Saketh Myneni

Saketh Myneni

Country (sports)	India
Residence	Visakhapatnam, India
Born	(1987-10-19) 19 October 1987 (age 31) Vuyyuru, India
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	Nov 2011
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$ 316,089
Singles
Career record	2–3 (40% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 2 Challenger, 10 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 137 (12 September 2016)
Current ranking	No. 260 (28 January 2019)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2016)
French Open	Q2 (2016)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2015)
US Open	1R (2016)
Doubles
Career record	5–6 (45.45% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 6 Challenger, 12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 113 (25 April 2016)
Current ranking	No. 190 (28 January 2019)
Medal record Representing  India Men's tennis Asian Games 2014 Incheon Mixed Doubles 2014 Incheon Doubles South Asian Games 2016 Guwahati Men's Singles
Last updated on: 30 January 2019.

Saketh Myneni (born 19 October 1987) is an Indian professional tennis player. He is conferred with the prestigious Arjuna Award in 2017 and represents India in Davis Cup. He won a Gold medal in Mixed doubles and a Silver medal in Men's doubles event at Incheon Asian Games 2014.

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  1 Personal and early life
  


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  2 Professional career
  


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  3 ATP Tour finals
  
  
  
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    3.1 Singles: 5 (2–3)
    
  
  
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    3.2 Doubles: 11 (6–5)
    
  
  
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    3.3 Asian Games
    
    
    
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      3.3.1 Singles Finals: 0 (0–0)
      
    
    
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      3.3.2 Doubles Finals: 2 (1–1)
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


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  4 References
  


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  5 External links
  

Personal and early life

Myneni was born in a small town named Vuyyuru in Andhra Pradesh and 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 & then in Hyderabad.^[3]

Professional career

He has professionally won 9 ITF and 2 ATP Challenger singles titles. Also, 12 ITF and 6 ATP Challenger doubles titles.

At Incheon Asian Games 2014 he partnered with Sania Mirza to capture the Gold.^[4] He also won the Silver medal in men's doubles at same event where he partnered alongside Sanam Singh.^[5]

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]

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)

Outcome	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Win	1–0	October 2014	Indore, India	Hard	Aleksandr Nedovyesov	6–3, 6–7(4–7)), 6–3
Win	2–0	October 2015	Vietnam Open, Vietnam	Hard	Jordan Thompson	7–5, 6–3
Loss	2–1	October 2015	Ağrı, Turkey	Hard	Farrukh Dustov	4–6, 4–6
Loss	2–2	February 2016	New Delhi, India	Hard	Stephane Robert	3–6, 0–6
Loss	2–3	November 2018	Bengalore, India	Hard	Prajnesh Gunneswaran	2–6, 2–6

Doubles: 11 (6–5)

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 (6–5)

Titles by Surface Hard (6–4) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–1)

Outcome	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Win	1–0	February 2014	Kolkata, India	Hard	Sanam Singh	Divij Sharan Vishnu Vardhan	6–3, 3–6, [10–4]
Win	2–0	February 2014	New Delhi, India	Hard	Sanam Singh	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	7–6(7–5), 6–4
Win	3–0	October 2014	Pune, India	Hard	Sanam Singh	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	6–3, 6–2
Win	4–0	September 2015	İzmir, Turkey	Hard	Divij Sharan	Malek Jaziri Denys Molchanov	7–6(7–5), 4–6, 0–0 (ret)
Win	5–0	October 2015	Bangalore, India	Hard	Sanam Singh	John Paul Fruttero Vijay Sundar Prashanth	5–7, 6–4, [10–2]
Loss	5–1	February 2016	New Delhi, India	Hard	Sanam Singh	Yuki Bhambri Mahesh Bhupathi	3–6, 6–4, [5–10]
Loss	5–2	March 2016	Shenzhen, China	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Luke Saville Jordan Thompson	6–3, 4–6, [10–12]
Win	6–2	April 2016	Nanjing, China	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Denys Molchanov Aleksandr Nedovyesov	6–3, 6–3
Loss	6–3	August 2016	Granby, Canada	Hard	Sanam Singh	Guilherme Clezar Alejandro González	6–3, 1–6, [10–12]
Loss	6–4	April 2018	Taipei, Taiwan	Carpet(i)	Prajnesh Gunneswaran	Matthew Ebden Andrew Whittington	4–6, 7–5, [6–10]
Loss	6–5	June 2018	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Hard	Vijay Sundar Prashanth	Ivan Gakhov Alexander Pavlioutchenkov	4–6, 4–6

Asian Games

Finals: 2 (1–1)

Singles Finals: 0 (0–0)

Doubles Finals: 2 (1–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up (Silver)	1.	29 September 2014	Incheon, Korea Incheon Asian Games	Hard	Sanam Singh	Hyeon Chung Lim Yong-kyu	5–7, 6–7(2–7)
Winners (Gold)	2.	29 September 2014	Incheon, Korea Incheon Asian Games	Hard	Sania Mirza	Peng Hsien-yin Chan Hao-ching	6–4, 6–3

References

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   ^ "Saketh Myneni ATP bio".
   


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   ^ "Challenger Stars Reaping Rewards At US Open".
   


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   ^ "Asian Games 2014: Sania Mirza-Saketh Myneni Win Mixed-Doubles Gold".
   


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   ^ "Asian Games: Sanam Singh, Saketh Myneni Settle for Silver in Men's Tennis Doubles".
   


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   ^ "Saketh Myneni Davis cup profile".
   

External links

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  Saketh Myneni at the Association of Tennis Professionals
  


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  Saketh Myneni at the International Tennis Federation
  


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  Saketh Myneni at the Davis Cup
  

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals Top ten Indian male singles tennis players as of 4 February 2019
1. Prajnesh Gunneswaran (103 1) 2. Ramkumar Ramanathan (133 ) 3. Yuki Bhambri (152 1) 4. Saketh Myneni (260 ) 5. Sasi Kumar Mukund (293 1)
6. Sumit Nagal (351 2) 7. Arjun Kadhe (388 ) 8. Sriram Balaji (400 2) 9. Sidharth Rawat (444 1) 10. Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam (511 2)

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