Prajnesh Gunneswaran | Bio | ATP Tour

Nicknames are Praj and Gunn.
Speaks English and Tamil.
Father, Prabhakharan; mother, Usha.
Started playing tennis at age 5. Credits his grandfather for passing down his love of tennis.
Trained in Pune and Bangalore between age of 12 and 16.
Moved to Barcelona, Spain at age 16.
Member of University of Tennessee tennis team for 1 season (2010).
Favourite shot is forehand, surface is hard and tournament is Los Cabos.
Lists London as his favourite city on tour.
Idol growing up was Patrick Rafter.
Also enjoys football. Favourite player is Cristiano Ronaldo and favourite team is Real Madrid.
Favourite superhero is Hulk, movie is Black Panther and TV show is Boston Legal.
Enjoys TV, video games, poker, board games and reading books from the Jack Reacher series.
Favourite actor is Hugh Jackman and favouritemusicians areColdplay and Avicii.
Lists his favourite foods as Indian, Chinese and Chipotle. Says sweets are his guilty pleasure.
Dream job is to be a professional gamer.
Lists "couch potato" as his secret talent.
Favourite subjects in school were English and History.
Says patience is his best quality and stubbornnessis his worst quality.
Trains at Alexander Waske Tennis-University inOffenbach, Germany.
Struggled with recurring knee fractures from 2010-15. Credits his family and fitnesscoach Christian Bosse with motivating him to continue his career.

(UPDATED 30 JANUARY 2022)

Broke into Top 100, achieved career-high No. 75 and ended year as No. 1 Indian in 2019 after struggling with knee injuries and being unranked as recently as 2015.
Qualified at 2018 Stuttgart and defeated Shapovalov in ATP Tour debut as a 28-year-old, then went on to qualify at Atlanta, Los Cabos and Chengdu in 2018.
Also qualified at Australian Open, ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells and ATP Masters 1000 Miami in 2019.
Owns 95-80 Challenger record with titles at Anning and Bangalore in 2018.
Played primarily on ITF Futures Circuit as recently as March 2018, when he won his 8th Futures title atChandigarh.