Chennai Open ATP Challenger 2025: Early ITF grind paves way for top-seeded Billy Harris to succeed
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Chennai Open ATP Challenger 2025: Early ITF grind paves way for top-seeded Billy Harris to succeed

The Hindu  

In the movie Challengers, the character of Patrick Zweig is forced to live out of a car and sleep in the parking lots of tennis clubs as he struggles to make a living as a professional while playing lower-lever tournaments. For Billy Harris, that is what his early 20s looked like when he plied his trade on the ITF circuit, the lowest level of men’s professional tennis. “I had a bed in the back of my van with my stringer machine for my racquets and cooked all my meals by the side of the tennis clubs on the road,” said the 30-year-old on the sidelines of the Chennai Open ATP Challenger. Things improved when Harris became a regular on the ATP Challenger Tour — the second tier of men’s tennis — and no longer had to travel in a van. Debut Delight 💪 Billy Harris secures the victory for Great Britain defeating Virtanen 6-4 7-6 #DavisCuppic.twitter.com/CnJEgJI6b2 — Davis Cup September 11, 2024 “Last year was a great year for me.

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Bengaluru Open ATP Challenger 2025: ‘Journeyman’ Harris marches into quarterfinals
1 month ago

Bengaluru Open ATP Challenger 2025: ‘Journeyman’ Harris marches into quarterfinals

The Hindu  

Billy Harris is quite the journeyman. He is 30 years old, has never entered the ATP top-100 and once travelled around Europe to play ITF Futures tournaments in his own Ford Transit van. On Wednesday at the KSLTA courts, Harris remained unrivalled on the glazed blue acrylic too, beating Czech Republic’s Marek Gengel 6-4, 6-3 to enter the quarterfinals in …

‘Journeyman’ Harris’s incredible sojourn at the Bengaluru Open continues
1 month ago

‘Journeyman’ Harris’s incredible sojourn at the Bengaluru Open continues

The Hindu  

Billy Harris is quite the journeyman. On Wednesday at the KSLTA courts here, Harris remained unrivalled on the glazed blue acrylic too, beating Czech Republic’s Marek Gengel 6-4, 6-3 to enter the quarterfinals in rousing fashion. He was relentless in his approach and ruthless in his shot-making — grass is after all his favourite surface — as he won 86% …

Manas goes down fighting to top seed Harris
1 month, 1 week ago

Manas goes down fighting to top seed Harris

The Hindu  

Wild card Manas Dhamne went down fighting 4-6, 4-6 to top seed Billy Harris of Britain in the first round of the Pune Metropolitan $160,000 Maha Open Challenger tennis tournament at the Balewadi Stadium on Tuesday. The other Indian wild card in action, Aryan Shah managed to win four games against sixth seed Brandon Holt of the USA. Khumoyun Sultanov …

Delhi Open ATP Challenger 2025: Jacquet beats Harris in straight sets, clinches second title in a row
1 month, 1 week ago

Delhi Open ATP Challenger 2025: Jacquet beats Harris in straight sets, clinches second title in a row

The Hindu  

Kyrian Jacquet did it once again in a fortnight. The 23-year-old Frenchman enjoyed the Indian conditions as he won his second successive title, beating second seed Billy Harris 6-4, 6-2 in the final of the Delhi Open ATP Challenger tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex on Sunday. It was a better fare than what he had executed in winning last …

Jacquet wins his second Challenger in two weeks
1 month, 1 week ago

Jacquet wins his second Challenger in two weeks

The Hindu  

Kyrian Jacquet did it again within a fortnight. The 23-year-old Frenchman enjoyed the Indian conditions as he won his second successive title, beating second seed Billy Harris 6-4, 6-2 in the final of the Dafanews $100,000 Delhi Open Challenger tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex on Sunday. It was a better fare than what he had executed in winning the …

Delhi Open ATP Challenger 2025: Poonacha-Lock pair reaches doubles final; Kopriva, Harris advance to singles semifinals
1 month, 1 week ago

Delhi Open ATP Challenger 2025: Poonacha-Lock pair reaches doubles final; Kopriva, Harris advance to singles semifinals

The Hindu  

Niki Poonacha kept the Indian hopes alive as he made the doubles final in partnership with Courtney Lock of Zimbabwe, beating third seeds Jay Clarke and Johannes Ingildsen 6-2, 7-6 in the Delhi Open ATP Challenger tournament at the DLTA Complex on Friday. The doubles final will be against the Japanese duo of Masamichi Imamura and Rio Noguchi, who knocked …

