Saketh Myneni


Saketh Myneni 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.

Personal and early life

Myneni was born in a small town named Vuyyuru in Andhra Pradesh and grew up entirely in Visakhapatnam. 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. 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. He currently resides in Visakhapatnam and trains every now & then in Hyderabad.

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. He also won the Silver medal in men's doubles at same event where he partnered alongside Sanam Singh.
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

ATP Tour finals

Singles: 5 (2–3)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentsScore
Win1–02014 Indore Open ATP Challenger|Indore, IndiaChallengerHard Aleksandr Nedovyesov6–3, 6–7, 6–3
Win2–02015 Vietnam Open |Vietnam Open, VietnamChallengerHard Jordan Thompson7–5, 6–3
Loss2–12015 Ağrı Challenger|Ağrı, TurkeyChallengerHard Farrukh Dustov4–6, 4–6
Loss2–22016 Delhi Open|New Delhi, IndiaChallengerHard Stephane Robert3–6, 0–6
Loss2–32018 Bengaluru Open|Bengalore, IndiaChallengerHard Prajnesh Gunneswaran2–6, 2–6

Doubles: 13 (7–6)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–02014 State Bank of India ATP Challenger Tour|Kolkata, IndiaChallengerHard Sanam Singh Divij Sharan
Vishnu Vardhan
6–3, 3–6,
Win2–02014 ONGC–GAIL Delhi Open|New Delhi, IndiaChallengerHard Sanam Singh Sanchai Ratiwatana
Sonchat Ratiwatana
7–6, 6–4
Win3–02014 KPIT MSLTA Challenger|Pune, IndiaChallengerHard Sanam Singh Sanchai Ratiwatana
Sonchat Ratiwatana
6–3, 6–2
Win4–02015 Türk Telecom İzmir Cup|İzmir, TurkeyChallengerHard Divij Sharan Malek Jaziri
Denys Molchanov
7–6, 4–6, 0–0
Win5–02015 Bangalore Challenger|Bangalore, IndiaChallengerHard Sanam Singh John Paul Fruttero
Vijay Sundar Prashanth
5–7, 6–4,
Loss5–12016 Delhi Open|New Delhi, IndiaChallengerHard Sanam Singh Yuki Bhambri
Mahesh Bhupathi
3–6, 6–4,
Loss5–22016 Gemdale ATP Challenger|Shenzhen, ChinaChallengerHard Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Luke Saville
Jordan Thompson
6–3, 4–6,
Win6–22016 TAC Cup Nanjing Challenger|Nanjing, ChinaChallengerHard Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Denys Molchanov
Aleksandr Nedovyesov
6–3, 6–3
Loss6–32016 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby |Granby, CanadaChallengerHard Sanam Singh Guilherme Clezar
Alejandro González
6–3, 1–6,
Loss6–42018 Santaizi ATP Challenger|Taipei, TaiwanChallengerCarpet Prajnesh Gunneswaran Matthew Ebden
Andrew Whittington
4–6, 7–5,
Loss6–52018 Fergana Challenger|Fergana, UzbekistanChallengerHard Vijay Sundar Prashanth Ivan Gakhov
Alexander Pavlioutchenkov
4–6, 4–6
Win7–52019 Chengdu Challenger – Doubles|Chengdu, ChinaChallengerHard Arjun Kadhe Nam Ji-sung
Song Min-kyu
6–3, 0–6,
Loss7–62019 KPIT MSLTA Challenger – Doubles|Pune, IndiaChallengerHard Arjun Kadhe Purav Raja
Ramkumar Ramanathan
6–7, 3–6

Asian Games

;Finals: 2

Singles Finals: 0 (0–0)

Doubles Finals: 2 (1–1)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss 1.29 September 2014Incheon, Korea
Incheon Asian Games
Asian GamesHard Sanam Singh Hyeon Chung
Lim Yong-kyu
5–7, 6–7
Win 2.29 September 2014Incheon, Korea
Incheon Asian Games
Asian GamesHard Sania Mirza Peng Hsien-yin
Chan Hao-ching
6–4, 6–3