Saketh Myneni

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Saketh Myneni
Saketh Myneni 4, 2015 Wimbledon Qualifying - Diliff.jpg
Myneni at the 2015 Wimbledon Qualifying Tournament
Country (sports)Flag of India.svg India
Residence Visakhapatnam, India
Born (1987-10-19) 19 October 1987 (age 36)
Vuyyuru, India
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned proNov 2011
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money $515,299
Singles
Career record2–3 (40.0% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 137 (12 September 2016)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Q3 (2016)
French Open Q2 (2016)
Wimbledon Q2 (2015)
US Open 1R (2016)
Doubles
Career record20–26 (43.5% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 74 (16 January 2023)
Current rankingNo. 101 (15 January 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open 1R (2023)
French Open 2R (2023)
Wimbledon 1R (2023)
US Open 1R (2023)
Medal record
Men's tennis
Representing Flag of India.svg India
Asian Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Incheon Mixed doubles
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2014 Incheon Doubles
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Hangzhou Doubles
South Asian Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Kathmandu/Pokhara Doubles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2019 Kathmandu/Pokhara Team event
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Guwahati Singles
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2019 Kathmandu/Pokhara Singles
Last updated on: 19 January 2024.

Saketh Myneni (born 19 October 1987) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 74 achieved on 16 January 2023. He was conferred with the prestigious Arjuna Award in 2017 and represents India in the Davis Cup. He won a gold medal in Mixed doubles and a silver medal in the men's doubles event at the Incheon Asian Games 2014. He has won 10 ITF and 2 ATP Challenger singles titles. Also, 18 ITF and 14 ATP Challenger doubles titles.

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Personal life

Myneni was born in a small town named Vuyyuru in Andhra Pradesh to Prasad Myneni and Saroja Myneni. He grew up entirely in Visakhapatnam (Vizag). He completed his schooling from Timpany Secondary School, Visakhapatnam, before moving to Hyderabad for tennis. He started playing tennis at the age of 11. His nickname is Saké or Saki. [1] He was selected on a sports scholarship in 2006 and graduated with a double major with degrees in Finance and Economics from the University of Alabama in 2010. His hobbies include listening to music, watching movies and TV shows. [2] He currently resides in Visakhapatnam and trains every now and then in Hyderabad. [3] He proposed his girlfriend Sri Lakshmi Anumolu during the official Davis Cup dinner on 14 September 2016. His compatriot Leander Paes described the scene as "First Marriage Proposal I have witnessed congrats to cute couple". [4] [5] The couple married each other on December 22, 2016.

Professional career

2014: Challenger level success and Asiad gold and silver

He made his Indian Davis Cup Team debut at the 2014 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I Tie with Chinese Taipei, where he partnered Rohan Bopanna in the Doubles [6] He won both his doubles and Singles match as India successfully defeated Chinese Taipei 5–0.

Myneni win his first ever challenger title at the SBI Challenger where he partnered Sanam Singh. They defeated compatriots Divij Sharan and Vishnu Vardhan 6–3, 3–6, [10–4] in an all Indian final. Coincidentally both the pair in the finals entered the draw as a wildcards. A week later they won the Delhi Challenger where they upset top seeds Purav Raja and Divij Sharan 7–6 (7–4), 1–6, [10–4] in the 1st round and then 2nd seeds in the final to capture the title.

In the next Davis Cup tie against South Korea, he and Bopanna again won their match as India won the tie 3–1 to qualify for World Group play-offs.

At 2014 Incheon Asian Games he partnered with Sania Mirza to capture the mixed doubles Gold. [7] He also won the silver medal in men's doubles at same event where he partnered alongside Sanam Singh. [8]

Myneni won his 1st ever singles challenger title at the Indore Challenger where he upset top seed Aleksandr Nedovyesov 6–3, 6–7(4–7), 6–3 in the final to capture his 1st singles challenger title. He and Sanam Singh then won the KPIT MSLTA Challenger where they again defeated Sanchai Ratiwatana and Sonchat Ratiwatana of Thailand 6–3, 6–2. In the singles of the same tournament, he defeated players with much higher ranks namely Fabrice Martin, Hiroki Moriya and Aleksandr Nedovyesov respectively all in straight sets but lost to the eventual champion Yūichi Sugita in straight sets in semis.

