Pruchya Isaro win doubles title at Open Menorca 2026 tennis

India’s Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha and his partner Pruchya Isaro of Thailand won the doubles title at the Open Menorca 2026 tennis tournament in Spain on Saturday.

Competing in the final of the clay court ATP Challenger 100 tournament, the unseeded pair of Poonacha and Isaro overcame the second seeds Siddhant Banthia of India and Bulgaria’s Alexander Donski by a 6-3, 7(7)-6(3) scoreline in one hour and 20 minutes.

Poonacha and his Thai partner broke their opponents in the fifth and ninth games to win the opening set.

With momentum on their side, Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha and Pruchya Isaro would also go on to break Banthia and Donski in the second game of the next set but were pegged back immediately in the next game.

With both teams holding their serves, the set went into a tie-breaker, which Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha and Pruchya Isaro dominated to win the title.

The Open Menorca 2026 win handed Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha his eighth ATP Challenger doubles tennis title. It was his third with Pruchya Isaro.

The Indian tennis player and Pruchya Isaro also won the Shanghai Challenger together last year and the Chennai Open this February.

Poonacha and Isaro played four matches en route to the title at the Open Menorca 2026. All four of their wins came in straight sets. They also beat top seeds Vijay Sundar Prashanth of India and Szymon Kielan of Poland 6-2, 6-4 in their opening match.

Earlier this year, Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha and Pruchya Isaro also made it to the back-to-back finals of the Pune ATP Challenger tournament and the Delhi Open.

However, they lost to Siddhant Banthia and Alexander Donski in the Delhi Open final and to the Republic of Korea’s Nam Ji-sung and Finland’s Patrik Niklas-Salminen at the Pune summit clash.

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