Arjun Kadhe (; born 7 January 1994) is an Indian tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 76 achieved on 28 October 2024. He also has a career high singles ranking of No. 328 achieved on 27 August 2018. Kadhe has won one doubles ATP Tour title. He also won 4 ITF Tour singles and 6 ATP Challenger Tour and 7 ITF 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 Vikhe Patil Memorial School through his early studies and was supported and championed as a tennis athlete all throughout his younger years. 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 graduated from Oklahoma State University in 2017. Arjun married his long time partner Kavita Mishra on 13 December 2025. Interestingly, his long-time doubles partner Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli also got married around the same time.
College career Kadhe became the third Cowboy to ever earn three All-America honors. 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 a team-high 34 wins along with prestigious All-America honours at the NCAA Doubles Championship. 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. He was in sixth place on OSU's career doubles wins list with 67. He clinched 20 singles wins primarily playing at the No. 2 position, including two wins over ranked opponents.Arjun Kadhe
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.
He made his singles and doubles ATP Tour debut at the 2018 Maharashtra Open. In singles, he lost in opening round to compatriot Yuki Bhambri. In doubles, he paired with Frenchman Benoît Paire but lost in the first round.
Partnering Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli, Kadhe won his first ATP title at the 2024 Almaty Open, defeating Nicolás Barrientos and Skander Mansouri in the final.
ATP Tour finals
Doubles: 1 (1 title) LegendGrand Slam (0–0)ATP Masters 1000 (0–0)ATP 500 Series (0–0)ATP 250 Series (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (1–0)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Almaty Open, Kazakhstan250 SeriesHard (i) Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Nicolás Barrientos Skander Mansouri3–6, 7–6(7–3), [14–12]
ATP Challenger and ITF Tour Finals
Singles: 8 ITF Tour (4–4) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (4–4)Titles by surfaceHard (4–4)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1India F9, CoimbatoreFuturesHard Sasikumar Mukund3–6, 4–6Win1–1Vietnam F3, Thu Dau Mot CityFuturesHard Andrew Harris7–5, 6–3Win2–1India F1, BhubaneswarFuturesHard Vijay Sundar Prashanth6–3, 6–2Loss2–2India F2, KolkataFuturesHard Carlos Boluda-Purkiss0–6, 4–6Loss2–3India F4, TrivandrumFuturesHard Vijay Sundar Prashanth3–6, 3–6Loss2–4Nigeria F3, AbujaFuturesHard João Menezes3–6, 1–6Win3–4M15 Bhopal, IndiaWorld Tennis TourHard Sidharth Rawat7–6(7–2), 6–4Win4–4M15 Bengaluru, IndiaWorld Tennis TourHard Sidharth Rawat6–3, 3–6, 6–1
Doubles: 22 ATP Challenger Tour (8–14) Legend ATP Challenger Tour (8–14) Titles by surface Hard (7–11) Clay (1–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore Loss 0–1 Astana, Kazakhstan Challenger Hard Denis Yevseyev Mikhail Elgin Yaraslav Shyla 5–7, 6–7(6–8) Win 1–1 Chengdu, ChinaChallenger Hard Saketh Myneni Nam Ji-sung Song Min-kyu 6–3, 0–6, [10–6]Loss 1–2 Pune, IndiaChallenger Hard Saketh Myneni Purav Raja Ramkumar Ramanathan6–7(3–7), 3–6 Win 2–2 Forlì, ItalyChallenger Hard (i) Marco Bortolotti Michael Geerts Alexander Ritschard 7–6(7–5), 6–2Win 3–2 Bangalore, IndiaChallenger Hard Alexander Erler Saketh Myneni Ramkumar Ramanathan 6–3, 6–7(4–7), [10–7]Loss 3–3 Istanbul, TurkeyChallenger Hard Fernando Romboli Purav Raja Divij Sharan4–6, 6–3, [8–10]Loss 3–4 Quimper, FranceChallenger Hard (i) Anirudh Chandrasekar Sadio Doumbia Fabien Reboul2–6, 4–6Loss 3–5 Vilnius, LithuaniaChallenger Hard (i) Daniel Masur Ivan Liutarevich Vladyslav Manafov 0–6, 2–6Win 4–5 Chennai, IndiaChallenger Hard Jay Clarke Sebastian Ofner Nino Serdarušić 6–0, 6–4Loss 4–6 Braunschweig, GermanyChallenger Clay Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Pierre-Hugues Herbert Arthur Reymond 6–7(7–9), 4–6Loss 4–7 Porto, PortugalChallenger Hard Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Toshihide Matsui Kaito Uesugi 7–6(7–5), 3–6, [5–10]Win 5–7 Olbia, ItalyChallenger Hard Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Ivan Sabanov Matej Sabanov 6–1, 6–3Loss 5–8 Oeiras, PortugalChallenger Hard (i) Marcus Willis Karol Drzewiecki Piotr Matuszewski 3–6, 4–6Loss5–9Murcia, SpainChallengerClay Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Théo Arribagé Victor Vlad Cornea5–7, 1–6Win6–9Cuernavaca, MexicoChallengerHard Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Piotr Matuszewski Matthew Christopher Romios7–6(7–5), 6–4Win7–9Oeiras, PortugalChallengerClay Anirudh Chandrasekar Simon Freund Johannes Ingildsen7–5, 6–4Loss7–10Shanghai, ChinaChallengerHard Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Cristian Rodríguez Matthew Romios6–7(4–7), 6–1, [7–10]Loss7–11Nonthaburi, ThailandChallengerHard Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Blake Ellis Adam Walton6–3, 5–7, [8–10]Loss7–12Jinan, ChinaChallengerHard Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Finn Reynolds James Watt5–7, 6–7(1–7)Loss7–13Cuernavaca, MexicoChallengerHard Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Andrés Andrade Federico Agustín Gómez3–6, 6–7(4–7)Loss7–14Milan, ItalyChallengerClay Siddhant Banthia Francesco Forti Filippo Romano3–6, 6–7(5–7)Win8–14Guangzhou, ChinaChallengerHard Blake Bayldon Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela Reese Stalder7–5, 3–6, [10–7]
References
External links
Arjun Kadhe at Oklahoma State University