How much prize money did Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, N Vijay Sundar Prashanth, and Anirudh Chandrasekar get at the Australian Open 2025?

Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and N Vijay Sundar Prashanth earned prize money of $40,000 after exiting in the first round of the men’s doubles in the 2025 Australian Open. On Thursday, January 16, Jeevan and Prashanth lost in straight sets to France’s Gregorie Jacq and Brazil’s Orlando Luz.

It took Jacq and Luz an hour and six minutes to win the match 6-2, 6-2 on Court 7. Had the Indian pair won, they would have assured themselves a prize money of $58,000. The champion and runner-up will get $810,000 and $440,000, respectively. The semi-finalists and quarterfinalists will get $250,000 and $142,000, respectively.

The ones getting knocked out in the pre-quarters will get $82,000. Anirudh Chandrasekar and Poland’s Karol Drzewiecki also won prize money of $40,000 after getting knocked out in the first round of the men’s doubles. They lost 6-7(1-7), 6-2, 6-7(6-10) to Petros Tsitsipas and Damir Dzumhur.

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Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, N Vijay Sundar Prashanth, and Anirudh Chandrasekar struggle at 2025 Australian Open

Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and N Vijay Sundar Prashanth faltered in their match against Gregorie Jacq and Orlando Luz. They dropped their serve four times and failed to convert even one of their five break-point chances. The three double faults they made turned out to be costly. Jacq and Luz dominated their opponents with 21 winners, as Jeevan and Prashanth managed only seven winners.

Anirudh Chandrasekar and Karol Drzewiecki, on the other hand, fought hard against Petros Tsitsipas and Damir Dzumhur before going down. They lost the opening set but came back strongly in the second set. The third set also turned out to be a thriller as it went into a tie-breaker.

At 6-6 in the tie-breaker, Anirudh had every chance of coming up trumps, but Tsitsipas and Dzumhur won four points on the trot to have the last laugh.