title: 2023 Pune Challenger
text: # 2023 Pune Challenger
  
  The 2023 Pune Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Pune, India from 27 February to 6 March 2023.
  
  ## Singles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | AUS | James Duckworth | 128 | 1 |
  | TPE | Tseng Chun-hsin | 131 | 2 |
  | AUS | Max Purcell | 155 | 3 |
  | ITA | Luca Nardi | 158 | 4 |
  | ITA | Francesco Maestrelli | 178 | 5 |
  | CZE | Dalibor Svrčina | 181 | 6 |
  | TPE | Hsu Yu-hsiou | 206 | 7 |
  | JPN | Rio Noguchi | 210 | 8 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings are as of 20 February 2023.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  
  * Arjun Kadhe
  * Sumit Nagal
  * Mukund Sasikumar
  
  The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:
  
  * Marc Polmans
  
  The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:
  
  * Prajnesh Gunneswaran
  * Hiroki Moriya
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Chung Yun-seong
  * Benjamin Lock
  * Nikola Milojević
  * Makoto Ochi
  * Dominik Palán
  * Akira Santillan
  
  The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
  
  * Jay Clarke
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  * Max Purcell def. Luca Nardi 6–2, 6–3.
  
  ### Doubles
  
  * Anirudh Chandrasekar / Vijay Sundar Prashanth def. Toshihide Matsui / Kaito Uesugi 6–1, 4–6, [10–3].
  