Rajeev Ram

Rajeev Ram

Country	United States
Residence	Carmel, Indiana, USA
Born	(1984-03-18) March 18, 1984 Denver, Colorado, USA
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2004
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,890,913
Singles
Career record	33–60
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 78 (November 16, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 120 (October 28, 2013)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2013)
French Open	1R (2010)
Wimbledon	2R (2013)
US Open	2R (2013)
Doubles
Career record	107-110
Career titles	7
Highest ranking	No. 33 (February 22, 2010)
Current ranking	No. 77 (October 28, 2013)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2010, 2012)
French Open	QF (2011)
Wimbledon	QF (2007, 2012)
US Open	2R (2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012)
Last updated on: October 30, 2013.

Rajeev Ram (born March 18, 1984 in Englewood, Colorado) is an American professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. He is a tall, lanky player with a serve-and-volley style who is known best as a doubles specialist. He has advanced as far as the quarterfinals in doubles at three Grand Slams, most recently with Scott Lipsky at the 2012 Australian Open. He won his only ATP singles tournament in Newport, Rhode Island in 2009, winning seven straight matches to claim the title (two in qualifying and five in the main draw). He also won the doubles title for that tournament on the same day.

Ram has claimed six ATP doubles titles in his career, with several different partners. His career-high singles ranking is world no. 78, achieved on November 16, 2009. He reached as high as world no. 33 in doubles on February 22, 2010.

Personal

Ram is the son of Raghav and Sushma Ram. Table tennis, cricket (in particular, off spin bowling), and music are some of Ram's hobbies. His favourite cricket batsman is Lala Amarnath. His parents are from Bangalore, India.^[1]

Career

Early career

In his junior career, Ram won a total of nine national junior titles, including singles and doubles. Amongst his titles were the National Claycourt 14-and-under singles title, the boys 16 and under national championship, the 18 and under Easter Bowl title, Kalamazoo doubles and the Target Cup tournaments. In addition to his nine junior titles, Ram played high school tennis at Carmel High School, earned All-State honors, became the state singles champion, and earned a scholarship in both 1998 and 1999.

Ram then delayed enrollment at the University of Illinois until the second semester so that he could continue to play tennis as an amateur on the pro circuit. During his one semester at Illinois, he won the national doubles title with Brian Wilson and helped the Fighting Illini go undefeated (32–0) and win the NCAA team championship.

Rajeev earned a wild card entry into the Juniors' 2001 US Open. Ram participated in all of the Grand Slam junior tournaments . He was the runner-up in juniors doubles at the 2002 Wimbledon, partnered with Brian Baker.

Professional years

At the 2005 US Open, he lost in five sets to Stanislas Wawrinka. At the 2006 US Open, he lost in the second qualifying round to former college teammate Amer Delic. Rajeev made the 2007 Wimbledon doubles quarterfinals as a qualifier with Harel Levy, before losing to eventual champions Arnaud Clément and Michaël Llodra. Along the way, Ram and Levy upset the 15th seeded team of Martín García and Sebastián Prieto. In 2007, he won five doubles Challenger titles partnering Bobby Reynolds, and reached three other finals on his way to a career-high doubles ranking of no. 62.

On July 5, 2008, Ram won the Nielsen USTA Pro Tennis Championship in Winnetka, Illinois for his first career Challenger-level singles title.

He won his first ATP doubles title in Chennai, India 2009 with compatriot Eric Butorac.

On July 10, 2009, Ram accomplished the unusual feat of winning four professional-level tennis matches in one day. At the Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Rhode Island, the tournament had been rained out early in the week, pushing back many scheduled matches. On July 10, Ram advanced to the singles semifinals with wins over Samuel Groth and Jesse Levine and then partnered with Jordan Kerr to advance to the doubles semifinals with wins over Arnaud Clément/Olivier Rochus and Nicolas Mahut/Fabrice Santoro. Mahut, Santoro, and Rochus each played three matches that day, though none of them won all their matches. Ram then went on to beat Rochus and world no. 39 Sam Querrey on consecutive days to capture his first ATP title.^[2] He also captured the doubles title.

In his return to Newport in July 2010, Ram lost to no. 417-ranked qualifier Raven Klaasen after defeating Iván Navarro in the first round. Having raced to a 5–0 lead in the third set, Ram wasted several match points while serving at 5–1 before eventually losing, 7–5, 1–6, 6–7.