2020: Inactivity due to COVID-19

Saketh entered only two tournaments in 2020 and played only seven professional matches. The first tournament was Maharashtra Open where he entered singles qualifying draw as a wildcard and lost to Nikola Milojević in straight sets. The second tournament was Bengaluru Challenger where he reached third round in singles after defeating Russians Aslan Karatsev and Evgeny Donskoy in straight sets but lost to ninth seeded Thomas Fabbiano. In Doubles, he partnered Matt Reid and upset top seeds Hsieh Cheng-peng and Denys Molchanov before retiring in semi-finals against eventual champions Purav Raja and Ramkumar Ramanathan.

After the COVID-19 pandemic had shut down tennis in March, Myneni decided to remain inactive for the rest of 2020 even when tennis came back in August.

2021: ITF doubles success

2022: Return to Challenger level and success

2023: Major debut at Wimbledon, the Australian and first win at the French Opens

He made his Major debut at the 2023 Australian Open as a wildcard pair with Yuki Bhambri. He won his first Grand Slam match at the 2023 French Open with Bhambri defeating wildcards Arthur Rinderknech and Enzo Couacaud. [9] He made his debut at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships as an alternate pair with Bhambri.

ATP Tour finals

Singles: 5 (2–3)

Legend
Grand Slam (0–0)
Olympic Games (0–0)
ATP Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP Tour 500 series (0–0)
ATP Tour 250 series (0–0)
ATP Challenger Tour (2–3)
Titles by surface
Hard (2–3)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfaceOpponentsScore
Win1–0 Oct 2014 Indore, IndiaChallengerHard Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Aleksandr Nedovyesov 6–3, 6–7(4–7), 6–3
Win2–0 Oct 2015 Vietnam Open, VietnamChallengerHard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jordan Thompson 7–5, 6–3
Loss2–1 Oct 2015 Ağrı, TurkeyChallengerHard Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Farrukh Dustov 4–6, 4–6
Loss2–2 Feb 2016 New Delhi, IndiaChallengerHard Flag of France.svg Stéphane Robert 3–6, 0–6
Loss2–3 Nov 2018 Bangalore, IndiaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Prajnesh Gunneswaran 2–6, 2–6

Doubles: 23 (15–8)

Legend
Grand Slam (0–0)
Olympic Games (0–0)
ATP Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP Tour 500 series (0–0)
ATP Tour 250 series (0–0)
ATP Challenger Tour (15–8)
Titles by surface
Hard (13–7)
Clay (2–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0 Feb 2014 Kolkata, IndiaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Sanam Singh Flag of India.svg Divij Sharan
Flag of India.svg Vishnu Vardhan 		6–3, 3–6, [10–4]
Win2–0 Feb 2014 New Delhi, IndiaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Sanam Singh Flag of Thailand.svg Sanchai Ratiwatana
Flag of Thailand.svg Sonchat Ratiwatana 		7–6(7–5), 6–4
Win3–0 Oct 2014 Pune, IndiaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Sanam Singh Flag of Thailand.svg Sanchai Ratiwatana
Flag of Thailand.svg Sonchat Ratiwatana		6–3, 6–2
Win4–0 Sep 2015 İzmir, TurkeyChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Divij Sharan Flag of Tunisia.svg Malek Jaziri
Flag of Ukraine.svg Denys Molchanov 		7–6(7–5), 4–6, 0–0 (ret)
Win5–0 Oct 2015 Bangalore, IndiaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Sanam Singh Flag of the United States.svg John Paul Fruttero
Flag of India.svg Vijay Sundar Prashanth 		5–7, 6–4, [10–2]
Loss5–1 Feb 2016 New Delhi, IndiaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Sanam Singh Flag of India.svg Yuki Bhambri
Flag of India.svg Mahesh Bhupathi 		3–6, 6–4, [5–10]
Loss5–2 Mar 2016 Shenzhen, ChinaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Flag of Australia (converted).svg Luke Saville
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jordan Thompson 		6–3, 4–6, [10–12]
Win6–2 Apr 2016 Nanjing, ChinaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Flag of Ukraine.svg Denys Molchanov
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Aleksandr Nedovyesov 		6–3, 6–3
Loss6–3 Aug 2016 Granby, CanadaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Sanam Singh Flag of Brazil.svg Guilherme Clezar
Flag of Colombia.svg Alejandro González 		6–3, 1–6, [10–12]
Loss6–4 Apr 2018 Taipei, TaiwanChallengerCarpet(i) Flag of India.svg Prajnesh Gunneswaran Flag of Australia (converted).svg Matthew Ebden
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Andrew Whittington 		4–6, 7–5, [6–10]
Loss6–5 Jun 2018 Fergana, UzbekistanChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Vijay Sundar Prashanth Flag of Russia.svg Ivan Gakhov
Flag of Russia.svg Alexander Pavlioutchenkov 		4–6, 4–6
Win7–5 Jul 2019 Chengdu, ChinaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Arjun Kadhe Flag of South Korea.svg Nam Ji-sung
Flag of South Korea.svg Song Min-kyu 		6–3, 0–6, [10–6]
Loss7–6 Nov 2019 Pune, IndiaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Arjun Kadhe Flag of India.svg Purav Raja
Flag of India.svg Ramkumar Ramanathan 		6–7(3–7), 3–6
Win8–6 Feb 2022 Bangalore, IndiaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Ramkumar Ramanathan Flag of France.svg Hugo Grenier
Flag of France.svg Alexandre Müller 		6–3, 6–2
Loss8–7 Feb 2022 Bangalore, IndiaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Ramkumar Ramanathan Flag of Austria.svg Alexander Erler
Flag of India.svg Arjun Kadhe 		3–6, 7–6(7–4), [7–10]
Win9–7 Apr 2022 Salinas, EcuadorChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Yuki Bhambri Flag of the United States.svg JC Aragone
Flag of Ecuador.svg Roberto Quiroz 		4–6, 6–3, [10–7]
Win10–7 May 2022 Prostějov, Czech RepublicChallengerClay Flag of India.svg Yuki Bhambri Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Roman Jebavý
Flag of Slovakia.svg Andrej Martin 		6–3, 7–5
Win11–7 Jul 2022 Porto, PortugalChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Yuki Bhambri Flag of Portugal.svg Nuno Borges
Flag of Portugal.svg Francisco Cabral 		6–4, 3–6, [10–6]
Win12–7 Aug 2022 Lexington, USAChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Yuki Bhambri Flag of the Netherlands.svg Gijs Brouwer
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Aidan McHugh 		3–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Win13–7 Aug 2022 Mallorca, SpainChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Yuki Bhambri Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Marek Gengel
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Lukáš Rosol 		6–2, 6–2
Win14–7 Jan 2023 Nonthaburi, ThailandChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Yuki Bhambri Flag of Indonesia.svg Christopher Rungkat
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Akira Santillan 		2–6, 7–6(9–7), [14–12]
Win15–7 Apr 2023 Girona, SpainChallengerClay Flag of India.svg Yuki Bhambri Flag of Spain.svg Íñigo Cervantes
Flag of Spain.svg Oriol Roca Batalla 		6–4, 6–4

