Somdev to play in Serbia for ATP Challenger after turning 25

The top seeded Indian singles tennis player Somdev Devvarman turned 25 on 13th Feb. Somdev received numerous birthday wishes on his 25th birthday at his twitter account. At present he is in Serbia to play ATP Challenger event in Belgrade. Somdev is seeded 8th at the event and is going to play against Serbian Wild Card Krajinovic Filip. The top favorite for the tournament is Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, who is seeded no. 1 (ATP # 37) at the event. Janko defeated Somdev in the second round of Chennai Open earlier this year. Somdev has good chance to reach the final and avenge the defeat at his home town, which is of course hercules task for Somdev, but not impossible. Somdev is not going to meet another seeded player till the quarterfinal and has good opportunity to gain valuable ATP points, if all goes well. In the quarter final he may meet Kukushkin Mikhail of Kazakhstan, who is seeded 3rd and is ranked 122 in ATP ranking, If Somdev wins the quarter-final, he will meet 2nd seeded Golubev Andrev another Kazak player (ATP # 106).  Hope Somdev wins the tournament and defeat Janko in the final.

Tournament : GEMAX OPEN
Location : Belgrade, Serbia
ATP Challenger Event

Points to be awarded: Winner : 125, Finalist: 75, Semifinalist : 45, Quarter finalist : 25, Round 2 : 10


The top seeded players 

1) Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)
2) Golubev Andrev (KAZ)
3) Kukushkin Mikhail (KAZ)
4) Koubek Stefan (AUT)
5) Phou Bjorn (GER)
6) Brown Dustin (JAM)
7) Beck, Karol (SVK)
8) Somdev Devvarman (IND)

Good Luck Somdev

Somdev loses in quarter-final of Johannesburg, SA

Somdev Devvarman reached to quarter final at his second ATP tournament of 2010 at Johannesburg, SA, one step ahead of Chennai Open 2010, where he lost in second round. The Indian sensation defeated higher rank Xavier Malisse (ATP # 93) of Belgium in the first round in straight set 6-4, 6-2. In Second round he won against T. Alves of Brazil in straight sets 6-4, 6-1. Somdev couldn't continue the momentum going against Top 20 ranked ATP player David Ferrer of Spain, who was seeded 2nd at the event. Somdev lost in straight set against Ferrer in 6-1,6-3. Somdev needs to raise his game against Top 40 ranked player in order to be among the top 50 player of the world, which Somdev is targeting to be by year end. Nevertheless, Somdev earned valuable 45 ATP points by reaching to quarter-final at the event, which will raise his ranking a notch above. Somdev needs to maintain the consisting in order to cross the Top 100 barrier. Somdev was close to Top 100 ranking at the beginning of the year, however was relegated to ATP # 161 after loosing early at Chennai Open and unable to qualify at Australian Open Main event.

Somdev to compete in qualifier for Austrailan Open 2010

Somdev Devvarman competes against local lad James Duckworth (AUS)  in the qualifying round for the 2010 Australian Open. This is Somdev's first Australian Open. Devvarman is currently ranked at 161 and need to put a consistent effort to improve is ranking. Somdev lost early at the ATP Chennai Open against Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia in the 2nd Round. Somdev was runners' up last year at ATP Chennai and thus had good number points which got dropped because of his early exit this year.

The other Indian players participating at Australian Open are Yuki Bhambri (ATP #330) competing against Jan Minar (ATP# 245) of Ukrian and Prakash Amritraj against Andre Begemann of Germany. Apart from this, other regular player Mahesh Bhupathi, Leander Paes, and Sania Mirza will be participating in the main draw.










                                       Yuki Bhambri

Janko Tipsarevic

Somdev storms into Seoul ATP Challenger Quarters

Somdev Devvarman enters into Seoul ATP Challenger Quarterfinal defeating Slovakian Pavol Cervena with score reading 3-6 6-3 6-4. After loosing the first set Somdev came up with good effort to beat the in-form Slovak. Another India player Prakash Amritraj lost against second seed and defending champion Yen-Hsun Lu of Taipei with 1-6, 3-6 score. The fourth seed is next up against Dusan Lojda of Czech, who got walk over against the eight seed Udomchoke Danai of Thailand.

Somdev wins at Tashkent Open : First Round

Somdev devvarman, the ace Indian tennis sensation won the first round at the Tashkent Open 2009 ($ 125 K) ATP Challenger event. Somdev crushed 281- ranked Spaniard Guillermo Olaso 6-3, 6-2 in straight set. Somdev will take on the winner of the match between Latvia's Deniss Pavlovs and Russia's Alexandre Kudryavtsev. Bopanna, who was given wild card entry lost in the first round against his doubles partner and top seed Yen Hsun Lu of Taipei.

Yuki Bhambri the new Indian teenage sensation is now ranked in top 350 .

Somdev cruises into 2nd round of US OPEN 2009

Finally it seems Somdev is playing upto its potential. After qualifying for US OPEN Somdev reached 2nd round of US OPEN defeating Portugal's Fredrico Gil 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 in straight sets in 1 hour and 46 minute in the first round. Somdev will meet the winner of first round singles match between Philipp Kohlschreiber (Apt # 22) and Andrea Seppi. Top players Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Kim Clijesters, Nikolay Davydenko also reached to 2nd round. Sania Mirza, the lone Indian women singles enterant also reached to 2nd round defeating Olga Govortsova of Belarus 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.

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Somdev's Entry into US Open 2009

Somdev entered into US Open 2009 Men's Singles event by winning the final round of the qualifier. He defeated Jerzy Janowicz of Poland with 6-3, 6-2 play. This is the first time he has qualified for the singles event of any Grand Slam event . He is also the first Indian player since 2002 to enter in the Men's Singles event of any Grand Slam. 2009 is the breakthrough year for Somdev. At the beginning of the year, he became the first Indian player since Leander Paes to reach the final of the ATP Event (ATP Chennai) en route defeating top player like Carlos Moya of Spain and Ivo Karlovic of Croatia.
Later, he entered into doubles event of the Wimbledon with his South African partner Kevin Anderson and also reached to third round of Legg Masson Tennis Classic, Washington DC in the first week of August defeating Marin Cilic of Croatia (ATP #17). At Present Somdev is ranked at 162 up 2 position from the last week.

The other India players competing in US Open 2009 are Sania Mirza in Women's Singles Event, Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi in Men's Double event with their respective partners.

Somdev's First Grand Slam

Somdev Devvarman recently qualified for Wimbledon 2009. This is his first Grand Slam and is going to play doubles along with his Australian partner Kevin Anderson. Somdev mentioned he wasn't happy with his singles performance and it would have been sweeter had he qualified for singles too, nevertheless he is happy to play in Wimbledon, which is considered as top most Grand Slam in tennis world. Somdev and his Australian partner are going to play against Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles in the first round.


Somdev is currently ranked at 129 in the world, which is highest singles ranking so far. In Doubles he is ranked at 357, which is also is his highest ranking so far.

Somdev-devvarman

Somdev devvarman is an Indian professional tennis player. He won two NCCA singles championship title consecutively in the year of 2007 and 2008. The first Asian and Indian to achieve that feat. He is currently ranked at 320 on ATP ranking. He recently won Lexington ATP Challenger series, only the second Indian player to achieve the feat in recent years. It is said that he will be among the top 100 ATP ranked players and the highest ranked India tennis player.

In Vancouver Open (2008) Somdev reached to quarter-final, where he lost to Japanese player Go soeda. He also plays for Indian Davis cup team and was one of the member for 2007 Davis cup team.

More details about Somdev's personal background and professional career are available at Somdev-Devvarman.