Delhi Open 2025: India’s Niki Poonacha & Zimbabwe’s John Lock to feature as top seeds

Ramkumar Ramanathan and Mukund Sasikumar will begin their singles campaign at the Delhi Open 2025 on Tuesday.

India’s Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha and Zimbabwe’s Courtney John Lock have entered the Delhi Open 2025 doubles main draw as the No. 2 seeds, aiming to add to their Challenger title count. The ATP Challenger 75 event, returning for its fifth edition at the DLTA Complex from February 10-16, will feature 16 teams competing for the trophy and 75 ATP points.

Poonacha, a two-time Challenger doubles champion, and Lock, who owns one Challenger and 19 ITF titles with his brother Benjamin, will be among the favourites. They are part of a field led by top-seeded Australians, former Australian Open boys’ doubles winner Blake Ellis and Tristan Schoolkate.

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India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan and Karan Singh, fresh off a Davis Cup win over Togo, have received a wild card entry to the doubles tournament. Ramkumar, a 2025 Chennai Open finalist, will look to build on his form alongside Singh. Another all-Indian duo, SD Prajwal Dev and Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta, also enter as wild cards, joining Siddhant Banthia and Parikshit Somani in the draw.

2019 Wimbledon Boys’ Singles champion Shintaro Mochizuki reunites with Kaito Uesugi after their Chennai Open title win. Their first-round clash against Ramkumar and Singh promises to be a thrilling encounter, with the winner potentially facing Poonacha and Lock in the quarter-finals. Jay Clarke (UK) & Johannes Ingildsen (DEN) are the third seeds, while Corentin Denolly & Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg (FRA) round out the top four.

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Meanwhile, the singles qualifying rounds on Monday saw several upsets. Top seed Enzo Couacaud suffered a surprise exit, losing to 12th-seeded Andre Ilagan, while unseeded Hynek Barton stunned second seed Gueymard Wayenburg; the Frenchman, however, received passage to the main draw as the Lucky Loser after fourth seed Lloyd Harris’ withdrawal. Meanwhile, Jacopo Berrettini also failed to progress, falling to unseeded Eric Vanshelboim.

Later in the day, Michael Geerts kicked off the main draw with a straight-sets win over Zsombor Piros in the round of 32, while India’s Karan Singh exited the tournament after a first-round exit at the hands of eighth seed Timofey Skatov.

Tuesday will witness the continuation of the singles’ main draw, with Gueymard Wayenburg clashing with Mukund Sasikumar for the day’s opening clash on Centre Court. Later on, Ramkumar Ramanathan will kick off his campaign against Dabor Svrcina of the Czech Republic.

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