Other finals

Asian Games

Finals: 2 (1–1)

Singles finals: 0 (0–0)

Doubles inals: 2 (1–1)

ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Silver0-129 September 2014 2014 Asian Games Asian Games Hard Flag of India.svg Sanam Singh Flag of South Korea.svg Hyeon Chung
Flag of South Korea.svg Lim Yong-kyu 		5–7, 6–7(2–7)
Gold1-129 September 20142014 Asian GamesAsian GamesHard Flag of India.svg Sania Mirza Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Peng Hsien-yin
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chan Hao-ching 		6–4, 6–3

South Asian Games

Finals: 3 (1–2)

Singles Finals: 2 (0–2)

ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Silver0-112 February 2016 2016 South Asian Games South Asian Games Hard Flag of India.svg Ramkumar Ramanathan 5–7, 2–6
Silver0-29 December 2019 2019 South Asian Games South Asian GamesHard Flag of India.svg Manish Sureshkumar4–6, 6–7(6–7)

Doubles finals: 1 (1–0)

ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Gold1-08 December 2019 2019 South Asian Games South Asian Games Hard Flag of India.svg Vishnu Vardhan Flag of India.svg Sriram Balaji
Flag of India.svg Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 		7–5,3–6,[10–5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Saketh Myneni ITF profile".
  2. ↑ "Saketh Myneni ATP bio".
  3. ↑ "Challenger Stars Reaping Rewards At US Open".
  4. ↑ "Indian tennis player proposes to girlfriend at Davis Cup dinner, she says yes" . Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Indian tennis star Saketh Myneni proposes to girlfriend at Davis Cup dinner" . Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  6. ↑ "Saketh Myneni Davis cup profile".
  7. ↑ "Asian Games 2014: Sania Mirza-Saketh Myneni Win Mixed-Doubles Gold".
  8. ↑ "Asian Games: Sanam Singh, Saketh Myneni Settle for Silver in Men's Tennis Doubles".
  9. ↑ https://olympics.com/en/news/french-open-2023-tennis-roland-garros-india-doubles-first-round-results
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