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Christopher Benjamin Rungkat (born 14 January 1990) is an Indonesian tennis player. In 2008, he won the final stage of French Open 2008 Boys' Doubles Juniors category with Finnish tennis player Henri Kontinen.[1] He is the youngest ever Indonesian to be the All Indonesian Champion, and by the end of his junior career, he was awarded for Indonesian best promising athlete 2008.
Rungkat also reached the final of the 2008 US Open boys' final with Henri Kontinen.[2] Rungkat is the first Indonesian to reach US Open boys' final and to win the doubles title of the French Open.
In June 2010, he won the Tarakan Open International Men's Futures tournament, his first international tournament title since going pro.[3] He won his maiden ATP Tour title in men's doubles, partnered with Swedish player André Göransson in February 2020, 13 years since going pro.[4]
Personal life
He is the grandson of Benny Rungkat, former chairman of the Indonesian Air Carriers Association. Christopher's father, Michael Alexander Fritz Rungkat, is of Dutch and Indonesian descent and his mother, Elfia Mirlianti, is Cambodian and Indonesian descent.
Christopher Rungkat partnered up with PocariID in 2007 for a project called Pocari Sweat Sport Science hoping to help Christopher maximize his performance.[5]
Career
Christopher Rungkat spent his junior career in Europe by playing on the European Junior Circuit and was trained in Tennis Val, Valencia, Spain. He is the second Asian male player to win a junior French Open doubles title, after Kei Nishikori.[6] He was the winner of the men's singles title at the Tennis at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur.[7]
A year later at the 2018 Asian Games in his home country, Rungkat was partnered up with Aldila Sutjiadi for the mixed doubles category in just two weeks, and was not targeted to grab any medals. However, they surprised with getting the gold medal after producing a couple of upsets and eventually beating Thai pair Sonchat Ratiwatana and Luksika Kumkhum in the end to get the gold medal.[8]
He started 2019 with a title in with partner Hsieh Cheng-peng beating former world No. 1 in the doubles semifinal, Leander Paes and partner Divij Sharan.[9][10] In February, Rungkat reached his first doubles final ATP Tour 250 at the Sofia Open with partner Hsieh Cheng-peng.[11]
Rungkat won his maiden ATP Tour title at the 2020 Maharashtra Open in Pune, India in the men's doubles event, after 13 years on tour. Partnered with André Göransson, Rungkat defeated fourth seed and his former partner Hsieh Cheng-peng who competed with Denys Molchanov 3–6, 6–4, in the first round to advance to the quarterfinal. They then surprised the French team of Benoît Paire and Antoine Hoang in straight sets, before securing a spot in the final with a win over Romain Arneodo and Andre Begemann 6–4, 7–6(7–1). In the final, the pairing defeated third seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andrei Vasilevski in the super tie-break.[12]
Awards and nominations
Award | Year | Category | Result | Ref. |
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AORI | 2009 | Best Hope Athlete | Placed | [13] |
2011 | Best Male Athlete | Nominated | [14] | |
Favorite Athlete | Nominated | |||
Indonesian Sport Awards | 2018 | Favorite Mixed Doubles Athlete with Aldila Sutjiadi | Nominated | [15] |
International Tennis Federation | 2020 | Davis Cup Commitment Award | Placed | [16] |
ATP career finals
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Feb 2019 | Sofia Open, Bulgaria | 250 Series | Hard | Hsieh Cheng-peng | Nikola Mektić Jürgen Melzer |
2–6, 6–4, |
Win | 1–1 | Feb 2020 | Maharashtra Open, India | 250 Series | Hard | André Göransson | Jonathan Erlich Andrei Vasilevski |
6–2, 3–6, |
ATP Challengers and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 17 (11 titles, 6 runner-ups)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Jun 2010 | Indonesia F2, Tarakan | Futures | Hard (i) | An Jae-sung | 6–3, 0–6, 6–2 |
Win | 2–0 | May 2011 | Indonesia F1, Jakarta | Futures | Hard | Richard Becker | 6–4, 6–3 |
Win | 3–0 | Jun 2011 | Indonesia F2, Surabaya | Futures | Hard | Arata Onozawa | 7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–5) |
Win | 4–0 | Jun 2011 | Indonesia F3, Jakarta | Futures | Hard | Kento Takeuchi | 6–3, 6–2 |
Loss | 4–1 | May 2012 | Thailand F2, Bangkok | Futures | Hard | José Statham | 6–7(10–12), 3–6 |
Win | 5–1 | May 2012 | Thailand F3, Bangkok | Futures | Hard | Antoine Escoffier | 6–2, 6–2 |
Win | 6–1 | Jul 2012 | Indonesia F1, Jakarta | Futures | Hard | Nam Ji-sung | 7–6(7–5), 6–1 |
Win | 7–1 | Dec 2012 | Indonesia F3, Jakarta | Futures | Hard | Jeong Suk-young | 6–4, 7–5 |
Loss | 7–2 | Jun 2014 | Thailand F5, Bangkok | Futures | Hard | Toshihide Matsui | 4–6, 1–6 |
Loss | 7–3 | Jun 2014 | Thailand F7, Bangkok | Futures | Hard | Dayne Kelly | 6–7(4–7), 6–7(7–9) |
Win | 8–3 | Apr 2015 | Indonesia F1, Tarakan | Futures | Hard (i) | Finn Tearney | 7–6(9–7), 1–6, 6–1 |
Loss | 8–4 | Apr 2015 | Indonesia F3, Jakarta | Futures | Hard | Lee Duck-hee | 4–6, 3–6 |
Win | 9–4 | Jun 2015 | Thailand F5, Bangkok | Futures | Hard | Shuichi Sekiguchi | 6–4, 6–3 |
Loss | 9–5
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