Chandigarh lad Karan wins doubles title in tennis

Local tennis player Karan Singh, a trainee of Roundglass Tennis Academy (RGTA), won the doubles title at the ITF Men’s World Tennis Tour M15, played at the National Tennis Centre in Astana, Kazakhstan. This is his sixth ITF career title and third in doubles.

Partnering with Martin Borisiouk of Russia, the pair defeated home pair of Danial Rakhmatullayev and Damir Zhalgasbay in straight sets. The pair logged 6-3, 6-2 to lift the title. The unseeded Indo-Russian pair, who began the campaign by upsetting fourth seeds Nikita Lanin and Andrei Kunitsyn of Russia 6-1, 2-6, 10-2 in tie break, marched into the quarterfinals and got the better of another Russian pair of Sviatoslav Lutkovskii and Evgeny Philippov 6-1, 2-6, 10-8.

In the semifinals, the pair were up against Chirag Duhan of India and Muzammil Murtaza of Pakistan. In another exciting encounter, which was also decided in the tie-break, Karan and Borisiouk logged 6-3, 3-6, 10-7 win.

Karan, who is currently ranked seven in India in men’s singles, had also won the ITF M15 Hyderabad earlier this year and was part of the Indian squad which secured a historic win over the Netherlands in the Davis Cup qualifiers in February in Bengaluru.

The double’s title at Astana was also Karan’s first on hard courts, as his previous two title victories in doubles category at Tehran (2025) and Brazaville (2024) had come on clay surfaces.