Rajeev Ram

Rajeev Ram

Country (sports)	United States
Residence	Carmel, Indiana, U.S.
Born	March 18, 1984 Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2004
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
College	Illinois
Prize money	$3,283,580
Singles
Career record	55–88
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 56 (April 18, 2016)
Current ranking	No. 105 (August 22, 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2013, 2016)
French Open	1R (2010, 2016)
Wimbledon	2R (2013)
US Open	2R (2013, 2015)
Doubles
Career record	168–164
Career titles	10
Highest ranking	No. 14 (November 21, 2016)
Current ranking	No. 14 (November 21, 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2010, 2012, 2016)
French Open	QF (2011)
Wimbledon	SF (2016)
US Open	SF (2014)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	F (2016)
Olympic Games	2R (2016)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2013)
French Open	2R (2015)
Wimbledon	3R (2011)
US Open	F (2016)
Olympic medal record Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Mixed doubles
Last updated on: August 22, 2016.

Rajeev Ram (born March 18, 1984) is an American professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. He won the Mixed Doubles silver medal with Venus Williams at the Rio Olympics 2016 and reached the final of the US Open with Coco Vandeweghe in the same year. He has advanced as far as the semifinals in men's doubles at the US Open and at Wimbledon and has made the quarterfinals of the other two slams. Ram has also won two ATP singles titles at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in 2009 and again in 2015.

Ram has claimed ten ATP doubles titles in his career, with several different partners. His career-high singles ranking is world no. 56, achieved in April 2016. He reached as high as world no. 19 in doubles in October 2016.

Personal

Ram was born to Raghav and Sushma Ram. His parents hail from Bangalore, India.^[1] Table tennis, cricket, and music are some of his interests.

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.

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.

Ram then delayed enrollment at the University of Illinois until January 2003 so that he could continue to play tennis as an amateur on the pro circuit.^[2] 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 2003 NCAA team championship.^[2]

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.^[3] 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, he won his first doubles title with American Scott Lipsky, defeating Rohan Bopanna and Kristof Vliegen for the outdoor hard court Atlanta Tennis Championships.^[4][5] In the semifinals, Lipsky and Ram had defeated John Isner and James Blake.^[6] In November, they won a tournament in Eckental, Germany.^[7]

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).^[4][8][9] In March, he and Lipsky won the Challenger of Dallas.^[8] In June, he and Lipsky advanced as far as the quarterfinals at the 2011 French Open, before being defeated.^[10]

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.

2015

In 2015 at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships he reached his second career final and won his second career ATP singles title by defeating Ivo Karlovic.

2016

In 2016 at the Delray Beach Open he reached his third career final losing to Sam Querrey. At the Olympic Games he won silver with Venus Williams following a loss to Jack Sock and Bethanie Mattek-Sands in mixed doubles.

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Mixed Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2016	US Open	Hard	Coco Vandeweghe	Laura Siegemund Mate Pavić	4–6, 4–6

Year-End Championships

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2016	ATP World Tour Finals, London	Hard (i)	Raven Klaasen	Henri Kontinen John Peers	6–2, 1–6, [8–10]

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2016	Miami	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	7–5, 1–6, [7–10]

Olympic medal matches

Mixed Doubles: 1 (1 silver medal)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Silver	2016	Summer Olympics	Hard	Venus Williams	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Jack Sock	7–6^(7–3), 1–6, [7–10]

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runners-up)

Legend (Singles) Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (2–1)

Finals by surface Hard (0–1) Clay (0–0) Grass (2–0) Carpet (0–0)

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
Winner	2.	July 19, 2015	Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Newport, United States (2)	Grass	Ivo Karlovic	7–6^(7–5), 5–7, 7–6^(7–2)
Runner-up	1.	February 21, 2016	Delray Beach Open, Delray Beach, United States	Hard	Sam Querrey	4–6, 6–7^(6–8)

Doubles: 18 (10 titles, 8 runners-up)

Legend (Doubles) Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–1) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–1) ATP World Tour 500 Series (2–1) ATP World Tour 250 Series (8–5)

