North American Challengers 2024

[sameerph]

Starting this thread as we have 2 all Indian pairs playing doubles in Mexico this week and next week we should have these 2 pairs and also Anirudh is in the entry list and we can continue in this thread all year long for challengers in North America.

This week Arjun and Jeevan have reached the final beating top seeds while Niki-Rithvik lost in the SF.

At Morelos Open Challenger 75, Mexico

[R1] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) d. (WC) Alex Hernandez (MEX) / Manuel Sanchez (MEX) 62 63
[R1] Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (IND) /Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) d. (4) Rinky Hijikata (AUS) / Mac Kiger (USA) 63 62

[QF] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) d. Gijs Brouwer (NED) / Aidan McHugh (GBR) 63 76 (4)
[QF] Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (IND) /Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) d. Nick Chappell (USA) / Hans Hach Verdugo (CHI) 76(7) 64

[SF] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) d. (1) Luke Johnson (GBR) / Skander Mansouri (TUN) 46 76(5) 10-8
[SF] Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (IND) /Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) l. (2) Piotr Matuszewski (POL) / Matthew Christopher Romios (AUS) 63 36 10-7

[sameerph]

At Morelos Open Challenger 75, Mexico

[F] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs. (2) Piotr Matuszewski (POL) / Matthew Christopher Romios (AUS)

Arjun at # 106 in live rankings, Jeevan at #128. Niki and Rithvik both at career high rankings of #122 and # 133 respectively.

[sameerph]

Arjun and Jeevan win the title in Mexico.

At Morelos Open Challenger 75, Mexico

[F] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) d. (2) Piotr Matuszewski (POL) / Matthew Christopher Romios (AUS) 76(5) 64

6th challenger title for Arjun and 12th title for Jeevan.

[jayakris]

That was a nice run for Arjun and Jeevan, beatin the first and 2nd seeds to take the title. Arjun is 102 in live rankings now, very close to his career high at #98

[sameerph]

This week at bigger challenger in Acapulco, last week's winners Jeevan and Arjun lost in first round but Niki and Arjun went on to upset top 2 seeds to win the title.

At Acapulco Challenger 125, Mexico (Hard)

[R1] Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (IND) /Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) d. Juan Pablo Ficovich (ARG) /Joao Lucas Reis Da Silva (BRA) 75 62
[R1] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) l. Antoine Bellier (SUI) / Luca Sanchez (FRA) 36 63 7-10
[R1] Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Hans Hach Verdugo (MEX) d. Charles Broom (GBR) /Adam Walton (AUS) 46 64 11-9

[QF] Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (IND) /Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) d. (2) Piotr Matuszewski (POL) / Matthew Christopher Romios (AUS) 64 61
[QF] Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Hans Hach Verdugo (MEX) d. (3) Rinky Hijikata (AUS) / Mac Kiger (USA) 36 64 10-7

[SF] Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (IND) /Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) d. Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Hans Hach Verdugo (MEX) 63 64

[F] Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (IND) /Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) d. (1) Luke Johnson (GBR) / Skander Mansouri (TUN) 76(4) 75

Second challenger title together for this pair and both of them came in this 4 week swing in Mexico.
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Both will be at career high ranking - Niki at #107 and Rithvik ar #118.

[Omkara]

Nikki and Rithvik....

Btw, who is Rithvik. Never heard of him as a singles player.

[sameerph]

^^^ Rithvik never played singles on pro tour. He was decent in singles in juniors but went to US college at 17 and than disappeared from singles. Did not hear much about him in college tennis but came back and straightway became a doubles specialist.

Along with Niki Poonacha, formed a formidable pairing on ITF circuit and they won as many as 8 titles together on ITF tour. However, last year they started on challenger tour with different partners and won their first challenger doubles titles with different partners.

This year they joined back together and have had a great start to the season- reached a couple of challenger finals first and now 2 challenger titles. Rithvik is only 23 and is already getting close to top 100 in ATP doubles rankings. So, if he continues this can have a long career in doubles on ATP tour.

[Dinesh]

Sahaja and Shrivalli will be playing in a few ITF tournaments in the US starting this week.

For the first week in Charlottesville, Sahaja has made the main draw direct acceptance while Shrivalli will have to play in the qualifying draw. I believe this is Shrivalli’s first time playing in the US. Here is hoping both of them have a successful US trip.