Somdev Devvarman
Somdev Devvarman at the 2015 Wimbledon Qualifying
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| Full name | Somdev Kishore Devvarman |
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| Country (sports) |
 India
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| Residence | Charlottesville, Virginia, USA |
| Born |
13 February 1985 Agartala, Tripura, India |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Turned pro | 2008 |
| Retired | 2017 (last match 2016) |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| College | University of Virginia |
| Prize money | $1,459,122 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 62–81 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 62 (25 July 2011) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2013) |
| French Open | 2R (2013) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2011) |
| US Open | 2R (2009, 2013) |
| Other tournaments | |
| Olympic Games | 1R (2012) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 19–26 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 139 (31 October 2011) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2010) |
| French Open | 1R (2011) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2011) |
| US Open | 3R (2011) |
| Team competitions | |
| Davis Cup | 1R (2010) |
| Last updated on: 2 January 2017. | |
| Medal record | ||
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| Representing India
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| Commonwealth Games | ||
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2010 Delhi | Singles |
| Asian Games | ||
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2010 Guangzhou | Singles |
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2010 Guangzhou | Doubles |
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2010 Guangzhou | Team |
Somdev Kishore Devvarman (born 13 February 1985) is a former professional Indian tennis player. He hit the headlines for being the only collegiate player to have made three consecutive finals at the NCAA, winning back-to-back finals in his junior and senior years at the University of Virginia. Only three other players have matched that record since 1950. His 44–1 win-loss record in 2008 at the NCAA Men's Tennis Championship is unprecedented.
His best achievement so far on the ATP World Tour has been reaching the final of the Chennai Open in 2009, as a wild card entry. In 2010, Somdev won the gold medal in the men's singles event of XIXth Commonwealth Games at the R.K. Khanna Tennis Stadium in New Delhi, and he followed it up with both men's singles and doubles gold in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. He is coached by Scott McCain.
In 2011, Devvarman received the Arjuna Award from the Indian government for his tennis successes. In March 2017, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, appointed him as the national observer for tennis.
Somdev was born into a Tripuri Hindu family in Guwahati, Assam to Ranjana and Pravanjan Dev Varman, a retired income tax commissioner. He belongs to the Indian state of Tripura. His family moved to Calcutta when he was 3 to 4 months old and stayed there until he was 8. His father's work took the family to Madras (Chennai) where Somdev grew up, beginning tennis at age 9, and studied at Asan Memorial School. Devvarman started competing in Futures tournaments in 2002 at the age of 17. His biggest achievement during this time was a victory in the Kolkata F2 championship in 2004, after which he rose to 666 in the world rankings. He moved to the USA later that year and competed less regularly while at the University of Virginia. Somdev, while at college, won the 2007 NCAA Singles Championship by defeating Georgia Bulldog's senior, the top seed John Isner in the final. A year later, he defeated Tennessee's J.P. Smith to win his second consecutive NCAA Singles National Championship. Devvarman becomes the 13th player in the 124-year history of the tournament to win consecutive titles, and just the fourth to do so in the past 50 years with an unprecedented 44–1 record in 2008. Somdev finished university with a degree in sociology and turned pro in the summer of 2008. He won his first career title that year at a Futures tournament in Rochester, New York. The University of Virginia retired Devvarman's jersey in 2009. At the end of 2010, he was felicitated by the Tamil Nadu Tennis Association in Chennai.
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