RamK for Japan challenger next week.