Somdev Devvarman - Facts And Statistics

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• Somdev’s full name is Somdev Kishore Devvarman.

• He was born on February 13 1985.

• He is a professional Indian tennis player.

• The highest ranking of Somdev Devvarman profile is Number sixty two. It was recorded on 25 July 2011.

• His current career ranking, which was recorded at 18 March 2013, is at number two hundred and fifty four.

• He was born to Ranjana and Pravanjan Dev Varman, a couple belonging to a Tripuri Hindu family.

• His father who was a income tax commissioner got transferred to Tamil Nadu when Somdev was nine. That’s where he grew up and did his preliminary tennis training.

• Somdev Devvarman started competing in futures tournaments in 2002 at the age of 17.

• He started becoming visible on the ladder following a victory in the Kolkata F2 championship in Kolkata F2 championship in the year 2004. This nudged him to the number 666 ranking.

• He made a move to the United States to attend the University of Virginia.

• While at college, he defeated number one seed, John Isner in the finals to win NCAA Singles Championship ...
... in 2007.

• The following year, he defended his title and won the championship by beating Tennessee's J.P. Smith.

• After his graduation, he signed with a sports management company called Mamba International.

• He turned professional when he competed at the Futures tournament in New York and won the singles title.

• He also won the doubles title after pairing up with Treat Huey.

• They repeated the results in the following week’s Futures match in Pittsburgh.

• In 2008 Somdev defeated Sam Querrey and Dudi Sela to become the champion at the the Kennedy Funding Invitational.

• The same year, he won the Lexington Challenger title on 27th July.

• Somdev reached the first ATP final of his career in 2009 at the Chennai Open.

• Somdev made his Davis Cup debut for India in 2008, at the age of 22, in a match against Uzbekistan.

• His first stint at the Olympic Games was when he entered the Men’s Singles as a wild card entry at the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London.

• Somdev won gold medals in the Men’s singles category at the 2010 Common Wealth games held in Delhi.

• Somdev Devvarman statistics helped him earn the Arjuna Award in 2011.