European Challengers 2024

[sameerph]

New thread for discussing challengers played in Europe this year.

This week, Arjun Kadhe playing in singles qualifying and came up with nice upset win over a top 400 player.

At Quimper Challenger 125, France (Hard)

[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND,930) d. (11) Mikalai Haliak (BLR,380) 75 64

Next,

[Q2] Arjun Kadhe (IND,930) vs, (5) Moez Echargui (TUN,283)

In doubles, Arjun and Jeevan are fourth seeds and VSP/Aniruddh are second seeds.

[sameerph]

Arjun lost in the final qualifying round in singles. But pairs of Arjun/Jeevan and Anirudh/VSP have won their first round matches.

At Quimper Challenger 125, France (Hard)

[Q2] Arjun Kadhe (IND,930) l. (5) Moez Echargui (TUN,283) 67(2) 16


[R1] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) d. Viktor Durasovic (NOR) /Otto Virtanen (FIN) 76(5) 64

[R1] (2) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) d. Dan Added (FRA) / Karol Drzewiecki (POL) 63 36 10-7

Last year at this same challenger, Arjun and Anirudh had played together and reached the final. So, both of them have points to defend here.

Next,

[QF] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) vs. Geoffrey Blancaneaux (FRA) / Calvin Hemery (FRA)

[QF] (2) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs. Ugo Blanchet (FRA) /Matteo Martineau (FRA)

[sameerph]

Both pairs won their QF matches.

[QF] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) d. Geoffrey Blancaneaux (FRA) / Calvin Hemery (FRA) 75 36 10-3

[QF] (2) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) d. Ugo Blanchet (FRA) /Matteo Martineau (FRA) 36 76(6) 10-8

And they play each other in SF.

[SF] (2) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs. (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND)

So, one of Anirudh and Arjun will at least retain their final points.

[sameerph]

Anirudh/VSP reached the final as Arjun/Jeevan retired in first set.

[SF] (2) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) d. (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) 52 retd.

Next,

[F] (2) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs. Manuel Guinard (FRA) / Arthur Rinderknech (FRA)

[sameerph]

Aniruddh and VSP lost in the final.

At Quimper Challenger 125, France (Hard)

[F] (2) Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) l. Manuel Guinard (FRA) / Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) 67(4) 36

Anyway, VSP will move to new career high of #80 while Anirudh is at #89, a bit below his career high ranking of 87.

[PKBasu]

There will be a lot of Indian doubles pairs playing in Challengers in Europe, hopefully with some of them graduating to ATP250s or higher before long.

This week we are assured of one Indian pair being in the QF of the Murcia Challenger, with 4-Anirudh/VSP playing Rithwik/Niki in R1. Other pairs in that tournament include Arjun/Jeevan and Balaji/Begemann.

Niki lost in Q1 of singles. This is a pretty strong draw, with former #16 Basilashvili playing qualifiers, and former world #7 Richard Gasquet (admittedly 37 years old now) seeded second in the main draw.

[PKBasu]

Murcia Challenger

[R1] Arjun Kadhe/Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND/IND) d. Vladyslav Manafov/Ivan Liutarevich (UKR/RUS) 64 64
[R1] Andre Begemann/N Sriram Balaji (GER/IND) d. A. Pellegrino/A. Goransson (ITA/SWE) 63 62
[R1] 4-Vijay Sundar Prashanth/Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND/IND) d. RIthvik Bollipalli/Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND/IND) 63 63

[sameerph]

Moved the last posts to the European Challengers 2024 thread which I had opened earlier. We can discuss all European challengers in 2024 in this thread.


Good start for our players in Murcia Challenger.

[PKBasu]

Only Arjun/Jeevan made the SF there in Murcia. A disappointing outcome for the other 2 (1.5) pairs with Indian interest.

[QF] Arjun Kadhe/Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND/IND) d. 2-Petros Tsitsipas/Bart Stevens (GRE/NZL) 64 62
[QF] Anirudh Chandrasekar/N.VijaySundar Prashanth (IND/IND) l. Luca Margaroli/Santiago Rodriguez Taverna (SUI/ARG) 36 57
[QF] N.Sriram Balaji/Andre Begemann (IND/GER) l. Henrique Rocha/Francisco Cabral (POR/POR) 64 36 7-10