Chennai Open ATP Challenger 2025: Top seed Billy Harris, Kyrian Jacquet fight off stiff challenge to enter semis
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Chennai Open ATP Challenger 2025: Top seed Billy Harris, Kyrian Jacquet fight off stiff challenge to enter semis

The Hindu  

Top seed Billy Harris fought off a stiff challenge from Kazakhstan’s Timofey Skatov to win the quarterfinal on a tie-break, 6-3, 7-6 in the Chennai Open ATP Challenger at the SDAT tennis stadium here on Friday. RELATED | Chennai Open ATP Challenger 2025: Early ITF grind paves way for top-seeded Billy Harris to succeed In the day’s first match on …

Four Indian players advance in Chennai Open ATP Challenger qualifying draw
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Four Indian players advance in Chennai Open ATP Challenger qualifying draw

The Hindu  

Four Indians-Manish Sureshkumar, Dev Javia, Siddharth Vishwakarma and Chirag Duhan- made it to the second and final qualifying round of the Chennai Open ATP Challenger tennis tournament at the Nungambakkam Stadium here on Sunday. 962 in the world, upset the third seed Evgenii Tiurnev, ranked more than 600 places higher than the Indian, 6-4, 6-2 while 30-year-old Siddharth, ranked No. …

Players from 14 nations at ATP Challenger in Chennai
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Players from 14 nations at ATP Challenger in Chennai

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: The Chennai Open ATP Challenger 100 Men's International Tennis Championship 2025 will be organised by the Tamil Nadu Tennis Association from Feb 2 to Feb 9 at the SDAT Tennis Stadium, Nungambakkam, Chennai. Ramkumar Ramanathan, Mukund Sasikumar and Karan Singh, members of India's current Davis Cup team, the former two being from Tamil Nadu, have been given wild cards …

Chennai Open 2025: All you need to know about the ATP Challenger, schedule, players, prize money
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Chennai Open 2025: All you need to know about the ATP Challenger, schedule, players, prize money

The Hindu  

Chennai will host the Chennai Open ATP Challenger 100 Men’s International Tennis Championship 2025 from February 2nd to 9th. Ramkumar Ramanathan, Mukund Sasikumar and Karan Singh, members of India’s current Davis Cup team, the former two being from Tamil Nadu, have been given wild cards for the main draw. In the last ATP Challenger event held in 2024 in Chennai, …

Junior Slam winner with Kyrgios, Andrew Harris makes the climb back with Chennai Open ATP Challenger
6 years, 1 month ago

Junior Slam winner with Kyrgios, Andrew Harris makes the climb back with Chennai Open ATP Challenger

The Hindu  

Andrew Harris is a name that isn't particularly well-known in the tennis circuit. READ | Moutet reigns supreme in Chennai Open Harris graduated with a degree in Business and Marketing in May 2017 and returned to the professional circuit. The Australian went on a rampage to beat three of the top five seeds, including top seed Prajnesh Gunneswaran, to reach …

Chennai Open ATP Challenger 2019: Corentin Moutet breezes past Andrew Harris to claim title
6 years, 1 month ago

Chennai Open ATP Challenger 2019: Corentin Moutet breezes past Andrew Harris to claim title

The Hindu  

There’s mystery to Corentin Moutet. Hearts go out to the desperate press searching for a quote from the 19-year-old, enamoured by the way he blew away Australian Andrew Harris in straight sets in the Chennai Open Challenger final on Sunday. Harris was falling to too many unforced errors on his forehand and his single-handed backhand couldn’t deal with Moutet’s backhand …

Chennai Open ATP Challenger: Andrew Harris beats Prajnesh Gunneswaran in semis; Sasi Kumar Mukund also bows out
6 years, 1 month ago

Chennai Open ATP Challenger: Andrew Harris beats Prajnesh Gunneswaran in semis; Sasi Kumar Mukund also bows out

Firstpost  

Unseeded Australian Andrew Harris shocked top-seed Pranjnesh Gunneswaran 6-4, 3-6, 6-0 in the semi-final of the Chennai Open ATP Challenger tennis tournament Chennai: Unseeded Australian Andrew Harris shocked top-seed Prajnesh Gunneswaran 6-4, 3-6, 6-0 in the semi-final of the Chennai Open ATP Challenger tennis tournament on Saturday. The Indian challenge ended as 16th-seeded Sasi Kumar Mukund went down to second …

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