In Atlanta in July 2010, partnering with American Scott Lipsky, he won their first doubles title with Lipsky, defeating Rohan Bopanna and Kristof Vliegen for the outdoor hard court Atlanta Tennis Championships.^[3][4] In the semifinals, Lipsky and Ram had defeated John Isner and James Blake.^[5] In November, they won a tournament in Eckental, Germany.^[6]

Ram started 2011 strong, partnering with Lipsky in February to take the indoor hard court San Jose Open (over Christopher Kas from Germany and Alexander Peya from Austria) and the outdoor hard court Delray Beach titles (over Alejandro Falla from Colombia and Xavier Malisse from Belgium).^[3][7][8] In March, he and Lipsky won the Challenger of Dallas.^[7] In June, he and Lipsky advanced as far as the quarterfinals at the 2011 French Open, before being defeated.^[9]

2013

In 2013, he teamed with Rohan Bopanna. In Chennai, they reached the quarterfinals, only to fall to Benoît Paire and Stanislas Wawrinka.

At the Australian Open, they reached the second round, but lost to the Italian team of Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini.

In Dubai, they reached the semifinals, where they lost to Mahesh Bhupathi and Michaël Llodra.

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	July 12, 2009	Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Newport, United States	Grass	Sam Querrey	6–7(3–7), 7–5, 6–3

Doubles: 9 (7–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	August 22, 2005	Pilot Pen Tennis, New Haven, United States	Hard	Bobby Reynolds	Gastón Etlis Martin Rodríguez	4–6, 3–6
Winner	1.	January 11, 2009	Chennai Open, Chennai, India	Hard	Eric Butorac	Jean-Claude Scherrer Stanislas Wawrinka	6–3, 6–4
Winner	2.	July 12, 2009	Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Newport, United States	Grass	Jordan Kerr	Michael Kohlmann Rogier Wassen	6–7(6–8), 7–6(9–7), [10–6]
Winner	3.	October 4, 2009	PTT Thailand Open, Bangkok, Thailand	Hard (i)	Eric Butorac	Guillermo García-López Mischa Zverev	7–6(7–4), 6–3
Winner	4.	July 25, 2010	Atlanta Tennis Championships, Atlanta, United States	Hard	Scott Lipsky	Rohan Bopanna Kristof Vliegen	6–3, 6–7(4–7), [12–10]
Runner-up	2.	February 6, 2011	South African Open, Johannesburg, South Africa	Hard	Scott Lipsky	James Cerretani Adil Shamasdin	3–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Winner	5.	February 13, 2011	SAP Open, San Jose, United States	Hard (i)	Scott Lipsky	Alejandro Falla Xavier Malisse	6–4, 4–6, [10–8]
Winner	6.	February 27, 2011	Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, Delray Beach, United States	Hard	Scott Lipsky	Christopher Kas Alexander Peya	4–6, 6–4, [10–3]
Winner	7.	September 23, 2012	St. Petersburg Open, Saint Petersburg, Russia	Hard (i)	Nenad Zimonjić	Lukáš Lacko Igor Zelenay	6–2, 4–6, [10–6]

Timeline in singles and doubles

Men's singles performance timeline

Men's doubles performance timeline

References

1. http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Top-Players/Rajeev-Ram.aspx?t=pa

External links

• Rajeev Ram on Facebook
• Rajeev Ram on Twitter
• Rajeev Ram at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Ram Recent Match Results
• Ram World Ranking History
• Fighting Illini Men's Tennis Player Profile

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten American male singles tennis players as of 27 January 2014 1. John Isner (13 ) 2. Sam Querrey (49 2) 3. Donald Young (79 12) 4. Bradley Klahn (82 11) 5. Jack Sock (89 6) 6. Michael Russell (97 7) 7. Tim Smyczek (100 10) 8. Denis Kudla (109 4) 9. Ryan Harrison (121 11) 10.Rhyne Williams (124 6)

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten American male doubles tennis players as of 2 December 2013 1. Bob Bryan (1 ) 2. Mike Bryan (1 ) 3. Scott Lipsky (31 ) 4. Eric Butorac (47 ) 5. Nicholas Monroe (53 ) 6. James Blake (58 ) 7. Rajeev Ram (78 ) 8. Jack Sock (101 ) 9. Austin Krajicek (102 ) 10.James Cerretani (114 )