Christopher Rungkat
Christopher Benjamin Rungkat is an Indonesian tennis player. In 2008, he won the French Open 2008 Boys' Doubles Juniors title with Finnish player Henri Kontinen. 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' event with Henri Kontinen. Rungkat is the first Indonesian to reach the US Open boys' final and to win the doubles title at the French Open.
In June 2010, he won the Tarakan Open International Men's Futures tournament, his first international tournament title since his professional debut in 2007. He won his maiden ATP Tour title in men's doubles, partnered with Swedish player André Göransson in February 2020, 13 years after turning professional.
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 Manadonese descent and his mother, Elfia Mirlianti, is Minang descent.Christopher Rungkat partnered up with PocariID in 2007 for a project called Pocari Sweat Sport Science hoping to help Christopher maximize his performance.
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. He was the winner of the men's singles title at the Tennis at the 2017 SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur.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.
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. In February, Rungkat reached his first doubles final ATP Tour 250 at the Sofia Open with partner Hsieh Cheng-peng.
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. In the final, the pairing defeated third seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andrei Vasilevski in the super tie-break.
Awards and nominations
ATP career finals
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
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| Loss | 0–1 | 2019 Sofia Open – Doubles| | Sofia Open, Bulgaria | 250 Series | Hard |  ATP Challengers and ITF Futures finalsSingles: 17 (11 titles, 6 runner-ups)
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dts|May 2011
