Somdev Devvarman

Somdev Devvarman
Devvarman 2015 in Roehampton
Nickname:	Buji, Dev
Nation:	India
Birthday:	February 13, 1985
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	73 kg
1st professional season:	2008
Resignation:	2017
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Scott McCain
Prize money:	$ 1,459,122
singles
Career record:	62:81
Highest ranking:	62 (July 25, 2011)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	19:26
Highest ranking:	139 (October 31, 2011)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Somdev Kishore Devvarman (also Somdev Dev Varman ; born February 13, 1985 in Guwahati , Assam ) is a former Indian tennis player . His greatest successes were reaching the final at the ATP tournament in Chennai and winning the gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in singles.

Career

Devvarman grew up near Chennai before attending the University of Virginia in 2005. For this he was active in college tennis from 2004 to 2008 . In May 2007 he became American individual champion after victories over Kevin Anderson and John Isner, among others . The following year he was able to defend his title.

In 2002 Devvarman first played a smaller future tournament in Lucknow , where he was eliminated in the first round. His first victory on the Future Tour was the tournament in November 2002 in his home country. Other tournaments followed, in which Devvarman was often eliminated in the first round. In March 2004 he won his first future tournament in Calcutta at the age of 19 . At that time he was 967th in the tennis world rankings.

On July 31, 2006 Devvarman played for the first time a tournament as part of the ATP Tour. In Washington he was eliminated in the first round against the Argentine Edgardo Massa with 4: 6 and 0: 6. In January 2008, the Indian won another future tournament in the United States, followed by two more tournament victories in June of the same year, and in July Devvarman won his first Challenger tournament. At this tournament in Lexington he beat well-known players such as Bobby Reynolds , Xavier Malisse and Robert Kendrick . In August 2008, the young Devvarman was able to reach a quarter-finals at an ATP tournament for the first time. In Washington he beat Taylor Dent and Robert Kendrick, but then lost to Igor Kunitsyn .

The January 2009 tournament in Chennai is one of Devvarman's greatest achievements. After beating Kevin Kim , Carlos Moyá and Ivo Karlović , he moved into the final of the tournament without a fight against Rainer Schüttler - due to an injury to the German. Here, however, he was defeated by Marin Čilić in two sets. In 2010 Devvarman managed to defeat Australian Greg Jones in the finals of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India, winning the first gold medal in men's singles in the history of the Games. In February 2011 Devvarman reached an ATP final in Johannesburg for the second time in his career. There he won the first set against Kevin Anderson , but ultimately lost in three sets.

He ended his career on January 1, 2017.

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals

ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 Series

ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series

ATP Challenger Tour (7)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 27, 2008	Lexington	Hard court	Robert Kendrick	6: 3, 6: 3
2.	September 26, 2010	Izmir	Hard court	Marsel İlhan	6: 4, 6: 3
3.	February 23, 2014	New Delhi (1)	Hard court	Oleksandr Nedowjessow	6: 3, 6: 1
4th	February 22, 2015	New Delhi (2)	Hard court	Yuki Bhambri	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 0
5.	July 11, 2015	Winnetka	Hard court	Daniel Nguyen	7: 5, 4: 6, 7: 6 5

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 11, 2009	Chennai	Hard court	Marin Čilić	4: 6, 6: 7 3
2.	February 6, 2011	Johannesburg	Hard court	Kevin Anderson	6: 4, 3: 6, 2: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 21, 2013	Sarasota	sand	Ilija Bozoljac	Steve Johnson Bradley Klahn	6: 7 5 , 7: 6 3 , [11: 9]
2.	February 28, 2015	Calcutta	Hard court	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	James Duckworth Luke Saville	without a fight

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 31, 2011	los Angeles	Hard court	Treat Conrad Huey	Mark Knowles Xavier Malisse	6: 7 3 , 7: 6 10

Web links

Commons : Somdev Devvarman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Somdev Devvarman (English)
• ITF profile Somdev Devvarman (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Somdev Devvarman (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Devvarman draws a line. spox.com, January 2, 2017, accessed January 3, 2017 .