Finals by surface Hard (7–6) Clay (0–1) Grass (3–1) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	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]
Runner-up	3.	July 13, 2014	Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Newport, Rhode Island	Grass	Jonathan Erlich	Lleyton Hewitt Chris Guccione	5–7, 4–6
Winner	8.	June 21, 2015	Gerry Weber Open, Halle, Germany	Grass	Raven Klaasen	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	7–6^(7–5), 6–2
Runner-up	4.	October 4, 2015	Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard (i)	Raven Klaasen	Treat Huey Henri Kontinen	6–7^(4–7), 2–6
Runner-up	5.	April 2, 2016	Miami Open, Miami, United States	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	7–5, 1–6, [7–10]
Runner-up	6.	May 21, 2016	Geneva Open, Geneva, Switzerland	Clay	Raven Klaasen	Sam Querrey Steve Johnson	4–6, 1–6
Winner	9.	19 June 2016	Gerry Weber Open, Halle, Germany	Grass	Raven Klaasen	Łukasz Kubot Alexander Peya	7–6^(7–5), 6–2
Winner	10.	1 October 2016	Chengdu Open, Chengdu, China	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Pablo Carreño Busta Mariusz Fyrstenberg	7–6^(7–2), 7–5
Runner-up	7.	9 October 2016	Japan Open, Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Marcel Granollers Marcin Matkowski	2−6, 6−7^(4−7)
Runner-up	8.	20 November 2016	ATP World Tour Finals, London, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Raven Klaasen	Henri Kontinen John Peers	6–2, 1–6, [8–10]

Timeline in singles and doubles

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	W–L
Australian Open	A	A	A	Q1	1R	Q1	1R	Q1	Q1	2R	Q2	Q1	2R	2–4
French Open	A	A	A	Q2	A	Q2	1R	A	A	A	A	A	1R	0–2
Wimbledon	A	A	A	Q1	Q1	1R	1R	Q1	Q3	2R	Q3	A	1R	1–4
US Open	1R	1R	A	Q1	Q1	1R	Q1	Q3	1R	2R	Q3	2R	1R	2–7
Win–Loss	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–2	0–3	0–0	0–1	3–3	0–0	1–1	1–4	5–17
Career statistics
Titles–Finals	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–3
Year-End Ranking	297	195	197	253	190	79	184	149	132	127	139	89

Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	W–L
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	3R	3R	QF	1R	QF	2R	2R	1R	QF	15–10
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	3R	1R	1R	QF	3R	1R	1R	1R	2R	8-9
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	2R	1R	1R	2R	QF	1R	1R	2R	SF	13-10
US Open	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	2R	1R	2R	3R	SF	3R	2R	14–16
Win–Loss	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–2	3–2	6–4	3–4	4–4	4–4	9–4	3–4	5–4	3–4	9–4	45–43
Olympic Games	Not Held			A	Not Held			A	Not Held			A	Not Held			2R	1-1
Career statistics
Titles–Finals	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–3	1–1	2–3	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	8–11
Year-End Ranking	1099	541	448	133	113	122	65	68	39	67	45	44	78	53	36

References

1. "Resolute Ram Stays Focussed After Newport Titles". South Asia Mail. July 15, 2009. Retrieved August 30, 2009.
2. Dicker, Ron (August 20, 2003). "American Decides Old Style Fits Fine". New York Times. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
3. "Ram claims maiden ATP Tour title". BBC Sport. July 12, 2009. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
4. "Scott Lipsky: Good Things Come in Doubles". Center for Sport and Jewish Life. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
5. "Doubles Sunday – Lipsky/Ram Save Match Point To Win Atlanta Doubles Title". ATP World Tour. July 25, 2010. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
6. "Long Islander Wins Doubles Title at the Atlanta Tennis Championships". Long Island Tennis Magazine. July 26, 2010. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
7. "Tennis Players – Scott Lipsky". ATP World Tour. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
8. "Tennis Players – Scott Lipsky". ATP World Tour. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
9. "Americans Lipsky & Ram Win Delray Beach International Doubles Title". Long Island Tennis Magazine. February 28, 2011. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
10. "2011 French Open: Scott Lipsky, Casey Dellacqua win mixed doubles; Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan lose in doubles semifinals". ESPN. June 2, 2011. Retrieved July 4, 2011.

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

External links

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