Arjun Kadhe
अर्जुन कढे

Kadhe at the 2022 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois
Country (sports)	India
Residence	Pune, India
Born	(1994-01-07) 7 January 1994 (age 30) Pune, India
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	Oklahoma State University (2014–2017)
Prize money	$182,463
Singles
Career record	0–4 (0% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 328 (27 August 2018)
Current ranking	No. 930 (15 January 2024)
Doubles
Career record	1–6 (14.3% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 98 (15 January 2024)
Current ranking	No. 98 (15 January 2024)
Last updated on: 19 January 2024.

Arjun Kadhe ( Marathi: अर्जुन कढे; born 7 January 1994) is an Indian tennis player.

Kadhe has a career high ATP singles ranking of 328 achieved on 27 August 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 98 achieved on 15 January 2024. Kadhe has won 4 ITF Futures singles titles. He has also won 6 Challenger and 7 ITF Futures doubles titles.

Personal and early Life

Kadhe was born in Pune to Jayant and Rashmi Kadhe. His father supported him for playing tennis. He attended the Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce before coming to OSU. He also got support from Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA) and Lakshya, a sports NGO. He finished his graduation from Oklahoma State University in 2017. During his tenure in Oklahoma Kadhe and his doubles partner Julian Cash became the first doubles team in Oklahoma State history to achieve the top spot in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Rankings. The pair scripted 34 wins along with prestigious All-America honours at the NCAA Doubles Championship. ^[1] Kadhe is coached by Hemant Bendrey. ^[2]

Professional career

He appeared in each of the four Grand Slam tournaments at the junior level over the past two years. Kadhe won his first ITF singles title in November 2017 at Thu Dau Mot City in Vietnam. ^[2]

He made his singles and doubles ATP World Tour debut at the 2018 Maharashtra Open. In singles, he lost in opening round to compatriot Yuki Bhambri. ^[3] In doubles he paired with Frenchman Benoît Paire but lost in the first round.

Kadhe became the third Cowboy to ever earn three All-America honors. He compiled a team-high 34 doubles victories with partner Julian Cash. He clinched 20 singles wins primarily playing at the No. 2 position, including two wins over ranked opponents. He defeated seven ranked opponents in doubles with Cash, two of which came in the NCAA Doubles Tournament. He also won the Pacific Coast Doubles tournament in March while teaming with Cash and reached the quarterfinals of the ITA Central Regional during fall play. Currently sits in sixth place on OSU's career doubles wins list with 67. ^[4]

Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals

Singles: 8 (4–4)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2017	India F9, Coimbatore	Futures	Hard	Sasikumar Mukund	3–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Nov 2017	Vietnam F3, Thu Dau Mot City	Futures	Hard	Andrew Harris	7–5, 6–3
Win	2–1	Mar 2018	India F1, Bhubaneswar	Futures	Hard	Vijay Sundar Prashanth	6–3, 6–2
Loss	2–2	Mar 2018	India F2, Kolkata	Futures	Hard	Carlos Boluda-Purkiss	0–6, 4–6
Loss	2–3	Mar 2018	India F4, Trivandrum	Futures	Hard	Vijay Sundar Prashanth	3–6, 3–6
Loss	2–4	May 2018	Nigeria F3, Abuja	Futures	Hard	João Menezes	3–6, 1–6
Win	3–4	Mar 2022	M15 Bhopal, India	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Sidharth Rawat	7–6(7–2), 6–4
Win	4–4	Mar 2022	M15 Bengaluru, India	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Sidharth Rawat	6–3, 3–6, 6–1

Doubles: 15 (6–9)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2018	Astana, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard	Denis Yevseyev	Mikhail Elgin Yaraslav Shyla	5–7, 6–7(6–8)
Win	1–1	Jul 2019	Chengdu, China	Challenger	Hard	Saketh Myneni	Nam Ji-sung Song Min-kyu	6–3, 0–6, [10–6]
Loss	1–2	Nov 2019	Pune, India	Challenger	Hard	Saketh Myneni	Purav Raja Ramkumar Ramanathan	6–7(3–7), 3–6
Win	2–2	Jan 2022	Forlì, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Marco Bortolotti	Michael Geerts Alexander Ritschard	7–6(7–5), 6-2
Win	3–2	Feb 2022	Bangalore, India	Challenger	Hard	Alexander Erler	Saketh Myneni Ramkumar Ramanathan	6–3, 6–7(4–7), [10–7]
Loss	3–3	Sep 2022	Istanbul, Turkey	Challenger	Hard	Fernando Romboli	Purav Raja Divij Sharan	4–6, 6–3, [8–10]
Loss	3–4	Jan 2023	Quimper, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Anirudh Chandrasekar	Sadio Doumbia Fabien Reboul	2–6, 4–6
Loss	3–5	Feb 2023	Vilnius, Lithuania	Challenger	Hard (i)	Daniel Masur	Ivan Liutarevich Vladyslav Manafov	0–6, 2–6
Win	4–5	Feb 2023	Chennai, India	Challenger	Hard	Jay Clarke	Sebastian Ofner Nino Serdarušić	6–0, 6–4
Loss	4–6	Jul 2023	Braunschweig, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Arthur Reymond	6–7(7–9), 4–6
Loss	4–7	Jul 2023	Porto, Portugal	Challenger	Hard	Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli	Toshihide Matsui Kaito Uesugi	7–6(7–5), 3–6, [5–10]
Win	5–7	Oct 2023	Olbia, Italy	Challenger	Hard	Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli	Ivan Sabanov Matej Sabanov	6–1, 6–3
Loss	5–8	Jan 2024	Oeiras, Portugal	Challenger	Hard (i)	Marcus Willis	Karol Drzewiecki Piotr Matuszewski	3–6, 4–6
Loss	5–9	Mar 2024	Murcia, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Théo Arribagé Victor Vlad Cornea	5–7, 1–6
Win	6–9	Apr 2024	Cuernavaca, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Piotr Matuszewski Matthew Christopher Romios	7–6(7–5), 6–4

References

External links

• Arjun Kadhe at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Arjun Kadhe at the International Tennis Federation
• Arjun Kadhe at Oklahoma State University

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