India’s Karan Singh beats Isaac Becroft to win ITF M15 Bali title

India's Karan Singh clinched the ITF M15 Bali singles title after defeating New Zealand's Isaac Becroft in the final. The fourth-seeded Indian won the championship without dropping a set, securing his fourth career title and third of the 2026 season

Chandigarh: India’s Karan Singh clinched the men’s singles title at the ITF Men’s World Tennis Tour M15 in Bali, Indonesia. This is Karan’s fourth career title and his third of the 2026 season, and his second in singles.

The fourth-seeded Indian, ranked 604th in the ATP rankings, defeated fifth seed Isaac Becroft of New Zealand 7-5, 7-6(3) in a closely contested final on hard courts to lift the title.

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It was a phenomenal run for Karan, who trains at the Roundglass Tennis Academy (RGTA), as he delivered a flawless week of tennis by winning the championship without dropping a single set. He began his campaign by defeating Indonesian qualifier Gunawan Trismuwantara 6-3, 7-5.

In the second round, he got the better of local wildcard Rafalentino Ali Da Costa 6-3, 6-2. In the quarterfinals, Singh continued his dominance, defeating another Indonesian wildcard, Nathan Anthony Barki, 6-1, 6-4.

In the semifinals, Karan faced seventh seed Ryotaro Taguchi of Japan. In a commanding performance, Karan got the better of the Japanese player, cruising to a 6-3, 6-3 straight-sets win to book his place in the final.

The singles victory in Indonesia marks a highly successful continuation of Karan’s 2026 season, coming just weeks after he clinched the doubles title at the ITF M15 Astana in Kazakhstan.

In August, partnering Russia’s Martin Borisiouk, the unseeded pair battled through three consecutive match tie-breaks, including an upset over the top seeds in the semifinals, before defeating the local Kazakh pair of Danial Rakhmatullayev and Damir Zhalgasbay 6-3, 6-2 in the final.

Karan, who hails from Karnal in Haryana, has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 388, achieved on August 8, 2025. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 436, achieved on July 28, 2025.

The 23-year-old Karan has won one ATP Challenger doubles title, at the 2024 Brazzaville Challenger with Florent Bax.