France’s Kyrian Jacquet wins singles title

Frenchman Kyrian Jacquet prolonged his superb Indian spring by adding the Delhi Open 2025 tennis singles title to his trophy cabinet, a week after he had claimed the Chennai Open crown.

Jacquet, unseeded, beat second seed Billy Harris of Great Britain 6-4, 6-2 at the DLTA Complex Centre Court on Sunday to win the championship.

The Delhi Open 2025 was an ATP Challenger 75 tennis tournament played on hard courts. By winning the singles event, Jacquet raked in 75 ATP Ranking points.

Building on the momentum of his triumph over top seed Vit Kopriva in the semi-final, Jacquet, world No. 204, raced off the blocks in the final, breaking world No. 116 Harris on his first attempt.

Harris, however, responded in kind, breaking his counterpart and holding his serve to restore parity at 3-3. Jacquet, though, broke again in the eighth game to eventually seal the first set.

Aiming for his third ATP Challenger title, Jacquet commenced the second set with a robust defence on his serve before coming close to breaking Harris in the fourth game. Nonetheless, the second seed held his nerve after relinquishing a 40-0 lead to win the deuce and level the set 2-2.

Jacquet finally seized the upper hand in game six, coming from 40-15 down to win with a superb forehand.

The 23-year-old French tennis player swept through the following game to race into a 5-2 lead. Jacquet then won a close rally in the eighth game to set himself up with two match points, converting the second to win the set and the match.

Jacquet’s win over Harris made him the third Frenchman in a row to win the Delhi Open singles title. Stephane Robert won the title in 2016 while Geoffrey Blancaneaux won the championship last year after the tournament resumed after eight years.

On Saturday, Japan’s Masamichi Imamura and Rio Noguchi claimed the Delhi Open 2025 tennis doubles title with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Niki Poonacha of India and Zimbabwe’s Courtney John Lock in the final.

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